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rocketpig on 15 September 2010
sapphi_snake said:
rocketpig said:

For kicks, I was browsing through reviews to see how each movie fared. I didn't find one movie really blowing the other out of the water, though it's hard to find pre-1995 reviews on the modern interwebz.

The Terminator: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator/

T2: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator_2_judgment_day/

This is about as best as you can find.

Lolz, can't beleive T1 actually got slightly better reviews that T2 (still doesn't change the fact that I liked 2 more than 1 though). What's funny is that both these movies got better reviews than a lot of Best Picture Oscar winners.

The problem with RT and its rating of older, pre-internet, films is that few outside of hardcore fans of the movie ever bother to review it. If you look through pre-1996 film scores, you'll see the majority of them inflated beyond belief.




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sapphi_snake on 15 September 2010
rocketpig said:
sapphi_snake said:
rocketpig said:

For kicks, I was browsing through reviews to see how each movie fared. I didn't find one movie really blowing the other out of the water, though it's hard to find pre-1995 reviews on the modern interwebz.

The Terminator: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator/

T2: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator_2_judgment_day/

This is about as best as you can find.

Lolz, can't beleive T1 actually got slightly better reviews that T2 (still doesn't change the fact that I liked 2 more than 1 though). What's funny is that both these movies got better reviews than a lot of Best Picture Oscar winners.

The problem with RT and its rating of older, pre-internet, films is that few outside of hardcore fans of the movie ever bother to review it. If you look through pre-1996 film scores, you'll see the majority of them inflated beyond belief.

True, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a prime example. That moive's score is absurd (it doesn't hold a cande to Pixar's current work or to Beauty and the Beast).

Still when I check out the scores for The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind I can't help but smile and agree .

FTR not all old movies have inflated scores.

Cleopatra (it was mentioned on this topic): http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1004330-cleopatra/



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TukTuk on 15 September 2010

Man, was I the only one that found Terminator kind of boring?  I need to watch T2 tonight.



Hephaestos on 15 September 2010

return of the jedi has always been my favorite but whatever...



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sapphi_snake on 15 September 2010
TukTuk said:

Man, was I the only one that found Terminator kind of boring?  I need to watch T2 tonight.

The 1st one was definately more boring than the 2nd. You should stop watching after 2 though. The other movies in the series might as well never existed.



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TukTuk on 15 September 2010
sapphi_snake said:
TukTuk said:

Man, was I the only one that found Terminator kind of boring?  I need to watch T2 tonight.

The 1st one was definately more boring than the 2nd. You should stop watching after 2 though. The other movies in the series might as well never existed.


Yeah, I never bothered with 3 and the Sarah Connor Chronicles started out great but then turned bad after the first season.



Teo on 15 September 2010

Avatar and District 9 pretty much redifined Sci-fi they belong in the top 10 imo.



Khuutra on 15 September 2010

Everyone knows Alien was a haunted house story rather than proper sci-fi.

Still, I'm glad it made the top 5. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. Actually, I take that back: it's probably my favorite.

And where the Hell is Starship Troopers? Any movie that can take Heinlein and make something that whimsical deserves some kind of recognition.



Rath on 15 September 2010
Hephaestos said:

return of the jedi has always been my favorite but whatever...


To me that movie was severely damaged by the entire battle of Endor.

Ewoks were the original trilogies Jar Jar.



TukTuk on 15 September 2010
Khuutra said:

 

Everyone knows Alien was a haunted house story rather than proper sci-fi.

Still, I'm glad it made the top 5. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. Actually, I take that back: it's probably my favorite.

And where the Hell is Starship Troopers? Any movie that can take Heinlein and make something that whimsical deserves some kind of recognition.


lol starship troopers is great fun but doesn't need to be on any best of list unless that is best of bad movies.