Best Sci Fi nominations + General updates throughout the tournament

[T-Dogz_AK47]

160. Cocoon.

[mae]

How about we round it out with Back to the Future 2?

[mae]

Yeah sorry, I'm kinda just skimming through the posts, looking for numbers.

A different member on the previous page also wanted Transformers on the list so that's why I added it.

Looks like Transformers was contested by three people and seconded by one. It's a terrible movie.

[Heather19]

Sphere, how could I have forgotten that one, thanks again Feevie

Excellent, now we hopefully have our list, let's get things going!

[mae]

Cocoon is such an underappreciated gem. Take out Transformers for BTTF2 and we're done!

[mae]

Oh not yet. Still the issue of Hugo and Tetsuo.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Right, someone second Hugo and nominate Back to the Future part 2 to replace Tetsuo and that should only leave Transformers to deal with.

[Tommy]

Oh not yet. Still the issue of Hugo and Tetsuo.

Tetsuo really is an excellent Sci-fi horror film commonly called Cyberpunk, though on the artistic side, it is in my opinion a brilliant Sci-fi film and I know I offered the spot to anyone who wanted to vote but didn't get to but so far no one has been seconded (and also this was before the tournament was expanded to 160 slots) so if no one gets seconded by the end of the day, I say let it stay because I do hope it's inclusion in the tournament will get more people to see it, Hugo is not listed as being Sci-Fi on wikipedia, IMDB or Rottentomatoes and while it is Steampunk, Steampunk is not necessarily Sci-Fi FIRST, I mean would you consider Sherlock Holmes (2009) as being Sci-Fi FIRST? It is most definitely Steampunk

[mae]

Sure, Tetsuo can definitely stay if nobody wants to replace it, but Hugo can't. It's just not sci-fi even tangentially. I'd prefer it see The City of Lost Children or Delicatessen if we want a steampunk film.

[fernandito]

1. 2001 : A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner
3. Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Terminator 2
6. Never Let Me Go
7. Metropolis
8. Back to the Future I
9. Gattaca
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
11. Jurassic Park
12. Aliens
13. The Matrix
14. Alien
15. Gravity
16. Twelve Monkeys
17. Dark City
18. Ghost in the Shell
19. Gojira (1954)
20. The Truman Show
21. The Abyss
22. Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back
23. The Thing From Another World!
24. Planet of the Apes 1968
25. Pleasantville
26. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
27. Forbidden Planet
28. Akira
29. Fantastic Planet
30. West World
31. This Island Earth
32. District 9
33. Her
34. Total Recall
35. The Time Machine
36. Brazil
37. Artificial Intelligence
38. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
39. Mad Max
40. Melancholia
41. Moon
42. The Road Warrior
43. Serenity
44. Village of the Damned 1960
45. Donnie Darko
46. Somewhere in Time
47. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
48. Them
49. Children of Men
50. Star Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi
51. Minority Report
52. Vanilla Sky
53. Super 8
54. Fahrenheit 451
55. Omega Man
56. Sunshine
57. Another Earth
58. The Fountain
59. When Worlds Collide
60. Men In Black
61. Predator
62. Wall-E
63. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
64. Robocop
65. Flight of the Navigator
66. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
67. The Incredible Shrinking Man
68. The Fifth Element
69. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland)
70. Silent Running
71. Primer
72. Independence Day
73. eXistenZ
74. War of the World 1953
75. Avatar
76. Solaris
77. Island of Lost Souls
78. Event Horizon
79. On The Beach
80. The Thing
81. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
82. Seconds
83. Starship Troopers
84. Frankenstein 1931
85. The Butterfly Effect
86. Altered States
87. The Fly
88. The Curse of Frankenstein
89. The Cell
90. Pi
91. Escape From New York
92. COLOSSUS "The Forbin" Project
93. Things to Come
94. The Invisible Man
95. Ghostbusters
96. Donovan’s Brain
97. Contact
98. Tetsuo
99. Edge of Tomorrow
100. Quartermass II aka Enemy from Space
101. Cube
102. The Bride of Frankenstein
103. Time Bandits
104. FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH aka QUATERMASS & THE PIT.
105. Woman in the Moon
106. Inception
107. Barbarella
108. The CREEPING UNKOWN aka QUATERMASS XPERIMEN
109. Waterworld
110. Looper
111. Pandorum
112. 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH.
113. Despicable Me
114. Je t'aime, je t'aime
115. Tron Legacy
116. Phase IV
117. The Arrival
118. Stalker
119. Demolition Man
120. The Hidden 1987
121. The Final Countdown
122. Fire in the Sky
123. Source Code
124. Mimic
125. Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan
126. X-Men : Days of Future Past
127. Dark Star
128. About Time
129. Dredd
130. 1984
131. Short Circuit 2
132. Chronicle
133. Abre Los Ojos
134. Jacob's Ladder
135. The Mist
136. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
137. Pitch Black
138. Paul
139. Kin-Dza-Dza
140. Rollerball
141. Videodrome
142. The Blob {1988}
143. Armageddon
144. Back to the Future 3
145. Beyond the Black Rainbow
146. Timecrimes
147. Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
148. Virtuosity
149. The Jacket
150. Cloud Atlas
151. Heavy Metal
152. Transformers
153. Soylent Green
154. Timecop
155. Alphaville
156. Hugo (needs a 2nd)
157. Sphere
158. THX-1138
159. War of the Worlds (2005)
160. Cocoon

[WeDealInLead]

How 'bout some Verne in place of Hugo, either The Journey to the Centre of the Earth or 20,000 Leagues? Whichever fits the s.f. definition more. Not necessarily stunning movies by today's standards but still classic.

[mae]

So how about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Back to the Future 2 instead of Hugo and Transformers?

[webstar1000]

So how about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Back to the Future 2 instead of Hugo and Transformers?

Robots from space??? Transformers gotta be there

[WeDealInLead]

Hindsight yadda yadda... Watchmen and V for Vendetta would've made for solid entries.

[mae]

The list of would-be nominees can get quite long, unfortunately there has to be a cutoff. If we can replace Hugo with BTTF2 and keep Transformers, that would be great. We cannot seriously have a Top 160 list with BTTF1 and 3 yet no 2...

[fernandito]

It's up to KDog what he wants to replace it with. Let me get him in here.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

So how about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Back to the Future 2 instead of Hugo and Transformers?

Robots from space??? Transformers gotta be there

Well, it looks like Transformers just got seconded and I am all for Tetsuo staying, but can someone please second Hugo so that it can be included as it is an absolutely brilliant steampunk film, maybe not entirely Sci-fi but enough to allow entry.

It is so much better than Transformers after all, which has been allowed.

[SirFolio16]

I'll second Hugo

[mae]

[fernandito]

Excellent! Well there we have it!

Spoiler:

FINALLY

Let me get started on sorting the groups. Shit, might even get something up as early as this afternoon.

[mae]

I'll second Hugo

Not sci-fi.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

I'll second Hugo

You're an absolute star!!!!

[Tommy]

Excellent! Well there we have it!

Spoiler:

FINALLY

Let me get started on sorting the groups. Shit, might even get something up as early as this afternoon.

[divemaster]

I'll second Hugo

Not sci-fi.

Perhaps we should re-name the contest to "Best Sci-Fi movie or any random movie of another genre that just happens to have some element commonly associated with sci-fi, no matter how tangential." That would apply to quite a few entries!

[fernandito]

Yeah, maybe we should.