Favorite Science Fiction Movies

inspired by sleeper-has-awakened | Sunday, August 14, 2005 | all interested FReepers

[SunkenCiv]

There's an old topic by this name, and it seems like it would be of some interest in casual moments.

[skinkinthegrass]

Things To Come
..way back. :D
The Thing From Another World...Howdy, Marshal (Gun Smoke) Dillion

[skinkinthegrass]

..perhaps I grew up watching Attack of the Mushroom People

Ahhhh...Saturday Night/Sunday Morning Movie, "The Weirrrrd Beard Show" and popcorn. *sigh* :D

[skinkinthegrass]

Attack of the Mushroom People -- I was hoping I wasn't the only one....Here, too. :D

[skinkinthegrass]

THE CRAWLING EYE....of course!

:D ..how 'bout "The US Navy vs The Night Creatures", I saw that @ Hickham AFB, HA. in '66...(now its' funny) low budget SciFi film.

[skinkinthegrass]

9/11 Commission Report, The Movie!

How timely...and most recent, coming soon to a TV near you. :D

[PoorMuttly]

I like Training Films too.

[skinkinthegrass]

Try the '66 Italian flick, BLACK SUNDAY. *BOO!*

[sono]

Klaatu berata nikto ..

[RobbyS]

That's all right. I promise not to destroy the world. :-) One thing I love about that space ship is that it has no dials, monitors and switches.

[RobbyS]

You can't recognize him. They were smart enough not to overexpose the monster. Amazing what you can do with a small budget and fairly competent actors. Nothing spooked me like that until I saw Alien.

[BenLurkin]

Don't recall that . . . but do you remember this show . . .img src = http://www.cylon.org/images/tv/57-4015[1].jpg

[Knitting A Conundrum]

For me it was Morgus the Magnificant...and when I was a kid in Shreveport, there were weekday afternoon usually sf movies presented by "Captain Talltower." It was one of those shows that had live kid audiences.

Ah, sweet memories of my introduction to SF....

Did see the original Little Shop of Horrors at a drive in theater. My dad, imitating the plant's "Feed Me!" was a family joke for years.

[skinkinthegrass]

I like Training Films too.....LOL! ...not, those training films.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I remember fondly this Japanese SF I saw as a kid...they were being attacked by flying saucers and had to develop their own space ships and laser weapons to fight against them. Don't remember what it was called, but as a kid I thought the effects with the flying saucers were pretty cool. Saw that at a drive in, with countless other sf, horror and military movies. But most of them have left my memory as being not memoriable to a kid...

Children of the Damned stuck, Little Shop of Horrors stuck, Them (I think I remember seeing it at the theater - but I have seen it so many times, I'm not sure that's where the memory came from) 13 Ghosts - not sf (probably because of the 3-d glasses) and Cleopatra stuck.

And then little memory snippets. I seem to remember a number of British movies that I haven't seen since a child. One of them, some film that was implying nuclear energy was bad, had a scene where the leading man was talking to a little girl who liked insects. They were looking at a bug. She was saying something about how she knew that all insects weren't bugs, but she called them that anyway. Now why that scene would stick in my head and the rest not, is beyond me!

[skinkinthegrass]

..its was said, James Arness, got the job partly b/c his height 6'-6"...and his B-movie roles w/Marion Morrison (John Wayne)

[RobbyS]

It has been said that Wayne got him the "Gunsmoke role." That it was offered to Wayne, but he turned it down. I think I remember Arness having a part in Island in the Sky," a darn good Wayne flick.

[samm1148]

Excellent movie! It is hard to find in DVD though.

[skinkinthegrass]

That it was offered to Wayne, but he turned it down. I think I remember Arness having a part in Island in the Sky," a darn good Wayne flick.

Aye! ...You know John Wayne, never did, any SciFi films, just think about it...Christer Lee, Walter Pigeon, Bogey, Alec Guinness and many fine actors...Daffy Duck/Bugs did, too..."Put 'em up, or I'll vaporize ya'..ya' da@n Alien." :D

[PoorMuttly]

You know...Martians, giant bugs, vampires....that sort of thing.

Training !

[Ciexyz]

A great British sci fi film: Fahrenheit 451 with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. I see all the tyrants in power as evil Dems.