(oh and uh Bladerunner too duh)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck it, maybe I'll just vote for Empire Strikes Back. Which is amazingly good, lest we forget.
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
star wars better, ooh controversial, oh let's just not have that conversation.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
star wars also not 80s lol
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
this is impossible.
besides the ones already mentioned, i am seriously considering The Thing.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I narrowed it down to 25, but fuck it, I'm voting for Terminator. Blew my mind when I was 12.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
1980-1983: the golden age of 80s sci/fi
― Sparkle Motion, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I can totally understand the 'Star Wars better' argument, I just happen to prefer Empire.
xxxpost
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial is the great film here, but I'm not sure I consider it science fiction.
And The Fly close behind it -- horror, I think.
Peter Berg will direct a new Dune, did you hear? Such fascination w/ such a boring book.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope this turns into a 200 post thread with 0 votes.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
My short list is a lot like Shakey's - Fly, Brazil, Bladerunner, The Thing. I also have testosterone/adrenaline darkhorse candidates like Tremors and The Hidden to consider.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man morbius with the spielberg fanboy flame bait already
this is going to be fantastic
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
brazil is too criterion
reminder: none of the Star Wars are sci fi
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Dune is a totally boring book - so what? people make great films from shitty source material all the time.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
okay I'll bite - Morbz what is this weird "sci-fi" criterion you seem to have that I'm sure no one else will agree with
i thought morbs would go right for "aliens (predator/the thing/terminator/star wars/robocop) isn't sci-fi."
xpost lolololol
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
BTTF1/2 are awesome but you have to be able to vote for both together. gestalt zemeckis
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
BTTF 2 is horrid.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^ Lies
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
3 is pretty good except for the chitty-chitty-bang-bang ending.
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― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Outland good? Should I watch it?
-- Jordan, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:47 AM (15 minutes ago)
yes it is and yes you should!
* Space Western * Drugs * Mining * Space * Corruption * Futuristic * Io * Jupiter * Marshal * Moon * Racquetball * Violence * Hologram * Exploding Body * Explosive Decompression
― gff, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The Thing, no question about it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
You'd have to be pretty miserable not to be able to find something to enjoy in each of the BTTFs.
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
sweet, gff. it was already pretty high up on my queue, but space racquetball puts it over the top (i'll overlook the lack of hoverboards).
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Brazil, easy.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
what is this weird "sci-fi" criterion you seem to have that I'm sure no one else will agree with
I don't know! It's like obscenity to that dead Supreme Court justice, I just know it when I see it. Wrath of Khan is close enough, as eugenics and creation of 'artificial' life are at the core.
BTTF2 stunk, never saw 3.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not going to vote for They Live, but I would like to point out that it's great.
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ice pirates/spaceballs no show
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
this seems like a perfect time to plug my upcoming radio venture (with mark s!), a show about old SF short stories from 1935-1965 airing on Resonance FM 104.4 in London, on Wednesdays at 10pm. there'll be a web site, podcasts etc but we're still working on that part.
anyway, our very first show is going to be about "Who Goes There", the novella that was the basis for The Thing!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember that one! Written by John Campbell himself, no?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
tempted by liquid sky komedy vote
― gff, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you guys going to do "The Cold Equations," Tracer?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
James - yes! it's really really good. I don't think Campbell himself ever really wrote any other stories of much note, but that one was a doozy.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
buckaroo bonzai, worth re-watching?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Vincent Schiavelli, RIP.
i hope this turns into a 200 post thread with 0 votes. I don't know if I'll be finished reading the list of candidates in time for the voting deadline.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
woops xpost - I don't know, we've only sketched out the first 3 or 4 shows so far. I like "Cold Equations" a lot although i always get annoyed by the close tolerances for fuel necessary to make the story work - does that bother you too? I realize it is somewhat small of me to pick that nit.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, surely the emergency craft wouldn't even take off if there was too much weight on board.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i only saw blade runner for the first time last week, so that has to get my vote.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, like maybe the guy made a mistake in his calculations and realized it later: Oops, sorry! Or like his bosses were really stingy with his allocation and didn't take into account such contingencies. And if that was the case, why didn't they weigh the ship before takeoff? (xxpost)
Looks like y'alls show is intentionally pre-Dangerous Visions, which is probably for the best.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
let's not forget jessica harbl's #11 movie of all time:
11. Enemy Mine – White spaceman and Louis Gossett Jr. - looking like an Admiral Ackbar knockoff or Miles Davis with severe sunburn peel - on a desolate barren wasteland planet for two hours. Cue “The Living Years.”
― gff, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
HA easy i thought this would be. Tron I ticked. Then remembered Wargames. shitting hell.
― Ste, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The Thing I always considered more of a riff on the early parts of At The Mountains of Madness...
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The only way to win, Ste, is not to play.
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
ROAD WARRIOR
― John Justen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
this is pretty hard. i think i'll vote for robocop because blade runner is already getting a ton of votes. i have to get morbiusy on y'all and say that the thing is more of a horror movie than a sci fi movie.
― n/a, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Robots = scifi Spaceships = scifi
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I always considered if it was made in the 1980s and I liked it, then it must be sci-fi.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
aliens on earth = horror, aliens in space = sci-fi?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
good for you! good for you!
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
so does anything cool happen towards the end of Blade Runner?
― Kerm, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
she's a he
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
but we did sort of have a renaissance of aliens love, between this and the aliens poll.
honestly, i thought the thing would be #1 or #2.
― Jordan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
btw blade runner: the final cut just arrived today from netflix.
I thought so too. (I voted for The Quiet Earth though)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
No *batteries not included, no credibility
― JTS, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Still, I would have thought Aliens might have gotten at least one vote. I expected a bigger turn out anyway.
― Ste, Thursday, 27 March 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
aliens more likely to get repped in an action poll.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 27 March 2008 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
83 votes is not bad for a poll, they rarely get over 100.
― ledge, Thursday, 27 March 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
*batteries not included,
isn't this about old people?
― Jordan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
what is it with 80's sci-fi flicks about old people
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
do the star trek flicks count as part of this sub-genre?
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
this poll was too hard was the problem
― n/a, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously. so many notable flicks.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I, for one, couldn't choose.
― treefell, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Cocoon was a hit, ripoffs ensue. No MAC and me on this poll...so sad.
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
tom - 90's poll? :>
― Jordan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
predicting Virtuosity for the win
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
vs. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
― Jordan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
watched Robocop last night, and noticed that it featured at least two england footballer lookalikes, David Platt and Wayne Rooney
― Ste, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
No MAC and me on this poll...so sad.
totally;_;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8cqqjOUdgAw
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
more like Big Mac and me amirite
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I didn't vote - too hard. surprised to see Videodrome place so high and the Thing place so low tho.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I am pleased that Repo Man came in ahead of E.T..
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 28 March 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops, forgot: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SZPWZJT8L._AA280_.jpg
And Alan Rudolph's Endangered Species is either about aliens or black helicopters.
― Eazy, Friday, 28 March 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and with a similar poster, it turns out: http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Movie/poster-endangered.JPG
― Eazy, Friday, 28 March 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
everything thru the thing (and several after) i would take over any on the 90s list
― balls, Friday, 28 March 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/d/d5/Zapped.jpg
I guess 80s teen science fiction is a whole other category.
― Eazy, Friday, 28 March 2008 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
of the top ten, i haven't seen videodrome or they live. what are they all about and why do i love them>
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man you need to see both asap, dude
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i miss neon grids.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Videodrome is maybe DC's finest theorem about the New Flesh, I think of it every time I shoulder past some zombielike texter on the sidewalk
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
They Live is silly as hell but its good. Videodrome is definitely one of Cronenberg's high points and must be seen immediately.
also Zapped! gawd that is some funny shit
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.boomerangshop.com/dvdcover/ImageWeb/Heartbeeps19811059_f.jpg http://eu.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/3/A70-1988
^they also served.
― DavidM, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched Outland last night. aside from a few silly plot points, it's pretty good! sean connery as wild west sheriff meets modern drugs/unions/corporations plot, set in space.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
man The Hidden is great! can't believe I never saw that before. Deserved at least a vote :(
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
special lol @ Mrs. Haverchuck from Freaks and Geeks appearing as a stripper
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
You guys - there is this straight-to-VHS film from '87 called Death Row Game Show and it is amazing. Baffled that it never got a cult following, the blackly ironic tone is ridic.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
I mean
http://cinapse.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Deathrow-Gameshow-03-Old-DVD.jpg
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
why don't i ask on one more thread -- anyone know this Sokurov '88 film?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Eclipse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link