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.

WTF?

[dougrun]

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

Top Scientists

[ParticleMan911]

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

What?

[Anonymous Writer]

No Battllefield Earth [imdb.com]?

Re:Hey I hate to break it to you

[celeritas_2]

It's great when scientists concentrate on the more importing questions of life.

Ugh

[NanoGator]

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

In related news....

[ender81b]

Still no cure for cancer!

WHAT! No Johnny?

[HonkyLips]

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.

Re:I'd have to agree.

[grub]

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.

ALIENS!

[MaineCoon]

On slashdot, anybody can hear you scream.

Seriously, though, my all time favorite. Better than Bladerunner by far.

Simpsons Comic guy

[Anonymous Coward]

Blade Runner - Best movie ever.

Episode 1!

[Manip]

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.

Re:What?

[maeka]

This poll was for the best SF movies, not the most scientifically accurate.

Re:2001 sucked.

[scotch]

Just because YOU don't like mint chocolate chip doesn't mean that it sucks.

That's exactly what it means.

Re:What?

[Monkelectric]

I *LOVE* Battlefield earth. I keep my copy of BE right next to my copy of Leonard Part 6 [imdb.com]. BE spawned some of the funniest movie reviews I have ever read in my life. Check out The Onion's Review: (this was written before they started to soft ball all the movies)

Battlefield Earth

Before its release, some of Scientology's critics suggested that Battlefield Earth would be filled with subliminal messages in an attempt to recruit or brainwash viewers. They needn't worry: Outside of marching on Washington in Nazi uniforms while burning crosses and clubbing baby seals, it's hard to think of a worse way to recruit converts than to subject them to this surreal atrocity, an adaptation of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel. A film too staggeringly inept to be believed, Battlefield Earth is a contender for the worst movie of any year, decade, or century. The film tells the story of devolved future humans who live in what appears to be a Molly Hatchet album cover and do battle with a group of evil alien "Psychlos" who resemble giant Rastafarian werewolves. Clueless enough to make last year's crazy science-fiction turkey Wing Commander look like Solaris and 2001 rolled into one big luminescent ball, Battlefield Earth is written with all the skill and subtlety of a Flash Gordon serial and plotted with the cruel, hard logic of a Lyndon LaRouche presidential campaign. But at least it's uniquely terrible: A good deal of its screen time is devoted to "man animals" and their supposed preference for eating raw rats, which may be a canny bit of psychology on the filmmakers' part. After all, eating raw rodents is one of the few activities that sound less appealing than watching Battlefield Earth. Producer and star John Travolta's cackling, embarrassing performance as the film's nine-foot-tall heavy is bad enough to negate the last 25 years of his career: Travolta may be a gifted actor and a movie star in the classic sense of the term, but from now on, he will be seen not as the charismatic star of Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction, but as John "Battlefield Earth" Travolta, the perpetrator of a film that will go down in history alongside Howard The Duck and Heaven's Gate as shorthand for Hollywood at its out-of-control worst. Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it. --Nathan Rabin

Re:WHAT! No Johnny?

[Professor North]

Overlooked Mnemonic? No.

Johnny-Five, yes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/ [imdb.com]
With lines like, "Hey Laserlips. Your mama was a snowblower.", how could such an epic sci-fi film be overlooked?

If you go by the Sci-Fi channels standards...

[tao_of_biology]

of what is science fiction... How can Raiders of the Lost Ark not be in the top 10?! And, what about Tremors??

Two words...

[darnok]

Buckaroo Bonzai

Re:I'd have to agree.

[GrahamCox]

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

Re:Top Scientists

[Sloppy]

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

Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Someone should make a movie about it.

Re:I'd have to agree.

[haystor]

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

Re:2001 sucked.

[anagama]

• Baskin-Robbins makes 31 flavors of ice cream.

Shouldn't that be "31 Colors" of ice cream?

Re:What?

[Kesh]

My favorite quote about that movie was:

"I can't believe in an alien civilization that would have been blown up the first time someone tried to microwave a burrito."

Whizzbang!!

[alokeb]

Don't forget the latest!! Alien vs. Predator? Hell the reviewer said "Three thumbs up - one for each race" :)

You forgot Nemesis

[Anonymous Coward]

0 for 9 is it?

No, it's 0 for 10.

If your subconscious had purged all trace of Nemesis from your brain and may post has now undone several thousand dollars with of psychotherapy then I humbly apologize...

Re:Contact

[FyRE666]

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...

Re:Brazil

[ktakki]

Same with Farenheit 411 and most other dystopian fictions, which is why there is so little of it.

Fahrenheit 411? Wasn't that the movie where they burned all the phone books?

k.

Re:Scientists, please explain Blade Runner to me

[darkmeridian]

2. What do Electric Sheep dream of?

Electric Irishmen.

"Plan 9 From Outer Space"

[M. Baranczak]

It's bad enough it got passed over at the 1959 Oscars, now this?

Re:It was supposed to be boring.

[JAD lifter]

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!

OT, reply to sig

[PsiPsiStar]

Mathematics is not a crime.

Maybe not, but it can get you 5 -10

Re:Two words...

[kennedy]

"Laugh ah-while you can monkey boy!"

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Re:Brainstorm

[ShavenYak]

Despite the awkward ending due to the death of Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 From Outer Space [imdb.com] (1959) is a pretty good sci fi film.
Very underappreciated.

Re:2001

[rs79]

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.

Re:Because they were intended to replace humans.

[DavidBrown]

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.

James Tiberius Kirk

Re:Get your stories straight, lads.

[servognome]

There wasn't THAT much running in Blade Runner, now The Running Man, that was a movie with lots of running in it.

Re:2001 sucked.

[katty kat]

..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.

Re:What?

[Welpa]

You mean scientologically accurate.

Re:I'd have to agree.

[Hoi Polloi]

Actually CGI and her makeup artist have what it takes.

Boston's MBTA

[Hoi Polloi]

The MBTA in Boston late at night is more like Mad Max.

Re:About the flamewar

[Muad'Dave]

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? ...or was he being underclocked on purpose?