Well, it's about time we started another series of polls at sakeriver.
So to kick it off (we had already decided to have one on Great SF Movies) I'm looking for nominations first.
Please submit: 1 nomination of a Great Science Fiction Movie to be included. Don't worry, B-movies may be included if you really think that they will do well in the poll.
From the list of nominees, I will create a series of polls that covers the nominations, boiling the winners down into other heats, as with the Greatest Science Fiction Author polls.
I'll be accepting nominations all week, and will likely start the polls on the upcoming Saturday, if there is an interest.
Nominate on!
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I nominate the following:
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Back to the Future Jarassic Park The Matrix
Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
OSC picked 12 monkeys, and I'm inclined to agree with him. 12 monkeys
P.S. Sheesh, T, you could at least use your other user names if you want to nominate more than one.
[ March 23, 2004, 06:21 PM: Message edited by: skrika03 ]
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Gattaca 2001: A Space Odyssey
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Dune (Kyle MacLachlan version)
Posted by karen.elizabeth (Member # 6345) on :
You need a section entirely for bad but realllllly fun scifi films.
If you had that, I'd put Starship Troopers. It's, like, the junior scifi winner -- I watched it when I was about thirteen and was GORED out of my mind (I didn't do blood and guts for a long time; my grandmother controlled my television/movie viewings).
My cousins, Miguel, Pancho, and Robert, sat through the entire moving screaming "Fake! Phoney!" (they are desensitized, eeps) My sister Katie and I were a-chatterin' "EEEW!" every half-second.
And the movie gave us countless hours of fun, with us reinacting it. :-)
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
First Contact Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Oooo. Gattaca! Nice!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Shouldn't we wait until the Ender movie is out to have this poll?
I nominate 5th Element.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
First Contact The Voyage Home
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
The Matrix, 12 Monkeys, and Contact (just plain contact).
Unless "Science Fiction" includes "fantasy" in which case it's The Fellowship of the Ring, hands down.
[ March 23, 2004, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: T. Analog Kid ]
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
How about Blade Runner?
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
Dark City
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 619) on :
Forbidden Planet
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
Aliens
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
I'm surprised "Donnie Darko" hasn't showed up yet... I haven't seen it, but everyone I know says it's awesome...
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Oh, and Buckaroo Bonzai...
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
OSC thought 12 Monkeys was the Greatest? Dang if that hasn't been my favorite SF since it came out! It's had some great competition too.
I had not heard of Star Crash, but now I gotta locate that B-bomb! That review really intrigued me.
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
I'll go with Alien, Aliens, or Alien 3.
At least, those are the only science-fiction movies I can watch over and over again and take them almost completely seriously.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
The third Alien movie was a cancer on the colon of reality. No one who liked the first two is allowed to like the third, or the apocalypse immediately begins.
Repent, young one, before it's too late.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Oh! Does 'Back to the Future' count?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I'd probably second Donnie Darko.
Hmmm... How about any of the Charleton Heston SF films: Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, or Omega Man? Definitely classic and, depending on your viewpoint, either awesome or so awful that they're awesome anyway.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
You guys got the best suggestions.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
A few more:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan King Kong Any of the Godzilla films Logan's Run The Day the Earth Stood Still Starman E.T.
A couple that are open to debate as to whether they fit the category: Doctor Strangelove A Clockwork Orange (We already know Hobbes' opinion on this one.)
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
And we know mine. They will be included.
I think Fantasy will have to have it's own series, but these selections will also facilitate a series of Greatest B Movies.
Choices.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
quote: Shouldn't we wait until the Ender movie is out to have this poll? --Dagonee
But we'll just have another one then so it can win. Or lose badly, depending on how it's actually made.
This is a tough crowd. Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
They Live Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
[ March 23, 2004, 09:50 PM: Message edited by: Zamphyr ]
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Ooooooh! Soylent Green!
How about War of the Worlds?
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
I nominate both the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and both the 1951 and 1982 versions of The Thing.
I would also like to second (or third or whatever) the nods for Alien and Aliens.
The Terminator movies also should be listed. Oh, and Silent Running should be up there as well.
And, on a personal note, Pitch Black because I said so.
Can't think of anymore offhand. If I can, I'll be back. Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
Matrix owns them all! I think.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hmm... I'm gonna say that, in my book, at least (no pun intended) Alien, Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, and a lot of other movies are superior to the Matrix, which I guess I consider to be an action flick.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Is Ghostbusters considered science fiction? 'Cause if it is, I nominate it.
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
quote: Hmm... I'm gonna say that, in my book, at least (no pun intended) Alien, Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, and a lot of other movies are superior to the Matrix, which I guess I consider to be an action flick.
Just because it's an action flick doesn't mean it's not a good movie. It has great dialog, great story and great acting. Plus, OSC says it's the best sci-fi movie ever. And I agree that it's ONE of the best.
I might agree with you though, that Clockwork Orange and Donnie Darko are better. I have yet to see any of the Alien movies.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
5th Element- Emphatic yes.
Blade Runner- I was disappointed, but only because I read the book first. It was okay, but not good enough to make the poll, I think.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Of the ones that haven't been mentioned, I'm most surprised by The Day The Earth Stood Still. It's a classic, and not just among sci-fi movies. Sure, it gets a little preachy at the end, but it's still one of the best movies of its era.
Other than that I should mention Terminator II and all the even-numbered Star Trek movies.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
RRR, good call!
Speed, examine my post from 8:50 PM yesterday evening. Klaatu, barada, nikto!
[ March 24, 2004, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Batteries Not Included?
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
Slash, as I may have mentioned elsewhere, I actually saw Star Crash on it's first run... scary, eh?
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
You're the man, Saxon.
[ March 24, 2004, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Speed ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Forbidden Planet - Yes!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Batteries Not Included?
Please, please, please be kidding...
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
I saw starcrash on first run as well, TAK. In a double feature with the Gil Gerard buck rogers movie.
Frisco, you are smoking crack. Blade Runner is probably one of the best Sci Fi movies ever made. You just have to think of it as a totally different story from the PKD book.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:Frisco, you are smoking crack.
That might explain why, about halfway through the movie, I always feel like getting up and doing something else.
I'm not even sure I've ever sat through it until the end. Is it true that she doesn't even throw his sheep off the building?
Posted by closeyourmind (Member # 5916) on :
How about Total Recall? And I second Close Encounters.
Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
quote: Plus, OSC says it's the best sci-fi movie ever.
Huh, I know that between 12 Monkeys and the Matrix, one was the best and the other was almost the best. I'm thinking he said 12 monkeys was the best. Edited in case my kids some day read this forum and somehow this thread is still around.
[ March 24, 2004, 08:02 PM: Message edited by: skrika03 ]
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
I read through this thread accompanied by lots of oohs and ahhs - I agree with most of the ones above. If I had to pick just one it'd be Logans Run - I daydreamed about braking out with Logan for years after I saw this. My first intro to sci-fi.
No mention of the following which I think need including:
2001 A Space Odyssey, Quatermass series, Farenheit 451, Mad Max series (just for Mel - a girls gotta dream), Stargate (much better than the series); Barbarella (one of the worst and funniest movies ever
Worst ones ever include:
Robocop series, Event Horizon (one of the nastiest movies I had the displeasure of watching), Waterworld, Starship Troopers (I loved the book), A.I., Time Bandits
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
gotta disagree on Time Bandits... I love that one!
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Hmmm.... Is Time Bandits Science Fiction or Fantasy? Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
It's awesome is what it is.
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
Gigli.
Well, seriously now, what about Sphere? I'll nominate it, even though it really doesn't have a snowball's chance.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Oh my goodness, how could I have forgotten Tron?!
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
(If it counts) waterworld 5th Element Galaxy quest
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Brazil Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Well, that's three Terry Gilliam nominations....
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Nominations are closed, thank you for nominating.
There are over 50 entries here. I'll actually have to cull a few to round it out.
We have our list. The polls will begin appearing today on sakeriver forum. I will begin a new thread to track the poll.
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