{"id":9211,"date":"2006-01-23T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/the-greatest-sf-movies-never-made.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:30:04","slug":"the_greatest_sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/the_greatest_sf.html","title":{"rendered":"The greatest SF movies never made"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know that I would rush out to see all of these<\/a>, but I can’t argue with the list of 10 or the reasoning behind it:<\/p>\n

10. The “Real” Alien 3<\/em>
\n9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>
\n8-6. Star Wars<\/em> Episodes VII, VIII and IX
\n5. A Doom <\/em>that isn’t a huge turd
\n4. Starcraft<\/em>
\n3. Snow Crash <\/em>
\n2-1. The Matrix<\/em> Prequel and ONE Sequel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know that I would rush out to see all of these, but I can’t argue with the list of 10 or the reasoning behind it: 10. The “Real”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26800,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/what-if-if-the-phantom-menace-was-good.html","url_meta":{"origin":9211,"position":0},"title":"What if if The Phantom Menace was … good?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Mar-12 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting hypothetical exercise of how the first Star Wars prequel could have been better. 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