WHat's your Favorite Sci-fi Movie

[crosscourt]

W@atched an uncut version of the Mysterians last night and it was pretty wild.

[CaptNoize]

So,
I dived into watching Star Trek Discovery this past weekend. I had seen the first season on regular tv, but it didn't interest me enough to pay for Paramount+. However, seasons 2-4 really ramped up the story line. Although I don't buy any of the Kelvin timeline, they consolidated the story with Canon quite well. The special effects and sets are over the top..!! I haven't completed season 3 yet. I'm binge watching at night, 2-3 episodes at a time. Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike, is excellent. Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, starts June 15.

[crosscourt]

Im very Star Trek/Star wars burned out and really wish something more unique would happen. A remake of Firefly maybe with the same characters but older and a different back story. A Babylon 5 addon or maybe a prequel but something different and certainly a good new concept show would be great.
Stargate series maybe could finally lets us know what happened to those who were on the big ship and they left us hanging.

[wove]

I have largely gravitated toward the rather different Sci-Fi. I like Ex Machine, Annilation, Under the Skin sort of movies, the type where you are a often puzzled about what you just watched. As a kid I got all the Sci-Fi magazines and did enjoy the short stories. I loved Frank Herbert short stories, then came his Dune trilogy, which I think another 6 books have now been added to. But I find them boring and rather pointless. He seemed to have started a trend toward the whole world building endless stream of books and movies. I had read the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy and was just done with that type of fiction.

The original series of StarTrek season one, was all I ever cared for. They have repeated endlessly with new actors. I did like the first Stargate movie, the second was very forgettable and I had no interest in the TV series. I have not seen Babylon 5 or Firefly. Overall I think most Sci-Fi I have seen is just updated cowboy movies from the 50s.

I also like the campy popcorn Sci-Fi, where you yell and throw stuff at the screen. Starship Troopers is a great example of that sort. Giant bugs, green innards, characters getting dismembered, ships blowing up, dialog nothing but platitudes. Oh, what is not to like:)

[chris]

I found the Dune prequels very readable - Bryan Herbert - going back to the rise of the machines, overthrow of the machines, backstories for House Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino. I lost interest in the rest after Children of Dune.

[wove]

I really enjoyed Frank Herbert's short stories. They were short - 1/2 to 1 hr read, terse and thought provoking. I bought Dune not longer after it came out. It was a cheap ($1.25) paperback, which dates how long ago that was when. It was so long winded. I had a job and kids and nowhere near enough time to enjoy a long read. I just wondered, "Are you ever going to get to a point?" Maybe I should go back and read again. Oh, and I will if I can find another $1.25 copy.

I have little patience for world building serials. I feel like a 5-10 page world build for the intro to a good story is enough. I read the Tarzan books as a kid, and while taken in aggregate one could say they build a solid world, each book told a stand alone story and it did not really make much difference what order you read them.

Just for a hoot, I picked up a couple Star Trek paperback books at a yard sale. I have to say Star Trek novels are really really bad.

[crosscourt]

Agree with you wove as I also like campy scifi and agree with all your likes about Starship Troopers. I will add the two female leads were really hot.

I still like the original Dune which gets panned a lot today, but when it first came out, it was an amazing film for fans of Dune.

[CaptNoize]

CC,
Your request has been answered. Babylon 5 is filming or has completed filming a new movie. Check out the details on YouTube. Also, Amazon Prime is producing a new Star Gate series( since acquiring MGM) they now own the rights to all the Star Gate series. The last 2 seasons of Star Trek Discovery is really good. The Federation is pretty much in shambles, and Discovery's crew is trying to restore the old guard.

[crosscourt]

Just watched the B5 trailer and it looks good but wasnt wild about the style of the animation. Its a shame so many major cast members have died but given its an animated movie the effect will be minimized. It appears JMS was trying to get a new series done on the CW channel but it fell through, but it might still happen through a different source.

[chris]

"The Federation is pretty much in shambles, and Discovery's crew is trying to restore the old guard."
Andromeda?