The non-Burr version is great. I got to see it on the big screen when it was re-released a number of years ago. It was an awesome evening.
I'd like to get it on DVD but can't find it. I think I'll search again. Also I think Godzilla deserves a good movie. Godzilla has become an all time great, I'd love for Quentin Tarantino to do a serious (for him serious) Godzilla movie.
I found it, I got the Criterion you suggested https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005VU9LO0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is one of my favorite genres, but I am no means an expert on this. Still, I immensely enjoy sci-fi. I know as soon I post this I am going to think of some films I should have included. My list at this moment: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Signs (Mel Gibson) The Thing (also 1951) Close Encounters of the Third Kind Aliens Honorable mentions would be a lot of the films from the 50's and 60's that I still love to watch such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Time Machine, and cheesy films like Zontar, the Thing from Venus.
Can't remember if I mentioned this one on my first post to this thread way-back, but 'Sunshine' (2007) watched on a big-screen laptop in bed in the dark through a pair of BeyerDynamic DT770 Pros (80 ohm) is a near-rapturous experience. This one flies below most critical radars but is a simply extraordinary film and even better than the similar-perspective 'Europa Report'...
Planet of the Apes (1968) Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('56 or '78) Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Matrix (first one only) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Runners-up Children of Men Back to the Future
I'd like to see separate lists, one for "hard SF" ( Moon and Children Of Men would fit on this one), and another for "fantasy sci-fi" (such as The Fifth Element and E.T. ).
2001 - A Space .... (Need I go on?) Superman (The first Christopher Reeve movie and - before you shout wha-a-at? - it is science fiction.) Aliens (not Alien which would be in my top ten). Star Trek - The Motion Picture. Yep, I know - slow moving, annoying in places, but for many reasons I was enthralled when I first saw it. It was real science fiction - not like Star Wars which was (to me anyway) a World War 2 movie transferred to outer space - with a smattering of mysticism thrown in. The Time Machine. (The 1960 version, of course.) Minority Report. (Maybe because I just revisited it last week after twenty years and was blown away.) (Like everybody else, I could give you a different list in a week's time.)
2001 Alien Blade Runner Solaris (Tarkovsky) Beneath the Planet of the Apes Honorable mention: The Thing (1982)
In no particular order... Alien Forbidden Planet War Of The Worlds (1953) The Thing (1982) Altered States
Original Planet of the Apes Blade Runner Original Total Recall Star Wars (I'll never call it New Hope) TBA
Alien Blade Runner Terminator (2). Two for one here, like pizza. Interstellar Total Recall (with Arnold) Honorable mention: Ad Astra
Also worth mentioning is my favorite trilogy, the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell Trilogy: Escape From New York The Thing* Big Trouble In Little China* *These should really be in my top five but I suck at lists so, raspberries.
