The 1980's science fiction movie poll

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

its kind of more challenging to predict which films will get no votes (Short Circuit? D.A.R.Y.L.?)

2010 (sorry, AC Clarke, way to take the mysticism out)

flight of the navigator?

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

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

Cocoon was bollocks enough to make me hate old people for years.

wow...this is tough...i think i'll go Road Warrior since I don't think it'll get enough votes.

If you didn't vote for Lifeforce, you're probably at least a little gay.

since I'm gay, I didn't need to.

actually, gratutitous female nudity aside, the subtext of Lifeforce is pretty gay.

seriously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVPZgiaYZ8

however

http://www.deliriousfilm.com/lifeforce/imgs/LFembrac.JPG

http://www.pandora.ca/pictures9/676276.jpg

MORE CHALLENGING CHOICES

the science of Poul Anderson's "The Make-shift Rocket" is completely real and would work. Dude builds a rocket powered by beer, which would work great in a micrograv environment.

lifeforce was based on colin wilson's book

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n3311.jpg

'The Mind Parasites' is a good read as well -http://www.curledup.com/mindpara.htm

I'm down to these: Videodrome, The Thing, Blade Runner, Lifeforce, Brazil, The Fly, Robocop, They Live

actually, gratutitous female nudity aside, the subtext of Lifeforce is pretty gay.

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM (Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:55 PM) Bookmark Link

"Dune" is underrated.

Gave away all my VHS tapes and "Repo Man" was in there. And now I can't find a fuckin' torrent.

:(

Maybe if I see it cheap on DVD...

omigod Jorday, I LOVE that particular "Choose Your Own Adventure" book! It's in my closet.

voted e.t. also, gotta echo morbs on it.

My predictable vote -- Blade Runner.

yeah i voted Blade Runner too.

i forgot just how many sci-fi movies there were in the 80's compared to to the 70's.

Coming down to Khan, Robocop & Aliens for me. I can't believe how many of these I saw before 1990--City Lights! Thanks Showtime... apparently I watched nothing but SciFi.

Communion is totally bonkers. Quintessential Walken.

the aliens and their infamous rectal probes are almost incidental

Tracer I read that fecund horror essay. Fun stuff, it's a good gag. They're just monster movies though, of course.

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

Agreed! And I DID vote for it. I've always thought of it more as an "action" film, though. Total Recall came out in 90, I see.
I've been watching all these old classics with my young friend Zach who's never seen any of them. Predator blew his mind, Robocop touched his heart. I forgot how much HEART Robocop has. He's the most human thing in that movie. Also, Clarence Boddicker RULES. He snorts the drug dealer's wine, it's totally WTF.

Man, first thing I thought when I saw this title was "What about Looker?" -- and there it is!