Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
no idea how I missed this poll, bat signal must be on the fritz
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
la jetee the obv answer tho I would posit that as a short film it doesn't belong here (and yet maybe that makes its win even more deserving and just)
would've agitated for POTA, F451, and prolly pulled the lever for the sorely underrated x: the man w/ the x-ray eyes
loved quatermass & the pit as a young'un but in adulthood have found its ideas far more stimulating than its actuality as a cinematic experience (i.e. yawn)
charly is perhaps better known as flowers for algernon, my bio storage banks seem to recall a childhood viewing but are vague on the quality of this adaptation
loath to confess I still have not seen seconds, this poll surely would've goaded me into it
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
and as both a godard AND scifi fan, the charms of alphaville are inexplicably lost on me
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
Voted for La jetée like everybody else but wonder why Village of the Damned didn't get on the ballot.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
cliff roberston apparently won best actor oscar for charly, also lol @ 60s innocence
At the 41st Academy Awards, Robertson won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, under some controversy: less than two weeks after the ceremony, Time magazine mentioned the Academy's generalized concerns over "excessive and vulgar solicitation of votes" and said "many members agreed that Robertson's award was based more on promotion than on performance."
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Ahem. Best Story in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 (Unabridged Version)
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
the story's far more well-known than the movie afaik
was in one of my high school english textbooks in fact
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
fun results
shoutout to the agent who voted for Creation of the Humanoids
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678GYWtlONA
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 10:21 (ten years ago) link
who knows their Finnish techno dystopias? A Time of Roses
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3319?locale=en
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
see also
http://worldscinema.org/2012/06/risto-jarva-ruusujen-aika-aka-a-time-of-roses-1969/1346882232000/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
Probably would have voted for The Day the Earth Caught Fire. SEE THIS MOVIE!
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
this one's next up for me:
http://teleport-city.com/2013/02/26/ikarie-xb-1/
Ikarie XB-1 is based on the writings of Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, in this case his 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud. The movie tells the story of the Ikaria’s two-and-a-half year expedition to look for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.
I’ve read some reviews of Ikarie XB-1 that allude, with varying degrees of certainty, to the possibility that Stanley Kubrick was influenced by the film in his making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, though none that I can find provide any kind of facts that would back that up... At the same time, there are similarities that are hard to ignore; especially in terms of Zazvorka’s set designs, and especially when considering the interior of Ikarie‘s spaceship versus that of the Jupiter probe featured in 2001‘s second half.
entire film with subtitles is on youtube
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:23 PM
screening in NYC tonight, opening a Lem On Film series
https://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2015/07/ikarie-xb-1-jindrich-polak-1963.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Rewatched The Day the Earth Caught Fire last night. Only sci fi/doomsday film to center on a newsroom?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
well
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-100-best-science-fiction-films-of-all-time/
(there was never an all-time poll here?)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
I could've sworn Carpenter's The Thing won both a sci-fi poll and a horror poll (or was it the Shining that won the Horror poll? argh)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
huh actually I guess I am thinking of the action poll, where it also placed really high
we should def do a sci fi poll, how come this hasn't happened yet
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
83. Dead Man’s Letters (Konstantin Lopushansky, 1989)Even in a subgenre as noted for its gloom and severity as the post-apocalyptic film, Konstantin Lopushansky’s Dead Man’s Letters stands out for its complete and utter grimness.
Want to see!Sci-fi poll sounds like a fine idea, other than the endless, inevitable bickering over what constitutes the boundaries of the genre.
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Friday, 9 August 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
well, I don't want to run it...
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Thanks for that link, Morbs. Solid list, comprised mostly of stuff I've seen (for a change) and stuff I've never heard of. Glad to see Incredible Shrinking Man place so high; Day the Earth Stood Still is (challops) overrated.I've been thinking for a while of filling the '50s gaps in the year-by-year horror polls with sci-fi/horror hybrids (given that horror kinda took an extended smoke break that decade). It's an era I'm mildly obsessed with but I don't know if anyone else really GAF.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Saturday, 10 August 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
the ILX poll would replicate 80-90% of the Slant list, hence let's not bother
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
As much as I usually like polls, I agree.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
http://worldscinema.org/2018/07/risto-jarva-ruusujen-aika-aka-a-time-of-roses-1969/
thanks for recommending, Morbs! some good parts, especially the opening's official government 1962-2012 historyfilm.
Slant list downplays 70's dystopias and there's way too much blockbuster fluff in it, but enough surprises / unknown placements to shut me up. Happy On The Silver Globe placed high.
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link