The 1980's science fiction movie poll

i'm thinking that about 80% of that list is awesome, the more i look at it

its kind of more challenging to predict which films will get no votes (Short Circuit? D.A.R.Y.L.?)

2010 (sorry, AC Clarke, way to take the mysticism out)

flight of the navigator?

don't get me wrong, I love Silent Running and I need to see it again

but Brainstorm's 70mm depiction of the first five minutes after death, starting with point of view shots of writhing through a sea of people choking on their own intestines & strangling each other, and rising out of purgatory to a deep space streams of souls working towards the light. also the scene where the older guy makes a four second tape loop out of a recorded orgasm and plays it until he loses his personality, and after days of physical therapy to rehabilitate simply says "I'm more than I was"... that's what I mean by ambitious

also the scene where the older guy makes a four second tape loop out of a recorded orgasm and plays it until he loses his personality, and after days of physical therapy to rehabilitate simply says "I'm more than I was"... that's what I mean by ambitious

^^^^this is so awesome, best thing in the movie

Cocoon was bollocks enough to make me hate old people for years.

wow...this is tough...i think i'll go Road Warrior since I don't think it'll get enough votes.

If you didn't vote for Lifeforce, you're probably at least a little gay.

since I'm gay, I didn't need to.

actually, gratutitous female nudity aside, the subtext of Lifeforce is pretty gay.

seriously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVPZgiaYZ8

however

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the science of Poul Anderson's "The Make-shift Rocket" is completely real and would work. Dude builds a rocket powered by beer, which would work great in a micrograv environment.

lifeforce was based on colin wilson's book

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n3311.jpg

'The Mind Parasites' is a good read as well -http://www.curledup.com/mindpara.htm

I'm down to these: Videodrome, The Thing, Blade Runner, Lifeforce, Brazil, The Fly, Robocop, They Live

actually, gratutitous female nudity aside, the subtext of Lifeforce is pretty gay.

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM (Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM) Bookmark Link

"Dune" is underrated.

Gave away all my VHS tapes and "Repo Man" was in there. And now I can't find a fuckin' torrent.

:(

Maybe if I see it cheap on DVD...

omigod Jorday, I LOVE that particular "Choose Your Own Adventure" book! It's in my closet.

voted e.t. also, gotta echo morbs on it.

My predictable vote -- Blade Runner.

yeah i voted Blade Runner too.

i forgot just how many sci-fi movies there were in the 80's compared to to the 70's.

Coming down to Khan, Robocop & Aliens for me. I can't believe how many of these I saw before 1990--City Lights! Thanks Showtime... apparently I watched nothing but SciFi.

Communion is totally bonkers. Quintessential Walken.

the aliens and their infamous rectal probes are almost incidental

Tracer I read that fecund horror essay. Fun stuff, it's a good gag. They're just monster movies though, of course.

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i'm not going to vote for it or anything, but let it be known that Predator is awesome

Agreed! And I DID vote for it. I've always thought of it more as an "action" film, though. Total Recall came out in 90, I see.
I've been watching all these old classics with my young friend Zach who's never seen any of them. Predator blew his mind, Robocop touched his heart. I forgot how much HEART Robocop has. He's the most human thing in that movie. Also, Clarence Boddicker RULES. He snorts the drug dealer's wine, it's totally WTF.

Man, first thing I thought when I saw this title was "What about Looker?" -- and there it is!

ledge, berlatsky agrees with you:

You go to the Thing to be amazed and disgusted by some cool fucking shit.

and yeah, sometimes a shapeshifting homicidal alien that takes over men's bodies in order to give birth to itself is just a shapeshifting homicidal alien that takes over men's bodies in order to give birth to itself, no more, no less

Edward!!!

repo man

Got to be Mad Max 2 - "The Sistine Chapel of Punk culture" according to J.G. Ballard, and he wasn't far off. The cinematic equivalent of 2000AD, at the very least.

Just a cigarette paper between this and "Escape from New York" or "The Thing", though.

. . but, damn, "Liquid Sky" . . so many great movies in that list.

liquid sky sounds crazy, not on netflix though. :(

We're missing the perennial late-80s arthouse double-feature accompaniment to Liquid Sky: The Brother from Another Planet.

Liquid Sky: Made for pennies, time capsule picture of the period, incredibly bleak. But funny, too.

We're missing Night of the Comet, too.

^This.

damn i have no idea which way to go on this poll.

also these fine animated features:
Rock & Rule
Time Masters
Starchaser: Legend of Orin
Lightyears

Heavy Metal

Predator wins because I've seen it more than Back to the Future, and drawn him more than the Xenomorph.

And I got my baseball coach into trouble for getting him to talk my mom into letting me watch Predator.

i would argue for 'streets of fire' to be included

Earth Girls ARE Easy

I voted for Bladerunner, but dude!

Empire Strikes Back, Road Warrior, Escape from New York, Outland, E.T., Tron, The Thing, Khaaaaan, Testament (good god, every junior high student in the world should be required to watch that one), Dead Zone, Repo Man, Terminator, Buckaroo Banzai, Starman, Brazil, ST: Save the Whales, Tremors (mwahahahaha), The Abyss (minus the last ten minutes) ....

That was a good decade for chilling out in the dark and going where no human has gone before.

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