The Film Review » Aliens http://thefilmreview.com film reviews, gossip and news Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:52:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Star Wars win Sci-Fi battle http://thefilmreview.com/film-news/star-wars-win-scifi-battle.html http://thefilmreview.com/film-news/star-wars-win-scifi-battle.html#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 19:55:56 +0000 Gemma Exley http://thefilmreview.com/?p=457 Continue reading →]]> It’s set to be a summer of high-budget sci-fi releases, but it looks like the oldies are still the mostly highly regarded – with the original Star Wars flick coming top in an online poll to find the genre’s all time best movie.I’m sure no one ever expected the Revenge of the Sith to eclipse George Lucas’ 1977 smash starring Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, but there was some tough competition from the likes of Blade Runner and The Matrix. Even so, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back still came in at number two in the Moviefone poll – scoring the franchise a double whammy.

Meanwhile the booby prize when to 2000′s Battlefield Earth – the unprecedented John Travolta flop which battled the box office and lost…

Top five best sci-fi films:

  1. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  2. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  3. Aliens
  4. The Matrix
  5. Blade Runner
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