Sci-Fi.....
 

Now I know there are more Sci-Fi fans here than will admit....but ...lets hear your stories!.....

Favorites...

Most hated...

series...

Classics...

gereral....

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Favorite Sci Fi series - Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Favorite Sci Fi movies - Bladerunner, The Abyss, Forbidden Planet, 2001 A Space Odyssey ... I'm sure I'll think of more

Most hated - a long list, let me get back to you :scratch2:

My fav sci fi movies are 2001, Bladerunner, The Bicentennial Man, Close Encounters.,amazing that they still havent done an epic from Issac Asimov's Trilogy Foundation or any of his books
The totally screwed up I, Robot and missed all the tremendous pyschological drama and battle of wits between inspector Bailey and the robot...
I also loved AI.

You are sooooooo right about Asimov's I Robot story. The Caves of Steel would've made a better movie though. DS9 was the best Star Trek series ever. I loved Space 1999 and Dr Who. The best sci-fi series to date is the new Battlestar Galactica - hands down. Movies? Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Day the Earth Stood Still. 2001 a Space Odyssey. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Alien. Predator. Logans Run is still an old fave. Worst? Saturn 5? Independence Day. Amazon Women on the Moon?

The Chronicles of Riddick movie, Conan The Barbarian books ( not the movie ! ) any thing by Robert Silverberg, Phlip K Dick, Larry Niven, Roger Zelazny-- loved the Amber Chronicles, The list is endless.

I've too many to mention....the list is long and BEAUTIFUL!

As for bad sci-fi....I've too many to mention....the list is long and UGLY!

FWIW...Sometimes BAD sci-fi can be fun to watch, remember Mystery Science Theater 3000????

Russ

Oh geez, Lets see

Space 1999
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek TNG
Star Trek
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Movies

War of the Worlds. The older one
All Star Wars
All Star Treks
Blade Runner
2001,2010
All movies that have something to do with time travel, and I have seen many.

In 1956 I saw The Forbidden Planet, this is the first and the best, IMHO, that got me started in my love of SciFi.

Lessee now- TV shows, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (1960s era) Lost in Space, Time Tunnel,of course Star Trek, Stargate SG-1-but they're about to lose me on this new season- What was the marionette show back in the early '60s-the sexpot girl marionette was a Russian, & the steely captain was named "Chris", I think, the Gerry Anderson "Thunderbirds" series is fun, never saw it when I was a kid. I never cared much for the "Battlestar Galactica" era SF shows-they were just TOO hokey. What was the one that had the little robot who sounded like a 1940s era Borscht-Belt comedian? Puh-leeze... Gimme some blood-blanching monsters that give me nightmares for a week, like the old "Outer Limits" did...Enuff w/the cutesy-wootsey stuff... Let the kids get the F*CK scared outta 'em, like we did. Remember the monster that got after Dr Smith when he had that gizmotron that gave him anything he wanted? You remember, the one who's face looked like a melted candle ? Gawdam, Sam, I saw that bad boy for 2 weeks...Mama threatened to never let me watch "Lost in Space" again. Nahhh, I don't like S/F stuff a bit....<grin>-Sandy G.

To me, Babylon 5 made even Star Trek: The Next Generation look sick by comparison... and I thought ST:TNG was by far the best of all the Trek series! I also thought Roswell was superb, and Max Headroom rocked... I wish I had had a VCR back in 1987:(

I would love to see more than just Starship Troopers from Robert A. Heinlein made into movies, especially Friday, I Will Fear No Evil, The Number Of The Beast and Job: A Comedy Of Justice. And of course, Blade Runner was the very first DVD I bought.

Tom

Books are still the best media for Sci-Fi. I read Red Planet by Heinlien in the 4th grade and have been hooked ever since.

TV show was Science Fiction Theatre and Twilight Zone

Early movies were Invaders from Mars, Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still, and War of The Worlds.

Later movies were good until they started using special effects as part of the script. Predator, 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind are some of the better newer movies. Those movies used special effects to compliment an already good story line. Predator to me has the best balance of special effects of any recent movie.

Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land would make an incredible film. Also, the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Somebody mentioned Zelazny. The World of Tiers, and the Chronicles of Amber would be great. How about Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series? I LOVED those books. Sci-Fi Channel tried to translate that into a movie, but they didn't do it much justice. Greg Bear's the Forge of God. I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Dune novels! The movie sucked, but Sci-Fi Channel made a great miniseries of both Dune and Children of Dune. Have 'em on DVD. Great pieces of work. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books - were pursued as cinematic stories by Ronald Moore, the producer of the new BSG series. It never reached fruition. Has anybody (other than me) ever read James Blish's Cities in Flight books? Incredible. Arthur C. Clarke's Rondezvous with Rama is another. They even made a PG game out of it! Bradbury's Martian Chronicles was one of the first pieces of Science Fiction I ever read.

It's so disapointing when you see a movie based on a classic Sci-Fi story that's ruined the story. I Robot being the latest. I think the biggest problem movies have is they are visual while books let the reader provide his/her own visuals as they read. 2001 was the way to go............make the movie and then have someone write a book based on the movie. :)

Series (Only):

Best Ever:
- Babylon 5
Excellent:
- Every Star Trek with the exception of DS9 (Deep S**T Nine), and the first two (lousy) seasons of Next Gen.
- Stargate SG1 (Up until the current season)
- Farscape
- (New) Battle Star Galactic-Babes, errr, I mean Galactica
- Twilight Zone
Very Good:
- 4400
Merely OK
- Star Treck DS9 (OK, so I watched it, even though I was deeply annoyed with it).

Deeply Cheesy, but I enjoyed watching as a kid anyway:
- Dr Who
- Battlestar Galactica (Original)
- Space 1999
- $6,000,000 Man, Woman, and Dog
- My favorite Martian

Bad
- Andromeda

Totally Sucked (this list is WAY too long, but I'll list a few prominent ones that come to mind)
- Earth Final Conflict
- Lost in Space
- Etc...


Movies: Far too Many to list.

Favs: Abyss, Aliens, ...... etc...

Good Star Trek Movies: 2,4,6, First Contact
Bad Sart Trek Movies: 1,3,5, Nemesis
OK Star trek Movies: all the rest.

I was never too enamored with the original Battlestar Galactica, but the new version is really quite good. I just bought the miniseries and season 1 on dvd and thought the plot lines, acting, and even the special effects were quite good for a tv series. Other series I enjoy are Star Trek and Star Trek TNG (all the other incarnations I could never get into); The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, X-Files, Sliders, The Lost World, and Highlander.

Favorite Sci-Fi movies would be Bladerunner, Logan's Run (cheesy special effect but original plot), The first Planet of the Apes (before it became a ridiculous series), Species (first movie), Stargate, and Total Recall. The best the past few years, even though I don't care for Vin Diesel is Pitch Black. So much of Sci-Fi is retreads of earlier ideas. I like movies that break new ground or give a new perspective. For satyr, Mystery Science Theater is great!