The greatest science fiction of all time poll?

[Echo Base]

I forgot about STARSHIP TROOPERS, thats a near perfect film.

 

[fubert]

Yeah Logans Run is cool too.

What about Dark Star ? Anyone into that ? Dan O'Bannon before Alien. People saw "Dark Star" ; didn't laugh so O'Bannon basicly re-wrote it as Alien, his thinking being if an alien loose on a ship won't make people laugh he can scare them.

"How do you know you exist bomb ?"

 

[8den]

SLEEEEEP


I always thought the elfin-esque build was a nod to Greys tbh.


Must mention the underrated Sean Connery vehicle Outland

A muted little piece but all the right parts are their (plots a bit ropy though)

Um Outland is High Noon in Space.

Sorry GD it's a stupid poll, How can you compare Alien to Star Wars? You've not even got Solarsis on there.

 

[Echo Base]

Threads like this are always realy interesting, as so many people have a different definition of a particular genre. It also shows up how useless 'genre' tags are anyway. Take ALIEN for instance - sci fi or horror?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

dodgy metal penis

 

[fubert]

Oh, and if we're bringing older films into it "Things to Come" is great..

 

[fubert]

I forgot about STARSHIP TROOPERS, thats a near perfect film.

The thing about Paul Verhoeven is that he does good sci-fi. Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers.. and he doesn't even like the genre...

..and I've just remembered Hollow Man and pissed on my own chips..

 

[Echo Base]

Oh, and if we're bringing older films into it "Things to Come" is great..

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is pretty much the father of modern sci-fi.

 

[fubert]

Um Outland is High Noon in Space.

Sorry GD it's a stupid poll, How can you compare Alien to Star Wars? You've not even got Solarsis on there.

Poll's a bit limited.

But from the crappest polls a good threads appear

 

[butchersapron]

A few soviet classics to go with the Tarkovsky's mentioned above

Visitor to A Musuem
The End of Eternity
Letters from a Dead Man

 

[Louloubelle]

Or Aliens

^^^ this
A superior film to Alien IMO, although they were both great

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Forbidden Planet is the best - such a good film with effects that still look great. The 1950s War of the Worlds is ace too. Mind you I can watch Close Encounters any time "Play the tones" although it does contain the single worst line of dialogue ever in film history - "Einstein was probably one of them" - a jarring moment in an otherwise flawless sequence. Goosebumps just thinking about the conversation with the mothership.

 

[danny la rouge]

bladerunner sends me to sleep every single time.

Absolutely. One of the dullest, most over-rated films of all time.

 

[Random]

Brazil. Great fun, plenty of ideas, lots of weird innovation, good SF. Not seen Metropolis, though.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The thing about Paul Verhoeven is that he does good sci-fi. Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers.. and he doesn't even like the genre...

..and I've just remembered Hollow Man and pissed on my own chips..

I quite liked Hollow Man

But yeah, for me Verhoeven scifi is a genre of its own. It's like nothing else. Absolute gratuitous mindless violence mixed with something rather more intelligent.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

^^^ this
A superior film to Alien IMO, although they were both great

Nah. and Alien is the better scifi film.

 

[Philip Pomper]

They're both good for different reasons. The over intellectualising on themes of sex and gender with regard to Ripley and the Xenomorphs can be a tad bit irritating though.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

They're good for different reasons, but if we're using scifi as the criteria, Alien is more of a genuine scifi film imo.

I personally prefer Three out of the lot.

 

[Philip Pomper]

Well there is the cliche of saying that Alien is just about a house of horrors in space.

 

[Dandred]

I've never liked Bladerunner I have never understood what all the fuss was about. To be honest it bored the hell out of me.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

what, no cube zero? and how can you include fifth element and not have serenity? Poll iz all fuk dup

 

[stereotypical]

Jesus, tough choice.

Star Wars.

Alien close behind though

 

[Grandma Death]

what, no cube zero? and how can you include fifth element and not have serenity? Poll iz all fuk dup

How is the poll a fuck up when there's an option for other

 

[Grandma Death]

Nice to see Bladerunner in the lead. A truely amazing film IMO and the greatest sci fi film ever made.

 

[Knotted]

Great film.

But of the ones in the poll, clearly Metropolis, by light years.

Definately!

 

[Philip Pomper]

Well, if we're going way back, then why not the Russians with

 

[oneflewover]

...just about to watch the definitive cut of Bladerunner

But which is the definitive version?

Versions / cuts

I quite like the voiceover and the ending.

 

[8den]

Wheres the option for the keanu reeves version of the day the earth stood still?

 

[8den]

But which is the definitive version?

Versions / cuts

I quite like the voiceover and the ending.

You like the voiceover? Walk away now, just put down the cards and leave the table.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Shit list -

Dark Star - John Carpenters first feature film - tis dark, funny and brilliant.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1970s version).
Day the World Stood Still - (the original)
Brazil
Total Recall.
Robocop.

Of that list - Planet of the Apes.


2001 and Blade Runner are dull and massively overrated.
Fith Element is just shit.