Blade runner named best Sci Fi movie ever. WTF??
 

I slightly disagree, I think it's the 2nd best, but that's not important.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0620693

No 2001 A Space Odyssey??? Are people insane? Didn't even make the list?

its a shit film god knows why anyone likes it.

Note that "best" almost always actually means "most well-known" or "most popular". Obvious but needs to be said.

a bunch of fucking morons. solaris blows them all out of the water.

anyway, what did you expect from the customers of moviefone? moviefone, for fucks sakes. who the fuck uses that in 2008?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAb3TcSWu7Q

I'm not that big a fan of Blade Runner either; much preferring stuff like Forbidden Planet (which shamefully only made it to number ten in the list) and This Island Earth (which outrageously never made the list at all!). I still want outer space to look like Altair-4 rather than the more desolate renderings that we see now. I want a universe populated by square jawed astronaut heroes, ego maniacal scientists with names like Moebius, toga wearing sweater girls and friendly robots.

My own Ten (because I'm bored and off work with a bad shoulder so have time for this kind of thing):

1. Forbidden Planet. (1956)
2. This Island Earth. (1955)
3. The Time Machine. (1960)
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still. (1951)
5. Quatermass and the Pit. (1967)
6. Dark Star. (1974)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey. (1968)
8. Planet of the Apes. (1968)
9. A Boy and His Dog. (1975)
10. Flash Gordon (1980)

yeh i never could watch past 20 mintues of blade runner
i found it really boring

Bladerunner is the Apocalypse Now of Sci-fi films. It creates much discussion, and those who love it soak up every last little frame, sound, lione, costume, prop, etc. (like me) and those who do nto like it avidly HATE IT and decry it as the worst kind of crap.
no big whup

dunno about best, but I love it dearly.

in fact, two days ago I watched the final cut edition. for as many of those that there have been, and as many times as I've seen it, I didn't think that I'd be that impressed. there was enough new stuff to keep me happy though.

besides all that, since when do other people's lists matter. if I cared about them enough, I'd be jumping people's shit daily in the non-sonic-soundz section. :D


blade runner haters can fuck off along with all those friendly robots.

The best part about this movie is the badies.
R Hauer , impressing as always , and the guy who has a problem with turtles , he looks so mean.

This is a fantastic list! The only one I haven't seen but is now on my list is Quartermass and the Pitt, and judging from your taste I'm totally psyched.

You should definitely try and catch Quatermass and the Pit. I watched it on TV again the other night and I really do think it's a masterpiece. The fact that it was made by Hammer means that it's sometimes thought of as a horror film (to the extent that it was recently voted the greatest British horror film ever made!) but in essence it's a pure science fiction film.

whoa, that donkeybird!

I will check out the sci fi on this thread I have not yet watched and loved

I see what you're getting at with the Apocalypse Now thing. They're somehow similar inthat they both seem to appeal to people who aren't necessarily fans of their respective genres. Although I don't necessarily think it's a love it or hate it thing, at least for me. I certainly don't hate Blade Runner. I just don't think it's that great - and it definitely wouldn't make my list of favourite sci-fi films (see above). Significantly I'm a far bigger fan of sci-fi movies than I am war films, which might (according to what I just said) explain why I'm quite a big fan of Apocalypse Now.

i like blade runner alright, i've seen it several times, i loved it at one point, but it's not the alpha & omega some people make it to be.

speaking of sci-fi b-movies, what about raquel welch in fantastic voyage? i owe her the first boner of my childhood.



hurray for tv reruns

Yeah, Fantastic Voyage is another one that i really like too.

Like Forbidden Planet, it sort of reminds me of just what's been lost with the rise of CGI.

I wonder if there's any love for Lifeforce...

I remember that flick being really cool when I was a kid. I haven't seen it recently. I particularly remember the dessicated vampire shattering to dust and a naked vampire chick with huge boobs.

keep talking....

obviously when I was a kid they didn't have to be too big to be huge.

Haha, yes. I love Lifeforce. I tend not to get into those 'so bad they're good' movies that much, but Lifeforce is just so bizarre that it's a definite exception. Oh, and the fact that Mathilda May wanders around nude for much of it doesn't exactly hurt matters.

I'm so hard right now.

I agree
Its my favourite Sci-fi movie too. by far.
but its a matter of taste

some of my fave sci fi movies

blade runner
5th element
Solaris (original russian one)
Contact
Gattacca
Wrath of Khan
Soylent Green
Hardware


the thing with sci fi, or speculative fiction as people like to call it now, is that the movies become dated very quickly. It is hard to understand the immense power to awe and to enlighten and to inspire that a great sci fi movie can have when it is viewed decades later through a prism that includes all new science deevelopments and all the sci fi movies and books influenced by said movie, like blade runner.

blade runner was like Soylent Green in that it showed a dystopia, but it was the first movie to show a cyberpunk dystopia, one that takes account f the massive poverty as well as the massive technology, and of all cultures brewing together and cities becoming extended mixed slums where a combination of chinese, spanish, english and indian is spoken.. stuff like that made blade runner an amazing amazing piece of ART, and it still stands up today in my book.

^^^
I totally agree with you BR is the only Sci-fi movie for me which did almost everything right on so much uncountable layers. and the time is another evidence how strong this movie is.
one of the last analog special effects movies and its ruling over almost all digital produced stuff. (< thats just the visual layer)
only to write these sentences about it makes me wanna wthc it again, and thats after Ive watched the whole damn 5 disc box last month on one weekend

the fact that ridley scott hired people to designe and fabricate nearly every single thing shown in the movie, from tables and chair sets, to the light sockets in the walls, to the items sold in th street vendors..


plus it deals with the one BIG question, the important one.

what makes us HUMAN? what makes us ALIVE?

I still get deeply moved everytime I see Rutger hauer's character give his speech...

yes tears in rain, really is moving.
its perfect.

The Dick book Blade Runner is based on, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", is ten times better to me.

I like the movie a lot. While it is probably one of my favorite sf films, that seems to show the sad variety off sf films out there=(

I think the real issue here is that Back to the Future is not number one. Brb, new avatar.

I love Blade Runner

but 2001 is way better

Why hasn't anyone mentioned alphaville?

I'd probably rank that above Blade Runner as well.

I just love how driving down a highway at night with lights flashing past is space travel

There was some really bad stuff added to the final cut though. Like after Roy kills Tyrell they added him saying " I'm sorry Sebastian, come here, come here. " so dumb

But Blade Runner rocks your face off, it's hard to follow on the first viewing but it is in no way boring. Harrison Ford gets his ass kicked all over the place in that movie too. Poor guy

Dark Star is a quality movie.

My favorite ten SF movies:

1) The Man Who Fell to Earth
2) Brazil
3) Planet of the Apes (original only!)
4) Liquid Sky
5) 1984
6) Metropolis
7) A Clockwork Orange
8) Star Wars (analog only, and yeah, it's space fantasy and forever wrapped in pop culture in annoying ways, but it was still so damn well done!)
9) Soylent Green
10) A Scanner Darkly

I like Blade Runner, but yes, it is really overrated. It did stand up well as far as creating scenery, but nothing compared to Metropolis on that front.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is your number 1 sci fi movie? Jeez

What do you mean by "Jeez"?

I don't think it's the most "significant" SF movie ever made, but yeah, it's my favorite. It's one of my very favorite movies period. Nicholas Roeg's direction, especially cinematography, is really effective and surprisingly true to the Walter Tevis novel (which I realize most people haven't read, but they should, it's quite good).

I've never particularly liked Bowie in any other movies, but he's completely convincing as an alien trying to pass for an eccentric rich human (probably because he was in fact the vice versa). And the cynical/satirical comment it makes on relationships in modern society is really amusing. I love the scene with him watching all of the t.v.s at once and his alcoholic human lover trying to get him to look away from the screens to her.

I only wish the major studios were as willing today to produce something as eccentric and unashamedly thought provoking as they were when they backed films such as TMWFTE. I love 70s sci-fi almost as much as its 'golden' era in the 50s. Two amazing periods which, if anything, seem all the more remarkable now, at a time when studios seem increasingly incapable of viewing sci-fi audiences as anything other than simple-minded worshippers of thrill-a-minute big budget special effects and witty one-liners.

Best scifi movie ever = Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

Actually, most people don't know that Scanners is the best Sci-fi film of all time.

But seriously... Blade Runner is my personal fave (since Silver Globe and Alien probably don't count).