Adventure films have different meanings to different people. This eclectic group of ten films that competed for this week’s placement represent a wide variety of eras and genres. Not managing to rank very highly with this group, Mad Max came in tenth with 9 points, beaten only by The Hurricane, a film which had all last place votes with only one second-place vote. It landed in ninth with 12 points. One point higher in eighth was Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior. In seventh, classic James Bond flick Goldfinger (a film which I haven’t seen in many years) earned 20 points. The Great Escape received 22 points of votes to land in sixth. One point above Escape was Captains Courageous followed closely by The Terminator in fourth with 24 points. A strong showing, but only placing third, Seven Samurai took 29 points. Losing by two points, Best Picture nominee The Fugitive takes second place leaving Daniel Day-Lewis’ The Last of the Mohicans in first place with 35 points to Fugitive‘s 33. The Last of the Mohicans wins and goes into my queue.

Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.

Sometimes a genre gets stuck in the rotation and it makes for a rough viewing schedule. Starting this week, I’m going to be asking for suggestions that fit a specific genre so each week can be a bit spicy. The genre or event listed each week will be posted at the end of this post.

To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).

Full List of Films I’ve Seen (updated through 3/10/11; a small number of titles may be missing still)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):

1. Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
2. Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.

• Alien (1979)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Them! (1954)
• The Thing (1982)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)

This Week’s Category: Disaster Films