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Where have all the good sci-fi films gone (vanity)?
Yours truly

Posted on 02/19/2008 11:03:14 AM PST by rjp2005

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To: kidd

Thanks.... I will.


261 posted on 02/19/2008 1:50:41 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: Army Air Corps

Dennis Miller today said the only autographed photo he ever asked for was Tom Servo’s.
Joel sent him one, and Miller said he has it up on his office wall.


262 posted on 02/19/2008 1:51:56 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
The sequel is good, but doesn’t have the same punch of surprise and discovery as the first.
263 posted on 02/19/2008 1:52:58 PM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD)
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To: FatherofFive
I still LOL at the Incredibles. It is great when a film can be enjoyed by the kiddies and the adults at the same time, each laughing at different parts.

True.

It's also a profoundly conservative movie.

264 posted on 02/19/2008 1:53:08 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: rjp2005

They’re moving to TV as series.

“Jericho” and “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles” both come to mind. Jericho was originally envisioned as a movie and then expanded upon. Terminator, well, obviously that started out on the silver screen. The small screen version has actually held pretty true to the series of movies, especially T2. There have even been references to Arnold’s version of the terminator.


265 posted on 02/19/2008 1:54:35 PM PST by ReagansRaiders (Jeb Bush 2012 -- The only Bush who should ever have been president)
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To: Calvin Locke

I can see that.


266 posted on 02/19/2008 1:55:22 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

You can also check out some episodes on Video Google. One click full episodes. I’ve been able to check out some of the Joel, TV Frank and Professor Forrester episodes that I’d never seen before.


267 posted on 02/19/2008 1:55:40 PM PST by TrishaSC
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To: Sherman Logan
That is what I liked the most about “The Mote in God’s Eye” was that the aliens were truly alien.

My least favorite thing about Star Trek is that you took an actor, put a crinkle in their nose or pointed ears on them, made them exemplify a particular human trait, and they were an ‘alien’. They at least tried to explain it as some intergalactic brotherhood created by the “Founders”; but it bothered me that the men aliens acted like men, and the women aliens acted like women- and they were exactly like humans except for one particular trait was exaggerated.

268 posted on 02/19/2008 1:57:07 PM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD)
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To: dba.adabas
We need a good remake of that Rowdy Roddy Piper classic...”They Live” Especially that overly drawn out fight scene where he gets the guy to look through the glasses.

How could you miss the remake of that fight-scene? It was done on South Park, as "Cripple Fight" between Timmy and Jimmy! No, I'm not kidding.

"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick a$$... And I'm all out of bubblegum."

Mark

269 posted on 02/19/2008 1:57:33 PM PST by MarkL
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To: rjp2005

There’s always “The Ru Paul Campaign”.


270 posted on 02/19/2008 1:58:49 PM PST by sono (The Future Ain't What It Used To Be - Yogi Berra)
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To: Londo Molari
Hey, even though Tom Cruise was in it, I thought War of the Worlds was pretty good. Pretty faithful to the original concept, too (just modernized).

I thought that Tom was very good in that movie... I wasn't crazy about the movie itself, but I think that it was mostly the little girl... On the other hand, Tom's "Daddy" character had the patience of a saint. Had I been "the Daddy" in that movie, I would have drowned the little girl after about the first 45 minutes of shrieking.

Mark

271 posted on 02/19/2008 1:59:50 PM PST by MarkL
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To: Bender2

Ain’t that the truth!

Of the newer Sci-Fi I like Serenity, released in ‘05. It’s a follow up to the series “Firefly”.


272 posted on 02/19/2008 2:00:15 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Abathar

Firefly. Precicely.

I haven’t had TV since 97. One day (about six months ago) I was listening to sattelite radio in a rental car and loved some music I heard. It was from a movie “Serenity”. I decided to rent it.

But they guy at the rental store said I would be disappointed if I didn’t see the TV show it was based on. I rented disc one. I was blown away. My wife even liked it. I then found that two of my work mates owned the original season and they loaned it to me. I was further blown away. It is actually part comedy and is the closest thing to the original Star Trek I have seen.

Then I rented the movie. Holy cow, what a tremendous story, and some reasonably good special effects. I loved it.

I now own the series and the Movie. I’ve already watched all of it twice.

I really do believe that if you don’t watch the series, the movie is going to be a non-starter.


273 posted on 02/19/2008 2:02:50 PM PST by RobRoy
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Frankensteins daughter did it to me! And the Hideous Sun Demon. Was a big fan of Chiller Theater on Sat nights in Jersey.


274 posted on 02/19/2008 2:03:33 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: HamiltonJay

See my post 273


275 posted on 02/19/2008 2:03:49 PM PST by RobRoy
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To: dba.adabas

Put on the damn glasses.


276 posted on 02/19/2008 2:04:07 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Soliton
Great choice! I would also like to see Burroughs' John Carter on Mars series,

I would also LOVE to see John Carter of Mars on the big screen... And speaking of the character, another movie that I think would be awesome would be Heinlein's "Number of the Beast." What a mind twister that book was, and I think that it would adapt itself quite well to the screen.

Mark

277 posted on 02/19/2008 2:06:12 PM PST by MarkL
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To: gitmo

Is that the one [”Dune”] with Susan Sarandon? I gave it a pass specifically because of her.


278 posted on 02/19/2008 2:06:21 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Always Independent

We had Ghoulardi here in Cleveland. I was a huge fan! He blew up one of my model cars on one of his shows!


279 posted on 02/19/2008 2:10:11 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Xenalyte

Yes, the bedroom scene was very disturbing ;-)). Most people don’t know that George Lucas did this movie, and it starred Tim Robbins along with LEa Thompson.


280 posted on 02/19/2008 2:10:27 PM PST by aragona
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