Best Science Fiction Film Elite Eight-ish: The Empire Strikes Back (4) vs Jurassic Park (5)

[Chris]

The Empire Strikes Back
Release Date: May 17, 1980 (Kennedy Center), May 21, 1980 (United States)
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse
Plot: After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.



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Jurassic Park
Release Date: June 9, 1993 (Uptown Theater), June 11, 1993 (United States)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Plot: A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
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[Bobby Barrows]

Tough tough choices and kinda would prefer if we forced a tie on this one so both could move on.

 

[Chris]

Yeah this round had some brutal match-ups. I think Empire takes it here though

 

[Jimmy King]

Tough one but Empire.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

God damn, Star Wars,

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Empire, by a hair

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Mostly because it's near perfect

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Can we discount all the votes from people who haven't seen Blade Runner?

 

[Marty McFourth]

I'm gonna go for Jurassic Park honestly. Probably rewatched it more times than Star Wars and it really does hold a special place in my heart.

 

[Lady Redfield]

Jurassic Park

I can’t vote against my dino brothers and sisters here.

 

[Keith]

Jurassic Park was just a bigger part of my youth and I've rewatched it more since. It changed the game, so I had to vote that.

 

[Lethal]

Empire, as I've said before, is near-perfect. JP is a classic. So very, very hard but the force > Hammond, barely.