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
aliens = scifi
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
and maybe horror too
yeah, i don't really think Road Warrior is Sci-fi, but it's post-apocalyptic so i guess that qualifies sort of not really
― John Justen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
mostly i just know it isn't going to get any votes, and it's AWESOME
― John Justen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
future = scifi
lol this is easy
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
same for the Day After.
xp
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
As I've said on another thread, I see sci-fi as more of window dressing for a variety of generic story structures than a genre in itself (in movies at least, literature is a different matter) - Blade Runner = detective movie, Aliens = war film, etc. Few SF movies actually give that much of a shit about conceptual matters. So, yeah, to all intents and purposes if it's got aliens and robots and what have you, it's SF as far as I'm concerned.
― chap, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, where's the 'science' in Road Warrior aside from the world having been nuked? It's just a great biker movie.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck it, i'm voting for enemy mine
― gff, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
* Isolation * Pepsi * Identifying With The Enemy * Based On Novella * Alien * Intolerance * Futuristic * Racism * Slavery * Tolerance * Bonding * Space * Friendship * Survival * Eaten Alive * Monster * Uncle Nephew Relationship * Fighter Pilot * Football * Meteor * Mining * Narrated * Planet * Pregnancy * Reptilian * Scavenger * Severed Ear * Snow * Space Station * Spaceship * Stranded * Alien Baby * Alien Slave * Male Pregnancy * Shot In The Neck * Multiple Monsters
I'm voting for The Dead Zone, for the movie itself and for the sketch on SNL where Christopher Walken reprises that role, playing the new guy at the office who shakes your hand and foretells your future -"You're going to get in the elevator at 11:45, go downstairs to the deli and come back with a paper bag holding a tuna salad sandwich and a blueberry yogurt."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Blade Runner = detective movie, Aliens = war film
nonononononononononononono
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Stanislaw Lem wrote a article (or a book) complaining about that phenomenon.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
an article
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
what I wd call a "hard" sci-fi film is Andromeda Strain (diff decade)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Alien = a nightmare that womanly affection and womanly reproduction have become separated, resulting in ruthless and uncontrollable proliferation
Aliens = the same, except with a sledgehammer rather than an icepick
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
(that first line is cribbed from Noah Berlatsky's "fecund horror" essay, which is brilliant and which everyone should read)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Andromeda Strain is suspense. All the "science" in it is bogus; the screenwriter made it up.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
as screenwriters are apt to do! (Geo Lucas too)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
All the "science" in it is bogus; the screenwriter made it up.
haha, 99% of sci fi to thread.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
So genre all comes down to servants and rides
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
people get excited for the remake of Last Starfighter coming in 2010!
― mizzell, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) (1981) Tron (1982) Videodrome (1982) The Thing (1982) Blade Runner (1982) Repo Man (1984) The Terminator (1984) Dune (1984) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Aliens (1986) Predator (1987) Akira (1987) They Live (1988)
^^ here's the short list
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Some variant of Sturgeon's Law.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:44 (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