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

Necro · 2020-02-20 17:30:29

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…

20-02-2020 6:30pm

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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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#2 20-02-2020 6:36pm

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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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#3 20-02-2020 6:41pm

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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

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#4 20-02-2020 7:03pm

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

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#5 20-02-2020 7:05pm

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I wonder if any scifi movies are not scifi anymore?

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#6 20-02-2020 7:07pm

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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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#7 20-02-2020 7:09pm

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Necro wrote: »

Is Love Actually really a Sci Fi movie?

There are a few space cadets in it alright.

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#8 20-02-2020 8:50pm

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Done and Done!

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#9 20-02-2020 9:16pm

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Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Done and Done!

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

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#10 20-02-2020 9:36pm

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Electric Nitwit wrote: »

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

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.

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#11 20-02-2020 10:11pm

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Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

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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#12 20-02-2020 10:14pm

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Electric Nitwit wrote: »

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

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

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#13 20-02-2020 10:18pm

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Zaph wrote: »

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

OK, I'm all in - Ghost Shark!

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#14 20-02-2020 10:22pm

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Zaph wrote: »

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.

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#15 20-02-2020 10:22pm

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Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OK, I'm all in - Ghost Shark!

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

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#16 20-02-2020 10:24pm

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In , for my sins

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#17 20-02-2020 10:25pm

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

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#18 20-02-2020 10:26pm

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Collie D wrote: »

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

Every. Single. One.

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#19 20-02-2020 10:27pm

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Every. Single. One.

Fantastic!!!!

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#20 20-02-2020 10:27pm

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I resisted the urge to say

Fin-tastic

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#21 20-02-2020 10:58pm

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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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#22 20-02-2020 11:00pm

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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

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#23 21-02-2020 2:37pm

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

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#24 21-02-2020 2:42pm

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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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#25 21-02-2020 2:47pm

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Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

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

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#26 21-02-2020 4:04pm

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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

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#27 21-02-2020 4:08pm

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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...

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#28 21-02-2020 6:19pm

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46 individual movies submitted thus far.

11 have multiple nominations.

Liking the look of this contest already

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#29 21-02-2020 8:48pm

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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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#30 21-02-2020 8:52pm

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Electric Nitwit wrote:

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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#31 21-02-2020 8:55pm

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The Thing

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#32 21-02-2020 8:58pm

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This was tough, my top two were locks but it was hard to put together the other 3, left some gems off

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#33 22-02-2020 10:13am

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Up to 52 entries now, I'll likely freeze nominations at 64 and we can have a knock out from there, I think 128 Sci Fi movies is getting into errrr... scraping barrels range?

So still time to submit if you already haven't

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#34 22-02-2020 12:30pm

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And... we have 64!!

However, I'm away this weekend.

So if you haven't got your entries in you have until Monday at 9am to do so.

What I'll do is work a qualifier round into the game, which likely won't start until the middle of the week anyways.

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#35 24-02-2020 10:09am

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Nominations are now closed.

I'll now spend the next few days collating the info and getting my spreadsheet ready for the tournament proper.

Likely next weekend, but potentially sooner.

Watch this space

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#36 24-02-2020 1:42pm

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Predator, Alien or Aliens is going to win. Skip the rest.

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#37 28-02-2020 8:55pm

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Tournament Thread is now live

And will start tomorrow!

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#38 29-02-2020 12:20am

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Tremors ,or is that a monster movie

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