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Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica would good shows. Or so they seemed when I was a kid... They probably haven't held up well over time.
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I agree with every one of those, except for The Blob. That's a cheesy classic. You just can't go wrong with Steve McQueen fighting evil goo from outer space.Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Movies:
The Day of the Trifids. The Blob, The Tingler
TV:
Did you forget that Lost in Space
Oh, and L. Ron Hubbard."In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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never really watched much sci-fi, but 'the postman' is three hours of my life that i'll never get back
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Oh and that movie, Contact. What the hell. And Independence Day, absolutely awful.It's candy. Surely there are more important things the NAACP could be boycotting. If the candy were shaped like a burning cross or a black man made of regular chocolate being dragged behind a truck made of white chocolate I could understand the outrage and would share it. - DrosedarsComment
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Then I would highly recommend you don't watch WaterworldOriginally posted by C0ckney
never really watched much sci-fi, but 'the postman' is three hours of my life that i'll never get back
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I enjoyed those (in fact, I thought Buck Rogers was much better than the other Sci Fi serials I've seen, including Flash Gordon). Sure they weren't top quality science fiction, but they were cheesy b-movie fun.Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Then there was the original Buck Rogers serial, The Day of the Trifids. The Thing from Outer Space, The Blob, The Tingler
Seaquest?There was a TV series about a super-submarine, but I've forgotten it's name."I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie AllenComment
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I loved 'Contact'.
But whoever reminded me of Marlon Brando in a MuMu in Dr. Moreau......burn in the pits of Gehenna.
And the same for 'The Postman'. There is such a thing as camp, as cult, as sappy but still ok, as mediocre but filling a void, as brainless, killing-zombies-with-shotguns fun, as deliberately mocking the conventions of your own genre....
...and then there are Kevin Kostner sci-fi epics...exploring that mysterious horizon beyond the limits of human pretension...tedious...boring...self-aggrandizing...insulting to the intellects of audiences of all ages, preachy, self-absorbed, uninteresting, unoriginal, bloated, overbudgeted, arrogant displays of painful Costnerian expressions over and over again, taking it self way way too seriously, and never once giving the audience what all members of all ages and sexes want halfway through a Costner sf, which is for the movie to instantly cross over into the Pulp Fiction universe with the Gimp acting as our saviour.Last edited by Seeker; January 2, 2006, 22:14."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
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Conact was a pretty good movie. The end was a bit of a let down (does the book end this way?). But really, how else could they have ended it?Comment
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I believe the ending is a source of great controversy, because it avoids the controversy of the book's ending... but I'm not qualified to speak on it (never read the book). Though JohnT can rant about it for pages
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Independence Day gets my vote. I was shocked at how awful it was. I had to immediately rent "Mars Attacks" in order to clear my brain afterward.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
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No, the book DIDN'T end that GODDAMNED ****ING CHEESE-ASSED WAY!!!!! Eleanor Arroway would've NEVER said "Take me on faith"!Originally posted by Dis
Conact was a pretty good movie. The end was a bit of a let down (does the book end this way?). But really, how else could they have ended it?
NO ****ING WAY, SHE WOULDN'T!!!!!!!
The ending was as dumbed-down an ending as ever seen in film, and that's saying A LOT!!!!!!Comment
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Me?Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I believe the ending is a source of great controversy, because it avoids the controversy of the book's ending... but I'm not qualified to speak on it (never read the book). Though JohnT can rant about it for pages.
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Hrm. Perhaps I should read Contact. I enjoyed the movie, but I was rather shocked by the "take it on faith" bit.
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Just read the last chapter or two. The rest of the movie is (relatively) faithful to the book, though there is no sexual relationship between Ellie and Palmer Joss (another
change, but nowhere near as frustrating as THE RAPING OF THE GODDAMNED MESSAGE AS TO MAKE THIS RARE THOUGHT-PROVOKING SF BOOK MERE PABLUM FOR THE IGNORANT ****ING MASSES!!!!!@@@!!!@!@!!!$%^@!!!! )
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