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  • The Fountain

    8 25.81%

  • Omega Man

    8 25.81%

  • Children of Men

    16 51.61%

  • The Thing

    22 70.97%

  • Melancholia

    7 22.58%

  • eXistenZ

    7 22.58%

  • Twelve Monkeys

    24 77.42%

  • Looper

    14 45.16%

  • Serenity

    12 38.71%

  • Despicable Me

    4 12.90%
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  1. 07-06-2014 10:57 AM #51
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    I thought about A Scanner Darkly this morning and I too am sorry I didn't get a chance to nominate it.
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  2. 07-06-2014 11:10 AM #52
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    Quote Originally Posted by Still Servant View Post
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    Especially when we know Wall-e is the best animated feature in this tournament.
    Nope. Ghost in the Shell.
    Did Akira make it into the tourney? I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard nothing but great things and it's at the top of many lists.
    I used to love Akira as a kid. Revisted it a few year back and couldn't even finish it. I couldn't get into Ghost in the Shell either. Just can't watch anime like I used to. It was the shittiness of Metropolis (same creator of Akira) that really soured me, I think.

    A Scanner Darkly isn't really animated, they just digitally painted film.
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  3. 07-06-2014 01:05 PM #53
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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    And Nausicaä - another animated film that's pretty mind-blowing. I also wanted to nominate A Scanner Darkly and Paprika and Renaissance, but there's only so many films you can fit into 160...
    Is Renaissance the Daniel Craig film? I didn't enjoy that one very much.
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  4. 07-06-2014 03:22 PM #54
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    I think you're thinking of Defiance.
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  5. 07-06-2014 04:06 PM #55
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattrick View Post
    I think you're thinking of Defiance.
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  6. 07-06-2014 04:53 PM #56
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    I thought you may have been confusing the similar names lol
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  7. 07-06-2014 07:07 PM #57
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    Na, Renaissance isn't well known and both films are pretty mediocre.
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  8. 07-06-2014 07:31 PM #58
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    Defiance had a bad ass sountrack....I haven't seen the movie but I listened to the soundtrack lol
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  9. 07-07-2014 08:01 AM #59
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    The problem with Despicable Me is the simple fact that since it’s animated, they can basically throw out the laws of reality and do a lot of the Looney Tunes type things like literally pulling a freeze ray out of nowhere.

    At least a movie like Wall-E attempted to be a little more realistic.
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  10. 07-07-2014 09:00 AM #60
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    Quote Originally Posted by Still Servant View Post
    Na, Renaissance isn't well known and both films are pretty mediocre.
    So should I not bother with it then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fernandito View Post
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    Na, Renaissance isn't well known and both films are pretty mediocre.
    So should I not bother with it then?
    Not until you exhaust every other book, movie, graphic novel, TV show and video game that has been on your list for a while. Once you finish that, then you can give it a shot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Staad View Post
    I will try and catch a few more of these before voting ends. Netflix streaming via apple tv is the only option for...I can't stand watching movies on the computer.
    Same here really, I don't know why that is.

    And this is definitely a reminder that I need to see 12 Monkeys.
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    12 Monkeys is another movie I've seen in the double digits since it was released. A lot of my childhood favourites in this tournament. I'm hoping The Arrival is in a weaker group, that's a unsung classic.
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  14. 07-08-2014 12:13 AM #64
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    And Melancholia keeps sliding back
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    Yessssssss, glad to see The Thing beasting it!
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  16. 07-08-2014 09:48 AM #66
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    By the way, Renaissance is really cool.
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    Voted for Melancholia and Looper. Sad to see that it doesn't look like Melancholia will make it (but it doesn't surprise me).
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    This is a pretty good group but I still feel Melancholia should be in the top six. A beautiful and haunting film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    This is a pretty good group but I still feel Melancholia should be in the top six. A beautiful and haunting film.
    bears have voted for it. They never got to see the whole of it, but what they have seen is enough to know it's a worthy film.

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    Woohoo! Just need one more now to tie for sixth!
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    Sure, it is beautiful and haunting, provokes the heart and the mind, but, I don't know; just didn't seem like great science fiction.
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    Well we are trying to decide the best film that's sci-fi so foremost we have to judge it on the filmic aspects (direction, acting, cinematography, score, script, etc) and not simply how science-fictiony it is. Melancholia has a rogue planet crashing into Earth, how is that not sci-fi!
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    I'm just saying I don't feel it's a great in the category. I watched it the other day for the sake of this contest. It's just an impression of mine, to try to say why I didn't vote for it. I know that's vague, but please don't assume I've decided that it is just not science fiction or that I'd reject it out of hand as not science fictiony.
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    eXistenZ needs more votes!
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    Seeing whose in Melancholia makes me want to see it a little more. I assume they needed Jack Bauer to stop that planet from hitting earth.
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