 Hello again, it is Thursday February 22nd 2018. I thought yesterday was the 22nd That's what I said yesterday, but the day is the 22nd last Sunday, I kicked off a fundraiser to Try to bring in $500 by the end of the month to help me produce more videos and take a trip to a convention Here are the donation details here go to my 50th Street page 30 seconds sci-fi 50th ST the donation links are there and Here on the screen you can make a one-time donation. I'm also looking for monthly sponsors There is a PayPal form on the page there Okay, no donations or new sponsors to report so far. I have sold one t-shirt and one Manos coloring book Those orders are fulfilled by third parties and that money will take 30 to 60 days to get to me. So thank you for buying those It'll take a while to get to me though. All right now for today's video This is a response to a recent top-10 list that was published by I09 It was their list of top-10 best science fiction films from the last ten years and These kinds of lists always mystify me because I'm always a Mistified as to why certain things make the list and this particular list I was appalled at some of the things they put on it. So I felt like I had to make a response out of the ten Films on their list. I'd only seen five of them So I went online and found the ones I hadn't seen and watched them all except one I'll get to that in a minute and Here's my response Number 10 Attack the block from 2011. This is one. I had not seen I started watching it and the first thing that happened is a group of street thugs attacked and robbed a Woman in the street. These were black kids attacking a white woman and Then something fell out of the sky It turned out to be an alien these kids chased it down and beat it to death and it became immediately obvious that The violent street gang Were going to be the protagonist and I'm sick of that That's a trope that's been happening over and over in recent years and I'm sick of it. I Won't support that the movie was sometimes entertaining. There was nothing particularly special about the aliens. It's not Really worth going out of your way for I don't know why it's on this list This movie did get one thing right though And it's something that every movie and every TV show gets wrong When you set off fireworks indoors The first thing that happens is the building completely fills up with smoke and Nobody can see anything and this movie got that right and everybody gets that wrong all the time Please folks remember When you have something burning indoors when you have a house fire There's smoke Okay Number 10 dawn of the planet of the apes From 2014 this is one I had seen in fact I reviewed it on this channel Last year I took the video down because it was old. It wasn't particularly interesting. It wasn't getting any views I'll put it back up if you want me to but really the whole point of my review was it was a complete waste of my time There was nothing interesting about this movie Carrie Russell was in it and it was a waste of her time because she's better than that And I have no idea why people like this movie and why it's on this list It's a bad movie. Just plain bad Moving on to number eight. Let the right one in from 2008 this is a Scandinavian film from Finland. I think I Watched the there's an American version. I watched the the European version This was worth seeing. I Wouldn't consider it one of my favorite But it was definitely unusual The acting throughout was not very good in some places. It was very bad But honestly that kind of worked in the movie's favor, I mean these were these are Pasty white uncomfortable Scandinavian weirdos And that kind of worked For the film. It's about a scrawny kid who is bullied very badly at school and A new girl moves in next door in his apartment block and she turns out to be a vampire and That's not really spoiling anything. Everybody knows that at this point Even I had heard that and I hadn't seen the film the bullies get what's coming to them I mean, there's bully justice in this movie a Lot of innocent people die though for no reason There was one thing that happened a number of times though that I really couldn't figure out There were a number of scenes that took place in the school swimming pool and every time this kid was swimming He was doing this Every time he was swimming he see he's not actually swimming and then he's he's what is he doing? Number seven of the dark night from 2008. I have not seen the dark night. I didn't bother to download this one I don't see why I should bother with it Why is this on this top 10 list number six? girl with all the gifts from 2016 Anyone who's been watching my channel at all knows how much I like this book one of my favorite books of Not last year but the year before I absolutely loved it I knew about the film when I reviewed the book and when I discussed it with Becky I Was reluctant to see the film because these films usually don't do the books justice I had seen the trailer and the trailer didn't look particularly interesting, but you know what this is a good movie It did the book justice is included all the major points. It had the correct ending it Dramatically changed the fate of the character played by Glenn close Who was excellent in the movie by the way, but ultimately it was good. I liked it I recommend this one. This is my first recommendation on the list. Well, maybe you let the right one in But girl with all the gifts definitely Okay, number five ex machina This was a bad movie I Didn't like this movie at all. Everybody else raved about this movie talking about what a What a great film it is how intelligent it was how? It just wasn't good. I don't think I did a review of this one it's another one of these films that tries to address the subject of Sentience of robots becoming conscious and I think it just rehashed the same all stuff that all these movies always do and I think it Failed that I had a lot of problems with it. I read a quote from somebody else. I think it was Nina Paley She said something like I suspect this is a dumb movie pretending to be a smart movie and That was that's exactly what I thought of it So I don't recommend ex machina number four Wonder Woman from 2017 You should know what my opinion of that movie was I reviewed it and I I hated it So go watch that review. I'm not gonna waste more time on it here number three is arrival from 2016 Again, I reviewed that one. I did not like it One of the things that I said in my review of it was that after the movie was over as I was walking out of the theater I Was thinking to myself. I'm gonna have to decide whether This was good or not and by the time I had reached the front door of the building. I decided it was bad They did a lot of things wrong in this movie a lot They did not do the original story justice is supposed to be exploring the nature of language Which it didn't really the film didn't really do they added these phony action sequences Which did not contribute to the film and they gave it a Phony ending. I did not like this movie go watch my review. I think it's a shame that this movie has gotten so much So much attention so much praise. What a shame Okay, number two Logan The Wolverine the final Wolverine Film this was a movie. I had not seen because again, I don't support these Disney Marvel films in the theater. I don't pay money to them because Disney is such a hateful company. I Found it on a torrent downloaded it watched it and you know what it was excellent. I loved it It was great. I liked it all the way through Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart were Tremendous, they were their performances were downright inspirational These were all the way through the film. I was I was staring intently at the screen and shaking my head and thinking here are two actual actors acting There's so much in film and television today. That's not acting these guys were acting and it was great All right number one Fury Road from 2015 now. This is another film that I loved. I loved it all the way through unreservedly. Well The guy who played Mad Max Was it was kind of a dud, but it really wasn't about him This was just a great movie great science fiction film Great fantasy film great action film Great film period. I did a review of it where I raved about it for like 20 minutes Go watch that links to all these reviews of mine are in the description below by the way So there you have it my response to iO9's Top 10 science fiction films of the last 10 years. I disagreed with most of their choices. I'm mystified by most of their choices They did good on a couple of them All right, I'll have another video Coming up for you tomorrow with another update about how my fundraiser is going Please press the like button. That's how videos get recommended and seen on YouTube Please become a subscriber here on YouTube and please become a sponsor at my 50th street page 30 seconds sci-fi 50th ST and please make a donation Help me out this month. I would appreciate it. Bye