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Originally Posted by Three Gun Fish
Actually, 2001 is probably the purest SF movie on anyone's Top Sci Fi list. ALIENS is a war movie, BLADE RUNNER is noir, STAR WARS is a space opera.
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Genre's and sub genre's can be broken down very minutely. I think the aforementioned films fit more generally into the scifi genre than any other. If you want to break it down further I would have to disagree with your sub genre assessment.
Aliens- Horror
Blade Runner- noir
Star Wars- Western
I do agree w/ you on Blade Runner.
I call Star Wars a western, because it fits the mold of a western sub the setting being outer space. I feel like the modern scifi genre is very much the child of what was once the classic western. The themes, key characters, and plot points remain very much the same.