YAHOO users are idiots

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Japher
My top 3?

Dune

Pitch Black

Independence Day

Independence Day????????????

[One_more_turn]

Jurassic Park was stupid, too. Spielberg apparently underestimated the power of human arsenal and deviousness.

The best way for humans to kill big animals has always been to start a FOREST FIRE!

If you know T-Rex is tough, then why don't you bring some 50 caliber AA machine guns, RPGs, or anti-tank proximity mines? As for the T-Rex cage, dig deep moat and put some water in!

Yeah, the raptors are wonderful close-quarter warriors, and that's why you need to clear cut your residence's surroundings and install some nasty barbed wires at its premises.

If all the above fails, at least start a bonfire in your house. I guess those stupid Hollywood urbanites forgot all those basics.

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Independence Day?

Those aliens must be running MS Windows on their ships.

Roland Emmerich's plots are so illogical and yet so predictable. This guy is the ultimate big on effects, little of brain director.

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TRON was a wonderful concept and a great movie.

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Where is the 2001: Space Odyssey?

I got to agree with the thread starter.

[Verto]

Originally posted by One_more_turn
Jurassic Park was stupid, too. Spielberg apparently underestimated the power of human arsenal and deviousness.

The best way for humans to kill big animals has always been to start a FOREST FIRE!

If you know T-Rex is tough, then why don't you bring some 50 caliber AA machine guns, RPGs, or anti-tank proximity mines? As for the T-Rex cage, dig deep moat and put some water in!

Yeah, the raptors are wonderful close-quarter warriors, and that's why you need to clear cut your residence's surroundings and install some nasty barbed wires at its premises.

If all the above fails, at least start a bonfire in your house. I guess those stupid Hollywood urbanites forgot all those basics.

Sounds like you've got a problem with Crichton, not Spielberg.

[Verto]

Also, for a bunch of nerds, some of you have come up with some pretty awful lists.

[Dry]

Originally posted by One_more_turn
Planet of Apes was a lousy PETA imagination, imho.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/planetoftheapesgreatapesx19x04x04

In 1962, the publication of Pierre Boule's novel La Planète des Singes caused something of a sensation in his native France . Not because the novel – in which three astronauts crash-land on a planet populated by intelligent apes – was a dramatically different science fiction fable with a seam of socio-political satire running throughout, but because, at the time, Boulle was considered one of France's most gifted writers, having authored such ‘serious' novels as Face of a Hero , A Noble Profession and The Bridge on the River Kwai – the film adaptation of which had won him an Academy Award in 1957 – all rooted firmly in the real world. Boulle's single, extraordinary idea – that of an “upside-down” world where apes were a highly evolved species, and men little more than their pets – was triggered by a visit to the zoo, where the apes' mimicry of human mannerisms set him thinking about the relationships between the two species.

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The greatest alteration, however, was the relocation of the book's action from an alien planet with its own simian civilisation, to a devastated, post-holocaust Earth of the far future, two thousand years after a nuclear war has wiped almost all traces of mankind from the face of the planet, allowing simians to become the dominant race.

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Jacobs further claimed that Boulle thought the twist was “more inventive than his own ending, and wished that he had thought of it when he wrote the book.” Boulle remembered it differently: “I disliked, somewhat, the ending that was used. Personally, I preferred my own.”

[Provost Harrison]

I think Minority Report isn't a bad candidate for the list somewhere either...perhaps that's just me.

And Starship Troopers? HELL NO!

[GePap]

I am always amazed, though not confused, by how little love 2001 gets, even though it is generally the #1 or #2 sci fi movie in any poll like this of movie critics (with the original Star Wars being the other likely suspect).

[Ben Kenobi]

Wow. Terrible list. They have ESOTSM but not the Truman Show which came first?

I still haven't seen blade runner. Is it really that good?

[Verto]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
I still haven't seen blade runner. Is it really that good?

The general storyline is good, but I can't stand the setting.

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Thanks for the correction, Verto.

[rah]

While I also thought that blade runner was a decent movie, I've never understood why so many people think it's one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever.

For the older movies, I like forbidden planet and the day the earth stood still.

tron was chessy but I still think it's a classic.

Starship trooper and independence day don't belong on any list if we're talking good films.

Fifth element is one of my favorites (funny) but I wouldn't consider it one of the top one.

2001 belongs easily.
Total Recall belongs just for the concept.
One of the first two terminators belong. Feel free to argue which.
One of the first two Aliens belong. Feel free to argue which. 1 was probably one of the best horror movies and 2 was probably one of the best action movies.

Enemy Mine was a little on the cheesy side but another classic.

Galaxy Quest, another cheesy but a classic.

Gee, I'm starting to agree with KRILL.. I guess he has good taste.

All time my #1 ALIEN

[CrONoS]

@BK
Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) is worth watching!