The last time I took a survey, I got screwed over.
A few years back I participated in a survey for my cable company and it asked what specialty channels I liked. IE: Being a fervent NASCAR fan, I admitted to The Speed Channel and a few others. A year later my favorite channels were on their own special programming tier that I had to pay extra for.
After talking to a lot of people back then about that survey and what they told me, it seems all the survey did was tell the cable company what channels to charge extra for. Thanks Mr. Cable company. I’ll remember that one.
With that said: What do Blade Runner, Firefly and 1984 all have in common?
They topped their respective categories in a survey titled “Visions for Tomorrow” that The Sci-Fi Channel conducted asking site visitors to report in on their favorite movies, sci-fi shows and books.
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The survey tabulated approximately 20,000 votes and the top notches for film went to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, the top TV spot went to Joss Whedon’s Firefly and the book with the top honors was George Orwell’s 1984.
My faith in the fandom of sci-fi has been renewed and as you are about to see, it was a healthy looking set of top 10’s that came across the results:
An interesting observation is that only one film jumped across categories, and that was 2001: A Space Odyssey, which ranked 4th in films and 8th in books. (Shouldn’t that be some bonus ranking?)
The complete list of the results are:
Top 10 Films to Watch
- Blade Runner
- The Matrix
- The Terminator
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Jurassic Park
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Children of Men
- Armageddon
Top 10 Television Series to Watch
- Firefly
- Battlestar Galactica (2004)
- The X-Files
- Heroes
- Stargate: SG-1
- Doctor Who
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Top 10 Books to Read
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
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The special edition is what I have. Just checked.Got it cheap too, £4.99 I think.
Good call on Metropolis. They did an anime version of that which was really good.
Speaking of which Akira and Ghost in the Shell would be up there too for me, but depends on whether you like anime or not.
790, of course… I own the “Alien Quadrilogy” DVD set.
Vic
(This took me 6 min to think up Hollywood dorks).
^
Escape from the United States….
Kurt Russell is back as Snake Plisken….!
Blamed for the breakdown of the world-wide power grid, Snake must escape from the US Forces that pursue him all the way down to Mexico.
Once Snake makes his way into Mexico he meets up with “past” associates, only this time they have insidious plans to invade the crippled US and destroy San Diego’s navel bases.
Snake was helped by some “friends” in San Diego escape…
Who’s side will Snake choose?
Directed by the master John Carpenter.
Rated R!
I would rather see that idea than a remake of a masterpiece.
Brolin, take off, you Hoser!
Oh sorry about that I meant to type that Escape from the US idea on the “Screen Rant Weekend News wrap up”
Wow that was stupid of me. ;-(
Vic,
In regards to Event Horizon, I never got the movie until I did a little background reading on what it actually is because in the movie you get the dumbed-down Hollywood version, some experts beleive that th energy field at an Event Horizon is so great that your thoughts can become reality…SO I guess the movie is really about how our thoughts control us and why that is a bad thing…A lot of the crew in the movie have bad experiences on that ship because a lot of them have latent guilt over what happened to the first crew and it manifests itself in the form of evil incarnations of their thoughts. I think it was brilliantly done but I would love to see a version with Homer Simpson letting his thoughts control the universe…Instead of worm hole we would get a…donut hole of course….
Cheers
790
I have read all of King’s books at least twice and some I read every other year like the Stand and IT( One exception noted below)..I really like the Dark Tower Series up to and including Wizards and Glass…Just after that book King had that horrible accident where he was nearly killed by the minivan(I think)..after that I got a lot of bitter from his writing and things just weren’t the same .. His writing style really changed and that nostalgia from books like Stand and It was lost to me..I was really disappointed by the last three books in the Dark Tower series and in fact to modify what I said above I still haven’t read the DARK TOWER(book 7) because of my utter and complete disappoinment with books 5 & 6. I have read the expanded version of the Stand and actually found it an improvement over the original 1970’s release.
Cheers
Stand, the classic tale of good vs evil. So Greenknight where do you think Capp Tripps ended up at the end ?
Have you read Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon? Sheesh that’s just as good some people think its better than the Stand. Instead of a pandemic its a nuclear war aftermath story that will blow your mind.
That’s too bad about King, I did hear about him but I havnt read much lately. The last book I read was The Taking, by Koontz.
I wonder what King went thru, did he see a light or something change him in the hospital ?
Event Horizon, had one of the most chilling scenes I’ve seen in a long time. The scene where they playback the ships logs. Man that was some intense stuff. So intense that I don’t need to see that again. =-O
Books are really hard for me because their is so many. I think if I would have
chosen one it wouldn’t have been a novel but rather an analysis of the genre and that would be “Microworlds” by Stanislaw Lem. Probably would throw in “Movie Megacheese” by Mike Nelson to boot. Megacheese has a review of “Event Horizon” by the way. I would apologize on Mikes behalf, For the fans, but it wouldn’t change anything. If indeed SciFi intends to use the compilation for retread forget any of your favs that were expensive. Star Wars, block buster category. SciFi would spring for something in the “12 Monkeys”,
“Paycheck” category with smaller stars.
I guess I would have dropped “Brazil” in the bottom of my 10 movies. Gilliam had me rolling in the aisle with that one, and who says SciFi and Fantasy can’t be smart, married, and fun? LEXX anyone, 790 can be forgiven almost any sin for putting that series on the roster. Watched a couple of Episodes yesterday in fact; “Norb”+”791″. Sadly the Science Fiction series I like most today isn’t live but anime “Planetes” and “Ghost In The Shell SAC.” Both have a harder Science feel to them and have layers of complexity.
Thanks alot “The Old Man” I really appreciate the kind words !!!!
LEXX is my favorite tv show of all time!
I hope more people check it out.
If you have any questions ???? Please ask away.
790
When I first started reading King’s the Dark Tower series I was very excited at the prospects of what the future books were going to bring to the King universe. I read; before the Internet became the medium for discussions like we have here at Screen Rant; that King himslef had stated that he was going to tie together a lot of loose ends from his books and we would see the reappearence of a lot of his characters in the Dark Tower series..CHaracters that had been killed or sacrificed themselves or had played a huge role in his books…A few of the characters he mentioned were NIck from the Stand, the Priest from Salem’s Lot, Ralph from Insomnia, Stan from IT and countless others who fans of his universe would recognize immediately…There was going to be the ultimate showdown of good vs evil and the Dark Tower Book 7 was going to be were it all culminated…Now after King has his accident I wasn’t getting the picture that this was all going where he had initially said it would so like I said before I stopped reading the books and have never read THe Dark Tower…I thought that Captain Tripps would have made an appearance in the Dark Tower somehwere to play a pivotal role but like I said I never finished. Randal Flagg is there as he was in the STand so maybe if I ever finish it I will find out. Have you read it? If so how did you think it ended without spoilers please…
Sorry Greenknight333 but I didn’t read any of the Dark Tower series. In fact back in the day before all these distractions I read more Dean Koontz than King. Sorry I can’t help ya on
that.
On Tripps I meant where did you think landed at the end of The Stand.
Since he’s a fallen Angel he knows no afterlife so he was just dumped on that beach at the end.
I remember when I was younger I thought that was a lame ending for his charcter.
I didn’t realise King had his own version of the Avengers going….
(Extra stuff).
I did hear that the guy that hit King died about 2 years after the accident and I think King even went to his funeral.
The guy was very depressed that he hit Stephen King and they said that he slid into a depression and died of a disease.
King meanwhile, seems like he’s lost the spark?
if I had his ear I would tell him to write some sci-fi stories.
790
I think he hit one of the alternate reality threads that King said all emanated from the Dark Tower..Kind of like the DC Crisis on Infinite Earths..I Thought for sure he was going to turn up in the Dark Tower Series as a helper to Flagg but like I said I haven’t read the final book…
Of course !!!
Gheesh I should have figured that out myself from your last thread. (Idiot 790 !!!!).
Yeah your totally right on Greenknight333. Thanks for that info.
Closure….ahhh.
My god, how can that be an accurate list without
Farscape?!
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