The 1980's science fiction movie poll

Robots = scifi
Spaceships = scifi

Also, I always considered if it was made in the 1980s and I liked it, then it must be sci-fi.

aliens on earth = horror, aliens in space = sci-fi?

aliens = scifi

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

mostly i just know it isn't going to get any votes, and it's AWESOME

future = scifi

lol this is easy

same for the Day After.

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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.

ok, where's the 'science' in Road Warrior aside from the world having been nuked? It's just a great biker movie.

fuck it, i'm voting for enemy mine

* 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."

Blade Runner = detective movie, Aliens = war film

nonononononononononononono

I think Stanislaw Lem wrote a article (or a book) complaining about that phenomenon.

an article

what I wd call a "hard" sci-fi film is Andromeda Strain (diff decade)

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

(that first line is cribbed from Noah Berlatsky's "fecund horror" essay, which is brilliant and which everyone should read)

Andromeda Strain is suspense. All the "science" in it is bogus; the screenwriter made it up.

as screenwriters are apt to do! (Geo Lucas too)

All the "science" in it is bogus; the screenwriter made it up.

haha, 99% of sci fi to thread.

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Robots = scifi
Spaceships = scifi

So genre all comes down to servants and rides

people get excited for the remake of Last Starfighter coming in 2010!

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

All the "science" in it is bogus; the screenwriter made it up.

haha, 99% of sci fi to thread.

Some variant of Sturgeon's Law.

the science of "the black destroyer" or "the great engine" by a.e. van vogt is completely made up and completely awesome

i would say that Tron actually counts as sci-fi

Videodrome and Dune also

is allegory science?

isn't all sci-fi allegory?

I think we should explore the genre = service and transportation idea further

i don't think there's much to that idea

transportation = easy way of establishing setting?

Vincent Schiavelli, RIP.

Holy crap, I did not know this. : (

that fecund horror essay is good but not recommended lunchtime reading.

I can't wait until the 90s poll. Johnny Mnemonic ftw.

repo man = dune = bttf

i'm going with repo man

This is going to be a battle of the sympathy votes

ha. 90's is going to be like demolition man vs star trek vi vs twelve monkeys.

Matrix 2: A Rave in Space

also didn't abyss come out 1990?

servant: live-in girlfriend
ride: shitty car

genre - Apatow

there should a johnny mnemonic vs stargate subpoll, though.

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also didn't abyss come out 1990?

imdb says aug. '89.

Repo Man wins any poll, every time.

it's probablly the most sci-fi offering up there

I find it kinda neorealist