Metropolis and the remaining Classics List

I should have known.  I really should have known what I was doing to myself when I sat down with my In and Out Burger last night and couldn't decide which movie to watch that I was going to pick a bad one because in the end I selected the classic movie I was most uninterested in watching.  Metropolis by all accounts is a top 5 sci-fi movie on both lists I have been going by and while the experience I had with it ranged from being board silly, to talking to myself about what was going on, and then talking to Kona about what was going on, to mildly enjoying it, the path to get to the end of this film was an endurance contest.  At 2 hours and 28 minutes this marathon movie was first screened in 1927, in Germany, and it was a silent film, so really did I expect to be fully entertained?  No, that is probably why I didn't want to watch it to begin with.  Honestly, I can imagine some of the effects were beyond its time.  It doesn't look terribly cheesy.  It is just a movie from another time I guess.  I have to admit Brigitte Helm did one hell of a job playing the Man Machine.  I wonder if that was her really dancing or if they got someone else to do it.  I don't know.  I wonder if I had gotten really stoned if I would have liked the movie better?  I think that answer might be yes.  I also wonder if I had a true appreciate for old films if i would have maybe appreciated it more.  The truth is some of the scenes and scenery are iconic.  It was the basis for what the future worlds we still dream of might look like.  The Man Machine was the inspiration for C3PO from my loved Star Wars film.  I knew that the minute I saw the thing.  I remember an old drawing in video I used to own the Making of Star Wars of 3PO looking much more like the Man Machine then his current look.  Every time I have ever seen the Metropolis poster or Man Machine I have thought of 3PO.  So even though it was a long viewing night for me last night, it wasn't a complete waste.  I think the movie probably deserves better then what I am giving it.  It didn't help that I watched Skyline right after it and things went from bad to worse.  This a.m. viewing of Beyond Skyline was a bright spot, I like Frank Grillo, and I liked the movie.  Although, how a movie as bad as Skyline got a sequel I will never know.  I guess the creators have some good friends in Hollywood.  And before you ask why on earth would I watch Beyond Skyline if Skyline was so bad, all I can say is, when you are locked into a good bender you tend to push the thing as far as you can.

After Beyond Skyline, I sat down with my two top movie lists and my excel work books and came up with the remaining classic movie list and the order I will be watching said classics in.  Now between the two list I have seen 38 movies on popular mechanics and 65 on Rotten tomatoes but some how I still have 81 classic Sci-Fi movies to watch and watch them I shall b/c it is what I do now... i work, I walk the dog, I cook, and I watch Sci-fi, what else are you going to do while the world is in the shit hole.  

I am going to watch worst to first.  I have a feeling that PM list is more true to classic Sci-fi.  The RT list included the Last Jedi and Star Trek the Voyage home, which the later is fucking awful, and the prior is controversial.  However RT does add some bright spots like Pacific Rim and the Iron Giant, so lets see how this plays out.  Here is my remaining to watch list:

From	New Rank	Watch Order	Movie
RT	80	1	The Congress
RT	79	2	Splice
RT	78	3	Pacific Rim
RT	77	4	Videodrome
Both	76	5	eXistenZ
PM	75	6	Strange Days
PM	74	7	Silent Running
RT	73	8	Paprika
PM	72	9	War of the Worlds (53)
Both	71	10	They Live
Both	70	11	Westworld
RT	69	12	Predestination
PM	68	13	Starman
RT	67	14	Time Crimes
PM	66	15	Stalker
PM	65	16	Dreamscape
PM	64	17	Fantastic Planet
PM	63	18	Fahrenheit 451
PM	62	19	Scanners
PM	61	20	Outland
PM	60	21	Dark Star
RT	59	22	Turbo Kid
Both	58	23	Galaxy Quest
PM	57	24	Ikarie XB-1
PM	56	25	Day of the Triffids
PM	55	26	Rollerball
RT	54	27	Midnight Special
Both	53	28	Altered States
PM	52	29	Sleeper
RT	51	30	The Abyss
PM	50	31	Repo Man
Both	49	32	THX-1138
PM	48	33	Them!
Both	47	34	The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
PM	46	35	Destination Moon
Both	45	36	Dark City
PM	44	37	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (78)
Both	43	38	Alpaville
RT	42	39	The Hunger Games
Both	41	40	The Edge of Tomorrow
PM	40	41	The Last Starfighter
RT	39	42	Attack the Block
PM	38	43	When Worlds Collide
PM	37	44	1984
Both	36	45	The Thing
PM	35	46	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
PM	34	47	Contact
PM	33	48	Abre Los Ojos
PM	32	49	The Andromeda Strain
RT	31	50	Star Trek: First Contact
PM	30	51	The Time Machine (1960)
PM	29	52	A Scanner Darkly
PM	28	53	Starship Troopers
Both	27	54	Gattaca
PM	26	55	Soylent Green
Both	25	56	Akira
PM	24	57	Enemy Mine
RT	23	58	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
PM	22	59	Star Trek: First Contact
Both	21	60	Mad Max
Both	20	61	Gravity
PM	19	62	Donnie Darko
RT	18	63	Source Code
Both	17	64	Ghost in a Shell (96)
RT	16	65	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (78)
Both	15	66	The Martian
Both	14	67	Brazil
Both	13	68	The Fly
PM	12	69	Primer
Both	11	70	Gojira
Both	10	71	Solaris (72)
Both	9	72	Children of Men
Both	8	73	Arrival
RT	7	74	Iron Giant
PM	6	75	A Trip to the Moon
Both	5	76	Forbidden Planet
Both	4	77	The Day the Earth Stood Still (51)
PM	3	78	Logan's Run
RT	2	79	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (56)
Both	1	80	Wall-E