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Originally Posted by Doe, John
If they're referring to the original Solaris, then, yeah it belongs there. Forget the Clooney(?) remake. I'd drop Close Encounters of the Third Kind to make room for Forbidden Planet
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Are you my sock puppet, John? Those were my thoughts exactly! The Tarkovsky Solaris is utterly beautiful, best SF movie ever. CE3K is merely... a film that exists.
Thinking on it, I'd prefer to drop War of the Worlds too as it never struck me as more than a jumped-up B movie. Heck, The Time Machine was much better.
I'd also like to see 2010 up there - one of the best sequels (one which actually advances the original storyline instead of just repeating it), and much better than the book.
It's interesting that only first sequels get a mention - and rightly so. In recent years there have been quite a few sequels that have been as good as, if not better than, the original, but the second sequel never seems to manage this. Empire Strikes Back was, IMO, better than A New Hope, but Return of the Jedi was much weaker. Similar things could be said for Terminator and Alien. And Matrix - the second Matrix film had some merit, but as for the third... oh dear!