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Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film

Posted by michael on from the like-tears-in-rain dept.

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.

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  1. WTF? by dougrun · · Score: 5, Funny

    dudes, stay on topic! Logans Run should be in there somewhere.

  2. Top Scientists by ParticleMan911 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, i'm glad our top scientists have taken so much time to come to this important conclusion!

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  3. What? by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Battllefield Earth?

  4. Ugh by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Matrix is up there but Wrath of Khan isn't?

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  5. Re:I'd have to agree. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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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  6. Re:2001 sucked. by scotch · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just because YOU don't like mint chocolate chip doesn't mean that it sucks.

    That's exactly what it means.

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  7. If you go by the Sci-Fi channels standards... by tao_of_biology · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  8. Two words... by darnok · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buckaroo Bonzai

  9. Re:I'd have to agree. by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
    You do.

  10. Re:I'd have to agree. by haystor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, but if I'm gonna die, I choose to go out between Daryl Hannah's thighs.

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  11. Re:I'd have to agree. by finkployd · · Score: 5, Funny

    The window of opportunity where that would have been an arousing way to go has passed.

    Finkployd