Blade Runner top sci-fi flick in scientific survey

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[dennisw]

Total Recall, T2 and Alien have my vote

[Belisaurius]

I thought that Harrison's character was himself a replicant when I saw the original.

It is a great flick.

[Frank_Discussion]

Buckaroo Banzai! D*mn, what's wrong with these people?

;)

[dennisw]

Better account of the films mentioned--->>

http://film.guardian.co.uk/sciencefiction/story/0,15012,1291240,00.html

[Joe 6-pack]

"I thought that Harrison's character was himself a replicant when I saw the original."

The author later acknowledged this was the case.

[Frank_Discussion]

I've got the Vangelis original soundtrack for the movie, it's outstanding. All the actors were good in that, even the psycho who played Rachel.

[NonValueAdded]

what happened to Dark Star?

[Frank_Discussion]

*Guilty Pleasure BUMP!*

[Boundless]

> ... survey of scientists has chosen Blade Runner
> as the world's best science-fiction film.

The assessment is either a benefit or a hazard.
If it's a benefit, it's not my problem.

[Buck W.]

Those are all good, but I like "Forbidden Planet" as a mid-fifties trend setter.

Speaking of the fifties, how about "Robot Monster"?

[Jokelahoma]

Blade Runner, especially the Director's Cut without the narration and with the more thought provoking ending, is my second favorite movie of all time, ranking slightly ahead of Casablanca, and behind my all time favorite, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I'd say they made a wise choice, IMNSHO.

[asgardshill]

Such a list without 'Forbidden Planet' is meaningless.

[NotADove]

Has always been one of my favs, but does have the Lib's whacko environmental agenda of portraying a Los Angelos under constant downpour due to global warming or was it intended to symbolize the Democrats constant whining :)

[Flash Bazbeaux]

There's a scene in BB where they are trying to find their way down blind corridors, at YOYODYNE, I think -- no windows --which are only marked by large plastic capital letters -- corrider X, Y, Z, -- when I was in the aerospace business, we had a building where the basement was exactly like that, except ours had white walls, and in the movie they were blue.

BTW, the name YoYoDyne is from a Thomas Pynchon novel, "The Crying of Lot 49". In the novel, it had a division called Galactronics. There are clues in the movie that this is where they got the name Yoyodyne, and clues in a later Thomas Pynchon novel that acknowleged that they had done so.

[USMA83]

Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep

[So Cal Rocket]

Buckaroo Banzai! D*mn, what's wrong with these people?

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - B. Banzai

[KellyAdmirer]

"Forbidden Planet" is so much better than "Close Encounters." And "Revenge of the Jedi" is WAY over-rated. How the heck "Solaris" came in that high is beyond me, might as well put in "Solarbabies."

[Frank_Discussion]

I loved the way the 'lectroids mispelled everthing... And just about any movie with Chistopher Lloyd is great. He's like a plastic man, moldable to any character.

"What's that Watermelon doing there?" - New Jersey
"Uh, I'll tell ya later." - Reno Nevada

[Stag]

Fahrenheit 9/11 has my vote...Jabba was great in that