Predator and Vanilla Sky.
Five Million Years to Earth aka The Quatermass Pit
Alphaville
Total Recall
Vanilla Sky
Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back
The Creeping Unknown aka The Quatermass Experiment
Woman In the Moon
Predator
Soylent Green
Ghostbusters
Predator and Vanilla Sky.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Predator is one of the movies I vividly remember the movie poster hanging in my parents' movie store. I hadn't seen the film yet, but I just thought it looked so cool. To this day, it's still one of my favorite movie posters. I give my parents so much shit now about not saving all those great movies posters. I think I only have a handful of them. I was probably the only 7 year old to have a Platoon poster in his room growing up.
Check out my website: PopCulturedwithMovieMike
Add me on Letterboxd: https://www.letterboxd.com/MovieMike80/
I first saw Predator on afternoon TV when I was a kid after an airing of WWF Superstars.
Like Counter Culture Shock on Facebook
Thirty votes (great turnout) but still just one (mine) for Woman In the Moon, Fritz Lang's second sci-fi masterpiece...
doubtlessly
if I watched TR now, I would shrug through the first fifteen minutes, yawn through another half-hour, and sleep through the rest. But it was the first film of this kind I ever saw, and it holds a lot of nostalgic value for me. The era, the collapse of communism, the first video parlors (I wrote about them somewhere) and so on.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We haven't had that many brand new films nominated though, only two from 2014, but they're both instant classics.
Almost all of the heavy hitters from each group have been films that are more than two decades old. Aliens, Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future...
Whatchoo talkin' bout Mike
The top four films in this group are all from the '80s.
And the bottom films here are older than the 80s.
Sorry, though. I think there's some truth to the point as a general rule, (though you'll recall that I also dismissed it applying in the specific case of our Best Director tourney when it was suggested that C. Nolan made it to second place because that happened to be the year Inception came out) however - I confess I'm just showing some lingering bitterness that Days of Future Past: The Movie was nominated inevitably even though we deliberately left out others which are no more or less sci-fi and no more or less classic.
I should try to get back on topic.
Um, ironically, I feel the Total Recall remake is underappreciated. That's not a great film, either, but I expected a major flop and it actually turned out to be a production you can take seriously more easily than the original.
Pretty crazy that two great classics (Alphaville and Woman in the Moon) get a combined three votes.
They're just less well known. I've seen thousands and thousands of films and watch about 150 a year and I haven't seen them yet. My taste and the taste of many of us here far exceed what are the normal standard for mainstream movie goers, but that doesn't mean that movies like the two you just listed are going to bee seen by most people.
The great thing about a tournament like this is that more people will seek some of these films out now.
Check out my website: PopCulturedwithMovieMike
Add me on Letterboxd: https://www.letterboxd.com/MovieMike80/
The following films will be moving on to the next round
Vanilla Sky
Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back
Total Recall
Predator
Soylent Green
Ghostbusters