Movie Cup round 8 - Science fiction films

7 rounds down and The Bull is in the lead but he can be caught!!!

This round is all about science fiction and what a great selection we have:

The Matrix
Alien
Total Recall
Predator
Star Wars IV - A new hope
Inception
cocoon
Frankenstein
Start Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Jurassic Park
Wall E


But no Flash gordon!

Anyway, as always, vote for your 2 favourite. Next week the penultimate round is films with a colour in the title.

Cocoon - Old folks at a home and at the end of their perceived usefulness find a swimming pool at a nearby house full of Alien cocoons...The Alien energy revitalises them and helps them rediscover their youth leading to self discovery and the realisation that age is a state of mind and not of body... A realisation that gives them a very tough decision to make....Funny and moving..

Inception - Amazing work from Nolan again as well as it being awesome and confusing for some but maybe to vote for this all you need to do is dream deeper!

Jurassic Park - The film that revolutionised special effects. The dino epic that spawned 2 sequels and a 4th/reboot in the pipeline. A truly outstanding films.

Frankenstein - man simultaneously harnesses science and pushes its boundaries that far that he gets to play god, the film is both poignant and chilling & left the viewer wondering who the monster really was. Could the Jurassic Parks of modern cinema ever have existed without it?

The Matrix - A film that came out of nowhere and made the science fiction cool again. A film that redefined Keanu Reeves and had the whole audience in awe as the film progressed. Forget about the sequels bringing down its rep, this is the real deal and works amazingly as a stand alone classic.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - "KHHHHAAAAAAAAN!" raged Captain James T Kirk as this classic battle between hero and villain was playing out. Who can ever forget the first time they saw Wrath of Khan? William Shatner gives a good performance, Leonard Nimoy a brilliant one, but it's Ricardo Montalbán's performance as Khan that steals the show and makes this the greatest sci-fi film in history. The best bad guy ever written. And if that doesn't grab your vote, just remember - "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one".

Total Recall (the original)
I never get bored of watching it. It's very cheesy, it's not brilliantly acted, but it's so entertaining.

Predator - Arnie, an alien, guns, the jungle, a wrestler, a mini gun, a laser, a token female, gunfights, soldiers, hunting, skull collecting, an alien nuclear weapon, government cover-ups, green blood! What's not to like?

Stars Wars IV A New Hope - It's not just the best Sci-Fi film, it's the greatest film of all time. Name a film that has changed the way films are made quite like the original SW film, name a film that has a day named after it, name a film that has people changing their religion to. Star Wars A New Hope simply has to win.

I went for Wall.E and Inception, I nearly voted for Star Wars but I think A New Hope isn't quite as strong as Empire Strikes Back and is a bit slow for my liking.

If someone would have picked Flash Gordon, I genuinely wouldnt have voted for my own film this round.

I went for Star Trek II along with my own.

Star Trek II and Predator for me. By a country mile, and I'm one of the biggest Star Wars fans you'll find.

Frankenstein & Jurassic Park for me, Total Recall a close third but lacking in kids getting lobbed into rivers. And no dinosaurs.

Star Wars and The Matrix.

Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

Predator and Total Recall - Arnie at his best!

Didn't like Total recall...........Probably because I didn't understand whether it was a dream or real or what???

Loved Predator though.......... Commando will always be my fave..

Stella wrote:Star Wars and The Matrix.

Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film.

Yes, although I can see where you're coming from.

Stella wrote:Star Wars and The Matrix.

Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

Of course! Genetically engineered dinosaurs?

Crimey wrote:

Stella wrote:Star Wars and The Matrix.

Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

Of course! Genetically engineered dinosaurs?

Makes sense.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Didn't like Total recall...........Probably because I didn't understand whether it was a dream or real or what???

Loved Predator though.......... Commando will always be my fave..

Agree with Commando, had some of the best one liners/quotes ever

The Matrix was awful, how has it got any votes?

I don't like Star Wars IV, I much prefer the original one before the CGI stuff.


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I actually liked the Matrix and then they ruined it with two awful sequels and now I can't bring myself to watch the first one

Star Wars IV isn't even the best of the series let alone the best Sci Fi movie

I went with Inception and predator.

Predator is my favourite on the list. Found it hard to pick a second one as I like a lot of them, in the end I opted for Inception.

Stella wrote:Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

According to the Free Dictionary Science-Fiction is A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background, all of the films mentioned fulfil at least one of the criteria.

Galted wrote:

Stella wrote:Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

According to the Free Dictionary Science-Fiction is A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background, all of the films mentioned fulfil at least one of the criteria.

A simple yes would have been fine.

I'm sad someone has put Wall-E forward. Inception and Star Wars. The former one of my favourite ever films, the latter only just scraping through over The Matrix

A simple yes would have been fine.

New here are you?

Glas a du wrote:

A simple yes would have been fine.

New here are you?

Ish

Yeah, Wall-E was a bizarre inclusion. Mental that it's doing better than Alien

If I was going to stick a star wars in......... it probably would have been Empire strikes back........

Wall E and inception.. The rest are yawnnnn IMO

Expected Alien to be doing better...With Star wars... the real mould breaker..

Wall-E isn't yawnnnn but Jurassic Park / Predator / Wrath of Khan are? Duuuuuuuuude

Aye Az YAWWNNNNNN

Wow. I am never going to the cinema with you

Nah i only go to see good films bud..

I dl the rest..

If I'd have gone to see Wall-E at the cinema I'd have chained myself to the chair afterwards until the cinema manager gave me a refund. I watched it on TV for free and felt ripped off.

Ok a serious post on my picks.

Wall e. Yes i could call it a slightly dumbed down version of space odyssey 2001. But in a way that is a great thing - It means people can appreciate Kubricks greatest work in the media of a cartoon!!

Inception. Nolan at his best----- problem is when isnt he at his best!!!

Inception is a great film, it'll stand out for decades.

Well we can agree on that one pick bud!!

gonna throw 3 different sci films into the mix that i think are awesome and not your typical star wars or aliens yawn fest!

District 9, donnie darko, moon,

(and I prefered prometheus to any alien and all!)

District 9 was great, really different, and there is a Saffer kid that lives next to me that me and the wife call 'the little prawn'

Going to see the new star trek film next week. Not sure it will be a classic but did enjoy the first one.

Star Wars and Alien

but i dont think either is the best of there series

Yep i agree stella- I enjoyed it and really didnt think i would after all the before star trek stuff!

mystiroakey wrote:Yep i agree stella- I enjoyed it and really didnt think i would after all the before star trek stuff!

I had never seen a star trek film or programme before the latest film. maybe that was a good thing? Not sure what the original buffs thought of it.

Once went out with a lass who didn't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek and then compounded it by saying "It's all the same film isn't it?"

I am in no way a Star Wars officiando or a "Trekker" (even though the fact I know "Trekker" is the acceptable name as opposed to "Trekkie" makes me a geek) but for a brief moment I could understand why they get so bent out of shape about their beloved films.

Anyway, Predator and Matrix for me. Great stand alone films that were sadly ruined by the sequels.

Star Trek II is quite possibly the greatest of all the Star Wars/ Trek films.

As a Trek fan, the latest film (as in the one out a few years ago), I thought it was very good.

If you're that big a fan you could have at least spelt it correctly in the poll

MIG wrote:

Galted wrote:

Stella wrote:Is Jurassic Park, sci-fi?

According to the Free Dictionary Science-Fiction is A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background, all of the films mentioned fulfil at least one of the criteria.

A simple yes would have been fine.

No chance, I'm massively into sentences, quotes, research & italics.

Close encounters of the third kind?

It's just a synthesiser...

Here's mine.

2001 A Space Odyssey - It set the standard.
Forbidden Planet
2010
Alien
Solaris
Blade Runner
Terminator II
Close Encounters
Children Of Men
Altered States
Silent Running
Logan's Run
Donnie Darko
Dark Star
Contact
ALL the Star Trek Movies - I'm a mad Trekkie

Loads more, but those stand out for me.

Am I the only guy that liked The Abyss??

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Am I the only guy that liked The Abyss??

It nearly got my nomination, a brilliant film that scared the bejeezus out of 7-year old me.

iRobot
The sphere
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I robot......was pants.............

Asimov's Book was superb and they dumbed it down............

Surprised Robocop didnt get a shout as well.

Some good films missing from the list (and some bad ones that I thought Bull would have picked like Avatar)