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How Many Science Fiction Movies Have You Seen?
BuzzFeed ^ | April 28, 2014 | Louis Peitzman

Posted on 05/03/2014 2:17:42 PM PDT by EveningStar

Check the films you've watched all the way through.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; movies; sciencefiction; scifi
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To: EveningStar

Nineteen - not much of a science fiction fan...


21 posted on 05/03/2014 2:39:39 PM PDT by utford
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To: Nifster
And lastly, why if comedies are included and other odd things like the Stepford Wives then why not something like the Wizard of Oz?

The Wizard of Oz is magic, The Stepford Wives is technology. It is like Superman and Captain Marvel, appear similar of the surface, but very, very different for those familiar with both.
22 posted on 05/03/2014 2:41:11 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Nifster

I used to like to watch the ole Japanese monster movies — Godzilla, etc.

They were so bad that they were a laugh riot to watch.


23 posted on 05/03/2014 2:42:03 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: EveningStar

You have watched 205 out of 300 on this list!


24 posted on 05/03/2014 2:42:17 PM PDT by TMSuchman (John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
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To: vladimir998

The over use of CGI has turned me off to a lot of new movies. I call them cartoon movies.


25 posted on 05/03/2014 2:42:55 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: EveningStar

I counted 234 that I’ve seen.


26 posted on 05/03/2014 2:47:07 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Gay State Conservative; EveningStar
I've never been a huge science fiction fan.

Ditto. My total was 33. Galaxy Quest is way more comedy than sci-fi as a genre, but okay. OTOH -- Hot Tub Time Machine is sci-fi? That's stretching it.

I know I've seen parts of a lot more of these, esp. the older classics, but I didn't count those.

27 posted on 05/03/2014 2:47:10 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: EveningStar

45 out of 300. Probably another 50 that I started but couldn’t finish.

Favorites are 2001 and Close Encounters. Sci Fi isn’t really my genre.


28 posted on 05/03/2014 2:47:18 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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29 posted on 05/03/2014 2:47:36 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: EveningStar
165.

Unfortunately one of those was District 9, the worst piece of crap, so much so, I almost walked out of the theater. And I have never walked out of a theater.

Upon leaving, some guy wondered aloud how soon the sequel would come out. I wanted to slap him senseless.

30 posted on 05/03/2014 2:48:22 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: EveningStar

115.

And I saw a boatload of movies that I now want to see!


31 posted on 05/03/2014 2:48:49 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: EveningStar

The catch is, you have to have watched them all the way through. Many of these I’ve attempted to watch but never made it through to the end because they were either too boring or simply bad (The remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” comes to mind.) Take Fritz Lang’s 1929 “Woman in the Moon” for example. Since I was a kid reading “Famous Monsters of FIlmland” magazine I’ve read how great it was. When I finally got a chance to watch it on Netflix, to my disappointment, I found it to be an utter bore. Congrats to Buzzfeed for irresistible click-bait though.


32 posted on 05/03/2014 2:48:52 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: EveningStar

147. It appears I am a mad scientist


33 posted on 05/03/2014 2:49:25 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EveningStar

Anyone who grew up with a television in the house in the seventies would have been exposed to the first sixty or so by default, from Saturday afternoon and late Saturday night programming. Fifties B-movies and sci-fi were a staple. I’ve seen 84 total. I gave up on movies for the most part by the late nineties. The acting became formulaic, the casting was rote involving some implausible set of actors who happened to be “hot” at the moment and the writing was trite. Special effects alone do not carry a movie. I also refuse to pay money to be propagandized.


34 posted on 05/03/2014 2:50:53 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: EveningStar

I’ve probably seen about half of them, up to the year 2000 or so. After that, not many.


35 posted on 05/03/2014 2:54:11 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Disharmonious & Unmutual)
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To: real saxophonist

BTW, how many were given the MST3K treatment?


36 posted on 05/03/2014 2:55:37 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Disharmonious & Unmutual)
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To: EveningStar

126 out of 300. I am surprised I haven’t seen more.


37 posted on 05/03/2014 3:00:32 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: EveningStar

226. I noticed that whenever I didn’t mark a movie, it happened in bunches. Some years are just devoid of any good films...


38 posted on 05/03/2014 3:00:37 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: EveningStar

129 out of 300.


39 posted on 05/03/2014 3:06:05 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: EveningStar

I saw about 80% of the ones made after 1960, and only a few of those made before that.

I love Sci Fi movies.


40 posted on 05/03/2014 3:11:55 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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