The 1980's science fiction movie poll

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

same difference?

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there are a few of these I haven't seen, but I've got to do this in stages, picking from this list:

Altered States, The Quatermass Conclusion, The Road Warrior, Escape from New York, Tron, Videodrome, The Thing, Blade Runner, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, Liquid Sky, The Terminator, Dune, Buckaroo Banzai, Lifeforce, The Quiet Earth, Brazil, Enemy Mine, Aliens, The Fly, Predator, Robocop, They Live, The Blob

stuff can be scifi AND something else, you autistics

saw the complete mini-series version of quatermass conclusion for the first time a few months ago, and it's worth seeing the whole thing

And the sun turns to vomit

'Brainstorm' seemed way too sentimental the first time I saw it in the same way that 'Silent Running' just often seems ridiculous, but with hindsight, this film has some brutally fucked up scenes it and the overall sentiment really is kind of ambitious and beautiful

Silent Running is not at all ridiculous!

(and s1ocki OTM)

the only true sci fi film ever made was Walter Mitty you fule

a draw between The Fly and KHAAAAAAHHHHHNN!!. I won't count E.T. and The Terminator.

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

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