Best Science Fiction Film Elite Eight-ish: The Terminator (3) vs Return of the Jedi (14) vs The Matrix (27)

[Chris]

The Terminator
Release Date: October 26, 1984
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Plot: A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.



VS

Return of the Jedi
Release Date: May 25, 1983 (United States)
Director: Richard Marquand
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Plot: After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.



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The Matrix
Release Date: March 24, 1999 (Mann Village Theater), March 31, 1999 (United States), April 8, 1999 (Australia)
Directors: The Wachowskis
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Plot: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
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[Comrade Khan]

Matrix

 

[Chris]

Matrix

Same

 

[Comrade Khan]

Same

I forgot to send u my list but it would be my #1 anyways

 

[Chris]

I forgot to send u my list but it would be by #1 anyways

It was in my top 3, I think second in mine and my highest rated still in lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

It was in my top 3, I think second in mine and my highest rated still in lol

What was your #1? Interstellar ?

 

[Chris]

What was your #1? Interstellar ?

Inception but Interstellar was pretty high too lol I think I even threw Prestige in the top 5. I'm a Nolan mark

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Out of these 3, Terminator.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Inception but Interstellar was pretty high too lol I think I even threw Prestige in the top 5. I'm a Nolan mark

Legit, Inception rules

 

[Marty McFourth]

The Matrix is timeless for me. It still manages to hold up all these years later. The fighting scenes, bullet dodging all that shit. Yea I just think it's badass really.

 

[Lady Redfield]

The Terminator, especially cuz of Michael Biehn

 

[Keith]

Jedi is the odd one out because I don't think its that good. Matrix deserves title of modern classic, but Terminator has the edge for me. Its a masterpiece.

 

[Lethal]

Yeah T1. Jedi had a great redemption arc but it's no dystopian love story