Top 10 movies

[CRONAN]

Yes, and a filthy, disgusting practice it is at that. Have those revolting smearers of science no sense of self respect or human decency!? Does their blatant disregard for honest science truely know no boundaries!!?? I say they've made their maggot infested hellhole; now let them wallow in it.

[Capt.Montoya]

Re: V'Ger clean your name plate

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh

Though I'm still curious about the credit given to Issac Asimov as special science consultant.
Does anyone know and therefore explain exactly what special science is?
Maybe it's a way of explaining an energy of a type never before encountered?

As Cruiser said, Special (Science Consultant), not Consultant on "Special Science."

I dimly remember a comment from him in one of his many books where he said he didn't actually do much, other than answer a few technical questions and have his answers ignored in some cases, and that the producers wanted his name attached to the project for whatever prestige it could give.

Much science if SF is stretched, but "hard" SF writers like Asimov do little stretching, and do it mostly by logical extrapolation. In the other extreme comic books, and many sci-fi productions, stretch science so much you'd think it would break belief. Star Trek uses its own brand mixture of rubber science and unscientific technobabble, with few touches of hard science fiction.

[cruiser]

Though I'm still curious about the credit given to Issac Asimov as special science consultant.

Try reading as "special consultant on science"

Or maybe it was a typo and should read "be-spectacled science consultant"
or
maybe it should read "SPECIAL science consultant".


1. Babylon 5:In the Beginning. OOPS Scratch that.

1. Contact...errr Dune.....uuhhh Star Wars....This isn't easy....

2. The Matrix

3. The Matrix:Revolutions

4. The Fifth Element

5. Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan

6. Silent Running

7. Logans Run

8. The Abyss

Are you sure we can't include LOTR?

9. Species

10. Spaceballs

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

By rubber science I'm assuming the great maker means flexible stretchy faux science and not 'what you lose in sensitivity you make up for in protection' science?

[Andrew_Swallow]

Re: V'Ger clean your name plate

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh
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Though I'm still curious about the credit given to Issac Asimov as special science consultant.
Does anyone know and therefore explain exactly what special science is?
Maybe it's a way of explaining an energy of a type never before encountered?

Special science = true science.
As distinct from rubber science, which according JMS most Sci-Fi writers use.

http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?ID=1-17231

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

V'Ger clean your name plate

I like the Slow Motion Picture.
Of all the Star Trek films it's the one that has the most epic feel,The direction is sound (particularly on the DVD version) The ship feel like a ship, The slow special effects scenes have a point and reason in the context of the story. The score is one of the late, great, Jerry Goldsmith's best.
And everyone wears very tight lycra. (whoops! Your honour please strike that last remark from the record!)
Though I'm still curious about the credit given to Issac Asimov as special science consultant.
Does anyone know and therefore explain exactly what special science is?
Maybe it's a way of explaining an energy of a type never before encountered?

[Capt.Montoya]

Originally posted by Flynn2000

06) Matrix, The

From your dizzyness inducing avatar I'd have guessed otherwise.

[Dr Maturin]

<<09) Star Trek the Motion Picture>>

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bam! That one stands out.

[Flynn2000]

To those of you that don't order your selections.
I don't think you get into the voting if you leave your lists unordered.
You might want to go back and order them if you can.

[Flynn2000]

My top ten:

01) Tron
02) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
03) Star Wars
04) RoboCop
05) Escape From New York
06) Matrix, The
07) Empire Stikes Back, The
08) Close Encounters of the Third
09) Star Trek the Motion Picture
10) Thing, The (John Carpenter 1982)


after that I would list these next:


11) Matrix Reloaded, The
12) Matrix Revolutions, The
13) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
15) Prince of Darkness
16) Starman
17) Brainstorm



I've got one hell of an overall top movie list. Me or someone should start a thread on that.

TWT

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

my turn

In no particular order,

1) The Empire Strikes Back

2) A New Hope

3) 2001

4) Alien

5) Blade Runner

6) Forbidden Planet

7)The Day The Earth Stood Still

8)Android

9)The Thing (john Carpenter version)

10) Part of me wants to say Dune, part of me wants to say Close Encounters, Some of me wants to say Star Trek The Slow Motion Picture, Or Superman II (he is an alien you know) but I guess it would have to be Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

I maintain the right to change my mind at anytime.(hopefully for something a little less squishy and more decisive)

[Towelmaster]

The score so far, total number of points between brackets :


StarWars -A New Hope(42)

Blade Runner(24)

The Matrix(22)

Alien(16)

Contact(16)

12 Monkeys(14)

The Abyss(13)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind(12)
Dune(12)
Spaceballs(12)

The Fifth Element(10)
Transformers The Movie(10)

StarTrek Insurrection(9)
StarWars - The Empire Strikes Back(9)
Quatermass(9)

StarGate(8)
StarWars - The Return of the Jedi(8)
Soylent Green(8)

Titan AE(7)
2001(7)

Dark City(6)
StarTrek - First Contact(6)

Aliens(5)
Robocop 1(5)

StarTrek II The Wrath of Kahn(4)
Event Horizon(4)
Time Bandits(4)
War of the Worlds - 1953(4)

The Lawnmower Man(3)
The Iron Giant(3)
StarTrek IV - The undiscovered country(3)
Them - 1954(3)

The Andromeda Strain(2)
Outland(2)
Logan's Run(2)
Buck Rogers in the 25th century(2)

THX 1138(1)
Hardware(1)
Jurassic Park(1)
Starship Troopers(1)


Of course this is all subject to change as soon as others start to cast their votes. Votes for StarWars Episode IV have been added to "StarWars - A New Hope".

N.B. : Unspecified lists have not been included. It has to be a top-10 otherwise I can't make an honest list. You are free to try again of course.

[bakana]

Interesting to see Starship Troopers on anyone's top 10 list.
It fell off the charts so fast that the sequel went straight to Video.

Personally, I remember The Day the Earth Stood Still with a bit of fondness.
And, even though it's not SF, I rate Grave of the Fireflies as one of the top 10 movies ever made.
(For those who've never seen it, it's Anime and does NOT have a happy ending, either. It's got a 2 box of Kleenex rating.)

[UberNerdyBoy]

1. Transformers The Movie
2. Quatermass
3. StarGate
4. Starwars(ep 4)
5. StarTrek: First Contact
6. Robocop 1
7. War of the worlds (1953)
8. Them (1954)
9. Buck rogers in the 25 century
10. Starship troopers

Just thought to chip in my top 10 list of fave SF films and while the nr 1 stays at it's place, the rest could be in any order, it really depends on my mood.
Greets UNB

[mdm1789]

Dune

One of my favorites , it has to rate at the top of my list

The 84 movie with patrick stewart.

I am torn up over it though, there is so many good ones to mention you really could go on and on.......

mdm1789