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Goofynewfie said:
space above and beyond, that seems like no one has heard of. It was on about 20 years ago for a season or two
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One season, sadly. You can get the DVD box set now...still good.

I'm a fan more of the hard scifi; Heinlein novels, etc.

Bryan
 
Blade Runner. Buckaroo Bonzai. The Last Starfighter. Plus almost every movie everyone else hasmentioned. O and Ice Pirates.
 
For TV, I also really liked Fringe. I am a hardcore BSG fan and I miss the show terribly. I also watch The Walking Dead.

Movies: Star Wars, Event Horizon, Vanilla Sky, The Terminator series, The Aliens movies, Back to Future, District 9, The Hunger Games, Total Recall, Gattaca, and I'm sure forgetting a few more.

Books: Starship Trooper, 1984, The Island of Dr. Morau, anything by Michael Crichton

By the way, Starship Trooper the book was much more interesting and entertaining than the movie, IMHO.
 
Anyone watch the premiere of Defiance? I liked and have hopes that it doesn't end up being cancelled after 1 season like Terra Nova.. I'm a big sci-fy guy but not really a geek. The move I can watch over and over again and not get sick of is Fifth Element. I'm mean I have the DVD but if it's on tv I'll still watch it when it's on.. I like everything everybody has named so far. I will add Stargate, the movie and tv series tho :mug:
 
A lot of sci-fi got canceled when it was getting good. People like fruity vampires these days. I'm as sick of Vampire's as I am of reality TV. BRING BACK SPACE EXPLOSIONS.
 
The thing that I don't understand about the whole vampire genre is that shows are always so soap opera like in their presentation and the vampires always act like total fruits. Speaking of good sci-fi and fantasy shows getting cancelled, did anyone get in to "Kings" before it was canned? That show was great and really had great potential to become something deep, but it must not have held muster against crappy reality shows. I really should give up on truly great shows making it on network TV. BSG got lucky, it was originally piloted on NBC, and while it didn't do great, it ended up at least going to the Sci-Fi channel and became a damn solid show.
 
I have always been into the Alien series. I really enjoyed the first 4. Prometheus was also enjoyable. I also really dug the comic books.

I have some pretty neat HR Giger stuff. I have a book, a 1/24 scale space jockey in a seat and an Alien chop bust. My wife hates Giger stuff/art more than just about anything, so I can't really go too far with it. Our conversation about it usually ends with me conceding, "Yeah, that does pretty much looks like a giant metallic two headed triceratops headed humanoid ingesting a dripping telescope" or something to that effect, then she shoots me a look like I am watching porn.. Marriage is all about compromise gents...
 
For books I'll throw in the Alien v Predator novels.

Any more reviews on Defiance? I meant to watch it but forgot. I have to see if my Roku will allow me to watch it through Hulu, or if it will continue to tell me F.U. we don't have the rights to stream this show.
 
TV: All the Star Trek series, Terra Nova, Firefly (Kaylee was hot!), Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, Space: Above & Beyond, Babylon 5, Farscape, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Dr. Who, UFO, Space: 1999, X files, Millenium, Fantastic Journey, etc...

Movies: All the Star Treks, Starship Troopers (the 1st one) all the Alien(s), The Incredible Shrinking Man, Mysterious Island, all the Star Wars (except the one with Jar Jar Binks), Legend, The Road, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Predator 1 & 2, Logan's Run, Evolution. There are so many, I could go on & on & on.

Books: Again, soooo many to choose from...
Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, Burroughs, Tucker, Foster, Dick, etc...
Regards, GF.
 
A 6 page thread about SciFi and not a single mention of Dune. That is tragic.

I digress, I love both the Frank Herbert series of books and the Lynch film version, which is one of my favourite films of all time.

Watching it a few times or prior knowledge of the universe is essential as it does not dumb down and spoon feed you the concepts which is why it tanked at the box office. If you love real SciFi films Dune is a must but make sure you watch 2 hour version with the character soliloquies intact and not the butchered 4 hour version. And avoid the abysmal SciFi channel abominations of it.
 
Jon73 said:
For books I'll throw in the Alien v Predator novels.

Any more reviews on Defiance? I meant to watch it but forgot. I have to see if my Roku will allow me to watch it through Hulu, or if it will continue to tell me F.U. we don't have the rights to stream this show.
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I really liked Defiance. It has so much poteintal in being one of the great sci ci Tv series. Depends on how they go with it.:rockin:
 
The prob I have with defiance I an that the first episode had some cheesey graphics and dialog. Hope it improves as the budget picks up. As for the best sci-fi film, evil dead. Nobody is a better actor than Bruce Campbell.
 
There's lots of great Sci Fi out there... but sometimes the cheese is what you really want. I had to sit the family down to watch Battle Beyond the Stars a few months ago. AWESOME.

Came out just after Star Wars, thrown together quickly with little to no budget. It had John Boy from The Waltons as Luke Skywalker (kind of) and Hannibal from The A-Team as Han Solo (sort of) :D

 
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first date with my girl, I admited to going to the HOBBIT and thinking that some of it was utter BS. She immediately entered into a small tirade about the rock giants.....a mere footnote in the book ("...impossible to tell if it was distant thunder or the rock giants hurling boulders...") made into a ridiculous action scene in the movie.

She had me at "rock giants";)
 
jrstacey said:
7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.
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Ive watched a few, its well done but im not into the time travel stuff. im going to watch more and give it a chance. I hated quantum leap and show similar. I would have to say Stargate and farscape would me my choice for best canadian sci-fi. IMO
 
jrstacey said:
7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.
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SWMBO and I watch it, it's pretty good, the chick that is the main character really needs to get that wart looking thing removed from her face though.

Has anyone seen Defiance yet? It's not bad but I want to know how all of the ships that brough them here got destroyed.
 
jrstacey said:
7 pages and no mention of Continuum. It has to be one of the best Canadian Sci Fi shows ever made.
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You mean, aside from Stargate, X-Files, MacGyver, Earth-Final Conflict, First Wave, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, and others...

I don't know what it is, but we make a lot of SciFi & Fantasy shows up here.

Bryan

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not nominating Andromeda as 'one of the best'.
 
VApatriot said:
Has anyone seen Defiance yet? It's not bad but I want to know how all of the ships that brough them here got destroyed.
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It made me mad. Star trek first debuted in 1966 - 47 years later they're still making aliens that look like slightly funky humans. Give me a freakin break. Pre-1960's scifi had aliens that actually looked like aliens. Today...not so much.

And yes, I realize its so 15YO boys can fantasize of liaisons with hot aliens.

Bryan
 
7 pages and the new

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
has only been touted 12 or so times??????

WTF people?? Anyone who hasn't seen it.........

GET THE EFF OUT UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED FOR.
 
I'm another sci fi lover. I'd have to agree with all the precious posters. The guy who did District 9 is doing Elysium. Don't know much about it, but the trailer looks bad ass. Also trying to get into Defiance on the sci fi channel. The first episode was pretty good, but we'll see how the show goes.
 
Warthaug said:
Pre-1960's scifi had aliens that actually looked like aliens. Today...not so much.
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What exactly do real aliens look like? :p I'll agree with you on at least on Klingons from the original Star Trek though. Hey they're...tan hahaha...
 
lowtones84 said:
What exactly do real aliens look like? :p I'll agree with you on at least on Klingons from the original Star Trek though. Hey they're...tan hahaha...
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I was watching the first episode with them just the other day. They also have funky eyebrows! Don't you guys realize that we are the pinnacle of evolution, so the only differences between us and aliens would be cosmetic? I also got a kick out of seeing that Baltar from the original BSG was the head Klingon.
 
I believe a lot of it has to do with budget. Its expensive to paste 10 pounds of special effect makeup on people every episode. And the actors would want a lot of money for having to go thru that everyday before shooting. That's why we tend to see the more intense effects on movie budgets. CG is pretty expensive also. I think Babylon 5 did the best job for makeup with small budgets.
 
I just saw Oblivion this weekend... For a Tom Cruise flick, it was actually pretty good sci fi. A neat mash-up of ideas from all the best sci-fi stories from the last 30 or 40 years. You had tons of Star Wars in there, a health dose of Moon, a little Vanilla Sky for flavor, even a little Portal for the gamers. And of course there were a few homage shots to Top Gun tossed in. And it all actually worked to form a fun, cohesive whole. I dug it.
 
stratslinger said:
I just saw Oblivion this weekend... For a Tom Cruise flick, it was actually pretty good sci fi. A neat mash-up of ideas from all the best sci-fi stories from the last 30 or 40 years. You had tons of Star Wars in there, a health dose of Moon, a little Vanilla Sky for flavor, even a little Portal for the gamers. And of course there were a few homage shots to Top Gun tossed in. And it all actually worked to form a fun, cohesive whole. I dug it.
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I heard bad things, but from people much different than me. What you say sounds ok.....but did it have it's own identity too?

BSG to me, blended a ton of star wars, a little Trek and an EFFLOAD of BSG.

Being about life on a space craft, no one is going to re-invent the wheel. Some things will be universal. Beyond that a story must be it's own even if some aspects overlap with same genre stories.
 
Warthaug said:
You mean, aside from Stargate, X-Files, MacGyver, Earth-Final Conflict, First Wave, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, and others...

I don't know what it is, but we make a lot of SciFi & Fantasy shows up here.

Bryan

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not nominating Andromeda as 'one of the best'.
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An American show shot in Vancouver is still an American show, though.
 
A US network buying exclusive US distribution rights or collaborating with the production firm does not make the show american. Everything I listed received a CPTC tax credit (which is where I got the list from). To get that, a production has to be majority funded, written, filmed and produced in Canada, by a Canadian firm.

Bryan
 
A US company creating the show, writing it, producing it and hiring a studio across the border to shoot it at, makes it an American show. Hell, the X-files was shot in California for half it's run. Vancouver is a cheap place to shoot so American companies use it. Doesn't make all the shows Canadian shows. Continuum is a Canadian show.
 
So we go from listing our favorite sci-fi to debating Canadian v. American tax credits? Awesome. Would the Americans in Canadada shooting sci-fi shows in a foreign country to avoid our ridiculous taxes then be considered aliens? And what are they if they are aliens pretending to be aliens?

Alien Nation and "V" (the original), great movie and great tv show.
 

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