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Slick Slomopavitz
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-05-20 04:22:38 UTC
To be clear, I'm talking about the genre, not the channel.

BEST: 2001 A Space Odyssey. Do I really need to qualify this decision?

WORST: Spaceballs. Not just because it's a weak and groan-inducingly painful riff on Star Wars, but because it's a depressing example of Mel Brooks post-greatness which can't hold a candle to his superior spoofs like Young Frankenstein (candle? gettit? someone?) and Blazing Saddles.

How 'bout you?

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#2 - 2014-05-20 04:26:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Erica Dusette
Best: Aliens.

I mean come on .... it's ALIENS. Shocked

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Worst: Hmmm...

Honestly? There is no single Sci-fi movie that stands out to me personally as particularly bad to the point of being note-worthy. So I have to pass.

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Sibyyl
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Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-20 04:33:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Sibyyl
Best: T2
Worst: Prometheus

Sad that a Star Trek movie isn't my best, but they're unfortunately not very good in the spectrum of movies..

Edit: Erica. Aliens? Ugh. ):

Just a reminder of how awful that film was: Ripley vs Alien Queen

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#4 - 2014-05-20 04:42:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Erica Dusette
Sibyyl wrote:
Edit: Erica. Aliens? Ugh. ):

Just a reminder of how awful that film was: Ripley vs Alien Queen

It's a classic! Grew up with the stuff Big smile

Aliens was the inspiration for, and fore-father of, modern mainstream stuff like Prometheus Blink

(Which was actually a pretty cool movie).

As for your pick ... T2 ..?

I hope you don't mean Terminator 2? Shocked

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Slick Slomopavitz
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-05-20 04:42:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Slick Slomopavitz
I admit that I did indeed adore Aliens when I was a young upstart, but the older I got the more I gravitated toward Alien (the first) as the superior product. The franchise is relatively solid in my book (and I do have a soft spot for the directors cut of Alien 3 though can do without the fourth "official" sequel) and I wholly discount the AvP spinoffs and the equally soul-crushing Prometheus. It's very telling that I'm more looking forward to the Alien: Isolation video game than I am to the Prometheus sequel, but I have been wrong before...

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#6 - 2014-05-20 04:51:19 UTC
Slick Slomopavitz wrote:
I admit that I did indeed adore Aliens when I was a young upstart, but the older I got the more I gravitated toward Alien (the first) as the superior product. The franchise is relatively solid in my book (and I do have a soft spot for the directors cut of Alien 3 though can do without the fourth "official" sequel) and I wholly discount the AvP spinoffs and the equally soul-crushing Prometheus. It's very telling that I'm more looking forward to the Alien: Isolation video game than I am to the Prometheus sequel, but I have been wrong before...

Blink

Couldn't agree more - other than the part about the first movie, Alien. While a fantastic film I never gravitated toward it like I did the second movie. Third was good too. Fourth was just ... uhgg. But I think with Prometheus they kinda did it justice, personally.

And agree with AvP. The Predator series was fantastic up to the second movie. Beyond that it just went to hell ... Straight

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Dani Dusette
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#7 - 2014-05-20 04:57:31 UTC
Hudson in the dropship* totally reminds me of Rolled Out forming up for a fleet op. Lol

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Slick Slomopavitz
Doomheim
#8 - 2014-05-20 04:58:51 UTC
I think the problem with Prometheus was that everyone (myself included) set the bar way too high for it, and therefore were far more critical of its faults than it perhaps deserved. Some nitpicks are legit though, like the Old May Weyland makeup and some of the decisions regarding the crew's investigation of the engineer complex. It's still a visual masterpiece and I liked it enough to add to the blu-ray collection, so that's something. The original script that definitively tied Prometheus to the Alien prequels was superior to the version that ultimately made it to the screen; hopefully the sequel will get things back on track.

And then there's Sir Ridley's (and Harrison Ford's) return to Blade Runner...

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#9 - 2014-05-20 05:05:26 UTC
You're probably quite right.

Personally I wasn't following Prometheus's development and filming beforehand. I don't really seem to pay much attention to the entertainment industry anymore, so when the movie came out I didn't really know anything about it other than some common rumors of it's connection to the Alien franchise, so I found it quite spectacular with a good storyline that didn't completely **** over all the films that had come before it (unlike what happens with so many other prequels/sequels these days).

Another favorite would be Event Horizon. That movie gave me chills the first time I saw it, and is one I can watch over and over again without getting tired of it.

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Sibyyl
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#10 - 2014-05-20 05:08:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Sibyyl
Erica Dusette wrote:
As for your pick ... T2 ..?

I hope you don't mean Terminator 2? Shocked

What do you mean, Ms. Dusette X

Also: summary of everything that was wrong with Prometheus

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Erica Dusette
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#11 - 2014-05-20 05:09:31 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
Erica Dusette wrote:
As for your pick ... T2 ..?

I hope you don't mean Terminator 2? Shocked

What do you mean, Ms. Dusette X

Nothing. Uhmm .. nothing at all! Oops

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Webvan
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#12 - 2014-05-20 05:15:13 UTC
Slick Slomopavitz wrote:
To be clear, I'm talking about the genre, not the channel.

BEST: 2001 A Space Odyssey. Do I really need to qualify this decision?

Oh from that top 20 list, yeah probably 2001. It probably had more impact than any other film as far as for driving interest towards technological advancement in our culture and inspiring film makers with their own science-fiction productions. A sci-fi movie that just attempted to be as technically accurate as it could be within the story, and succeeded.

My personal favorite though is Blade Runner. An excellent flick in the realm of cyberpunk.

Worst... UghStraight
Maybe as far as disappointment, Wing Commander. yeah, some peeps will say "but that was great!", but it really flopped pretty badly, and it was bad, and not even making it as a cult classic, and it was bad... and I don't mean good-bad, but just... bad. Sad

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#13 - 2014-05-20 09:02:18 UTC
Honorable mention for "moon".

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2014-05-20 09:42:57 UTC
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mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2014-05-20 09:49:38 UTC
best
blade runner
metropolis
2001
close encounters of the third kind

worst

the adventures of pluto nash
battlefield earth

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#16 - 2014-05-20 11:11:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
Space odyssey is for me the best film to this day.
I think Space Odyssey is in some way similar to Prometheus.
Monolith: similarity to goo made by Engineers.
Engineers steering evolution - Monolith having presumably same effects.
Questions about our destiny, in both films, but in Odyssey they are somewhat more camouflaged.
You don't get final answer in both.
Actually Space Odyssey was and is to this day somewhat inunderstood, as to what Monolith is, similar to what goo is.
What makes Odyssey overwhelming even now is great Visuals, IMAGERY, something what Prometheus have too, but, they made this young actor play himself characterized and it looks awful, contrasting, and the point is...

...what ruins prometheus is those small things, and you have a feeling that this film is a bunch of ramblings.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#17 - 2014-05-20 12:02:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
Yeeah, Prometheus wasn't bad. Wasn't epic, but it had a story going for it. The tie-in to Alien really helped it out a lot. Not that that always works... didn't care for that last AvP movie.

Yes, Battlefield Earth was just horrible. Fortunately I had no expectations, knew it was going to be horrible from the start, before release. So... wasn't disappointed lol But wasn't able to watch in more than once, and even then it was hard to make it though to the end. The thing with Wing Commander, I really wanted to like it, really tried, watched it a number of times. But just couldn't Sad

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Zenariae
#18 - 2014-05-20 12:44:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Zenariae
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Doomheim
#19 - 2014-05-20 12:58:50 UTC
The best film without a doubt is The time guardian.

The worst is one of the planet of the apes sequels, that I can't remember the name of. I usually don't think any scifi is bad, but one of them was an unforgivable piece of ****.
Krixtal Icefluxor
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#20 - 2014-05-20 13:01:52 UTC
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is hands down the Best.

Worst is a different matter. Does one stay with somewhat decent productions, or go ahead and include the vast array of those that are MST3K worthy ?

For major productions, I have to go with "Battlefield Earth".

For most destructive SF film, I must go with "Alien 3". Killed that franchise in one swift stroke.

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