Readers and editors nominated 32 top-notch engineering flicks to fill in the brackets for our World’s Greatest Engineering Movie competition. Now it’s up to you to make that first set of decisions, choosing one movie over another, and bringing the number of movies still in contention down to 16.
So go to the site, put your cursor over the movie titles in the play-off brackets to get a short synopsis, then click to the next page to start voting. Leaving your name and info every time you vote lets us know where to send the fabulous prizes for those lucky or prescient enough to consistently choose winners over the course of our March Movie Madness.
You can vote anytime between now and Sunday (March 30). On Monday (March 31), you can check the site to see which movies moved up to the Top 16 and then make your selections for cutting them down to the Final Eight. (And here's another link to the site.)
Here’s the list of the 32 nominees. It has some great suggestions for your own engineering flim fest or a rainy weekend when you don’t know what to get from Netflix or the local DVD rental joint.
- Star Trek (A Voyage Home)
- The Dish
- Flash of Genius
- Iron Man (1)
- Andromeda Strain (1971 orig)
- The China Syndrome
- 2001: a space odyssey
- The Core
- Tucker
- Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back)
- Real Genius
- Gravity
- Dam Busters
- No highway in the sky
- Flight of the phoenix (1965 orig)
- Tron (1982)
- The right stuff
- Destination Moon
- Fantastic voyage
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Apollo 13
- Space Cowboys
- October Sky (aka Rocket boys)
- Astronaut farmer
- Primer
- Race the sun
- The Fly (1986)
- World’s fastest Indian
- James Bond (You Only Live Twice)
- Weird Science
- Fat Man and Little Boy
- When Worlds Collide