Greetings classic cinema and TV fans this is Pastor Jay here with you once again with Retrograde's top 7 list. This time around we're talking the top 7 sci-fi movies. Amazing movies from yesteryear and so great stuff. Let's jump right into it. The Incredible Shrinking Man. I'll I'll never forget the first time I ever watched this film. I was a young kid, and we went to the library, and I saw this type of a cover on a VHS tape, and I thought this just looked amazing. So I had to pick it up, and I took it home, and I rented it, and I watched it, and I was utterly enthralled with it. It was amazing. It's a very mysterious type of thing. Some sort of gaseous cloud comes across a boat, and this man who was caught in this gaseous, foggy, cloudy thing ends up shrinking. And he keeps shrinking and shrinking smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller until he more or less basically disappears. It's a race against time for a cure, and it is so amazing. I'll never forget the first time I watch it, and every time I see it, it just takes me back to those days of great sci-fi as a kid. And I love this. This will never, never have anything but just love from me because I just love this film. It is so great. The acting is so amazing. The special effects are amazing for the 50s. It's just a great film. So Incredible Shrinking Man is number seven on our list. H.G. Wells probably is the most iconic of writers of all time, for science fiction especially. And this film is The Time Machine, based on the H.G. Wells novel, and it is so spectacular. Just amazing. Rod Taylor, playing an amazing scientist who produces and builds this time machine, and then goes back in time and sees the past and then goes into the future and sees the future. And he just, I mean, it's just amazing. And the special effects of this film for 1960 is, I mean, stellar, unbelievable, still holds up to this day in 2020 as we are releasing this, as we're recording this. It still holds up so many years later. It's unbelievable when you think about it that this is a 60-year-old film, and yet the special effects still look amazing from this film, even to this day and age. It's an amazing film. We see the time traveler going to the future and seeing the Morlocks and all these different people that the human race has been enslaved by the Morlocks and how he wants to help make the humans revolt against them and live life instead of just being slaves if you will But amazing, amazing film. Great film. Time Machine is definitely worth checking out if you've never seen it. Talk about iconic films. This is the original Blob. This is a film that stars Steve McQueen before he became a Hollywood legend. Steve McQueen playing a teenager, even though he's not a teenager at this time, he's still playing a teenager. That happens a lot in films and movies and TV and stuff. Older actors play teenagers, and that's what happened here. But the Blob, the original Blob, this is the original, not the remakes, It's not all this other stuff. This is the original blob. And just a really, really cool film. Yes, it does have a lot of the 50s vibes. So there's a lot of stuff that seem outdated sometimes, like the old retro diners and maybe the clothing and the different things and the drag racing and all that type of stuff. Maybe that seems a little outdated as 2020, but if you go back and you go looking at those retro releases like we love to do, it is so good. It just takes you to a different era and is so cool. The special effects are amazing, as always, with these releases. They're so good. I really think this one doesn't get enough love as it should. It is so amazing, and Steve McQueen does an amazing job here. Very, very worthwhile checking out. And it is really interesting to see Helen Crump in this. Yeah, from the Andy Griffith Show, she's in this as Steve McQueen's girlfriend. Definitely something to check out. Definitely a great one. The Thing from Another World. Warner Archive has released this on Blu-ray, and what an amazing job they did. This is a really good-looking Blu-ray. this basically is all the stories of the thing we've all seen the stories of the thing from the John Carpenter films and all that John Carpenter classic film and the remake and all that type of stuff this is the original and this one is really special it's 50's sci-fi to the hilt it is amazing and the thing that was really cool in the John Carpenter thing The Thing is a shapeshifter, where in this Thing, the Thing from Another World is a huge alien creature. And the alien creature is played by James Arness, who is best known for being Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke. But here he is the Thing from Another World There is a very claustrophobic feel to this film and people stuck in a little cabin as they try to barricade themselves and try to save themselves from this thing that is lurking and going to come after them. And it is so cool, and the crescendo of the final battle, the final scene, is just amazing. It is really good. It still holds up today. It is definitely worth checking out if you've never seen The Thing from Another World. This is another H.G. Wells film. This is The War of the Worlds, the original War of the Worlds. We're not talking about the remakes. We're not talking about the Tom Cruise. We're not talking about the 50s original War of the Worlds. There's just something so amazing about this old classic with the sounds and the amazing stuff. It's just so iconic. The sounds of the spaceship whirring by and the lasers and all this. I mean, there's just something so iconic about it. It is very well acted. The special effects are amazing. Everything is just so cool. This one, if you've never seen War of the Worlds, it is so amazing. You need to check out the original. The remakes, while they may be okay, they don't hold up to this. This one, there's just something so amazing about this one. It definitely needs to be watched by as many people. If you've never seen the original, definitely check it out. It is so iconic. It is so good that it deserves to be checked out. I have to say with this release, too, something that's very cool is with this release, if you can find it, you do get the original radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, which was so scary to most people that even some people committed suicide because they were so scared to death. They thought it was a real-life thing happening. It's unbelievable. So, yeah, it is definitely worth checking out. War of the Worlds. That's why this one comes in at number three. The Day the Earth Stood Stale. Now, of course, this is the remake cover, as you can see, with Keanu Reeves. But the reason we have this is because it comes with the original 1951 release right there. The 1951 is so iconic It is such an amazing film It's just about a creature that comes to Earth To try to show the world Earth what they need to be doing It is iconic It's all about peace It's all about trying to bring about a sense of peace to the world It is so amazing Nothing like the remake at all But it is so good. The special effects are amazing in The Day the Earth Stood Still. It is so cool I highly suggest the original The Day the Earth Stood Still because it is just iconic You have never seen a more docile calm sci release but have such a story in back of it that it really needs to be seen even in 2020 It is definitely worth checking out. So definitely, if you've never seen the original The Day the Earth Stood Still, check it out. It is definitely worth it. That's why it gets number two on our top seven. We're talking the original Planet of the Apes. Yes, this is the number one release of the top seven sci-fi films of all time. This is my list, and this is why I love this film. There's something so iconic about this film. Charlton Heston is amazing in this film. He's almost perfect in this film. I can't imagine anybody else playing the part. Yes, Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, tried to play a character like that in the remake. And while we have that, it doesn't hit the same notes as the original Planet of the Apes. The original is just so iconic. The makeup was amazing. The set design was so stellar. And everything that was done was just so amazing. The tension that is built in this science fiction film is just perfect. Written for the screen by screenplay icon Rod Sterling, just an amazing film. I cannot suggest, if you've never seen the original Planet of the Apes, maybe you've only seen the remake trilogy, the newer trilogy, or maybe you've seen just the Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg version. If you've never seen this original version, definitely check it out. It is just, you can't put into words how amazing it is. It definitely deserves to be seen as many times as you can. I have watched this so many times I can't even put it into words. Probably a good 50, 60 times probably. I mean, it's just that amazing. And I keep watching it because it is that good. So what is your favorite science fiction film of all time? Do you agree with our list? If you do, let us know. If you don't, let us know. Give us your top seven lists. We'd love to hear what you think. Let us know in the comments below. Also, like, share, and subscribe. And be sure to visit retroac.blogspot.com and check out some awesome content. We would appreciate it. And until we see you next time, this is Pastor Jay reminding you that if you want to see a great film, check out our classic. And we'll see you next time for another Top 7. Bye.
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