Top 5 Sci-Fi Movies from My Bucket of Knowledge

Ask someone to name the top 5 anything ever made and you're sure to get as many different answers from as many people that you ask. As for the person answering this question I'm almost sure it's impossible to make a selection without leaving something important out. That is why when I select my top 5 Science Fiction movies of all time you must understand that my answer is somewhat of a lie. There are so many movies that I love and it was difficult to make this selection so I made myself use the scientific method to whittle down my choices. Of the thousands of movies that could easily be placed on this list I only chose 200 and put those names on a piece of paper. I then put these pieces of paper in a bucket and from the bucket I drew out five titles. It was the only way to be fair to the others. So here are my top 5 Science Fiction movies from the bucket of knowledge in the order they were drawn.

1. Iceman starring Timothy Hutton, Danny Glover, Philip Akin, David Strathaim, Josef Sommer, John Lone and Lindsay Crouse was released in 1984 and directed by Fred Schepisi. This movie depicts a group of scientists who carve an ancient caveman from an Arctic glacier and bring him back to life.

This movie made me want to be a scientist and I believed we could bring cavemen back from the dead. It was the first movie I went to see upon my graduation from high school.

2. Night of the Living Dead starring Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Judith O'Dea, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley and Marilyn Eastman was released in 1968 and directed by George A. Romero. Mysteriously brought back from the dead, Zombies are hungry. The only thing that can satiate their bellies is warm human flesh. A group of people are barricaded in a farm house and must survive the zombie attack as well as their own prejudices.

I was three years old when this movie was released but I didn't watch it till I was 10. Big mistake! The memory of that night still haunts me today.

3. Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer was released in 1980 and directed by Jeannot Szwarc. True love knows no boundaries. Richard Collier, a writer finds a way to travel back in time where he meets and falls in love with a young woman. Unfortunately, the visit is short-lived and he is yanked back into the present. Obsessed with his true love Collier attempts to find his way back.

This movie made me cry. I was rooting for Collier all the way.

4. The Fly starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis was released in 1986 and directed by David Cronenberg. A scientist creates two teleportation pods and while testing them accidentally switches genetic material with a fly that has entered his pod. As his body begins to change he documents all the disgusting new characteristics as they happen.

This movie was awesome. I wanted to have "fly" powers but didn't want to eat like one. Gross!

5. Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors and Edward G. Robinson was released in 1973 and directed by Richard Fleischer. In the distant future the world is plagued by over-population. Looking for ways to feed the masses soylent products (Red, Yellow, and Green) have been developed but you wouldn't want to know the secret recipe of soylent green. Or would you?

This movie brings home the very real possibility of over-population and the dilemma of starvation. Could soylent green be a real answer? Wouldn't your loved ones want you to use them to survive? This is one movie that really makes you think.