Someday, I’m going to write a science fiction opera set entirely in space dealing with fanciful, melodramatic technologies and powers. Then the world will have a TRUE space opera.
HA!
three parsecs!
(–> Han Solo did the Kessel Run in what, 14 parsecs?, which is stupid because a parsec is a measure of length, not time …)
Oh yeah, don’t get me started on soup operas, because I’ll turn into a Soup Nazi … 
They have Terminator 2 but not the original? I could see why they would select Wrath of Khan over the first movie, after all it didn’t suck.
SciFi Wire has released its top 10 SF Movies taken from readers email responses to AFI’s list. Here is the list:
Star Wars
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Alien
The Matrix
On Tuesday, March 4, they plan to release the top 5 most neglected from the AFI list.
Couple a’ thoughts:
Comparing Serenity with 2001 is a bit off. One’s a fabulous pulp novel, written essentially as a final chapter to a longer string of stories. The other is brainbending tone poem, which is misunderstood as soon as the viewer struggles to find narrative structure (that said, the Clarke novel really lays the story out cleanly – read it if you really want to grok it).
How the $#%# did Beyond Thunderdome beat our Road Warrior in the Mad Max Trilogy? Moreover, how the $#%# is that misfire even on the list? Can’t begin to discribe how disappointed I was when I saw that the first time.
Apparently Beyond Thunderdome is better than The Empire Strikes Back, too. I know Sean must have flushed the whole list down the proverbial toilet when he saw that TESB wasn’t even on the list.