Over at Rankopedia’s list of the best sci-fi movies, it’s The Empire Strikes Back in the top spot at the moment, with The Matrix and Serenity in second and third. (io9 was clearly a motivator earlier this afternoon when they pointed out The Matrix was #1; it’s dropped a spot since.) Other placers: A New Hope is #4, Return of the Jedi at #11 and Revenge of the Sith at #22. As far as lists go it’s kinda wacky, but that’s the internet for you. It’s not set in stone: anyone can register and shake things up a bit, so by the time you read this entry, who knows?
No love for sequels (or Serenity) at AFI
Sci Fi Wire readers bemoan the lack of The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens and Serenity in the… Wait a minute. AFI’s doing a list of the Best Science Fiction movies? A top ten? Which will air in June? You’d think I’d have noticed that yesterday… Need to stop doing this stuff at 4am, clearly. Let that be a lesson to you all: Don’t blog while drowsy. (She says, posting at 4am. Again.)
Oh well. Whatever the final results, we can at least be sure that Star Wars won’t get beat out by The Godfather.
Poll: What would Joss Whedon do?
io9 asks Which sci-fi franchise would you like to see Joss Whedon take over? (Warning: Terrifying photo manip.) Tough choices all, but it looks like Star Wars is winning so far. (Though if NBC had really wanted to save Bionic Woman…)
It’s probably just a pipe dream, but I do hope that LFL would nab him for an episode or so of the live-action show.
A constant drizzle of pollage
- Sci-Fi Wire readers picked Star Wars: A New Hope as the top science fiction movie of all time. It won by 7.8%, with Blade Runner coming in second with 7.5%. No doubt that percentage would have been bigger if any of us fansites had heard of it beforehand…
- Our latest sidebar poll is about Legacy of the Force: Revelation, and so far 32% of you have no plans to read it. Thankfully I have a whole week to figure out how I’m going to make a chart out of that one.
- Those of you that have read it (and have Livejournal accounts) can surf over to the Expanded Universe community and take (Warning: Spoilers!) a slightly more detailed survey.
Poll: Indy IV smashes all competition
The poll closed at midnight yesterday, and what 132 CJ readers are looking forward to the most for this year is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indy IV took an early lead and stayed the top pick all week, ending with 53 votes. The Clone Wars finished second, with 34 votes, closely followed by the finale of Legacy of the Force with 31 votes. And The Force Unleashed takes up the rear, with only 11 votes.
Be sure to vote in the new poll, What did you think of Legacy of the Force: Revelation? It will run through March 9th.
Last call for the current poll!
Get your vote in now; it expires at midnight tonight. Continue reading “Last call for the current poll!”
More polls, please!
Imadra Blue is polling for Star Wars fandom preferences on the Livejournal. It’s mainly a saga (mostly prequel) oriented poll, both because that’s Jax’s corner of fandom and because there isn’t really a huge contingent of active EU fans there. (Obligatory pimping of starwars_eu and marafics. And yes, there will be a giant EU poll sooner rather than later. As usual, I have more ideas than time to type them.)
And don’t forget to vote in our first sidebar poll! Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has been holding a steady lead in what you want the most for 2008. Looks like I’ll have to buy JawaJames a whip!
Democracy comes to ClubJade.net!
Take a look over at the sidebar, and vote in our first poll, ‘What are you most looking forward to in 2008?’
It’s not technically our first poll, as old-timers may recall, but that was back when the site was teal and at a URL I no longer remember and thus can’t look up on the Wayback Machine.
Future polls will (hopefully) be slightly more imaginative.
Calling all horndogs
Oh, screw it: Welcome to international perv day. I don’t know. I just find the stuff.
Ladies, gentlemen, io9’s latest poll: Which hero would you like to see hook up with his/her alternate selves? Last choice is ‘Jango Fett, and all his stormtrooper clones, from Star Wars.’ Uhh… Let’s just say I’m refraining from comment.
The fandom minute: Cub Scouts and cannon fodder
- Crafts: Father and son create LEGO-sized landspeeder for Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. (via)
- Poll: How will Ahsoka Tano die? Face it, girl’s got that nice shiny Sibwarra aura all over her.
- Fandom: Fan gets married in Vader costume; bride dresses as Jedi. Guests included Dr Who and Ming the Merciless. Sadly, no pictures.
- Lists: Han Solo, Millennium Falcon namechecked in io9’s
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Spaceship Captains; taking financial inspiration from Star Wars.