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47. Public videophone booths.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link

48. contract killer/drug smuggler with a heart of gold

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link

49. The alien sidekick character has some bizarre allergy to water/orange juice/hummous, that turns out to be important at some critical point in the movie.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago) link

50. Small child who is a computer genius.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link

51. Audio surveillance bug that has a huge flashing light on it.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link

52. Bomb has bright red numbers counting down to detonation, and beeps every second.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link

53. Alien character corrects well known human scientist on some aspect of quantum physics.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:26 (eleven years ago) link

55. Character named after sci-fi author most of the audience aren't familiar with.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link

Sentient onboard ship's computer with variegated moral compass

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:29 (eleven years ago) link

57. Thin weedy looking evil dude turns out to be super strong and easily beats the shit out of the hero and his muscular partner.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:29 (eleven years ago) link

58. Stripperific female character turns out to be highly dangerous killdroid.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link

59. Tiny gun that can blow massive holes through concrete walls, demolish city blocks, etc..

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link

^"NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT!"

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link

60. Global mega corporations with names in the format '<Japanese name> <Hispanic name>'.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link

61. "...but then, what IS... reality? Is it for US to tell them what it really is?..."

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:39 (eleven years ago) link

62. biologist so impressed by alien capabilities that she urges her shell-shocked crewmates not to kill it

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link

63. Prominently displayed logo of company that has since gone out of business.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link

64. All important character names begin with Qua- sound.

Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link

65. All important character names end with coughing-up-a-hairball sound.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:54 (eleven years ago) link

66. Alien speaks with exaggerated Russian accent.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link

67. Place names have a number randomly tagged onto the end, ie, "Welcome to the city of Manchester 5!".

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link

68. Name of future city is just the name of a real life present day city with 'New' in front of it, ie, 'New Boston', 'New Berlin', 'New New York'.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link

69. pod head + wiggly appendages + spindly exoskeleton = horrific, unknowable alienness

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link

70. tall, elegant alien slowly tilts head to the side, radiating compassion

palms gradually extend outwards, a gesture of pure peace and goodwill

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

71. more blinking lights than is conceivably necessary

Merdeyeux, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link

72. some kind of monk

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link

73. 'spice'

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link

74. Sound waves can travel through a vacuum.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link

75. Space ships fly and manoeuvre through space as though they were aircraft.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link

76. various races of cartoonishly 'weird'/monstrous looking aliens tend to hang out together in bars, as if they're only 'alien' vis a vis humans but not to each other

Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link

77. White plastic everywhere - spacesuits, spaceships, spaceplates, spacephones, spacedoors, spacetoilets

Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 January 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link

78. Conflict of logic results in malfunctioning A.I.

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

79. post-apocalyptic villains who dress like the hell's angels crossed with sigue sigue sputnik

let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link

80. someone's wearing an eyepatch

mookieproof, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link

81. "don't you see...[insert detailed explanation of how the aliens are just like us, whether because warlike or peaceful]...they're just like us."

let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link

82. Movie is clearly some classic book, just IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
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scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link

83. ancient religion whose teaching are pretty unclear beyond awesome telepathic or telekinetic powers

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link

84. wise-cracking robot

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

85. "Based on the short story by Phillip K Dick"

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link

86. In a time travel movie, a character who can't believe that Ronald Reagan was/is/is going to be President.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

87. Character staring blankly into space, is plugged into some kind of computer network.

Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link

85. city of the future resembles 20th century community college campus designed in the brutalist style

slugbuggy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link

88. ^^^

slugbuggy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

89. British accents (especially for villains)

Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

90. Holographic terminals

Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

85b. Movie adds several dozen plot points to PKD story to avoid being 11 minutes long

autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

91. Mega-weapons that can blow up planets/suns/galaxies/etc.

Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link

85b. Movie adds several dozen plot points to PKD story to avoid being 11 minutes long

Ha.

Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link

92. Sleep chamber/cryogenics.

Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link

227 puzzle, code, language or devastating situation barely solvable using current Earth technology within 1-24 hours

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:13 (four years ago) link

232. As plot is stalling out, supporting scientist character pops in to report that they've finished running some tests on the creature, comatose survivor, mysterious signal, or strange energy pulse they picked up from the spaceship earlier. They don't quite know what to make of it, but the heroes had better come take a look.
232a. The comatose survivor has finally woken up and is acting very strangely...

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link

233. Breathless back-of-envelope calculations of how quickly a creature that multiplies at this rate could spread to cover the planet.

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link

234 Female 'other' (alien, robot, whatever) turns out to be evil.

adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link


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