World's Greatest Sci Fi Film Ever - Nominations

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Dec 4, 2010
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#24
Boy, even 5 is a really tough choice.

I would put:

The Avengers first
then
Chronicles of Riddick
then.. oh, it's making me mental!

Fifth Element,
because I felt it gave the most realist view of the future.

Avatar

Transformers

Pen' you started this! I hate you!!! :devil:
 

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My choice isn't a movie - Firefly. Serenity is the Firefly movie, but I can't say it's the best ever even if I love it.

I don't think the greatest sci-fi movie has been made yet, as I mentioned somewhere before. I think the genre is still wide open for true greatness, but topping my list at the moment is

Blade Runner
Alien
Mad Max
A Space Odyssey
Inception
Close Encounters
 

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#26
It's taken me a while to get back here but I will try to sort the nominations into a final five or so for the voting round tonight (definitely sci-fi only Con :twisted: ).

Antique, you seem to have made six nominations, could you tell me which one to ignore please. :laugh:
Antiq said:
......I don't think the greatest sci-fi movie has been made yet, as I mentioned somewhere before. I think the genre is still wide open for true greatness, but topping my list at the moment is

Blade Runner
Alien
Mad Max
A Space Odyssey
Inception
Close Encounters
 
Oct 13, 2008
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Mycroft Vimes said:
I agree about the substance not being all that much. :laugh:
However...if the number of times watched counts... :rolleyes:

Two lines i somehow seem to have etched in my mind,have nothing to do with my age at the time and the 'prettiness' of Jane Fonda of course. :liar:

"Here pretty,pretty..."

"What kind of girl are you?!" asked by Durand-Durand(yep,that's where they got their name ;) )after breaking
(edit : scratch my former recollection of orgasmatron,it has been a 'while', and make it...)the Excessive Machine. :laugh:

I love Barbarella, my favourite film of all time. :clap: :dance:
 
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#28
Barbarella.
Close Encounters.
E.T.
Gremlins.
Are The Pirates of the Caribbean films clased as Sci-fi?
If so, all those as well.
Johnny Depp! Swoon. :dance: :oops:
 

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Penfold said:
It's taken me a while to get back here but I will try to sort the nominations into a final five or so for the voting round tonight (definitely sci-fi only Con :twisted: ).

Antique, you seem to have made six nominations, could you tell me which one to ignore please. :laugh:
Antiq said:
......I don't think the greatest sci-fi movie has been made yet, as I mentioned somewhere before. I think the genre is still wide open for true greatness, but topping my list at the moment is

Blade Runner
Alien
Mad Max
A Space Odyssey
Inception
Close Encounters
Oh sorry. Ummmmmm.............leave out Inception.
 

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I've tallied up the nominations and compiled the 'final' voting round which can be found HERE.

@Mongo: Although your nominations came after the cut off deadline, I did use them to try to eliminate some of the films that scored only four nominations to create a smaller final (a tie-breaker, so to speak). Unfortunately, it didn't work. :laugh:
 

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#34
I know, I forgot a load of films (not Avatar btw, I've not seen it) that would otherwise have made my list. It's probably just as well that it was restricted to Sci-Fi only, since my head would probably have exploded trying to include films like Lord of the Rings and Conan. :laugh:
 

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#36
Sorry Tiff, I didn't notice your question until I was tallying up the nominations this morning. Personally, I would have considered them as fantasy rather than Sci-Fi but I chose to include it (the first one) as a nomination, because I did miss it. :)
 

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