Revealing how little I have actually seen...

Theres a guy, John Scalzi, who's written a book called The rough guide to sci-fi movies, it's my friend Arne who's discovered this and challenged me on the so called sci-fi Canon that Scalzi talks about, which is the 50 most significant sci-fi movies in the history of film. Below is the list of the films, and those in bold are the ones I've seen:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
The Fly (1985 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

This really reveals how little I have seen, at least compared to Arne who's seen all but one....I must admit though, that since some of these movies aren't exactly from last year, I might have seen some of them in my teens, when I used to watch a lot of movies at Arne's place, but don't remember the title of them - and then I guess it doesn't count. "The Damned", "Escape from New York" and "Metropolis" seems to ring a bell, but as I can't at all recall what they're about I might not have seen them after all... so I haven't marked them in the list! And "Alien" scared the living daylights out of me when I saw it when it was new, haven't seen it since, just remember the feeling of being completely terrified - and that's the reason why I haven't seen any of the other Aliens movies! (Opps - perhaps I said to much...!)

And I guess this is the part where I pass on the challenge to everybody, but in particular to Ross.