buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

And another peev! I have lived in the Southwest most of my life, and the way they play with geography is amazing. Matt Dillon could ride his horse from Dodge City to Wichita in about three hours. I saw an old Airwolf the other night, and he, in his magic helicopter made it from Monument Valley to Nome Alaska in less than an hour. It's not just the old ones; it seems like Geography is a thing of the past.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Your posts are always interesting. Prometheus was re-cut, and I hear the newer version is better. The original was baffling to me.

Stan Wieg Loc: Fair Oaks, CA

Wait a minute - Ripley didn't fall apart!

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Welll...the two most enjoyable...not to say good..Sci-Fi movies besides The Martian: the Old Black and White "the Thing", and "2001 Space Odyessy" .

Spectre Loc: Bothell, Washington

Jerry,
I haven’t heard the name “Prometheus” in a long time. It brought back many memories. Some good and some bad.
I’ll have to look for those two movies.
Thanks.👍

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nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

I always assumed that it was because not everyone could afford red cars.

Spectre Loc: Bothell, Washington

Prometheus was the name of this gunship. After we repaired it it was lost with 14 crew on board.

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amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

I agree, "Passengers" is excellent. Incredible imagery!

"The Martian" also is great and it's not very far-fetched or set very far out in the future.

Big fan of the original "Blade Runner", too. Still trying to figure out the "Blade Runner: 2049" sequel.

Of all the Marvel movies, "Guardians of the Galaxy" may be the most fun. The second Guardians movie is okay too, tho not as good as the first. The "Deadpool" movies are also fun, but in a much darker and far bloodier way.

Loved the creativity and dazzling imagery of "Avatar", but the story was very predictable and "preachy". Still worth a watch, if only for the spectacular scenery.

"Silent Running" is another of my old favorites.

"2001 Space Odessey" is a superb classic... though I'm still not sure I fully understand it even after seeing it several times. (Another early Kubrick film, "Clockwork Orange", has clearer messages but can be a difficult movie to watch.)

"Arrival" is very interesting, though it can take a couple viewings to understand what's happening.

I think "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" is a "new classic".

"Minority Report" and "Day After Tomorrow" are among the best Tom Cruise SciFi flicks (depending upon whether you consider the Mission Impossible movies to be SciFi).

"Interstellar" is another excellent film, not just because I find being alone with Anne Hathaway in a small space craft for years a really intriguing idea.

"Twelve Monkeys" is out there for die-hard Bruce Willis fans (and is much better done than the extremely campy "Fifth Element" that Willis also starred in, while that movie's director Luc Besson much more recently did "Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets" that's just as campy but has much, much better special effects.... what a difference 20 years makes: 1997 vs 2017).

I don't think I'll ever figure out "Inception". Can anyone explain it for me?

For a fun romp (mostly), get the "Firefly" TV series and watch it in order (only 14 episodes), then watch "Serenity" the movie that sort of sums it all up. (Though many fans of the TV show are still begging for it to return.)

I hated the idea of "Cowboys and Aliens". Who would try to mix a Western with a SciFi, then cast a Brit like Daniel Craig as a gunslinging cowboy and who the heck let him wear that hat? After a couple viewings I liked the movie a little better. Interesting idea... Why does SciFi have to be set in the future? In fact, one of the very first SciFi books was Mark Twain's "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" that was about time travel into the distant past.

Damn, I know I've just scratched the surface here. There are many more great SciFi movies! I've always been very committed fan of SciFi on TV, in movies, in comics (or "illustrated novels" ) or in books. I recall when I was in 5th grade the teacher asked us to bring in a couple of our favorite books to donate for a small classroom exchange library. I brought in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". My teacher asked if I'd actually read them. Yes, I had, along with lots of other SciFi books. At the time I didn't see why she was surprised. I guess the typical 10 year old was reading something else, but none of the other 5th grader books in our little library ever interested me.

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Re: "2001..." - A running gag at the time the movie was released among us who were 21 years old, or so, was the fact that there were folks who stated they understood the movie. Our standard response was that you couldn't have seen the movie if you understood it.

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

bob44044 Loc: Ohio

"The Thing From Another World", "The Martian", "2001: A Space Odyssey", " The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Avatar, "Blade Runner", and too many others to mention.

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Yup; with Slim Whitman as background music?

Movies they haven't and probably will never make... Robert A. Heinlein's "Glory Road", "Podkayne of Mars, and "Stranger in a Strange Land"

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

[quote=jerryc41].......Something that bothered me in both films was the actions of the characters. These people are selected and trained for space travel, yet they fall apart emotionally, and they make really stupid decisions...../quote]
This is done by really stupid authors/writers who can't find a better way to advance the plot other than by making the protagonist appear to be missing a few brain cells. If I watch a movie or the start of a TV series where this is done too much then I stop watching it. I know that people in general are way more stupid than you might believe but I cannot accept that they are that bad. If they were that bad they wouldn't even have managed to live as long as they had. You even have to wonder about the intelligence of the writers and their obvious lack of knowledge about their fellow humans.