"Don't test my patience with yet another crappy Star Trek movie..."
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.
"Don't test my patience with yet another crappy Star Trek movie..."
When the original movie “Godzilla” is your touchstone, all other movies seem to come up short.
My son and I love the tv series, Dr. Who and a spinoff series called Torchwood. That’s about as scifi as I get.
I think “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” counts as a great science fiction movie.
It’s widely praised, but not generally thought of as a sci-fi movie. It’s about a fictional technology and the effect it has on people’s lives. That’s science fiction.
Lexx was a pretty weird show.
Heres a teaser trailer for the upcoming Trek movie.
http://www.imdb.com/video/user/me703165651
Check out “Equilibrium” with Christian Bale.
Prety good Future Sci-Fi.
Ameristan” could be that movie. Download the $6.00 novel. There’s also a screenplay online.
Ameristan is a novel and a motion picture political thriller premised on the unthinkable: The United States of America becomes a conservative Muslim state where Islamic Sharia is the law of the land. You still can’t post the Ten Commandments in public schools, but Allah help you if you don’t pray toward Mecca five times a day in the public schools.
Is it a dearth period or a quality dearth or what?
Maybe . . . it’s a lull before the real drama breaks out in the open?
Hellboy 2 is coming out soon and I thought the Mist was pretty good
you left out serenity, which was great
I’ve watched a lot of sci-fi over the years, but these are some of my favorites, in not particular order.
Films:
Star Wars
Matrix
Fifth Element
Serenity
X-Men 1 and 2
Matrix
TV shows:
Firefly
Doctor Who
Stargate SG-1
Torchwood
Star Trek
Angel
Buffy
Heroes
Lost
I also just discovered a British TV show called Primeval (it’s sort of like Torchwood with dinosaurs instead of aliens, and no gay people) and I really like it, but the problem is I can’t find on TV or DVD in America, or in a format that would play on American DVD players and TV’s.
Well, there have been films like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that have been simple, thought-provoking tales of speculation.
And while more of a fantasy, I found Stranger Than Fiction to be somewhat Dickian in its approach to the question of “what is real?/What is fiction?”
Apparently the SciFi chanel is showing Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters this Saturday...