The 70’s and 80’s were not particularly good decades for science fiction movies.
After Kubrick’s A Space Odyssey, people scarcely knew what to do with a space sci-fi flick any more. For a long time, everything seemed simply out-classed in beauty and scope.
| ++ | must-see |
| + | good but flawed |
| OK | interesting but not for everybody |
| - | very flawed, some redeeming features |
1970
++
1985
++ beautiful hilarious political
1982
++ until regrettable ending
1979
++ v. scary
1981 series
++ comedy
1973
++ comedy
1975
++ post-apocalypse tongue-in-rosy-cheek
1983
++ drug-induced paranoid
1979
++ post-apocalypse action
1979
- pretty space drama. poor characters, bad ending
1977
++ space action opera
1976
OK HG Wells knock-off
1973
+ Robot social commentary
1975
+ Edgar Rice Burroughs; dinosaurs
1974
OK campy post-apocalypse
1973
++ space spoof
1973
OK apocalyptic social commentary
1972
++ Time travel social commentary
1971
OK apocalyptic vampires
1971
+ space opera, robots, social commentary
1970
+ bleak futuristic social commentary
1980
- pretty, space detective story
1984
- epic space opera
1984
+ science spoof
1984
++ black comedy, aliens
1985
+ alien visitation
1985
+ space aliens social commentary
1985
- space vampires
1986
OK cute robot
1986
OK robots social commentary