Best Sci-Fi Tournament - Round 1 Group J

[Heather19]

Note: Although you can vote for a maximum of 6 films in the polls, it doesn't necessarily mean you HAVE to vote for 6. We encourage you to vote only on those you strongly feel deserve to move on to the next round.

Quartermass II aka Enemy from Space
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsiCzduJ6LLbdEubjeJd14oZyy1dFr0 bQKtKocWy2d-flVbkSb

Flight of the Navigator
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Flightofnavigatorpost.jpg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Close_Encounters_poster.jpg

Fire in the Sky
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Fire_in_the_sky_poster.jpg

Phase IV
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/PhaseIV.jpg

Event Horizon
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Event_horizon_ver1.jpg

X-Men : Days of Future Past
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/X-Men_Days_of_Future_Past_poster.jpg

Sunshine
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Sunshine_poster.jpg

The Time Machine
http://imageshack.com/a/img849/3483/psbg.jpg

Another Earth
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/Poster_of_the_movie_Another_Earth.jpg

[Mattrick]

Sunshine.

[fernandito]

Fire in the Sky
Event Horizon (♥)
Days of Future Past
Sunshine

[Mattrick]

I'd have voted Fire In The Sky but depending on your beliefs it isn't fiction at all. I like Event Horizon but it's like The Mist to me, far more horror than anything else. I liked X-Men too but I surely didn't think of it as a sci-fi film and aside from the actual time travelling (which is still just a mutant's powers) it isn't any more heavy in sci-fi than it's previous films. Actually, the original with a machine than can turn everyone human into mutants is way more sci-fi than Days. The rest I haven't seen.

[Heather19]

Sunshine
Fire In the Sky
Event Horizon

[fernandito]

Event Horizon still manages to creep me the fuck out, even til this day. Love Sam Neill in that.

[Mattrick]

Event Horizon still manages to creep me the fuck out, even til this day. Love Sam Neill in that.

Imagine this: I'm eleven and I rent Event Horizon and In The Mouth of Madness and I watched them home alone in the dark. Don't think I'll ever a horror night like that again. Sam Niell was my favourite actor when I was a kid...I loved Jurassic Park that much haha

[fernandito]

I remember watching Event Horizon for the first time. I was a kid and was home alone, ended up watching it at around 2 o'clock in the morning. When the movie ended I picked up my feet off the ground because I thought something was going to grab me from under the couch hahaha.

Also, Sunshine was excellent up until the last 4th of the movie where it turns into a slasher flick.

[Merlin1958]

Event Horizon still manages to creep me the fuck out, even til this day. Love Sam Neill in that.

It is a really fucking creepy movie for sure.

[Mattrick]

I remember watching Event Horizon for the first time. I was a kid and was home alone, ended up watching it at around 2 o'clock in the morning. When the movie ended I picked up my feet off the ground because I thought something was going to grab me from under the couch hahaha.

"What happened to your eyes?"
"Where we're going, you won't need eyes to see."


Also, Sunshine was excellent up until the last 4th of the movie where it turns into a slasher flick.
I felt similar to this until I watched it a few more times and it didn't feel as out of place. If you look at it like this: The Sun is God and Pinback is Satan and with God dying Satan would destroy the realm of man/the living and through corrupting the souls of men he possesses Pinbacker and uses him to murder his crew to stop the first mission (which is all Satan can do) he attempts to thwart the second mission to save God's life

[needfulthings]

PLEASE put the right title on PHASE 4 (It is not PHASE 1)
http://imageshack.com/a/img823/6461/l48hv.jpg

[Ricky]

Sunshine and Another Earth.

[Heather19]

PLEASE put the right title on PHASE 4 (It is not PHASE 1)
http://imageshack.com/a/img823/6461/l48hv.jpg

I'm sorry, I mistyped it but I can't edit the poll :( Let me see if Jerome can. In the meantime hopefully everyone looks below at the list and posters.

[Randall Flagg]

One and one only. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[Still Servant]

I think it's kind of funny that Event Horizon and Sunshine are in the same poll. They have a lot in common for me.

[mae]

Coming soon:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCwRzJQ0T7Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3MCI21u1gA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp32VHaYdE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmAc5CwJgI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs3_b3VXSU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxBHDsgTDw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjtg7m1MMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ciLKeMGeU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UQCZEsY9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPfAYpnpuw

[divemaster]

One and one only. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

That's the only one I voted for out of this group as well.

[mae]

Went with only five again:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fire in the Sky
Event Horizon
X-Men : Days of Future Past
Sunshine

[Tommy]

Phase IV was funny when MST3K Riffed it on their KTMA Season, I've never seen the un-riffed version

[Mattrick]

That trailer for Sunshine with Lux Aterna really makes me want to watch that mesmerizing spectacle again.

[frik]

Close Encounters and Quatermass 2.

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[mae]

Not a fan of these Hammer flicks. There are much better monster b-movies, such as Them!

[mae]

Fire in the Sky is perhaps the scariest alien movie along with Alien.

[DoctorZaius]

Event Horizon? Really?

[fernandito]

Yes, really.

[DoctorZaius]

Yes, really.

Elaborate

[fernandito]

First tell me what you're contesting. Are you saying it's without merit as a sci fi?

[Still Servant]

I have my problems with Event Horizon and it wouldn't be one of my favorite Sci-fi films, but it deserves to be in this competition. It doesn't deserve to win it, but it earned its spot.

[DoctorZaius]

First tell me what you're contesting. Are you saying it's without merit as a sci fi?

It certainly has merit as sic-fi, thought I see it as more horror. I just did not see it as garnering any votes, especially more than The Time Machine. No big outrage.

[pathoftheturtle]

I laughed all the way through Event Horizon. The only thing funnier than the idea it should scare me (granted, I was already over 30) was the idea that it's supposed to make sense!

[mae]

Fire in the Sky is perhaps the scariest alien movie along with Alien.

Need more Fire in the Sky votes :excited:

[fernandito]

bump

This poll is closing tomorrow!!

[mae]

This is closing tonight, need at least one more Fire in the Sky vote to break the tie! :panic:

[Ricky]

No one else has seen (or liked) Another Earth? :cry:

[fernandito]

I haven't seen it, but that is a very interesting poster. Let me add it to my queue.

[Ricky]

I really think you'd like it, feev.

[mae]

It's a good movie, but one of the best of all time?

[Mattrick]

I only heard mixed to bad things about it. Really fizzled my interest.

[mae]

This is closing tonight, need at least one more Fire in the Sky vote to break the tie! :panic:

What's going on? The tie was broken but the wrong way :panic:

[Mattrick]

Realise now I confused Upside Down with Another Earth and realise I haven't really heard anything about Another Earth lol

[fernandito]

Realise now I confused Upside Down with Another Earth and realise I haven't really heard anything about Another Earth lol
Don't bother with Upside Down, it's shit.

[Ricky]

Realise now I confused Upside Down with Another Earth and realise I haven't really heard anything about Another Earth lol

HUGE difference there. :lol:

[mae]

I can't believe that with a few hours to go in this poll, Fire in the Sky will be eliminated in favor of Flight of the Navigator :cry:

[Heather19]

No one else has seen (or liked) Another Earth? :cry:

It's been in my queue forever.

[Still Servant]

Realise now I confused Upside Down with Another Earth and realise I haven't really heard anything about Another Earth lol
Don't bother with Upside Down, it's shit.

I second and third that. One of the worst films I've seen in a while. Interesting idea, poor execution.

[WeDealInLead]

I can't believe that with a few hours to go in this poll, Fire in the Sky will be eliminated in favor of Flight of the Navigator :cry:

OK, add another vote for Fire. I voted only 4 times in this bracket so a late vote is better than no vote.

[mae]

Tiebreak time!

[fernandito]

The following films will advance

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Event Horizon
X-Men : Days of Future Past
Sunshine
The Time Machine

Tie breaker
Flight of the Navigator
Fire In The Sky

[mae]

You're not counting WeDealInLead's vote?

[fernandito]

Note
Guys if you want to add or subtract a vote after you have already cast your votes please send me a private message, sometimes I don't have a chance to read every single response in the threads, especially when they're not addressed to me.

Thanks.

[Still Servant]

No one else has seen (or liked) Another Earth? :cry:

You know I'm working my way through Brit Marling's films, Ricky. I just haven't gotten the chance to watch Another Earth yet. Sorry.