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Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film
Delchanat writes "Now there's scientific proof: according to 60 of the most influential scientists in the world, including British biologist Richard Dawkins and Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) is the best science fiction film. Late Mr. Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) finished 2nd, followed by George Lucas' Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)." There are several other stories as well: favorite authors, the basics of science fiction, and an excerpt of a new Iain M. Banks novel.
dudes, stay on topic! Logans Run should be in there somewhere.
Wow, i'm glad our top scientists have taken so much time to come to this important conclusion!
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No Battllefield Earth?
It's great when scientists concentrate on the more importing questions of life.
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The Matrix is up there but Wrath of Khan isn't?
"Derp de derp."
Still no cure for cancer!
How is it possible that the world has overlooked "Johnny Mnemonic"?
I guess many artists and musicians are only truly recognised after they die... perhaps it will take the death of Keanu for Johnny Mnemonic to be truly appreciated.
Putting syrup in coffee is some form of blasphemy.
I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
Yeah! A world where you leave your shitty jobs to travel home through the throngs of other civilians in the endless rain just to find a renegade replicant in the kitchen that kills you.
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Seriously, though, my all time favorite. Better than Bladerunner by far.
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Blade Runner - Best movie ever.
Star Wars Episode 1 was not in the top 10?! But it had Ja-Ja Binks and that wonderful story that .. oh screw it who am I kidding, it sucked.
That's exactly what it means.
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Overlooked Mnemonic? No.
Johnny-Five, yes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/
With lines like, "Hey Laserlips. Your mama was a snowblower.", how could such an epic sci-fi film be overlooked?
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of what is science fiction... How can Raiders of the Lost Ark not be in the top 10?! And, what about Tremors??
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I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
You do.
Yea, but if I'm gonna die, I choose to go out between Daryl Hannah's thighs.
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Don't forget the latest!! Alien vs. Predator? Hell the reviewer said "Three thumbs up - one for each race" :)
0 for 9 is it?
No, it's 0 for 10.
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Oh my god, it absolutely fucking sucked! All that build-up, the suspense; and what does she find after blasting off in the egg? The alien looked like her dad. How bloody lame is that?! They could've at least had a few Doom 3 style fireball slinging monsters chasing her around and stuff...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Fahrenheit 411? Wasn't that the movie where they burned all the phone books?
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It's bad enough it got passed over at the 1959 Oscars, now this?
Imagine the first people to fly to Europa. It would be exciting for the first, say, month. After that, you'd start to get bored and wig out.
No way. I can stay in my little studio apartment for days at a time only being forced to leave to go to work. If I could I would live in that apartment 24/7 like my cat does. Many geeks are like me and would make great astronauts for long voyages cooped up aboard a small spaceship.
Just give me a big collection of video games, books, software development tools, pr0n and have the space ship set up so that it recycles my piss into Code Red Mountain Dew and recycles my shit into Chilli Cheese Fritos and I'll be set for the long haul. When the ship finally gets to Europa I probably wouldn't want to get off!
Mathematics is not a crime.
Maybe not, but it can get you 5 -10
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The window of opportunity where that would have been an arousing way to go has passed.
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Despite the awkward ending due to the death of Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) is a pretty good sci fi film.
Very underappreciated.
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I'm still pissed off at the fact that 3 years later I still can't walk up to a Bell videophone booth. Or that there's no Pan-Am space clipper. Hell, there isn't even a Pan-Am any more.
Talk about lousy product placement.
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Remember Pris, the pleasure model? Of course she's going to look human - would you want to engage in sexual activities with a green bodied replicant? No!
Speak for yourself.
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There wasn't THAT much running in Blade Runner, now The Running Man, that was a movie with lots of running in it.
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..yeah, but what's with all this "Blue Danube" crap? Everyone knows they stole their music from the Commodore 64 game Elite - when you turn their Docking Computer on. I can't believe they don't have the Elite creators listed in the 2001 credits. Sheesh.
Actually CGI and her makeup artist have what it takes.
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The MBTA in Boston late at night is more like Mad Max.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Not to disagree with Mr. Scott, but if Deckard was a replicant, why did he always get his ass kicked by the 'real' replicants? Where was his super strength?
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