What makes your perfect Sci-fi film?

[ruthlessa]

I am conducting some reasearch into sci-fi film audiences and now is your chance to show myself and other students what people REALLY want from a Sci fi!

you never know, this could go to make the next big sci-fi film/series that you love =]

Questions for Sci-fi film genre

1. How often do you watch films in any form?

2. What is your preferred format for watching a film?

3. Why?

4. How often do you watch Sci-Fi films?

5. What format do you watch sci-fi films in specifically? DVD, Box Office, TV, Cinema?

6. Why do you like/dislike sci-fi films?

7. Do you enjoy a specific sub genre of sci-fi? Like comedies, dramas, romances?

8. Do you enjoy sci-fi films more with bigger stars acting in them?

9. Can you name some of your favourite sci-fi films?

10. Why are they your favourites?

11. If you see a sci-fi film would you then watch the follow up TV series?

12. Why?

13. If you follow a Sci-fi TV show will you watch the related films?

14. Why?

15. Do you think TV to Film Sci-fi’s or Film to TV Sci-Fi’s are better
than one off Sci-fi films?

16. if No then explain why? is it due to the seemingly original nature of the one off films if that is applicable?

17. Do you think modern sci-fi films are better than the ones made before the year 2000 and why?

18. How do you find out about sci-fi films? TV adverts, magazines, internet?

19. What would be your ideal way to find out about new releases?

20. Do you have any comments or discussion to add after doing this questionnaire?

21. Just for the sake of it, can you tell me why you think stargate the original film was so amazing?

[jenks]

Why have you put bug daft gaps between each question?

[ruthlessa]

lol sorry, it was a copy from a copy of a copy etc. =] this questionaire has been in many different forms so it's become a little untidy and this one came from a printed questionaire, it only requires a few taps on the keyboard to fix =]

[AvatarIII]

i suspect it was copy/pasted from a word document.

[Chrisisall]

1. How often do you watch films in any form?
Every day.

2. What is your preferred format for watching a film?
DVD.

3. Why?
No need for theatre-talkers to go to a special Hell.

4. How often do you watch Sci-Fi films?
Most days.

5. What format do you watch them in? DVD, Box Office, TV, Cinema?
What? Didn't I answer this already?

6. Why do you like/dislike sci-fi films?
I like 'em because they explore contemporary problems from a comfortably objective distance.

7. Do you enjoy a specific sub genre of sci-fi? Like comedies, dramas,
romances?
If it's good, it's good.

8. Do you enjoy sci-fi films more with bigger stars acting in them?
No.

9. Can you name some of your favourite sci-fi films?
Serenity, Blade Runner, Planet Of The Apes (original), Superman The Movie (if that qualifies as SF in you mind), Star Trek The Motion Picture, Pitch Black, Aliens, Terminator 1&2, I Robot, Back To The Future, Predator- I'd better cut this short....

10. Why are they your favourites?
The human drama beneath the SF veneer.

11. If you see a sci-fi film would you then watch the follow up TV series?
Maybe.

12. Why?
It might be good.

13. If you follow a Sci-fi TV show will you watch the related films?
Yes.

14. Why?
Sometimes you get a "Star Trek TMP" or "Serenity"!

15. Do you think TV to Film Sci-fi’s or Film to TV Sci-Fi’s are better
than one off Sci-fi films?
No.

16. Why?
The illogic of this question belays any cogent response.

17. Do you think modern sci-fi films are better than the ones made before the year 2000 and why?
No. Good films depend on good writing- this exists in all eras, you just need to look.

18. How do you find out about sci-fi films? TV adverts, magazines, internet?
I search for under-the-radar buzz online these days.

19. Which do you prefer?
Specify.

20. Do you have any comments or discussion to add after doing this questionnaire?[/QUOTE]
This was fun, albeit sort of light-weight.

21. Just for the sake of it, can you tell me why you think stargate the original film was so amazing?
They created great characters and put them in a situation that was relatively fresh.

Chrisisall

[Bray]

Questions for Sci-fi film genre

1. How often do you watch films in any form?
Every one or two days

2. What is your preferred format for watching a film?
Cinema, can't beat it

3. Why?
It sounds a lot better and you're more immersed in the film...not to mention the popcorn

4. How often do you watch Sci-Fi films?
Whenever there's a decent one out, (once every week or two(ish))

5. What format do you watch sci-fi films in specifically? DVD, Box Office, TV, Cinema?
Cinema/DVD

6. Why do you like/dislike sci-fi films?
Good way to relax...escapism I don't know I just like them

7. Do you enjoy a specific sub genre of sci-fi? Like comedies, dramas, romances?
ACTION!!

8. Do you enjoy sci-fi films more with bigger stars acting in them?
Not bothered

9. Can you name some of your favourite sci-fi films?
Blade 1 & 2, Pitch Black, Starship Troopers, Serenity, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator 1, 2 & 3, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Chronicles of Riddick, and many others

10. Why are they your favourites?
Good action mostly as well as a good plot

11. If you see a sci-fi film would you then watch the follow up TV series?
Yes

12. Why?
Because (almost) anything is worth a try once

13. If you follow a Sci-fi TV show will you watch the related films?
Yep

14. Why?
Because I watched the show and films are often part of the show

15. Do you think TV to Film Sci-fi’s or Film to TV Sci-Fi’s are better
than one off Sci-fi films?
I don't understand

16. if No then explain why? is it due to the seemingly original nature of the one off films if that is applicable?
No to what?

17. Do you think modern sci-fi films are better than the ones made before the year 2000 and why?
For the most part yes, better special effects etc, however Alien, Aliens, Predator are all great films too

18. How do you find out about sci-fi films? TV adverts, magazines, internet?
Internet and cinema adverts mostly

19. What would be your ideal way to find out about new releases?
Telepathically

20. Do you have any comments or discussion to add after doing this questionnaire?
Why am I doing it?

21. Just for the sake of it, can you tell me why you think stargate the original film was so amazing?
Nothing had been done like it before...and there were lots of guns and explosions

[sueKay]

1. How often do you watch films in any form?
Only once or twice a month

2. What is your preferred format for watching a film?
At the cinema

3. Why?
I like the whole experience

4. How often do you watch Sci-Fi films?
A couple of times a month

5. What format do you watch them in? DVD, Box Office, TV, Cinema?
DVD, TV and Cinema

6. Why do you like/dislike sci-fi films?
I like sci-fi as it expands our horizons...the storylines are more epic and there are no boundaries

7. Do you enjoy a specific sub genre of sci-fi? Like comedies, dramas, romances?
Not really

8. Do you enjoy sci-fi films more with bigger stars acting in them?
No

9. Can you name some of your favourite sci-fi films?
The Matrix trilogy
Stargate
Star Trek First Contact
Serenity
CUBE

10. Why are they your favourites?
They all had great characters, balanced with complex plots and some action

11. If you see a sci-fi film would you then watch the follow up TV series?
Yes

12. Why?
Because I like to get invested in the characters and I like to see storylines continue

13. If you follow a Sci-fi TV show will you watch the related films?
Yes

14. Why?
For the same reasons I'd do the reverse

15. Do you think TV to Film Sci-fi’s or Film to TV Sci-Fi’s are better than one off Sci-fi films?
Both are good

16. Why?

17. Do you think modern sci-fi films are better than the ones made before the year 2000 and why?
No. Modern ones rely too much on names, nudity and explosions

18. How do you find out about sci-fi films? TV adverts, magazines, internet?
All of the above

19. Which do you prefer?
All three

20. Do you have any comments or discussion to add after doing this questionnaire?
Nope

[ruthlessa]

Thankyou guys for participating so far =]