If he’d picked something edgier or less mainstream I’ve no doubt he would have been pilloried and criticized for it regardless. The dude can’t win no matter what he does.

I think anyone would be ashamed to have a Conan movie on a science fiction list.

And that’s why you’re not President.

I gave you a “maybe.” That movie gave Duran Duran their band name. Not exactly Ice Pirates.

That’s no less mainstream except for maybe naked, young, Mrs Ted Turner.

Counterpoint. As “essential SF in a visual medium” there is nothing wrong with this list.