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Boardsies Decide... The Best Sci Fi Movie... EVER

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  • 20-02-2020 6:30pm
    #1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Whilst you're all diligently voting on the best Song Ever, I'm going to divert course from music for a while and take you all back to the movies.

    How it works....


    I want you all to nominate 5 of your favourite Sci Fi movies via PM to me.

    I will collate them and run them off in a knockout tournament to determine which Sci Fi movie Boardsies deem to be the best ever.

    There's no closing date as of yet, I will run the tournament in the coming weeks likely in the evening time.

    So are you a Star Wars or Star Trek fan?

    Alien or Aliens?

    How about The Matrix?

    Is Love Actually really a Sci Fi movie?

    Let's find out.

    Note: I will not be removing any movie from the contest on genre grounds - that is up for you, the voters to decide.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,007 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Necro wrote: »
    Note: I will not be removing any movie from the contest on genre grounds - that is up for you, the voters to decide.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Necro wrote: »
    So are you a Star Wars or Star Trek fan?

    Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, at best its Space Fantasy, but more importantly its basic and just not a very good film franchise... So best just to leave it out of this...

    This has been a Public Service Announcement


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,444 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Did you know that in addition to being a Christmas movie, Die Hard is also sci-fi movie? :p:pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭rtron


    I wonder if any scifi movies are not scifi anymore?


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Love actually is my favourite,movie about alien powers taking over the world

    I'll have to think about the others


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Necro wrote: »
    Is Love Actually really a Sci Fi movie?

    There are a few space cadets in it alright.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Done and Done!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,007 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Done and Done!

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    Best shark film will need its own tournament!
    Sharknado is good, but it's no Megashark vs Giant Octopus ;)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Best shark film will need its own tournament!
    Sharknado is good, but it's no Megashark vs Giant Octopus ;)

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    What about Jaws 2 though?

    In all seriousness Best Shark Movie (or even Best Over The Top Animal Attack Movie) would be a bit of craic.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,312 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, at best its Space Fantasy, but more importantly its basic and just not a very good film franchise... So best just to leave it out of this...

    This has been a Public Service Announcement

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  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,312 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Best shark film will need its own tournament!
    Sharknado is good, but it's no Megashark vs Giant Octopus ;)

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    I see your Megashark vs Giant Octopus and raise you Sand Sharks

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,007 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Zaph wrote: »
    I see your Megashark vs Giant Octopus and raise you Sand Sharks

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    OK, I'm all in - Ghost Shark!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Zaph wrote: »
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    Nope. Whether you like the films or not, Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, because Sci-Fi needs two things Science and Fiction. Star Wars has Fiction, but there is zero Science involved anywhere in there. Its simply Fantasy set in space. Its no more Sci-Fi than Harry Potter or Twilight are.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,312 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    OK, I'm all in - Ghost Shark!

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    I'd forgotten about Ghost Shark, I just can't beat that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,932 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    In , for my sins :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,367 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Please tell me all of those shark gifs are from actual movies?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Collie D wrote: »
    Please tell me all of those shark gifs are from actual movies?

    Every. Single. One.

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,367 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Every. Single. One.

    :D

    Fantastic!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,367 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    I resisted the urge to say

    Fin-tastic


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Down with this sort of thing.

    Had to do plenty of googling as Sci Fi is definitely not my genre but did come up with 5 nominations. Oddly though a much bigger fan of Sci Fi shows...plain weird.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mehaffey1 wrote:
    Had to do plenty of googling as Sci Fi is definitely not my genre but did come up with 5 nominations. Oddly though a much bigger fan of Sci Fi shows...plain weird.

    You actually picked two movies I myself would have nominated, so cheers for that :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Aw I can't join in the fun. I've never seen a sci-fi movie!


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    lassykk wrote: »
    Aw I can't join in the fun. I've never seen a sci-fi movie!

    Your homework will be to watch every single film that gets nominated by the rest of us and appears in the tournament.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Your homework will be to watch every single film that gets nominated by the rest of us and appears in the tournament.

    Sounds like a form of torture :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    In and yes one of them is not your routine Sci Fi but if Die Hard is Xmas then a film about a dystopian future made in 1971 is certainly Sci Fi


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,007 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    This is tough. I think I've narrowed it down to 14

    But that's with 13 on a "so obvious someone else will nominate it, right?" list. And not including all the killer sharks...


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    46 individual movies submitted thus far.

    11 have multiple nominations.

    Liking the look of this contest already :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,007 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Necro wrote: »
    46 individual movies submitted thus far

    Only 46? So you're saying you'd like the next person to submit 27, right?

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Only 46? So you're saying you'd like the next person to submit 27, right?

    We shall see :)

    If I need extra recommendations I'll let ye know :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    The Thing


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