Ridley Scott's Top 5 Sci-Fi Films of All Time

The top, I think, sci-fi films in my estimation would be

2001, for sure.

I'd probably put that as number one.

Really, the star of the film was Hal.

The ship is actually driven by a computer.

That's a first.

He was even humorous.

He de-fused his brain, where he ended up singing,

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, didn't he?

I think that's great.

And then I think George Lucas's Star Wars,

the ones he did, I would put that as number two.

Then I'd do Alien and Blade Runner.

(laughs)

I'm not going to be modest about that.

I think we got it really right in Blade Runner

which in a way is a problem because

Blade Runner has been a very strong influence

on lots of other films which is nice,

it's amusing, but it's boring.

You gotta move on, you gotta move forward, right?

And it's hard to move forward because I think

I landed first on real dystopia, and then everything else

is a variation on dystopia.

But there are one or two films started to get made

I thought were quite good when I was in my teens.

The one I thought was really good

was more about the Cold War

with Gregory Peck, and it was called On the Beach

with Ava Gardner and it's the end of the atomic war

and the only area left, ironically, is Australia.

That's a good film to get,

very good beautiful black-and-white movie.

It's when they're really original which really counts.

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