The 1990s science fiction movie poll

Iron Giant doesn't really belong here as much as it belongs in a, I don't know, truly incredible family films of all time thread.

I still voted for it though and now 12 Monkeys isn't returning my calls.

also LOL @ Tom including BICENTENIAL MAN in the list.

I don't remember DEEP IMPACT but the title makes it sound like a TREMEMDOUS PORNO.

The 80s was better for sci-fi than the 90s, and I am not old.

Dark City
eXistenZ
Johnny Mnemonic
Fifth Element
Iron Giant

Did we do a 70s scifi movie poll yet because I am ITCHING to vote for ZARDOZ in SOMETHING.

The film here that is prperly bordeline is Pi, by the way.

xpost - there was totally a 70s one. Don't think anyone's done the 60s yet, however.

"properly borderline"

Dark City

head says yes to 80s list being better, but then that list still had a runaway (ah Runaway, starring Tom Selleck, could've made it) winner, and an adult sci-fi winner at that. fifth element and starship troopers (most likely to win here, if not kids flick Iron Giant) are jokier and teenier, post-modern thing i guess.

i watched city of the lost children again recently and it is still so creepy.

terminator 2 not on here, though i wouldn't have voted for it anyways

Twelve Monkeys
Total Recall
Dark City
Pi
T2
Predator 2
Demolition Man
Ghost in the Shell

more or less in that order

Tempted to vote for Strange Days, but will probably vote for The Iron Giant instead.

T2 is better than half of these

Strange Days wasn't bad.

i think i remember strange days but i think i am conflating it with the television miniseries "wild palms" for some reason

i actually just have a vague blur memory of liam neeson and halle berry running around in times square and some kind of video helmet

erm, Ralph Fiennes

haha, and, erm, Angela Bassett

apparently all white people AND all black people look alike to me

the 90s was actually a good decade for sci-fi miniseries actually. maybe.

the 90s was? the 90s were

total recall
12 monkeys
13th floor
dark city

need to see johnny mnemonic.

city of lost children was pretty tight but kind of bummed me out IIRC.

I can't believe people are non-jokingly saying they liked Johnny Mnemonic.

this poll belongs to Verhoeven

Starship Troopers and Total Recall <3<3<3

the two Verhoevens vs. 12 Monkeys vs. Escape from L.A. (which isn't great but has one of the best endings ever)

I can't believe people are non-jokingly saying they liked Johnny Mnemonic.

that's because you live on planet boring and we live on planet awesome. it's expected.

seriously

I saw it with my friend on opening day and we were the only people in the theater.

I WANT MY SHIRTS LAUNDERED

i want a 10,000 dollar hooker!

man, i need to do some serious catching up on some flicks

How about The Truman Show?

-- Eazy, Friday, March 28, 2008 12:37 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

that actually happened though I thought

-- El Tomboto, Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

rofl

Man, looking back at it The Matrix really seems like the culmination of a decade's worth of failed attempts by Hollywood to profitably exploit the 90's internet/virtual reality/video game/Silicon Valley/Doom/cyberpunk/hacker zeitgeist.

"so all we have to do is add kung fu and stoner philosophy to the mix and THEN they'll actually come to see the movie! we can even use Keanu again"

(That said, the first Matrix was pretty bitchin')

A friend once said of Sphere that it was more like two spheres, pressed together, that you sit on.

i liked the book. the movie is so ugly-looking and boring.

TWO WEEKS

Flatliners freaked me out proper.

altho should I be surprised Morbz is no fan of Starship Troopers?

I appreciated what it was trying to do, but after the first hour seeing bad actor-models torn apart by insects just loses its novelty. But I did like the scene where Casper von Dien gets whipped.

eXistenZ is not camp...at least not in the way that, say, Mommie Dearest or Showgirls is camp

which is, comedy-substitute for people who don't particularly like actual comedy (like the admirable Eric H).

T2 would've had my vote. Might throw 12 Monkeys a bone although I've only seen it once.

the endings SUCKS

Dark City is probably the #1 'woah this is far better than i thought it was gonna be' here.

i voted TOTAL RECALL because it's awesome.

-- Alba, Thursday, 27 March 2008 23:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I saw Strange Days for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It is too long. Fiennes is pretty great in it though.

i remember the first time i saw huge posters for Total Recall on the platform of Tottenham Court Road tube station. brilliant design, got a real 'wow wtf is that' sense of excitement from them.