Josh Calder responds (Score 1)

Thanks for all your remarks. I'm a little behind reading the 510 so far, but friends have made sure to alert me to the funniest ways I've been insulted.

As some of you have stated, this list was shaped by Wired's interest in my site, futuristmovies.com. The placement of movies in the Wired top 20 was influenced by the criteria I applied as a futurist.

Different criteria will of course yield different results. In my ranking by entertainment rating alone, Gattaca could be as low as 50th. Check my site. Even ranked as futurist movies -- not "greatest science fiction," many of your favorites score well. Out of 99 ranked, these include:

21. Logan's Run

22. Things to Come

26. Metropolis

30. Twelve Monkeys

34. Solaris

38. Forbidden Planet

I find Forbidden Planet remarkable for a 1950s movie, and it clearly established the template for many things to come in TV and film.

As for the presence of Barbarella, I would speculate that editors enjoy a little chain-yanking. As a futurist movie, I rank it 94th of 99.

Feel free to drop me a note at [e-mail].