Robots = scifi Spaceships = scifi
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
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.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
the science of "the black destroyer" or "the great engine" by a.e. van vogt is completely made up and completely awesome
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i would say that Tron actually counts as sci-fi
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Videodrome and Dune also
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
is allegory science?
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't all sci-fi allegory?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I think we should explore the genre = service and transportation idea further
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think there's much to that idea
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
transportation = easy way of establishing setting?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Vincent Schiavelli, RIP.
Holy crap, I did not know this. : (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that fecund horror essay is good but not recommended lunchtime reading.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't wait until the 90s poll. Johnny Mnemonic ftw.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
repo man = dune = bttf
― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm going with repo man
― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
This is going to be a battle of the sympathy votes
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
ha. 90's is going to be like demolition man vs star trek vi vs twelve monkeys.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Matrix 2: A Rave in Space
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
also didn't abyss come out 1990?
― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
servant: live-in girlfriend ride: shitty car
genre - Apatow
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
there should a johnny mnemonic vs stargate subpoll, though.
xp
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
imdb says aug. '89.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Repo Man wins any poll, every time.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
it's probablly the most sci-fi offering up there
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I find it kinda neorealist
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
same difference?
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
RO BO COP
― David R., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
stuff can be scifi AND something else, you autistics
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Silent Running is not at all ridiculous!
(and s1ocki OTM)
― Ste, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the only true sci fi film ever made was Walter Mitty you fule
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
a draw between The Fly and KHAAAAAAHHHHHNN!!. I won't count E.T. and The Terminator.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not going to vote for it or anything, but let it be known that Predator is awesome.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm thinking that about 80% of that list is awesome, the more i look at it
― John Justen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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