For a Sci-Fi horror, that's to be expected. I actually thought Event Horizon was quite a bit better than that.... but that's apparently a unique opinion.

Not unique. I also think that it was better than many movies still on the list.

I'd never previously heard of it.

It is actually better than this forum would have you believe and has Sam Neil which is a plus in my books though if you want your Sam Neil fix than go for 'In the Mouth of Madness.'

I think this one is going to boil down to two schools of thought on what makes a good SF movie, entertaining vs thought provoking.

Aliens, Pitch Black, and Predator were not terribly thought provoking, but highly entertaining for me.

V for Vendetta was all about the mind: attitude, perception, and revenge served with a stiletto.

It'll be interesting to see which camp comes out ahead, or whether the top movies will have a mixture of both.

Looks like there's about 3+ versions of Event Horizon available on YouTube. This one has good quality. Caution: Contains quite a bit of gore, swearing. Some nudity. Decent acting. Oh, and its a horror flick.

What bugs me about Event Horizon going first is that it makes it clear that some universally acknowledged terrible movies (Ultraviolet and Plan 9 From Outer Space leap to mind) are going to skate by on camp for a least a little bit, sort of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 factor. And speaking of which how did that film get on this list? I love it dearly but Sci-fi? Seriously?

I nominated it :P

It fell into my "highly entertaining" category of SF.

The theme is that the janitor of a mega-corporation gets shot into orbit and forced to watch terrible movies with some robots that he created. How is it not sci-fi?

I'm a bit surprised by Fantastic Voyage being pushed out so early. It's not a fantastic film (um...) but it is a perfect example of 1960s sci-fi which is probably why it gets so many references in modern culture. It makes me wish I'd nominated Innerspace for the list, although I probably wouldn't have voted for it.

Event Horizon only sticks in my mind for the Prodigy track that plays at the end.

Funky Honky and I pretty much killed it. I abso-freaking-lutely hated that movie when we did Fantastic Voyage in school and Honky kind of followed along I think.

Do yourself a favour and watch Primer. There is a reason it was voted up.

Being that many of the best Sci-fi films (certainly of recent years) have been smaller films and not blockbusters I fear that many great films will be pushed out because people haven't seen them.

That's the way these things go, unfortunately. There were a couple of my favorite movies got iced very early in the last contest because nobody had seen them too.

EDIT: And what is with the hate on for Will Smith movies? Independence Day and I Am Legend took it right in the back. If anybody starts messing with Men In Black I'ma gonna get out the Noisy Cricket and get wicked on y'all.

i just read the IMDB for Silent running and it seems like it is an awesome film.