Update, April 1: Voting is now closed on this first round. Go here for the second round of voting.
Update: After I posted this, I realized that the format was unwieldy. It was a big hassle to vote in 16 separate polls to come up with favorite movies. Furthermore, there were some really tough choices to be made between some of the movies in several of the individual polls in this first round of voting. So, I have reworked the poll. Now, instead of picking one movie out of a group of 8, you just put a checkmark beside the titles of up to 25 of your favorite science fiction movies, and only have to hit the Submit button once. The new poll closes at 5pm MDT on Sunday, April 1st (2300 GMT). Sorry to those few people who took the time to vote in my unwieldy first attempt at this poll. The scores have all been reset, and you can all vote again.
I kept on thinking of great science fiction movies that I should have put in the list the other day, lots of them. And, Dan Schrimpsher asked me if I was on crack, for not putting Serenity at the top of the list (I'm not). Well, I figure that this is the sort of thing that calls for a poll. I searched through the Science Fiction category on the Internet Movie Database, and out of the thousands of titles there I selected 134 movies. Out of the list below, click on as many as 25 of your favorite science fiction movies.
The polling software allows only one vote per poll per IP address, so if you really really want a particular movie to make it to the next round, then tell your friends about this poll so that they can vote too. The more people who vote, the better the results will be.
Next week, I will make up a new set of polls, with only the top-scoring 16 or 32 movies (I haven't decided yet) from this poll. I'm leaning towards making this a playoff format starting next week. So, by the end of April or so, we should have the top science fiction movie, as voted by you, the Robot Guy readers.
7 comments:
No Galaxy Quest. That movie was a hoot.
What's this Solyaris movie? I've heard of Solaris, but Solyaris?
And is Fail Safe a science fiction film? It seems more like a fictional war film to me.
Mark I noted "no GalaxyQuest"; I'd like to note the absence of Colossus: the Forbin project, the 1970 human-versus-computer story directed by Joseph Sargent, starring Eric Braeden and Susan Clarke. And how about Fantastic Voyage?
For certain titles, the specific version matters. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is great in either version, but with a film like King Kong, it matters whether I'm voting for 1933, 1976, or 2005.
Of course, when you go from a cast of thousands to a "short list" of some ten dozen, certainly some films will be left out. I'm glad I found your site, and I'm looking forward to the next rounds of the poll.
Fantastic Voyage? You know, the one with Raquel Welch, based on the Arthur C. Clarke story?
And what about Omega Man? The one with Charlton Heston that was so ably parodied by the Simpsons?
I know that you wanted to keep the list down to a manageable size, but I think there are some great animated movies that got missed:
Titan AE
Ghost in the Shell
Appleseed
Macross Plus
and more...
Maybe you need a separate poll for great animated movies???
I knew there was bound to be movies that I missed. I looked through thousands of titles on the IMDb, and on the first pass I even missed one of my favorite scifi movies, Tron. So, no Galaxy Quest, no Fantastic Voyage, no Omega Man, etc, and sorry.
As far as films that have been remade, like King Kong or Frankenstein or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, assume that the version on the list is the one that you liked the most.
And I know that I didn't put a lot of animated movies on the list, but there are a few, like the Iron Giant and the Incredibles. If I was to do this list again I probably would have included Titan AE and Cowboy Bebop.
Solyaris is spelled the way it is listed in the IMDb.
number or top 25 rating would be more fun. i liked many of these but to include them with blade runner or close encounters or star wars IV… seems rather a strain
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