Your Favorite Man vs Machine Sci-Fi

Terminator 2 blows away all others

Even 1 & 3

 

terminator blows all others away

 

Never seen it, but the Killdozer should probably stay out of DE LIFT if it wants to keep its blade

 

Terminator fans should check out the Colossus books and movie. It's basically a prototype for the Skynet scenario where defense computers gain sentience and take over the Earth. I didn't really like the last book in the series, but the first two were pretty nice page-turners. IIRC, Ron Howard is about to remake it.

Also Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is a pretty cool short story along the same lines.

 

The rest of you are posers.

 

Its tough between Matrix and terminator. I tend to look at the plot holes. What kills Terminator is the ability to go back in time, which allows an endless possibilities of outcomes.

 

rocketsjudoka is right on this one.

WOMAN vs machine is a lot secksier. more potential.

 

(B-Bob doesn't walk, he RUNS to his Netflix queue...)

 

I don't care about which one is actually the best, but Blade Runner needs some love. I would totally bang Rachael, because that's what this thread will eventually be about. Or at least what it should be about. Or maybe I just have a Nexus-9 fetish.

 

She felt like a woman to me.

 

I don't know if you read the book, but I had a empathy-box-induced, three-chapter, class B erection.

If you didn't read the book, you should be stripped of your moniker. Or erection. [at moderator's discretion]

 

Dave vs. HAL. 2001: A Space Odyssey.

HAL was the creepiest machine ever. It was the inspiration for numerous imitations, even in non-science fiction films (Anthony Hopkins says that he created the personality for Hannibal Lecter based on HAL).

Just
One
Red
Light

and

Five
Dead
Bodies

 

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Oh, heck yes... I read the book long before Ridley Scott decided to mess with my decidedly human brain. He can be a real Dick. (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!)

 

This is a very good call. I haven't posted anything too honest in this thread yet, but 2001 is a phenomenal, and even believable, Man vs Machine scenario.

God but I loved the Hal 9000.

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."

...

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do..."

 

So Awesomely Bad...

 

Terminator blows away all others




(I prefer the movie Blade Runner to any of the individual Terminator films, but as a franchise, Terminator owns in this category.)

 

Hard to pick a Terminator/Matrix series winner. I'd rank the individual movies like this:

The Matrix
Terminator 2
Terminator
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.
(big gap)
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The Matrix 2
The Matrix 3


Haven't seen T3 yet.

 

Terminator has hotness as well