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chitown · 09-09-2009, 02:56 PM

Best - The first 3 Star Wars and Aliens.

Worse - The rest of the Start Wars movies.

shaggersback · 09-09-2009, 03:16 PM

My Brother , (in Aus) is a mad keen sci fi fanatic..
District Nine was released there a while ago and he gave it the two thumbs up , Best SCi fi movie ...or any movie it would seem he has seen for many years.
Will be seeing it tomorrow night and give a report ..

kmart · 14-09-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by shaggersback

My Brother , (in Aus) is a mad keen sci fi fanatic..
District Nine was released there a while ago and he gave it the two thumbs up , Best SCi fi movie ...or any movie it would seem he has seen for many years.
Will be seeing it tomorrow night and give a report ..

You got yer report in yet, m8?

Looking forward to seeing this film hopefully this week.

shaggersback · 14-09-2009, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by shaggersback

My Brother , (in Aus) is a mad keen sci fi fanatic..
District Nine was released there a while ago and he gave it the two thumbs up , Best SCi fi movie ...or any movie it would seem he has seen for many years.
Will be seeing it tomorrow night and give a report ..

You got yer report in yet, m8?

Looking forward to seeing this film hopefully this week.

It was listed as a Preview showing last Thursday but ..... looks like this Thursday night is a goer. Hope its as good as it sounds.
Would be hard to beat the best * Aliens *.
So many 'bad, ones out there i wouldnt know where to start.

Butterfly · 09-09-2009, 03:21 PM

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Blade Runner by Ridley Scott

Definitely, I have all 3 versions, never gets old

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Dune by David Lynch is the worst of all time.

I disagree, it wasn't bad per se, it's a cult classic. Very original at the time, and still today. I recently watched the original version on DVD not remastered and it looked like crap. I have recently got from a friend the new HD re-mastered version and I have been told it was night and day and will just add a new dimension to the movie. Lynch himself hated that movie, but I think it was probably his best !!!

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Aliens vs Predator

AVP is Gold !!! best of the series

Muadib · 09-09-2009, 10:32 PM

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Dune by David Lynch is the worst of all time.

I disagree, it wasn't bad per se, it's a cult classic. Very original at the time, and still today. I recently watched the original version on DVD not remastered and it looked like crap. I have recently got from a friend the new HD re-mastered version and I have been told it was night and day and will just add a new dimension to the movie. Lynch himself hated that movie, but I think it was probably his best !!!

Being a HUGE David Lynch fan and obviously Dune, I was sorely disappointed in this first attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's classic novel to celluloid... No way you can compress the original Dune novel to 2 - 3 hours of film... The SciFi Channel finally did it justice in 2000 as a mini-series and is highly recommended...

David Lynch's series Twin Peaks is still relevant today... I occassionally still watch it for the weird factor...

nidhogg · 10-09-2009, 09:10 AM

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Being a HUGE David Lynch fan and obviously Dune, I was sorely disappointed in this first attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's classic novel to celluloid......

If I recall correctly I saw that years ago, and it was the biggest load of unmitigated crap ever.

Funny think about Herbert though, he seems to be one of those authors that publish as much after they are dead as they did before...I stopped following the books a good while ago. The first one was awesome, second good, third ok and then it started descending into sludge...

Maybe we should start a second thread about best and worst sci fi/fan books.

mrben · 10-09-2009, 09:18 AM

Best-Predator 1
Mad Max - That must come under sci fi.
ET

Worst- Close Encounters.

Muadib · 14-09-2009, 09:14 PM

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Funny think about Herbert though, he seems to be one of those authors that publish as much after they are dead as they did before...I stopped following the books a good while ago. The first one was awesome, second good, third ok and then it started descending into sludge...

Maybe we should start a second thread about best and worst sci fi/fan books.

Frank wrote several novels in the Dune series, which started as a trilogy... The story line grew to 7 novels... Unfortunately, Frank passed before complete... His son, Brian Herbert has continued the series and extended it with both prequel novels and follow ups to the series with another ghost-writer...

The entire series and background OP can be found at:

The Official Dune Website

tuferguson · 16-09-2009, 05:57 PM

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Funny think about Herbert though, he seems to be one of those authors that publish as much after they are dead as they did before...I stopped following the books a good while ago. The first one was awesome, second good, third ok and then it started descending into sludge...

Maybe we should start a second thread about best and worst sci fi/fan books.

Frank wrote several novels in the Dune series, which started as a trilogy... The story line grew to 7 novels... Unfortunately, Frank passed before complete... His son, Brian Herbert has continued the series and extended it with both prequel novels and follow ups to the series with another ghost-writer...

The entire series and background OP can be found at:

The Official Dune Website

the son should be ashamed - the sequels and prequels are nothing better than average.

nidhogg · 09-09-2009, 03:26 PM

Not the best, but Mars Attack was pretty funny.....

Butterfly · 09-09-2009, 03:28 PM

^ that was very good actually,

Fuzzy Bob · 09-09-2009, 03:30 PM

Good: Welcome to Blood City
Bad: Zardoz

nedwalk · 09-09-2009, 06:06 PM

i enjoyed zardoz, i wonder though did shaun connery, another favourite was the fifth element,mmmm mila jivovavitch

slackula · 09-09-2009, 10:24 PM

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mmmm mila jivovavitch

She just went full frontal for Purple magazine, and she looks great for her age. I can't post picks but teh googles should help you find it. Stunning.

One of my favourite sci-fi sleeper films is Sunshine by Danny Boyle.

Butterfly · 09-09-2009, 11:28 PM

^ didn't read the novel, and not surprised it was impossible to fit it in such a movie. That said, I still think it was original work, great costume, great dialogues and a lot of interesting dark scenes

nedwalk · 13-09-2009, 03:25 PM

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Close Encounters.

i nearly had one of them with an ugly girl who lives in a bus last night, thank fuck i was'nt that drunk

Nietzsche · 14-09-2009, 05:44 PM

Best - Star Wars.

Worst - that Scientology movie, Battlefield Earth, or something like that.

I've never seen Blade Runner. After seeing the votes on here, I might give it a go today.

Jesus Jones · 17-09-2009, 12:01 AM

Just returned from watching 'District 9' and unless it's a build up to a 2nd film, then it's total bobbins, and for me one of the worst films so far. Wank, no other word for it.

ItsRobsLife · 17-09-2009, 02:15 AM

Westworld. Made in the 70's it was the nuts back in the day and still great today.

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