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March Badness returns! Sort of! Two years ago, I set out to determine once and for all what is THE WORST SCI-FI FILM OF ALL TIME. It was a dangerous task that nearly left me a gibbering vegetable, but dammit -- someone had to take the chance so that others may be saved !
Rather than simply pick and choose and argue over which film sucked more, I pulled together a list of "worthy" contenders and forced them to compete against one another in a single elimination March Madness-style bracket, with the "winners" chosen by vote.
The contest ran from March to May of 2005 with pool of voters that included friends, geeks, scientists, cartoonists, fanboys, and utter strangers who had read about it online and wanted to participate. Recently I got a couple of requests to repost the results -- including my running commentary on each head-to-head fight and the PDF of the bracket -- so here once again is MARCH BAAAAAAAAAAAAADNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
You've been warned.
The Hunt for THE Worst Sci-Fi Movie of All Time
1. Introduction
2. Round 0: The Wildcard games
3. The Bracket: in Flash
in boring old print
4. Handicapping the matchups
5. Round 1
6. Round 2
7. Round 3 Preview
8. Round 3: The Suck 16!
9. Round 4: The Awful 8!
10. Round 5: The Fatal 4 + THE FINALS
11. PDF of the brackets leading into the Fatal 4
You want a romantic evening tonight -- or any night? Go rent Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" and watch them back to back. We did just that last Friday night, and couldn't stop talking about them for days.
They are two of the smartest, sweetest and most romantic movies we've ever seen -- and it is just two people ... talking ... as they walk around Vienna and Paris, connecting on a deep level with dialog so honest and natural it is hard to believe it is scripted.
If you haven't seen them before or know nothing about them, don't read anything else -- just go rent them, and prepare to fall in love.
