Comfort Blanket

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon make the most impressive student film of all time, by taking the piss out of their favourite space movie. Dark Star: it's like 2001 but with human beings in it.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke attempt to squeeze Life, The Universe, and Everything into one movie, while everyone else sits back and watches the light show.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Don Siegel delivers the ultimate paranoid nightmare as Kevin McCarthy watches the town of Santa Mira succumb to an alien hive mind. You’re next!

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Them! The definitive American atomic big-beast picture, and the original bug-hunt (inspiring the soldiers-take-the-nest shenanigans of Aliens).

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: George Pal smash! It's When Worlds Collide, in which the puny Earth is spectacularly knocked about in a game of interplanetary billiards.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada Nikto.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: The Thing. Howard Hawks sends his usual capable men to deal with an intelligent carrot from outer space. It's for a Thing.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Things To Come, in which H G Wells and Alexander Korda predict the coming of The Helicopter Men.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

We start with Metropolis, Fritz Lang's tale of robots, big clocks, and eyeliner.

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THE THING! (1951)

A preview of the limited run exclusive Comfort Blanket series on The Top Ten Sci Fi Movies (as chosen by 2000AD comic in 1980).

A celebration of a fondly remembered series from my childhood, where the guys behind Judge Dredd listed the science fiction films that you simply must see, and a generation of kids - or maybe just me - followed their advice.

Ten classic films that defined the genre, rewatched, enjoyed and reconsidered in the Comfort Blanket style. The journey from Metropolis to Star Wars, in ten (sometimes quirky) choices.

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