Hey I just thought of something,was 2009 one of the best years for Sci-Fi ever?

[a pretty girl is like]

Team Mariner FTW!

[SJP]

Just to say, Waterworld didn't make back its money domestically (it cost $150 mil to make), but it did make $88 mil, which is comparatively decent money for something that isn't Waterworld.  It doesn't mean it was GOOD, but a lot of people still went to see it regardless, so by technicality it would still be POPULAR.  And even infamy is a type of popularity, isn't it?

It is sort of funny, though, how it isn't until you go back and look, how history isn't exactly what you thought it was.  I never would've thought that every year there were that many either critical or commercial (undeservedly or not) successes.

[Doctor Who?]

Yeah I know,I was shocked too.

[mrbasehart]

Just to say, Waterworld didn't make back its money domestically (it cost $150 mil to make), but it did make $88 mil, which is comparatively decent money for something that isn't Waterworld.  It doesn't mean it was GOOD, but a lot of people still went to see it regardless, so by technicality it would still be POPULAR.  And even infamy is a type of popularity, isn't it?

It is sort of funny, though, how it isn't until you go back and look, how history isn't exactly what you thought it was.  I never would've thought that every year there were that many either critical or commercial (undeservedly or not) successes.

It also made $175 million foreign, taking its gross to $264 million.  I don't know if, along with marketing and distribution, it made a profit, but that's certainly not the bomb it was perceived as back in the day.

[dalem]

Stealing MrBaseheart's list of scifi movies, starring each I've seen.  Doublestar means I saw it in the theater:

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1980 - **Empire Strikes Back, **Flash Gordon, **Superman II and Altered States.

1981 - *Mad Max, *Time Bandits, *Escape from New York, and Scanners.

1982 - **Blade Runner, **Star Trek II, **E.T., and **Tron.

1983 - **Return of the Jedi, **Krull, *Videodrome, and Twilight Zone: The Movie.

1984 - *Terminator, **Dune, **Repo Man, *2010, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Star Man.

1985 - **Back to the Future, **Brazil, **Cocoon, *Mad Max 3, and The Quiet Earth.

1986 - **Aliens, **The Fly, **Short Circuit, **Star Trek IV.

1987 - **Predator, **Robocop, **Innerspace, and Spaceballs.

1988 - *They Live, Alien Nation, Phantasm II, and The Wizard of Speed and Time.

1989 - **Back to the Future II, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Abyss, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

1990 - **Total Recall, Back to the Future III, **Tremors, and Robocop 2.

1991 - **Terminator 2, **Star Trek VI, **The Rocketeer, and **Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

1992 - **Alien 3, U**niversal Soldier, **Lawnmower Man, and Fortress.

1993 - **Jurassic Park, **Demolition Man, **Coneheads, and Fire in the Sky.

1994 - **Stargate, **Time Cop, **Star Trek: Generations, and No Escape.

1995 - **12 Monkeys, **Waterworld, *Species, and Strange Days.

1996 - **Independence Day, **Mars Attacks!, **Star Trek: First Contact, and **MST3k: The Movie.

1997 - **Starship Troopers, **The Fifth Element, **Men in Black, **Contact and Gattaca.

1998 - **Armageddon, **Dark City, **Deep Impact, and *Pi.

1999 - **The Matrix, **Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, **Galaxy Quest, and Bicentennial Man.

2000 - **X-Men, **Pitch Black, The Cell, and **Mission to Mars.

2001 - Donnie Darko, AI, **Planet of the Apes, and Jurassic Park III.

2002 - **Resident Evil, Minority Report, **Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, and Equilibrium.

2003 - **The Matrix Reloaded, **The Matrix Revolutions, *Terminator 3, **X-Men 2.

2004 - I, Robot, *Chronicles of Riddick, **AvP, and Primer.

2005 - **Serenity, The Island, **War of the Worlds, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

2006 - Children of Men, The Fountain, Deja Vu, and A Scanner Darkly.

2007 - *Transformers, Resident Evil 3, *I Am Legend, and *Sunshine.

2008 - **Iron Man, Wall.E, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Doomsday.
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Don't know what it means, but there it is.

-dale

[Doctor Who?]

Just to say, Waterworld didn't make back its money domestically (it cost $150 mil to make), but it did make $88 mil, which is comparatively decent money for something that isn't Waterworld.  It doesn't mean it was GOOD, but a lot of people still went to see it regardless, so by technicality it would still be POPULAR.  And even infamy is a type of popularity, isn't it?

It is sort of funny, though, how it isn't until you go back and look, how history isn't exactly what you thought it was.  I never would've thought that every year there were that many either critical or commercial (undeservedly or not) successes.

It also made $175 million foreign, taking its gross to $264 million.  I don't know if, along with marketing and distribution, it made a profit, but that's certainly not the bomb it was perceived as back in the day.

I think what happened was that(As I remember any way)it had a huge marketing push that was pretty much saying it was going to be the next Star Wars,so people got sick of it before they even saw it and then when it wasn't the biggest hit ever it was seen as failure.  I remember there were a ton of toy when I was a kid,and that either I or any of my friends wanted them

[bratpop]

I guess it depends on whether you consider Avatar science fiction, or just a stupid cartoon made to cheat the largest possible audience out of their money.

But essentially, no. A lack of decent sci-fi for a decade doesn't make a year with three decent movies the best year for sci-fi ever.

[ScottotD]

I also think last year was a great year for Sci-Fi (although I'd champion '82 as well)