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    Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/09/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    I guess Lucas gets no love, either.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/09/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    I guess this doesn't count as a corridor.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    09/06/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    No Star Wars for the Millennium Falcon or Death Star detention center? No Babylon 5? No Futurama for the personal transit tubes? No "None of the Above" voting options? Feh.
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    Image of snookums018 snookums018
    09/05/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    Some feminist is going to have a lot of fun analyzing this.
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    Image of mewlink64 mewlink64
    09/05/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    Technically a corridor I guess is the Running Man bobsled-tube-of-death. That was a pretty wicked corridor. Also the Matrix series had the white corridor of all the doors, plus the corridor gun fight scene in the first one.

    Other than that I'd also probably agree about Event Horizon.

    io9 should make a youtube result video.
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    Purple Dave promoted this comment Edited by mewlink64 at 09/05/09 10:31 AM mewlink64 was starred mewlink64 was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    09/06/09

    @mewlink64:
    Go read the book and speak not of the movie ever again.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    09/05/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    Picard and friends moving through Borg-infested passageways in whatever ST: TNG production you care to note always seemed creepy to me. Folks never seemed to quite trust the idea that "They won't react unless they perceive a threat" (and who's to say what a Borg sees as a threat, anyway).
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    Image of Josh Langston Josh Langston
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    Did we forget about Serenity? :)
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    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment Josh Langston was starred Josh Langston was unstarred
    Image of hlkneedler hlkneedler
    09/05/09

    @Josh Langston: YES! Love this topic, especially beacause it clarifies why the design of Serenity is so appealing to me. The crew's quarters (and the entire ship) is centered around this central corridor. It's like the tiny ship's design is paying homage to this great aspect of classic sci-fi...
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    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment hlkneedler was starred hlkneedler was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/09/09

    @Josh Langston:

    Serenity should be banned from all future polls. You know why.

    (And yes, as a matter of fact I AM taking it too seriously)
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    Image of Crayon Box of Fury Crayon Box of Fury
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    Quadruple posts, sorry.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Edited by Crayon Box of Fury at 09/04/09 8:05 PM Crayon Box of Fury was starred Crayon Box of Fury was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    @Crayon Box of Fury:
    WHAT?
    WHAT?
    WHAT?
    WHAT?
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    Image of Stueymon Stueymon
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    Are we really voting on Corridors?

    REALLY?!

    Here's an i09 Poll! Sci-fi's best coffee tables.

    Sci-fi's best light switches

    The most terrifying toilet seats in sci-fi horror!

    it's almost endless!
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Stueymon was starred Stueymon was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    @Stueymon: Light switches? OOOOOOH!!!
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    09/05/09

    @Grey_Area: I vote for Babylon5: No-touch-just-wave lightswitches if the light isn't voice controlled. Now you ;)
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/05/09

    @FrankN.Stein: Call me old-school, but I'm a big fan of knife switches.
    "Throw the switch, Ygor!!"
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/06/09

    @Stueymon: So you don't think design is important in science fiction? You don't think having cool looking sets makes a difference?
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    Image of Stueymon Stueymon
    09/10/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: I do think set design is important, but thats my point, it's the set as a whole that makes the difference.

    Hence the point about corridors
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    Image of TheAardvark TheAardvark
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    UFO's Moonbase corridors, amongst other things, were short, but stylish.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    @TheAardvark: Now that's a nice moon.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/04/09

    @TheAardvark: Wow, nice... hair.
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    Image of fatetwister64 fatetwister64
    09/04/09

    @Grey_Area: That's no moon!
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    Image of firstofnormalin firstofnormalin
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    I vote for Saturn 3 because it's got a shot of Farrah Fawcett's unenhanced boob in it. A very rare shot.
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    Look at the HeeChee tunnels from Pohl's Gateway; it was a hollowed out asteroid and there was nothing there except tunnel. Of course, Pohl set this up deliberately; the whole book is a metaphor for an extended course of psychoanalysis, both Jungian and Freudian, with a lot of sexual imagery. Somebody could probably do an extended article on birth symbolism in Gateway.
    (And who was it that suggested that the whole bit about launching rockets into space to colonize other planets was just procreative symbolism? And speaking of which don't forget Vonnegut's story, The Great Space Fuck from Again, Dangerous Visions)
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment firstofnormalin was starred firstofnormalin was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    @firstofnormalin: Also reminds me of Greg Bear's Eon books. Asteroid with a tunnel that goes on forever.
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    09/04/09

    @Grey_Area:
    T'is true, t'is true. What I liked about Pohl is that the story was quite deliberately constructed to be a metaphor and Pohl purposely built in several layers of meaning. (Where's my copy of In Search of Wonder?) (Can you tell I'm an old guy?) Like Bergman, but a little bit more subtle? Maybe like...wazzisname, the Russian guy in Eon/Eternity, but maybe that's stretching it. Maybe it's an archetype from Bear's subconscious?
    The "enter/exit a cave and be reborn" symbolism goes all the way back to Orpheus and Euridice (and forward again to Zelazney's Changeling), and probably before that--Newgrange and so on.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    the Bebop's corridors are awesome as there is a central roatating cylinder that held all the rooms.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    Aren't you forgetting something?
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    09/04/09

    In reply to Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?
    'Twas Cordwainer Smith who penned, "It was horrider and horrider in the brown and yellow corridor".
    Apropos of nothing, it just stuck in my brain.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/04/09

    @lazyeight: "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"! Excellent.
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