EN World Movie Battle Royal! We have our winner!

[Desdichado]

#1 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) vs #2 Aliens (1986)

As much as I like the Lord of the Rings movies, they do have their flaws. I think their strength is the source material on which they're based and their spectacular visual effects. Aliens on the other hand, is a real stand-alone classic. I have to give it the edge in this match-up.

#1 Bladerunner (1982) vs #7 Planet of the Apes (1968)

Gah! How in the HELL did either of these two get into the final four? What a travesty! Both of them are teh suxxorz relative to all kinds of better "geek genre" films that are noticably missing at this level of voting. I give the edge to Planet of the Apes just because although it's dated, at least it was clever once.

 

[D+1]

#1 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)



#1 Bladerunner (1982)

Lotr:fotr is, of course, effectively a vote for all three of the series. I think everyone else is voting that way too. Taken as STRICTLY a movie standing on it's own it has a few problems in that it really doesn't stand alone - it requires the others to complete it and the ending is hollow and pointless otherwise.

 

[Tonguez]

Lotr:fotr is, of course, effectively a vote for all three of the series. I think everyone else is voting that way too. Taken as STRICTLY a movie standing on it's own it has a few problems in that it really doesn't stand alone - it requires the others to complete it and the ending is hollow and pointless otherwise.

Yes I agree and suspect your right that most have been voting for the series rather than the movie on its own. Thats the reason I voted Indy in the last round instead, but at this stage its all pretty moot I doubt Planet of the Apes is going to win

(of course there was Nosferatu....)

 

[thatdarncat]

#1 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)


#1 Bladerunner (1982)

Is there any doubt about how this will end?

 

[Berandor]

Lotr:fotr is, of course, effectively a vote for all three of the series. I think everyone else is voting that way too.

I vote only for FotR, fyi. I think it's a near perfect movie, and even though the end is not conclusive, a lot of movies today use a open-ended structure.

 

[demiurge1138]

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Planet of the Apes

Demiurge out.

 

[Desdichado]

Is there any doubt about how this will end?

Well, not really. But Aliens is doing relatively strongly. Of course, both of the second slot movies are relatively much poorer. I honestly don't care which of those advances, since it has no chance of winning anyway. I'm still profoundly disappointed that either of them were even able to make it this far to begin with. A little massaging of the brackets early on sounds like it's essential for the next time we do this!

 

[ShadowDenizen]

A little massaging of the brackets early on sounds like it's essential for the next time we do this!

First, let me say taht Gomez has done an awesome job with this, and it's been loads o'fun!!

But I agree: some of the match-up's were heart-breaking, while others were no-contests. I'd prefer to see more even match-ups. (Though, granted, since people's tastes are so widely varied, it wouls still be somewhat subjective.)

 

[Pielorinho]

I dunno. Planet of the Apes doesn't really do that much for me, but Bladerunner remains my favorite cyberpunk movie, and cyberpunk is probably the most important thing to happen to science fiction in the last quarter-century. I think it's wonderful, and though I expect it'll lose to FotR, I think it's worthy competition.

Note that this is all presuming we're talking about the Director's cut. If we're talking about the original theatrical release, with Harrison Ford's drunken sarcastic monotone voiceover, then I agree that it's wretched.

Daniel

 

[Desdichado]

I dunno. Planet of the Apes doesn't really do that much for me, but Bladerunner remains my favorite cyberpunk movie, and cyberpunk is probably the most important thing to happen to science fiction in the last quarter-century. I think it's wonderful, and though I expect it'll lose to FotR, I think it's worthy competition.

To science fiction literature, yes. It's a wretched movie, though. Besides, how many other attempts at cyberpunk movies have really been made other than this one anyway?