its kind of more challenging to predict which films will get no votes (Short Circuit? D.A.R.Y.L.?)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
2010 (sorry, AC Clarke, way to take the mysticism out)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
flight of the navigator?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Cocoon was bollocks enough to make me hate old people for years.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
wow...this is tough...i think i'll go Road Warrior since I don't think it'll get enough votes.
― ryan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
If you didn't vote for Lifeforce, you're probably at least a little gay.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
since I'm gay, I didn't need to.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, gratutitous female nudity aside, the subtext of Lifeforce is pretty gay.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVPZgiaYZ8
however
http://www.deliriousfilm.com/lifeforce/imgs/LFembrac.JPG
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pandora.ca/pictures9/676276.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
MORE CHALLENGING CHOICES
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM (Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM) Bookmark Link
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dune" is underrated.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
omigod Jorday, I LOVE that particular "Choose Your Own Adventure" book! It's in my closet.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
voted e.t. also, gotta echo morbs on it.
― balls, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
My predictable vote -- Blade Runner.
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 20 March 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Communion is totally bonkers. Quintessential Walken.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the aliens and their infamous rectal probes are almost incidental
― latebloomer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Tracer I read that fecund horror essay. Fun stuff, it's a good gag. They're just monster movies though, of course.
― ledge, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link
NSFW image
― Edward III, Thursday, 20 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, first thing I thought when I saw this title was "What about Looker?" -- and there it is!
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
ledge, berlatsky agrees with you:
You go to the Thing to be amazed and disgusted by some cool fucking shit.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Edward!!!
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
repo man
― omar little, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
. . but, damn, "Liquid Sky" . . so many great movies in that list.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
liquid sky sounds crazy, not on netflix though. :(
― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
We're missing the perennial late-80s arthouse double-feature accompaniment to Liquid Sky: The Brother from Another Planet.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Liquid Sky: Made for pennies, time capsule picture of the period, incredibly bleak. But funny, too.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
We're missing Night of the Comet, too.
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
^This.
― suzy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
damn i have no idea which way to go on this poll.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
also these fine animated features: Rock & Rule Time Masters Starchaser: Legend of Orin Lightyears
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Heavy Metal
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Predator wins because I've seen it more than Back to the Future, and drawn him more than the Xenomorph.
― Kerm, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
And I got my baseball coach into trouble for getting him to talk my mom into letting me watch Predator.
― Kerm, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i would argue for 'streets of fire' to be included
― omar little, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Earth Girls ARE Easy
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Hey Jude, Thursday, 20 March 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Krull.jpg/392px-Krull.jpg
― DavidM, Friday, 21 March 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I loved the weird shriek the stormtroopers in Krull uttered upon being shot.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 21 March 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link