Your favorite Science Fiction shows, movies...Drama, comedy, sone w with some horror element...

[electric_blue68]

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Yes, I do a of rewatches, but also look for new (or new to me) stuff.

I just saw on Hulu that they currently have Independence Day (seen that plenty of times. And poor NYC gets walloped once again! [Poor us]). Going to watch again, and I love the the soundtrack!

Just thought of the horror aspect in terms of Wayward Pines which I also just saw is on Hulu. It's got zombie like mutated humans, but the set up, and unfolding plot are really good. Imho.

I love Fringe! It occasionally has a horror aspect in certain physical effects that sometimes happen. But great long arcs, all kinds of twists and turns, humor, really good acting (if you're a John Noble fan he's sooo good, but they all do a fine job).

Person of Interest. Michael Emerson from LOST (Ben). Taraji P Henson. Amy Acker Other very good acting. Yeah, Jim Cavezil, but I think it was before he went totally Christian hawker. They try to fight crime so there's that but who is the prep, and who is the victim.
The science fiction aspect relates to super computers (very interesting) and slowly ratches up in S1, then it starts to take off!

Babylon 5 Great aliens w Major societies. Cool human command cast. It's an Earth Station but the treatment by the creator [who eventually wrote ?90% of 5 seasons] was presented to whichever studio (?Paramount) before Deep Space 9 was conceived (controversy).

Since I mentioned DS9, original Trekker. I enjoy them all - old and newer. My favs over all are Enterprise, Voyager, and Strange New Worlds.
Movie-wise: The Motion Picture, Voyage Home, Undiscovered Country, First Contact, Enterprise.

Love the Jurassic Patk/World Movies! Yes, I had dinos as a kid! The bigger set: Bronto was about 10" long, T-Rex about "6 inches high. All pale light green. And I had tiny about 1 inch ones.

I guess that's about it Yawn it's late. 😄

Please share your favorites! 🙂👍
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Quick shout outs to Alien Nation (TV show), V, Interstellar, Contact, and Foribbiden Planet.!

Oh, and being a "Cold War baby" my favorite "Atomic Bomb Monster" movie was The Giant Behemoth.

Funny Interstellar meme.
Visual in a library about 10 stacks deep - you know that bc there's a whole empty shelf in the same place in each stack so you see it going back, and back.

Text went something like "I went to the library, and found myself in Interstellar!"

[Pachamama]

1. Bladerunner - "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave."

Brilliant and many important messages and warnings for our future with AI and Androids and “humanity”….

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.“

[electric_blue68]

5. I saw it back then. Might get more out of it now. Ty

[TuxedoKat]

17. I love that part of the movie

That first line makes me wonder if the writer was influenced by the lines from Rimbaud's poem, "The Drunken Boat":

"I know the skies bursting with lightning, and the waterspouts
And the surf and the currents; I know the night,
And dawn as exalted as a flock of doves
And at times I have seen what man has only thought he saw!"

Great poem!

[flying rabbit]

30. Awesome clip.

I believe that he (Rutger) altered the script a bit to give a stunning performance.

[Walleye]

2. From my childhood in the 50s, in the theater, "Forbidden Planet"

Monsters from the id. I judge all of other sci-fi movies by that one.

[electric_blue68]

7. Ooooo, you Saw it in a Theater?! Wow! Can't believe I forgot that! Was late, I tired. Will add.

Only on a TV for me as a kid.

My two favorites visuals.
When they are walking across the bridge and you the vastness of the shaft w machines sliding up and down.

And then, them as tiny figures walking through a vast multi walkway (a matte painting with?electrical effects) with big ?transparent glowy globes on poles . I Love it!

The story is wild (I know based on The Tempest) but I love cool visual effects esp as an artist!

Haven't watched in a good while. I think I saw it on one of my streaming services.

And in Babylon 5 there is a scene that pays visual tribute to the bridge/shaft scene.

[Walleye]

8. I was also very impressed by the visuals

[justaprogressive]

3. My collection of science fiction films is extensive...

so I'll just list some of my favorites...some seldom seen

TV

The Prisoner
Max Headroom
The Outer Limits TOS
The Invaders
POI

Movies

Limitless
Source Code
They Live
This Island Earth
Kronos
The Time Machine
Timecop
The Day the Earth Stood Still

[electric_blue68]

9. TY

I might have seen Limitless. I liked Source Code.
Seen the original Time Machine a bunch of times. And the redo (I think only one); pretty good, prefer the original.
Never seen They Live, or This Island Earth.
I might have seen The Day The Earth Stoid Still when I was a bit too young to follow it all.
Think I'll go watch that, and They Live.
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Outer Limits TOS
😄
Omg! So many episodes scared the hell outta me!!! Why did I "subject" myself to that?!! 😆

POI - Person of Interest, or a different acronym?

[justaprogressive]

13. Glad to know there's a few you haven't seen

POI - Person of Interest

Here's some more

Them and/or Phase IV (1954)/ (1974)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

The War of the Worlds (1953)

The Day of the Triffids (1963)

The Beast from 20,000 fathoms/ It Came From Beneath the Sea 1954/1955

20,000 Leagues Under yhe Sea 1954 (Kirk Douglas, James Mason)

First Men in he Moon (1964)

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Panic in Year Zero! (1952)

"Klaatu Varada Nicto!"

[electric_blue68]

14. I've seen....

Them, if that's the giant ants one.

Both ...Bodysnatchers
Both... War of The Worlds

Probably 20, 000 Leagues, and Shrinking Man

[LogDog75]

4. So many to chose from

My favorites:

Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Start Trek: Deep Space 9
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Lost
The Prisoner
Sliders
Dr. Who
Eureka
The X Files
The Thing From Another World
When Worlds Collide
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Twilight Zone
The Core
Contact

[electric_blue68]

10. TY... Lucky we have So Many! You mentioned a few I really enjoyed too....

Sliders! Lot's of clever twists.
One of the first (probably stuck w me bc of being a "cold war" baby [vs our DU'rs in their 30's - ?50's)] twists SPOILER🚨

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BG (2004) Sooo good. The only reason it's just below my top tier is bc it's often (understandably) sooo grim!

Eureka was a lot of fun! Didn't see them all. Let's see if I have a stream for it.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) -
Was there a remake?

Oh, I forgot Contact! Another top favorite of mine. 👍

[LogDog75]

51. The writers of Eureka were amazing

The first show of the first season, where Jack Carter and his daughter are introduce, and the last show of the last season have an identical scene the writers must have planned long before knowing if their show would be a hit.

In the very first episode, Jack Carter is taking his runaway daughter back to his ex-wife's place in LA. It's late at night, dark, and raining and an approaching car has its headlights on bright causing Jack Carter to pay attention to the road rather than the car. Zoe looks at the car as it passes and see's her dad driving and her waving to herself from five years later. Brilliant!

[electric_blue68]

58. Oh!

[yellowdogintexas]

69. if you liked Eureka! you should also watch Warehouse 13. nt

[Intractable]

6. Babylon 5 made Star Trek fans cry.

B5 was that good.

[electric_blue68]

11. I know what you mean... I wasn't "looking" for anything to "top" The Treks; being a fan from the start, and all that....

I was like; as B5 progressed: "Wow, this is better than (the) Trek(s)".

[Intractable]

15. But not as long-lived nor as prolific as Trek.

The B5 sequels were failures.

B5 Crusade had great potential, but then the suits messed with it, wanting to sex it up.

[electric_blue68]

12. TY for playing! 👍🚀🦕📡

[Wolf Frankula]

16. Babylon 5, Star Trek

and Firefly.

Wolf

[TuxedoKat]

18. Equilibrium and Fahrenheit 451

NT

[electric_blue68]

20. Fahrenheit 451...that was a singular movie, not a series?

I remember the movie.

[TuxedoKat]

22. It Looks Like

There were movies made of it in 1966, 1996, and 2018. I'm not sure which one I saw, maybe the 1996 one. It would be fun to see the 1966 version by director, Francois Truffaut. It seems the 2018 movie got terrible reviews.

[electric_blue68]

23. Oh, wow...i d k that! Going to look them up...

Hmmm '66, or '96 ...

Probably saw the'96 one.

[electric_blue68]

24. Wow...it was the 1966 one I saw. So I probably saw it on TV bc in B&W....

I remember the fireman's face. 👍

[electric_blue68]

44. There may not be a 1996 one. Googled it, nothing came up.

[TuxedoKat]

88. I must have misread

something, sorry. I guess I saw the 2018 one, but not having read the book, didn't know it was that bad! Have read alot of other things by Ray Bradbury though, one of my favorite authors.

[electric_blue68]

89. Hey, No problem! I like Ray Beadbury, too....

Martian Chronicals, a bunch of orher short stories.

[TuxedoKat]

98. Have you read this story?

"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed". One of my favorites.

[electric_blue68]

99. A Long Time Ago, but yes. 👍

[ProfessorGAC]

19. ST:NG

Was fanatical about that series, though I liked all the iterations, especially DS9.
Glad you mentioned Bab 5. One of the streaming options I get through XFINITY has the whole series. I watch it from time to time. Great space soap opera.
I also liked Independence Day a lot, but the sequel was atrocious. All of a sudden there's a jurassic queen? Huh? We were told they were very much like us in the first movie, and if that's the queen, where did the millions of humanoids come from?

[electric_blue68]

21. B5 is less well known, but sooo good! I love Independence Day...

I love the soundtrack!

The sequel... don't remember it completely.

They sort of looked like us (1 st movie) bipedal, facial symtry. But those head crests!
Humanoids? Don't remember those in the sequel.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. howdi

all of the showa era japanese monster movies .
spaceballs 1.

young frankinstien..

3 stooges in orbit

3 stooges in space

the raven.

independance day.

original trek.

original battlestar galactica.
others .

[3auld6phart]

26. Canticle

For liebowittz…Spl…a novel many years ago

[johnp3907]

27. Stalker (1979)

[JoseBalow]

34. Tarkovsky never gets the credit he deserves

I think it's the deliberate and slow pace in unwrapping his stories, but that's what I like about him. It gives one time to take in the surroundings and atmosphere, the nuances, and lets the tension build imperceptibly until it completely wraps around you. I found Solaris to be slow and boring the first time I watched it, but I appreciated it much more on subsequent viewings. Same for Stalker, it improves with age.

I mentioned Stalker recently in another unrelated thread about the Chernobyl exclusion zone, but it was misunderstood and went unappreciated. Ah, well... IYKYK

[electric_blue68]

45. Eww, that sounds creepy!

[JoseBalow]

96. It's not about what you probably are thinking it is

It's not about stalking, the crime... But it definitely is creepy, and philosophically pretty deep, in a way only Tarkovsky can deliver.

The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko)—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where there supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes.

-snip-

A man works as a "Stalker", leading people through the "Zone", an area where the normal laws of physics do not apply, and remnants of seemingly extraterrestrial activity lie undisturbed among its ruins. At the heart of the Zone lies a "Room," which is said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. The Zone contains ominous, supernatural hazards. The government bans anyone from entering the Zone and subjects Stalkers to long prison sentences if caught.

-snip-

Writer Lilya Kaganovsky says the film's mysterious Zone drawn comparisons with the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that was established in 1986 (seven years after the release of the film) in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, and some of the people employed to take care of the Chernobyl power plant referred to themselves as "stalkers". Though the film does not specify the origin of the Zone, near the end, in a shot of the Stalker with his family outside the Zone, what appears to be a power plant is visible in the background. The themes of nuclear radiation and environmental degradation would be revisited by Tarkovsky in his final film, The Sacrifice.

-snip-

Like Tarkovsky's other films, Stalker relies on long takes with slow, subtle camera movement, rejecting the use of rapid montage. The film contains 142 shots in 163 minutes, with an average shot length of more than one minute and many shots lasting for more than four minutes. Almost all of the scenes not set in the Zone are in sepia or a similar high-contrast brown monochrome, with the exception of scenes featuring Stalker's daughter, shot in colour.

Wiki

It's really quite an excellent and extraordinary film, though admittedly probably not the sort of thing many American audiences would likely appreciate.

(2:41:55)

[OC375]

28. Jeremiah

Jeremiah was on Showtime's Sci-Friday lineup back in the day. Basically the "adults screwed up and now young adults have to rebuild after a global pandemic" trope, which has been done to death. Still, I liked it and wish it had gone more than 2 seasons. Rewatching it from time to time I cringe at some of the slang and attitude, but in a good way.

In the same vein, I really liked Jericho as well. Not sure how realistic it was in terms of the impacts of a nuclear weapons detonations in the US, but... I found the dynamics of the relationships between families, towns and ultimately fledgling nations to be very interesting. Eventually, you have to work with someone else. No one is an island and being in conflict with everyone you fear doesn't guarantee success. Also the first show I saw featuring Lennie James, who became one of my favorite TV actors.

I liked The Walking Dead, pretty much right up until they left Herschel's farm. Liked Fear the Walking Dead much better. Best zombie movie award goes to the original "Dawn of the Dead.' Social commentary, camp and bad special effects makeup mixed together is a potent drink. Hare Krishna zombies. Genius!

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[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Lennie James....yes!!!

I binge watch very good actors, like James or Stephen Graham. Many of them are British, I've noticed,
Still in mourning for Michael K. Williams.

[electric_blue68]

46. I've heard of both Jeremiah, and Jericho....

the only zombie stuff I ever watched was 2 viewings of I Am Legend; once in the movie theater, then once streaming.
Eeeks. No more!
.
Wayward Pines - the only zombie SF story I every watched, and rewatched.

Jeremiah was written by JMS - Babylon 5.

[nocoincidences]

29. Invaders from Mars, the 50s version.

Anyone who hasn't seen They Live....watch it now and you will start to question who the Repubs REALLY are. Very timely and unforgettable!!

[flying rabbit]

32. The Expanse

hands down

[flying rabbit]

41. one of my favorite scenes

[ultralite001]

90. Amen...

Why do they always need to "experiment" on the kids, tho???

[electric_blue68]

47. Heard lots of good things about this.

[wcmagumba]

61. You have to watch it, so good, excellent plot, character development and special effects...

I've watched the entire series several times...(I'm retired so have the time to do this)...

It's like Christmas for me when I watch it...thus my Santa...

[electric_blue68]

66. Retired, too. Make art, do crafts, hang out w fam & friends, visit parks, stream TV & Movies,

...occasionally Museums

[Archae]

33. Am I the only one here who loved the first season of "Buck Rogers?"

Second season stunk, but I loved the first season.

[JoseBalow]

35. Firefly was an excellent series

Great writing and acting, I highly recommend it.

[electric_blue68]

48. Ty... one of my longest time frineds and fellow SF fan in books & media loved it...

I caught some, but didn't have the channel to catch the whole thing.

[Efilroft Sul]

36. Battlestar: Galactica reboot from 20 years ago.

Storylines from that show, and its characters, have resonated with me throughout the decades.

I know old BSG fans ended up not caring for it, but President Roslin, Saul Tigh, Bill Adama, Helo, Boomer, Caprica Six, Chief, and many other characters are head and shoulders better those in the original ABC series.

Haven't caught Star Trek: Strange New Worlds yet, but I really want to watch it when I have the time.

[electric_blue68]

49. I like BSG 2.0 so much more than the original...

I don't remember much about it, which means it didn't stick w me.

I say that bc - as an example; the Original Outer Limits back in the mid-'60s as effing scary as it was (how did I subject myself as an?11, 12 yr old! 😄 🤪 )
...very good - many of those stories stuck w me: though I pushed them away bc of their creepiness; can recall some if I usually chose to (rarely). There were some scaryish, but tolerable bc of an interesting story.

I put BSG 2.0 just below my top favorites only bc of it's (well done) grimness. Great series. Have rewatched it.

[Coventina]

37. I really like "Resident Alien"

Firefly, of course.

I don't like horror, so I've never done the Alien(s) stuff.

I've loved all the Star Trek series I've watched.

Star Wars never really did it for me.

[electric_blue68]

50. I saw the Original Alien movie in the theater, and....

maaaaybe once on TV.
And that was it for me!!!


I hear you!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

38. Manos, Hands of Fate

It's barely a movie. But Mystery Science Theater 3000 does the funniest riffing of a "movie" ever.

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The Brain that Wouldn't Die
Pod People
The Painted Hills
Devil Doll

I recommend all of MST3K and Cinematic Titanic.

[Midnight Writer]

39. Village of the Damned-1960

Day of the Triffids-1962

Them-1954

George Pal's War of the Worlds and The Time Machine

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

They Live

[electric_blue68]

54. Yeah, saw both of George Pals movies...

Saw "Them".

My mom saw Triffids, but not me.

Invasion... both versions. Eeee.

[WestMichRad]

40. I've seen only a handful of the titles mentioned in this thread...

Just not a movie buff. But it’s surprising to me that no one has yet mentioned 2001: A Space Odyssey. I really liked that… maybe because part of it made me imagine an acid trip.

Really liked Contact, too.

[electric_blue68]

52. Loved Contact a favorite. 2001 ... I saw it originally in the movie theater on a Big screen, too.....

Then decades later the 50th anniversary I saw it in the same thearter, and Keir Dullea did a Q & A after.

I found the ape segment to be soooo boring this time.
I found it, I guess, cold for the most part. So not very compelling in that way.

The visuals were mostly still good to excellent!
especially "going through" the Monolith.
My favorite of that is the? 4 or 6 suspended 3-D rhombuses that had their own imagery, along with the bottom half of the screen the colors racing foward! Still SO Awesome! That part right there. Felt like the Gates of the Universe knowledge were swinging open!

Re m: Contact- I was posting late. Something was prodding me mentally, and I realized I hadn't mentioned Contact (a favorite!) so I just added it in at the endxeith a few others.

[wcmagumba]

64. I agree with both. The 2001 soundtrack was the first album I bought when in middle school...still like it...

[Morbius]

42. Many of my favorites are listed above.

In particular, look at my name. Morbius was the scientist on Altair IV, who (subconsciously) operated the great machine of the Krel, in Forbidden Planet. This movie hasn't aged well; it's more than a bit sexist and smacks of eugenics. But it remains stunning in scope, and some of the scenes will always be iconic.

No one has mentioned Metropolis? Not just the 1927 original, but the excellent 2001 anime release inspired by the original? Speaking of anime, Paprika is quite good. I don't remember seeing Akira listed above either, and I am sure I didn't see Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Ergo Proxy wasn't perfectly realized, but I will never forget it.

[electric_blue68]

59. Yup, I Noticed your name....

Oh, yeah ..sonme sexist stuff (big surprise).

.Eugenics,? How so.... related to the intelligence measuring machine, perhaps?

[Morbius]

94. From the movie's screenplay (from memory):

"I'm in command of 18 genetically selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days."

Now, maybe my memory is off (I am old) and perhaps the line is "competitively selected", but when I hear the word "super" I think about Superman, and that sets my heckles off. Note every one of these "super-perfect" specimens is lily-white.

It was 1956. Maybe I should be more forgiving. But this used to be my favorite sci-fi movie. Some of it doesn't sit well these days.

[Jeebo]

43. The 1950s was a GREAT decade for s-f films.

Five of my favorite movies EVER (not just science fiction!) were made in the 1950s:

War of the Worlds
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Fly
Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet, in particular, is, in my humble opinion, the BEST science fiction movie ever made. I'm not talking about the silliness of the robot making booze for the cook, or the guys on the space ship kissing Altaira, or any of the other silliness in the early parts of the movie. I'm talking about the artifacts on the planet of the ancient Krell civilization, the way the humans in the movie interact with those artifacts, the mystery of the destructive force running rampant on the planet, and the mystery of what destroyed the Krell civilization. That movie is SO deep and SO profound and SO intelligent. I have watched it so many times that I find myself mouthing the words along with the characters. My favorite line in the movie: "We're ALL monsters in our subconscious, so we have LAWS and RELIGION!" And yes, as others in this thread have observed, the special effects are breathtaking, too.

I could mention lots of other great science fiction films that were not made in the 1950s, but I'm going to talk about only two: 2001 A Space Odyssey, and The Wall.

2001 gets lots of criticism because of all the bewildering stuff that happens at the end, but I think that's a big part of the point of the film. After all, if we humans ever encounter an extraterrestrial civilization that is so far ahead of us, wouldn't we find them bewildering and incomprehensible? I think our dogs and cats understand us better than we would understand a civilization that advanced. In that scene near the end of the film when David Bowman is being given a whirlwind tour of the universe, you see several shots of his face looking like a resident of a mental institution. That's because the man's mind is being seriously blown.

The Wall is one of the best science fiction films I've ever seen, one of the most overlooked (how many of you have seen it?) and also one of the best foreign language films I've ever seen. It's an Austrian film made in 2013. I don't think it was marketed or promoted as a science fiction film, but it nevertheless fits in that genre because the title phenomenon could only have been produced by a non-human technology. The movie is also a psychological study of isolation and survival. The actress who plays the unnamed woman ought to have gotten a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this film, and if they gave Oscars to animal actors, they should have given one to her dog Lynx. I want that dog. What a great dog. The relationship between the woman and the dog is lovely to behold, and one of the best cinematic portrayals I've ever seen of cross-species friendships. There are lots of other great science fiction films I could mention, but I want to mention this one because nobody else is, and it is richly deserving of mention.

-- Ron

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[electric_blue68]

57. The Krell civilization- the Artifacts, the machinery...as you said

how the humans acted w them. The dangers of what happened to the Krell and now the new human visitors. Pretty high concept stuff.
.
You're probably right about humanity being confronted with a civilization so possibly far beyond us, and how the end of 2001 went.

The Wall - I thought Pink Floyd? 😄

No never heard of it. Will keep an eye out for it

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

82. The Wall is incredible.

Every one here should also read the book.

[Klarkashton]

53. "The day the earth stood still" (original) and ""War of the worlds"

Just try and beat these two. I dare you!!!

[electric_blue68]

60. I have to rewatch TDTEST.

[wcmagumba]

55. ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...no horror in these but I still love them both...

[electric_blue68]

67. I'm Not a horror fan. Eeeek. RARE for me to mix SF w horror....

I like ET.

Love Close Encounters!
Saw in theater, rewatched on TV many times!
I almost thought about visiting Devils Tower as I was passing through Wyoming in '80. But I was on my way to an event in South Dakota so I didn't.

[wcmagumba]

70. I don't remember the year but I did visit Devils Tower and walked the trail that goes around the bottom.

I couldn't find the landing site for the aliens and all the little trailers though, just lots of big rocks...ha ha...

[electric_blue68]

74. Wow! How cool is that! Quite a natural structure.

I double checked the year.
So CEOT3K was in '77, since I was near there in '80 - so I would have been seeing it (Devil's Tower) for 1) amazing natural formation, 2) CEOT3K story line.
👍

[wcmagumba]

76. It was very cool to see it. The Tower is a favorite for rock climbers over the years. I don't indulge in that activity..

Just not for me...

[electric_blue68]

78. Oh, Hell No, me either!

Though I did like climbing some rocks in a park as a tween along with friends. And a as a kid in a different park like area.

Nothing as crazy as what some people do!
Eeeeks! 😄

[wcmagumba]

73. I just saw this story posted a couple of days ago, it is the cast of ET more recently.

Scroll down the story a bit..

https://ew.com/movies/et-extra-terrestrial-where-are-they-now/

[electric_blue68]

77. Looks like almost all of them stayed with acting

A few dropped out later on

[YepYep]

56. Lost in Space

Yes, I know that it was a cheesy show, but there is 1 line I still use.
https://images.app.goo.gl/J94WnFLGPZNJRnKi7

[electric_blue68]

63. Lol On a rare occasion I've used it, too.

[Figarosmom]

62. Bladerunner for movie

And Highlander for TV series

[electric_blue68]

68. I should rewatch Blade Runner. Never saw Highlander except for a brief glimpse.

[Figarosmom]

85. Yeah, i was thinking of looking

To see if it's streaming somewhere.

[LudwigPastorius]

65. Some shorties:

Dollhouse - 2 seasons...a Joss Whedon series that is better than its initial set up indicates

Millenium - 3 seasons...a series by the creator of the X-Files starring Lance Henriksen. I recommend you treat the last episode of Season 2 as the end of the show and don't bother with the last season.

Space: Above and Beyond - 1 season, it's on YouTube...created by Morgan & Wong of the X-Files as well as...

The Lone Gunmen - 1 season..an X-Files spinoff

...and, you've probably seen it, but I'll recommend The Expanse anyway.

I'm also halfway through a short series from a few years ago called Limetown. It's pretty good so far.

[electric_blue68]

72. Haven't seen the The Expanse bc I don't have that service

Just checked general plot for SAAB...

Sounds more interesting than the title, imho, would suggest

Watched a lot of X-Files. May have seen TLG.

[wcmagumba]

81. All six seasons of "The Expanse" are now on Prime Video if you happen to have that service...

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If not, Amazon has a free 30 day trial if you sign up (but you can cancel before the trial ends)...just go to the Prime Video site on Amazon...I'm posting a link to a free site called "Just watch" that lets you find out where a show/movie is currently streaming...I use this site a lot...

https://www.justwatch.com/

Edit: The first 2 or so episodes of Season 1 can seem a bit slow but the series really picks up after that so I suggest patience.

[jls4561]

71. Are we all forgetting Firefly? It was only one season, but it was great.

Pity Fox was so short sighted.

[electric_blue68]

75. Several people mentioned Firefly. 👍

[Ocelot II]

79. Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake with Donald Sutherland)

[dhol82]

80. The Prisoner - "You are number six"

And, The Day The Earth Stood Still,” the original version. Each actor added to the film, even the robot. Such an amazingly fabulous movie. Loved Michael Rennie!

The Prisoner was my fave tv show. Just gripping.

[LogDog75]

84. The Prisoner is one of my favorites

I bought the DVD set of the series and I have a couple of the books that was written for the series. I liked the program so much my favorite number is Number 6.

One interesting thing about the series is many people think the series is a continuation of the character from Secret Agent but it wasn't.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

83. People of Earth.

A reporter hooks up with a group of people who are convinced they were abducted by aliens. Wonderful, wonderful, show and should have had more than 2 seasons.

[ultralite001]

86. So many of my favorites have already been mentioned...

Let me add:
The Blob (Steve McQueen)
The Crawling Eye…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (original “3D”)
The Beast w/ Five Fingers

Recently rewatched all the Godzilla movies w/ the g-kids… Good times… we tried to watch them in order, exploring the theme of “the dangers of unchecked atomic energy”…

Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
Wolfman (Lon Chaney)

As well as

Cocoon
The Thing
Back to the Future
The Last Starfighter
Alien Nation
Enemy Mine
Ex Machina
The Martian
Outland (Sean Connery)

TV Series
Paradox
Regenesis
Killjoys
V (old + new)
Westworld
Stargate (series + film)
Tripods
Moonbase 8

And too many more to mention… Thanks for the great thread…

[dhol82]

87. Forgot about the Last Starfighter

Great movie!

[ultralite001]

91. Don't forget to check w/ your local library...

Many have DVDs to check out...

Does your library stream the Kanopy service???

Currently available movies include some classics:
Plan 9 from Outer Space (often labeled as one of the worst films ever made)
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Galaxy Quest
Metropolis
Donnie Darko
Escape from New York
Interstellar
Solaris
Fantastic Planet
Things to Come
I Married A Monster from Outer Space
Robocop

TV selections include:
The Prisoner
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Biohackers
Tales from the Loop
Dr Who w/ Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor
+ a bunch of anime...

Enjoy!!!

[electric_blue68]

93. Ty. Yeah, I've borrowed DVDs. 👍

[LogDog75]

92. Night of the Comet

After a comet passes Earth, most of the people in the world have literally turned to dust. Two Valley Girls survive and treat what's left of their lives as if L.A. were a giant shopping mall. But there is danger from some other survivors as well as government researchers who survived in an underground facility looking for a cure. Fun movie with two ditzy girls.

[ultralite001]

95. I 🧡💛💙 Night of the Comet!!!

TIA

[Boomerproud]

97. Twilight Zone.

That counts, right?