EW lists its picks por top 25 sci-fi movies and tv series from the last 25 years!!!

The Sci-Fi 25!!!

No 2001!  Madness.

Ah, didn't see the last 25 years restriction.  Whew!  Still, missing Babylon 5 was a sin.

EW was obviously working on a TV list.  There were very few movies and they named more scifi/comedy than scifi movies.  Plus they left out Stargate.  We should make our own list, chuck the 25 years and pick the best 50 scifi not scifi/comedies of all time...

I don't know what you're talking about, Tom.  The Clone Wars animated series was head and shoulders better than the prequel trilogy.

Personally, I think the Matrix was overrated, and Futurama was (far) underrated.

I can see why The Matrix was ranked so highly (the list is to do with influence, not quality), but if that's the case, why is Cube missing?  The slicing of characters without them noticing, then the slow drip of blood/sliding of segments has become a cliché of the genre almost as much as bullet-time.  Resident Evil, which borrows this idea, could also be argued as deserving of a spot for catalysing the action-scifi genre.

Agreed - what a load of crap!

I'd like to put on my serious hat for a moment... not to make a joke or jump on an easy quip.

I'm what some would call a hard-core science fiction fan. I've voted for Hugo awards nearly every year since the early 1960s, and have a rather substantial collection of first editions, autographed and inscribed books, and I've attended many science fiction conventions, including a few WorldCons. I look at the genre as a form of literature, and like most book readers, find film and TV adaptions weak in detail and substance compared to the novels and short fiction available. I know the difference between science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. I rarely use the term Sci-Fi, because it often means something I don't care for much.

But the impact (in numbers) that film has (compared to books) is enormous. And TV has an even larger multiplying factor when it comes to viewers. But popular does not equal good. More popular rarely means better. And biggest box office (& ratings) does not equal best quality.

One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, Ted Sturgeon, was asked by a literary critic why he always wrote science fiction... after all 90% of science fiction is crap. Sturgeon responded that 90% of everything is crap. There are far more books published than films or TV series produced. Therefor there will be far more great (ie, non-crap) science fiction books than great science fiction films or TV shows. To select the "best" 25 pieces of science fiction presented dramatically over the past 25 years is to maximize the possibilities. There's a lot of crap in this list, and crap in some of the alternatives presented.

Great science fiction films are a rare breed indeed. I doubt if I could name 25 great science fiction films made in the past 100+ years. There are enjoyable ones, even some horrible ones who overcome their inspidness to become high camp. But I cannot think of one which has the literary or artistic impact of a couple of Alfred Bester books written in the early 1950s (I refer to "The Demolished Man" and one titled either "The Stars My Destination" or "Tiger! Tiger!"). The best SF films and TV shows hint at this possiblity, but (in my opinion) have yet to achieve this level of artistic skill and mastery.