All right, well, The Running Man is coming out.

It's starring Glenn Powell, a remake of the old Schwarzenegger film,

based on a Richard Bachman book who turned out to be Stephen King. I read it as a reader for Columbia Pictures. I read what I thought was a Richard Bachman book, and I said, this is second-rate Stephen King, but it turned out to be first-rate Stephen King, because it was Stephen King. This will be directed by Andrew Wright, who did Sean of the Dead and Baby Driver.

And to celebrate this, we're going to do a ranking of science fiction films. Now, I didn't pick these films, so don't tell me I left something out. I blame Tom. He's the producer, and he picked these films, and I'll give you his address and where you can key his car, where he parks his car at night and all that. This is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Protect your data when you're online.

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expressvbn.com slash Andrew Claven Show. So we start with Back to the Future.

1985, director Robert Zemeckis, an excellent director when he's on his game. Back to the

future is excellent. And I think that is a superior film, an S-film.

I think that, you know, maybe not the sequels, but I think Back to the Future really holds up.

And it's kind of weird, edible energy and its idea of this kind of kid going back and sort of just as the culture is turning, going back into the culture and changing the future. It's one of the few films that gets time travel right, because time travel can't be gotten right because it's impossible, you can't make it make sense, so it kind of throws sense to the wind and just makes it really convincing. Like that film, Alien, director Ridley Scott, one of my favorite horror films, one of my favorite science fiction films. Definitely an S, really scary. That first one, the budget must be 20 bucks. They have nothing to work with, and they just make it absolutely sing. It's really good. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. You really pick some good films here. I hate to give everything an S. I love Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's

obviously Steven Spielberg. I think it's an S picture straight down the line, an actual classic.

It's really about art. It's about the artist who gets an idea in his head and has to bring it out.

And that's really the underlying theme of the movie, but it's done as an alien film because it's

Steven Spielberg and the guy has the sensibility of a child. Planet of the Apes. This is the original one, 1968, Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling. I forgot, Serling wrote that one. Great Charlton Heston film. I'll give it an A. I think it's dated a little bit, but it's classic, you know, it's iconic.

I don't know. It's an A to an S because it's a classic.

These are such good films. I feel like I'm just going to be like a snake.

But it's a really good movie, and of course the ending is famous and terrific.

The Terminator, James Cameron, I think it's almost a perfect film. I think it is

almost a perfect film. An original idea, every line in it, the script is so spare that every line

in it is memorable and quotable again and again. People always like sequels to things. I always

well, yeah, but the sequel was better. No, it's always where the story begins.

You get the best stuff.

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