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Fiver By Committee Colon Online Java Poll For Internets

I picked what seemed like the top ten suggestions and added Godzilla as an afterthought. Go vote.

Note: This poll is in no way binding, unless proposition 304 passes, and we all pray it will. Also, the Bond option refers to any Bond movie. We'd pick the particular one later.

Note 2: YOU CAN VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE THING. That's why I didn't just use our built-in forum poll feature.

So far it's a six way tie! Woo!

Hmm. I've added a Note 2 which may be relevant, because I know five of those six votes are mine.

I guess it doesn't let you vote twice though. Hmm...

Ah well. I picked my top pick. Didn't pick any others because I thought it'd be fairest.

Well, we'll see how this turns out...

Oh, and are you guys really serious about fiving Jaws? Is there actually enough plot to fill an entire fiver?

Voted.
And it's Indiana Jones in the lead by a head, closely followed by Jaws and the ever popular Independence Day. Close behind and still in with a chance we have Jurrassic Park, 2001, the family-favorite Terminator, Time Machine, James Bond, and the Japanese favorite Godzirrrra. Bringing up the rear is Close Encounters, and ET probably without a chance now. Only a few furlongs left to go now in the Committee Cup...

I think Jaws would work, but I don't think it'll end up being that one. Personally, I liked your version.

Thanks. I still think that my version pretty much encapsulates the plot.

When's the last time you saw Jaws? Perhaps you are thinking of its sequels.

It had sequels? Oh Gawd. I never knew.
I don't think I ever saw ALL of Jaws. And what I have seen mus have been years ago at least. It never really personally interested me all that much.
Come to think of, is Jaws even really Sci-Fi? It's more like horror, I would think. Unless they really go into an explanation of it's size at some point.

Well, the shark behaves nothing like real sharks do, so there's your fiction right there.

As for the science, uhh...
"Science fiction is whatever I point to and say 'that's science fiction'" - Damon Knight

Completely off topic...IJD, is that a Star Destroyer made of bubbles?

I believe it is a Star Destroyer made of Euros.

Voted. Do I win a free phone?

I wondered about that, too. Not about the bubbles -- just what it was, in general (or is it something to do with Euros? I just don't know... )

Never saw any Jaws movie. I don't feel that it's necessary.

That's fine. But it's probably necessary if you're going to try to summarize a full length feature film (and one which jump-started the career of one of the greatest Hollywood directors of our time) into a mere two lines.

Star Destroyer? People, that's <i>obviously</i> the Enterprise from his usual avatar, just overlaid with Euros or whatever those are.
I don't know about the others, but Jaws 2 is notable for one of the all-time great movie slogans: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...."

Invented by Jaws 2, and then used by every other movie ever to have a hint of water in it since. Did they get a bigger boat in that one, then?

I honestly don't remember. The sequels kept diving into deeper and deeper levels of suck each time. Until we had a movie about an intelligent shark who wanted revenge on the Brody family, and followed his wife and son from New England to the Carribbean, only to be killed by the mast of a sailboat.

No joke.

Okay, so I read the plot summary on Wikipedia, and since the entire plot seems to be:

Jaws: Aaargh!
A Bunch of People: Gak!
Quint and Brody: Eat compressed air!
Jaws: Gak!

I think my original fiver stands.

I'm not begrudging the opportunities for really stupid fish jokes, it's just that...well...I'm a stubborn and whiny person when I don't get my way. I don't think this is new information, is it?

"It's a different film, Ted, it's a very different film. It's a different shark!"

Ah, Father Dougal, how right you were.

Sorry Nate, but reducing one of the great classic films of the latter-half of the twentieth century to four lines based on a plot summary on Wikipedia is the height of ignorance.

I just discovered that we owe another classic tagline to the Jaws movies. Jaws 4 (Jaws: The Revenge) introduced "This time it's personal."

The height of ignorance conceded. It's fun up here. :)

Sorry Nate. At the height of ignorance, one is too ignorant to realize that up is down.

Of course there's a sign saying "The peak of the Mountain of Ignorance" at the top of the Mountain of Ignorance. How else would anyone who's there know where they are? :)

So how long is this poll likely to last?

Ack, when did Independence Day pull ahead and gain such a healthy lead?

Someone could probably make some interesting statistical inferences by analyzing the results of that poll, though I'm not sure how easily The Time Machine's position could be explained, just at the moment.

Ditto on the ack.

Voted. Independence Day seems to be winning. I hope so, since I have never seen anything of Indiana Jones. Played a game of it once, though. Way before I knew any English beyond yes/no. Made this specific game hard to play. :p

"Snakes. Why'd it have to be Snakes on a Plane?"

Everyone on the planet should make a point to see Raiders of the Lost Ark. Instant classic. Even if it doesn't get fived by FBC, it's still well worth a watch.

"Instant classic." How long do you have to microwave that? :)

It's not instant if it takes time.

Everything takes a certain amount of time. Besides, it's just an instant soup joke.

Instants vary as much as infinities do. It's all terribly confusing.

Life in a nutshell.

2001!

Sci-fi, please :)

In reality perhaps. Not in my line of expertise though. :P