Old Science Fiction Movies
The first sci-fi movie was 1902's "A Trip to the Moon", but the first of the great old science fiction movies was the 1927 film "Metropolis". After "Metropolis" most of the science fiction movies made in the early days of cinema were low budget, poorly made B-movies. The public perception of sci-fi (influenced largely by the Buster Crabbe shows "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers") was that they were silly films about bug-eyed aliens and ray-gun fights, for kids. It was not until the terribly serious and grown-up 1967 movie "2001-a space Odyssey", that sci-fi became respectable, and somehow this paved the way for bug-eyed alien and ray-gun fight extraveganza "Star Wars", which changed cinema forever. Movies made between "Metropolis" and "2001-A Space Odyssey" are likely to have poor special effects, corny dialogue, hammy acting, and a thinly veiled message to the audience. Nevertheless some of them are still loved by many today, and we list for you below a few that we think are worthy of your attention.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
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The Quatermass Xperiment
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