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Title: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: AramFingel on August 16, 2008, 10:42:44 AM
Some good ones in here, but damn...Serenity is at like #30 while Transformers makes #2?

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/970/yahoo-users-toprated-scifi-films#photo0
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Relaxing Dragon on August 16, 2008, 10:55:43 AM
Seriously? Iron Man at number one? Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie and all that, but number one? Ridiculous.

The lack of The Thing on that list also brings me no end of discomfort.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: boingo2000 on August 16, 2008, 10:57:55 AM
So... Iron Man is the best Science Fiction movie ever, and 2001: A Space Odyssey doesn't even rate a mention....

Excuse me, I've got to go bang my head off a wall for a while.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: BBQ Platypus on August 16, 2008, 11:59:37 AM
This list fails.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: AramFingel on August 16, 2008, 12:06:43 PM
Yeah, half the movies on the list barely rate being called science fiction.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: BBQ Platypus on August 16, 2008, 12:08:12 PM
Frankly, my mind is still trying to recover from Transformers at #3. :o
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: ninjacat11 on August 16, 2008, 01:33:58 PM
Part of the problem is that it's user-rated. As a Yahoo! Movies member, I can tell you guys for a fact that the user ratings on that site are absolutely horrid.

To put things into perspective, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl is one of the highest-rated movies on the site.

And don't even try with the reviews.

Still, this list is crap.
Why is Alien below Spider-Man 2?
Why is Aliens below Transformers?
And why is Iron Man #1? Iron Man was good, but it's no Aliens.

Why don't 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Thing, and Blade Runner even squeeze out a mention?

Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Natureboy on August 16, 2008, 04:09:41 PM
The worse one is The Incredibles at #12.

What preschool did they perform this survey at?
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Nick on August 16, 2008, 04:37:04 PM
I don't think I can add anything except "wow". This list is the greatest pile of fail ever conceived in the idiocy strewn bowels of the interwebs.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: anais.jude on August 16, 2008, 05:28:48 PM
how is Aliens better than Alien?
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: ninjacat11 on August 16, 2008, 06:25:25 PM
Quote from: anais.jude on August 16, 2008, 05:28:48 PM
how is Aliens better than Alien?
Because it has more explosions?
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Tripe on August 16, 2008, 07:24:31 PM
And the word Bitch is uttered by a woman, that makes it like well cool.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: ninjacat11 on August 16, 2008, 07:53:10 PM
Quote from: TripeHoundRedux on August 16, 2008, 07:24:31 PM
And the word Bitch is uttered by a woman, that makes it like well cool.
Exactly.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck on August 17, 2008, 11:59:20 AM
Quote from: Natureboy on August 16, 2008, 04:09:41 PM
What preschool did they perform this survey at?

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Seriously.....a "Top Sci-fi Movie" list without 2001 or Brazil?!?!?!?!?!?
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: ScottotD on August 17, 2008, 05:20:15 PM
any list of anything not made by me is wrong.... and even then I'll probably change my mind later.  :)
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Cosmic Muse on August 18, 2008, 04:50:59 AM
It's abundantly clear they based tis list not on real popularity but on box office figures.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Movies "Top" SciFi flicks...yeck
Post by: Doctor Who? on August 18, 2008, 05:48:21 AM
This list belongs on a list of the dumbest lists ever put on the internet.