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Best Sci-Fi film / Worst Sci-Fi film

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#21 - 2014-05-20 13:01:53 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Honorable mention for "moon".

Best soundtrack ever.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#22 - 2014-05-20 14:51:34 UTC
Erica Dusette wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Honorable mention for "moon".

Best soundtrack ever.

Its part of the breeding, one would expect no less from Bowie stock.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#23 - 2014-05-20 14:57:57 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Erica Dusette wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Honorable mention for "moon".

Best soundtrack ever.

Its part of the breeding, one would expect no less from Bowie stock.


We shall see how he does the "Warcraft" film. Shooting finishes this week, so more info is likely on the way soon.

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Marsha Mallow
#24 - 2014-05-20 15:09:46 UTC
Personal favourtite will always be Bladerunner, but a lot of what has already been mentioned is up there too. I'm a bit worried this new sequel will disappoint as Prometheus did. I'm not sure Ridley Scott is making films with the same impact he had early on (just goes to show success can be a bad thing).

Tron (the original) and Donnie Darko are worth a mention. Shamefully, I watched John Carter recently and really enjoyed it too :P

Worst: T3, Batman and Robin (lol), Star Wars 1-3, Aliens 3, AVP Requiem

Stand alone movies, not that many I suppose. If they are so terrible I've probably never bothered, but franchises/sequels always have a few duffs.

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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-05-20 15:25:55 UTC
Best-Moon

Worst-Aeon Flux, though there are so many right answers here.

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Riyria Twinpeaks
Perkone
Caldari State
#26 - 2014-05-20 15:28:32 UTC
Nobody likes The 5th Element? I like it!
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#27 - 2014-05-20 15:37:31 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
Personal favourtite will always be Bladerunner, but a lot of what has already been mentioned is up there too. I'm a bit worried this new sequel will disappoint as Prometheus did. I'm not sure Ridley Scott is making films with the same impact he had early on (just goes to show success can be a bad thing).



Bear in mind he is 78 this year. Energy, and mental focus......well, ya know.

Also, remember that in the middle of filming Prometheus, his brother the director Tony Scott literally jumped off a bridge. So, he was probably a mess. They had made over 2500 commercials together before either even went into movies.

"Gladiator" (1999) seems to have now been the last hurrah. His return to ancient times "Exodus: Gods and Kings" later this year may tell the rest of this story. If he wants to play at DeMille, I hope the cheesy spectacle is toned down......and not 4 hours long either. Lol

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Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#28 - 2014-05-20 15:41:08 UTC
Not only is 2001 the greatest sci-fi movie, it is THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME. Of course that's my opinion. But I just think it's an absolute masterpiece. A true work of art.

But, I feel like you hold Blazing Saddles in such a high regard just because of it's name and hype and I don't understand why you bash Spaceballs so much. Spaceballs hardly qualifies as a sci-fi movie. It's a satire, of course it isn't going to be great for science fiction lovers. It was still funny, I think it was a good one, and a classic. Young Frankenstein is good too but again I think you're just going by an "older is better" operation here. The whole farting scene in blazing saddles isn't even that funny.

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Orla- King-Griffin
#29 - 2014-05-20 15:41:39 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Erica Dusette wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Honorable mention for "moon".

Best soundtrack ever.

Its part of the breeding, one would expect no less from Bowie stock.


We shall see how he does the "Warcraft" film. Shooting finishes this week, so more info is likely on the way soon.

He's allowed 2-3 crappie Hollywood block movies before I loose any respect for him,
he's earned his right to earn off something clinical like that to fund more inde films ( or just to roll around in, I'm not going to judge).

Ah shite...
Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#30 - 2014-05-20 15:51:42 UTC
For Worst Sci-FI film, I am going to nominate Attack of the Clones

So many problems with this movie. It doesn't even qualify as a Star Wars movie. George is a total idiot.

I won't even go into it too much, and I probably don't have to, but it was boring, stupid, and had a lot of bad acting as well. Yoda hopping around fighting Count Dooku (what a dumb name Roll ) was just embarrassing. Padme and Anakin's love scenes were sickening.

The worst thing was how horribly they disfigured Boba Fett's character with this film. Boba Fett used to be this mysterious badass figure, he was the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy. You didn't know who he was, you knew from his armor he was some forgotten relic of the clone wars and a deadly warrior with a dark past.

Oh guess what, turns out EVERY storm trooper is a clone of Boba Fett, his dad's name is Jango and he's a complete goof who wears this crappy blue version of Boba's armor.

Damn did they ever ruin that character and that franchise. Such a huge disappointment. I could rant about that bullshit trilogy all day, I am that scarred and butthurt from it.

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Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#31 - 2014-05-20 15:57:10 UTC
Damn, forgot about Battlefield Earth. Ouch Shocked

LOL at picking Prometheus as the worst. I didn't think it was that great, it was alright, nothing that innovative or spectacular but come on, the worst? Get REAL HOMI

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#32 - 2014-05-20 16:21:22 UTC
I hope Ridley Scott will not spoil Forever War for me, I love the graphic novel.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#33 - 2014-05-20 16:28:15 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
I hope Ridley Scott will not spoil Forever War for me, I love the graphic novel.


Unfortunately that project is "no more".

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Marsha Mallow
#34 - 2014-05-20 17:02:53 UTC
Just remembered another terrible one. Waterworld.

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Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#35 - 2014-05-20 18:21:37 UTC
Best: Airplane II

Worst: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures


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I'm not really a connoisseur of scifi movies, even though I love all things space related. Nothing is really coming to mid immediately except for things like ID4, which kinda demonstrates how shallow my tastes are. Lol (I do love me a good doomsday movie that fantasizes about the human race overcoming a vastly superior enemy and uniting the world on America's Independnece Day with an uplifting speech and an unlikely cast of heroes, it's a recipe for feelgood explosions and ....and stuff.)

I do remember one childhood movie, had to look it up, couldnt believe it when I saw it. The Black Hole.....made by Disney, of all people. Probably not a best or worst but definitely interesting that it was a particularly dark movie made by Disney.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#36 - 2014-05-20 18:37:19 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
Just remembered another terrible one. Waterworld.

Oi! That was the single best movie in the history of cinema!
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Ian Morbius
Potomac Greeting Card Company
#37 - 2014-05-20 18:40:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Ian Morbius
Best: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Worst: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

EDIT:
Okay. Okay. If you love SCI-FI movies that are good at being bad you got to see The Monitors (1969). Calling it a B movie is giving it to much credit. Lol
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#38 - 2014-05-20 19:39:24 UTC
Best: way too many to count, but I love short circuit, T2, star wars, star trek, etc.

Worst: Anything by Uwl Bol (I dunno if he did any sci-fi, but blood rayne which is fantasy is the biggest piece of **** I have ever seen) and Battlefield Earth, such potential and they ****** it up.

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#39 - 2014-05-20 19:40:54 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
Just remembered another terrible one. Waterworld.


I like waterworld. and to the poster above.. bill and teds is campy and fun, whats not to like?

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2014-05-20 20:20:00 UTC
Riyria Twinpeaks wrote:
Nobody likes The 5th Element? I like it!

I completely forgot about it. I'm switching bests now.

Speaking of soundtracks, I kind of liked the original Highlander soundtrack (Freddie!) as well as the New Tron soundtrack (Daft!)..

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