Science Fiction

Paladin1950 said:
I'm not into modern science fiction with all of the computer graphics. I still like the corny science fiction of the 50's and 60's. They were fun to watch. I am so bored of all of those Star Wars movies. I am an original Trekker. Saw the first episode on September 8, 1966. The films of the 50's and 60's I liked were: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly (1958 version), The Blob (Steve McQueen), Village of the Damned (original version), The Time Machine (1960), The Day of the Triffids (original version), Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (movie not the TV series), Journey To the Center of the Earth (James Mason & Pat Boone movie).
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I've seen all of those, and you named some of the best. I still like modern Sci Fi. I'm all for great special effects, but it seems like Hollywood doesn't think the story is really important anymore, and good Sci Fi depends on good stories. If it has to be one or the other, I would say get rid of the special effects. Good story telling is what made the original Star Trek series so good. Yeah, they were flying all over the galaxy, but the story telling is what made it.

Like you, I can't get into Star Wars at all. It kind of bothers me because I don't understand what I must be missing, given the popularity of the whole thing. I made it a point to miss the last three films. I just get bored the whole time I'm in the theater, and I'm out the better part of a twenty dollar bill, plus gasoline.
 

Paladin1950 said:
I'm not into modern science fiction with all of the computer graphics. I still like the corny science fiction of the 50's and 60's. They were fun to watch. I am so bored of all of those Star Wars movies. I am an original Trekker. Saw the first episode on September 8, 1966. The films of the 50's and 60's I liked were: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly (1958 version), The Blob (Steve McQueen), Village of the Damned (original version), The Time Machine (1960), The Day of the Triffids (original version), Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (movie not the TV series), Journey To the Center of the Earth (James Mason & Pat Boone movie).
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I love the original Time Machine! And have you ever seen this one? (Kind of hard to find, took me forever to find it on dvd.)

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1967; if you've never had the pleasure of seeing it but have seen some of the other posters which are kind of lurid looking:

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don't be put off, there's no scene like that in the movie, the female character never shows any cleavage, lol. It's really a great, science fiction film.
 
Paladin1950 said:
I'm not into modern science fiction with all of the computer graphics. I still like the corny science fiction of the 50's and 60's. They were fun to watch. I am so bored of all of those Star Wars movies. I am an original Trekker. Saw the first episode on September 8, 1966. The films of the 50's and 60's I liked were: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly (1958 version), The Blob (Steve McQueen), Village of the Damned (original version), The Time Machine (1960), The Day of the Triffids (original version), Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (movie not the TV series), Journey To the Center of the Earth (James Mason & Pat Boone movie).
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How about original Day the Earth Stood Still with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal?
 

Paladin1950 said:
I'm not into modern science fiction with all of the computer graphics. I still like the corny science fiction of the 50's and 60's. They were fun to watch. I am so bored of all of those Star Wars movies. I am an original Trekker. Saw the first episode on September 8, 1966. The films of the 50's and 60's I liked were: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly (1958 version), The Blob (Steve McQueen), Village of the Damned (original version), The Time Machine (1960), The Day of the Triffids (original version), Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (movie not the TV series), Journey To the Center of the Earth (James Mason & Pat Boone movie).
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The new Star Trek movies leave me cold. 🥱

I agree that science fiction films of the '50's and '60's were fun to watch. They still are. One of my all-time favorites is "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) - Directed by Jack Arnold, who also directed "It Came from Outer Space" (1953), "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954), and "Tarantula!" (1955).

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If you've never seen it, you can watch it here. 🙂 > https://archive.org/details/tism-1957

Bella ✌️
 
One of my all time favorite shows is the reboot of Battle Star Galactica. I know it is very polarizing with Sci Fi fans but I enjoyed it, even up to the end and am looking for the next iteration which is supposed to be in production. Overall I prefer TV series over movies only because I do enjoy being immersed in the world that is being presented and it is easier for me to do that on a TV series. Of course there are some movies I did enjoy and have stuck with me. One movie that I think is underrated is "Moon" starring Sam Rockwell.

I enjoyed most of the Star Trek series. I am probably the only Trek fan whose favorite series was Enterprise. The shows theme is another story though.

As far as Star Wars goes, I enjoyed the first three but didn't make much of an effort to get back into that world. I watched a couple of the new ones just to give them a chance but they are forgettable to me. Back when I played video games more I did enjoy a couple of Star Wars RPG games that I felt told a much better story than any of the movies. The games were dark and grimy with ambiguous moral decisions to make. It is too bad that Disney will not make any movies based on The Knights of the Old Republic universe because I do think there is some great material in that world which would make a great movie or TV series but it is too dark for Disney.

It is interesting for me to read what people consider to be science fiction. I loved the X-Files but never considered it a sci fi show. Many people I know do think of it as a science fiction show though. The great thing about science fiction is that it can be whatever you want it to be and there are so many variants of it so there usually is something entertaining for everyone to enjoy.
 
JustDave said:
I own the series, and as I said it takes a couple of seasons to hit its stride. When I rewatch it, I usually skip the first season, and then part of season two. The stories seem like cheap writing following long exhausted formulas. Even after they are fully up and running, there are a couple of episodes I refuse to watch, because they are cheap ripoffs of stolen themes from other sources. By season five, its on its way to being a 10 season phenomenon, and Anderson is replaced in the last two seasons. The Goauld are gone, and the next battle for the universe faces an entirely different threat, which in my opinion could have been what the whole series was about. Maybe not 10 seasons, though. I never thought Anderson was particularly strong in the role, and I've heard other people that totally agree with you about him, although he never bothered me to a great extent. I don't want to be pushy here, but I would encourage you to skip it all and start watching seasons 9 and 10. Then you may want to go back to the early seasons just to critically watch the show evolve... or not.
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I can't watch the wormy things, so if they are in any of the seasons before (or even in) 9 and 10, I won't watch. But thank you anyway. Do you feel the last two seasons set the stage for Stargate Atlantis? I really did like that team, something that's important to me and the actors were all new to me.
 
Bella said:
One of my all-time favorites is "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957)
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That one was a favorite. I still remember one scene, where after shrinking and shrinking, he wakes up one morning, and everything is normal, He walks out onto the porch to enjoy the day, and the camera pans back. It turns out he's actually living in a little girl's doll house. But then of course the doll house outgrows him, and things keep getting more complicated.
 
What about Predator with Arnie?

About the Star Wars comments....don't you see the irony of the Storm Troopers and the uniforms of the officers and the reference to Hitler and his Brown Shirts? He also had Storm Troopers in his "army", and that's what they were called...Storm Troopers. He was also called Supreme Leader as was other evil leaders in the newer Star Wars movies. Lucas was making a statement from the very beginning and warning what will happen with evil (The Dark Side) in power, just like Hitler was a dark leader. The original The Day the Earth Stood Still was another warning that's been ignored by the masses.

These movies were very cleverly "disguised" as just movies but they had a deeper meaning...if you were really looking.
 
Outer Range season 2, Amazon Prime


I'll have to see how this holds up. I liked season 1, never expected we'd even get season 2.
 
Paladin1950 said:
I'm not into modern science fiction with all of the computer graphics. I still like the corny science fiction of the 50's and 60's. They were fun to watch. I am so bored of all of those Star Wars movies. I am an original Trekker. Saw the first episode on September 8, 1966. The films of the 50's and 60's I liked were: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly (1958 version), The Blob (Steve McQueen), Village of the Damned (original version), The Time Machine (1960), The Day of the Triffids (original version), Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (movie not the TV series), Journey To the Center of the Earth (James Mason & Pat Boone movie).
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I also watched all of those movies Paladin. I saw The Blob at least twice. Watching the Sci Fi movies back then was a refreshing change from the westerns and syrupy sweet family shows, even though those movies didn't make my favorites list.

@dilettante I watched a few minutes of Outer Range and wasn't sure it's something I wanted to get back to. But in the last week, I've seen ads about it and intend to give it another try.

I recently got a 30 day free trial for Apple TV. Godzilla fan that I am, I basically did my version of binge watching this and liked it. I finished S1 and am glad it was renewed for another season. It is considered a Sci Fi/Monster/Drama show according to Wikipedia.


And speaking of giant things, for a B movie, Big Ass Spider! was pretty good IMO. Fun to watch at least and if my streaming plate wasn't so full, I'd watch it again. Well waddya know! You can watch the full movie here!

 
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Is this the first in a "retroboot" of Planet of the Apes? I think it's the right one.

It is supposed to take us back to Zira and Cornelius, their origin story, and flashing out humanity's role on the planet. Basically erasing the reboot that came in the more recent Apes films.

 
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