The Greatest Science Fiction Movie Tournament

[RealmOfX]

So are all of you too young to know these great movies I've listed. I can't believe no ones mentioned half of my votes. And I realized they may be in vain but I'm going to have a lot of movies to vote out (Aliens, Terminators, half the Star Wars, Predators, etc)

Oh I like your list except for Mars Attacks - I just didn't cotton on to that one.

I haven't used all my votes yet because I had such a long list I decided to vote a couple each day to see what else everyone was voting in.

Here's just some of the ones I'm considering :
Dune, Enemy Mine, Marooned (1969), Rocketship X-M, This Island Earth, Metropolis, When Worlds Collide, Spaceballs, Fortress, Andromeda Strain, Westworld, Escape From New York, Planet of the Apes (original), The Time Machine (original), Earth Girls Are Easy

I'm sure I can find some more. Is it telling that most of my list is around or over 20 years old?? Come on people think pre Star Wars!! There are lotsa good ones made earlier than 1977 (I know, probably older than some of you)

[The Signal]

Current List Of Movies

1. Serenity
2. The Abyss
3. Gattaca
4. The Matrix
5. Fifth Element
6. Minority Report
7. Bladerunner
8. Independance Day
9. Galaxy Quest
10. ET
11. Outland
12. Total Recall
13. Forbidden Planet
14. X-Men II
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Signs
17. Starman
18. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
19. Dark City
20. Starship Troopers
21. Planet Of The Apes (Original)
22. Donnie Darko
23. Spiderman 2
24. Pitch Black
25. Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
26. War of the Worlds
27. Jurrasic Park
28. Twelve Monkeys
29. V for Vendetta
30. Equilibrium
31. I, Robot
32. Spaceballs
33. Mars Attacks
34. Logan's run
35. X-Men
36. Contact
37. Back To The Future Part One
38. Back To The Future Part Two
39. Back To The Future Part Three
40. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
41. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of The Clones
42. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
43. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
44. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
45. Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
46. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
47. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
48. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
49. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
50. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
51. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
52. Star Trek VII:Generations
53. Star Trek VIII: First Contact
54. Star Trek IX: Insurrection
55. Star Trek X: Nemesis
56. Alien
57. Aliens
58. Alien 3
59. Alien: Resurrection
60. Predator
61. Predator 2
62. Alien vs Predator
63. Terminator
64. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
65. Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
66. Superman
67. Superman 2
68. Superman 3
69. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1 VOTE NEEDED

Frequency
The Last Starfighter
Tron
Strange Days
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Blob
The Incredibles
Johnny Mnemonic
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
Flash Gordon
Event Horizon
Fortress

2 VOTES NEEDED

Superman (1978)
Innerspace
Enemy Mine
The Island
The Day After Tomorrow
Metropolis
Dark Star
The Thirteenth Floor
The Arrival
The Thing
The Time Machine (Original)
Mad Max
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Solaris
The Chronicles Of Riddick
Silent Running
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Andromeda Strain
Westworld
Escape from New York

SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP! Thats one hell of a long list

[Aurum]

Round 0, Day 1

1- Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
2- Serenity


Round 0, Day 2

3- Forbidden Planet
4- 2001: A Space Odyssey

Round 0, Day 3

5- Primer (Anybody else see this? Pretty indie movie, I think it at least deserves a mention.)
6- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Edited in to replace Spaceballs, which is already through.)



Oh, and I'd just like to send out my undying love and green to those who helped vote Sky Captain through to the next round.

[LoneStar1836]

I nominated The Time Machine (the original of course) so you would be vote #2 RealmOfX. *hint hint*

I love Spaceballs, TS, but I wasn't sure if we were going to consider spoofs sci-fi but if Galaxy Quest is in then Spaceballs has to be. As far as Planet of the Apes is concerned, it better be the original were are talking about here.

ETA: Ptah, Spaceballs has 3 votes. Trek Girl nominated it. And frinky and Thunderstorm voted for it. Plus you need to take Superman off the list needing 2 votes since it gets a free pass.

[Missster.Freeman]

Wohoo! This will be a nice long tourney.

SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP! Thats one hell of a long list

"It seemed a good idea at the time." *grumbles*

Round 0 Day 1

1. Total Recall.
2. Bladerunner.
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Round 0 Day 2

4. The Last Starfighter.
5. Tron.
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
7. Equilibrium.

Okay, time to weigh in with my last three votes:

Round 0 Day 3

8. Andromeda Strain. Scared the bejeezuz out of me.
9. Escape from New York.
10. Enemy Mine.


Damn lol. I can't get the diary room man's voice out of my head.

[RealmOfX]

5 - The Time Machine (original)
6 - Andromeda Strain
7 - Dune

[Callista]

9. Westworld <---I'm glad TS brought that up, that movie scared the c$#@ out of me!
10. Silent Running

OK, I think I'm done now.

[Lucreleia]

My votes:

1) Contact <--- you haven't posted it as already having votes, such a great movie!!! (And even better book!!!)
2) Solaris
3) Starman
4) Waterworld <--- I think I'm the first to vote for it!
5) Dune <--- Thanks RealmOfX for reminding me of this one! (Can it be considered a movie or a miniseries??? Should I vote for the whole franchise??)
6) Tron
7) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (supporting Trek Girl )
8) Men in black <--- how come no one voted for it??
9) Men in black 2 <--- so the fist one won't feel lonely....

I keep my 10º vote for tomorrow...

Ptah, I noticed that Star Wars VI - The return of the Jedi - is not on the list... *what are you doing forgetting such a classic sci-fi movie????* ??

[Thunderstorm]

Ptah, I know this may be late but since we've got the Predator series as a pass (I guess I just don't get that) I think we should let the Planet of the Apes series have a pass. (Yes I can hear you screaming)

And if it doesn't get a series pass can I have some clarification as to which movie is in the list so I know whether I have another vote.

And since at this time I don't know if I have another vote, I realized no one voted for The Running Man. That was a great movie.

(Damn, I was hoping no one would notice Dune was missing)

[The Signal]

The first planet of the apes movie is in the list, and no Im not adding anyt more "free passes" now. Sorry

[in circles]

Westworld
The Day the Earth Stood Still

[Anubis69]

1. Starship Troopers (2nd)
2. Total Recall (I think this is an early favourite to win... ) (3rd)

3. The Running Man (Seriously, the more Arnie we get in this, the better! )
4. Flash Gordon (gave me the willies as a kid... what impressionable young child wouldn't be scared of Timothy Dalton's 'tache? Amazing film though.)

[L-JADE]

OK, this has been bugging me coz I remember the story but can't remember the title/actor so I can't search it in IMDB, I want to put this as my last choive, so please help me if you remember the title.

There's this archeologist/scientist who ate a kind of plant in Amazon-ish country, the leaves could turn him into monster, he ship those leaves & some artifacts in a ship to his museum-lab in an American city, but when the ship arrive in the city, all the ship-crews were killed. His collagues put his artifacts in the museum, on the opening-night, the monster eat/kill the attendants one by one even the SWAT teams who arrive later. At the end his collagues realised that the monster is in fact himself (whose DNA has mutate).

Ring a bell ??

[L-JADE]

Big thanks to Missster.Freeman who gave me the title of the above. It's The Relic , but based on IMDB it's horror/thriller and not sci-fi , I thought there's enough 'fake' science in it to make it sci-fi, it's afterall a B movie

Anyhoo... PTAH!, if you can accept that than THE RELIC is my 10th choice, otherwise it's THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

*grumbles* I just realise there's so much more I want to nominate

[kmiller1610]

Because of the size of the list, I think we need special rules for the first couple of rounds... something like vote longer, but vote more off in the beginning....