10 Top 10
June 17, 2008
We are watching AFI's 10 Top 10; they just finished the Sci-Fi category. The top 10 -- not in order here -- were:
- A Clockwork Orange
- Alien
- Terminator
- Star Wars
- ET
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Bladerunner
- Back to the Future
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The winner?
2001: A Space Odyssey
I saw 2001 when it first came out; I was in college. I remember seeing it (several times) in the university movie theater. You could tell exactly when someone started getting off on their particular sensory enhancement technique by the murmured exhalations of "Oh Wow..." that occurred as the movie progressed.