[rjp2005]

For 2008, we have two horror/slasher types "I Am Legend" (Omega Man remake) and "Death Race" (revisiting the 70's version), another superhero film in "Jumper", and maybe the only true sci-fi attempt, "Babylon A.D.". There was also "Sunshine", a late 90's disaster film leftover, possibly funded by Global Warming-mongers ;)

It will be interesting where they go with re-making The Day the Earth Stood still next December. The "peace in our time" theme will probably be very strong if Hollywood has a say...

Surely they can do better. What about a film depicting a resistance movement in post-war Islamicized Europe? Or a time traveler returning to help stop a nuclear terrorism disaster? Or an elite team responding to a cyber-attack on the electrical grid? Or a scientist accidentally goes in hibernation in Southwest, awakens to see Mexico/China controlling parts of the US. Or a future oil rush in the arctic, with mega companies scrambling for outposts and making claims in the glaciers. Just some ideas.

[GLDNGUN]

There's been a lot of great sci-fi movies mentioned, but I think one of the most overlooked and under-rated sci-fi movies is "The Island". Great plot line, thought-provoking, great action. Can't understand why it didn't do better. Perhaps because Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt didn't play the lead role.

Anyone agree?

[wallcrawlr]

pinger

[Rb ver. 2.0]

I watch an online copy of the new Stargate Ark of Truth a couple of weeks ago. What a stinker! My hope of a successful Stargate movie run was destroyed after watching that.

[DBrow]

AI, and Existenz, are both good.

Serenity was excellent.

I think there are a bunch of made-for-TV science fiction that is good.

If there were a short-story vehicle similar to Twilight Zone or its follow ons, it would encourage more writers to work in the genre.

As for remakes, Hollywood should give them all up. Remake Day the Earth Stood Still? I’d rather see “Farewell to the Master”, the original by Harry Bates, without the antinuke propaganda.

A remake of Forbidden Planet? Lindsay Lohan as Altera and Johny Depp as Dr Morbius? I’d stay home and watch Full Metal Alchemist dvds instead.

[kidd]

The TV show ‘LOST’ is a very good show with a science fiction twist to the main story line. Last week we learned that the island is 31 minutes out of sync with the rest of the world.

[JSDude1]

Still waiting for a remake of “1984” since I missed it the first time, but sounds interesting-and sort of anti-liberal-big goverment!

[Xenalyte]

It will be interesting where they go with re-making The Day the Earth Stood still next December. The "peace in our time" theme will probably be very strong if Hollywood has a say...

No, it will NOT be interesting. It'll suck just as bad as every remake ever.

[Dumb_Ox]

If near-future dystopias count as Sci-Fi, you should have listed Children of Men.

Michael Flynn's Eifelheim could make a neat movie, provided the filmmaker can make the medieval science intelligible as well as Flynn did.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I liked The Farmer Astronaut. Science Fiction, not Science Fantasy.

[JSDude1]

Oh and remake “The Tripods” to me this was great.

[longtermmemmory]

classic sci fi is about an individual making a choice against the collectivist.

Now we have the “hero” or “heroine” who is ADVOCATING the socialist agenda. Hollyweird is not advocating hope or faith, they are pushing dispair and submission.

Submitt to the global warming myth OR YOU WILL DIEEEEEE!

Submit to the enlightened atheist OR YOU WILL BE KILLED!

Renounce christianity or you will be tortured with endless hours of Katie Courie videos at re-education kamp.

Hollyweird’s sci fi is not about creating or preventing a future, it is about crushing the present into submission.

[Free Vulcan]

I thought Transformers was awesome.

[6ppc]

There is so much good written science fiction out there that I keep wondering how they can keep coming up with such crap. Niven and Pournelle wrote three books ( The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall) that would make GREAT blockbuster movies. Lot's of stuff by other authors. Why do idiot producers keep writing their own (bad) stuff when so much good stuff is available?

BTW...purists abhore the term sci-fi...it's called Science Fiction or SF for short.

[CJ Wolf]

Or an elite team responding to a cyber-attack on the electrical grid?

The latest live free or Die hard covered that.

[Oatka]

I just waded through 200+ posts and NOBODY has mentioned the TROMA productions! For Shame!

These guys evidently had a ball making campy Sci-Fi movies and came up with some interesting titles as well as multiple parts for the same actor. My favorite: “Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell” (tagline “Where the prehistoric meets the prepubescent”.)?

And then there’s the “Toxic Avenger” that spawned GI-Joe-like “Toxie” action figures.

[Gator113]

“Day the Earth Stood Still”

As a child, I watched that movie on TV when it first came out. The house could have been on fire and I wouldn’t have left until the movie was over. ;>)

[puroresu]

[puroresu]

Does anyone here remember the 60's sci-fi TV series The Invaders? They're finally releasing it on DVD in May. I loved that series as a kid!

[ReagansRaiders]

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.

[sono]

There’s always “The Ru Paul Campaign”.