Your (5) B-Grade Sci-Fi Flicks

[fotno]

Hey Sandy, wasn't Sean Connery in that one?

My list...

Fantastic Voyage
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Them! (Love it)
Attack of The 50 Foot Woman
This Island Earth

To be honest, I can only think of a handful of Sci-Fi flicks that qualify (to me at least) as A-list films. IMO, everything else in the genre is by defintion a B-movie... I think that's why I love Sci-Fi so! Less pretention.

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Anybody remember that British flick from 30 years or so ago, "Zardoz" ? Don't remember much about it, except you got to see Charlotte Rampling-a minor would-be hottie of the day-nekkid,& people ran around in it wearing these stupid stone-like masks that vaguely resembled Charlton Heston's Moses in the "10 Commandments"...

Zardoz = Wizard of Oz, the book that the immortal drops in front of Sean Connery to get him thinking. I like that movie a lot & had forgotten about it.

[Sandy G]

Yep, Sean was in that one. I don't remember if he got nekkid innit too, though... It's been a good 25 yrs since I saw it...Don't think they've ever played it on TV...Maybe too much nekkidity in it or something...

[tentoze]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Anybody remember that British flick from 30 years or so ago, "Zardoz" ? Don't remember much about it, except you got to see Charlotte Rampling-a minor would-be hottie of the day-nekkid,& people ran around in it wearing these stupid stone-like masks that vaguely resembled Charlton Heston's Moses in the "10 Commandments"...

One of VERY few movies I actually own...

"I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived 300 years, and long to die."

Directed by a favorite of mine, John Boorman.

[Sandy G]

I'm remembering more 'n' more about "Zardoz" now...Maybe I'll hafta try to find it & rent it, & watch it again...Seems like it had a veddy, veddy quirky "Britishness" about it...most Americans didn't "get" it.

[subdermis2000]

In no particular order:

Death Race 2000
Dark Star
Barbarella
Logan's Run
The Blood of Heroes

[Scorpion8]

I was wondering if anyone was going to select "Barbarella", a cult-favorite before Hanoi-Jane injected politics into every facet of her public life. How about "Galaxina" (Playmate Dorothy Stratten), another of the almost-chessiest-film-ever-produced? Avery Schriber as a starship captain?

[tentoze]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

I'm remembering more 'n' more about "Zardoz" now...Maybe I'll hafta try to find it & rent it, & watch it again...Seems like it had a veddy, veddy quirky "Britishness" about it...most Americans didn't "get" it.

It is damned quirky alright, but not all that "British", IMO. As with most Boorman films, the visuals are unique.

[kerozene]

I've never seen it. I'll have to find a DVD and watch it. I am intrigued now.

[subdermis2000]

Originally Posted by tentoze

It is damned quirky alright, but not all that "British", IMO. As with most Boorman films, the visuals are unique.

and the story has become more relevant to the here and now than it was in the 80's and 90's. In respect for the forum rules I'll leave it at that.

[dtuomi]

I was always fond of Silent Running. Although Dr. Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing was fun. Also Battle Beyond the Stars which was a remake of the Magnificent Seven (which was a remake). Also Runaway with Tom Selleck, I thought the smart bullets in that were scary. And who could ever forget Looker which was very forward looking in its ideas of how virtual actors would be used.

David

[sven]

No order, just faves:

1. Escape From New York
2. Screamers
3. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
4. The Idaho Transfer
5. Kronos

[soundmotor]

I will have to watch "Idaho Transfer" and "Blood of Heroes". I'd never heard of them before.

A few more -

1. Cube
2. The Monitors
3. H-Man (1959)
4. Giant of Metropolis
5. Forbidden Planet

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by dtuomi

I was always fond of Silent Running. Although Dr. Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing was fun. Also Battle Beyond the Stars which was a remake of the Magnificent Seven (which was a remake). Also Runaway with Tom Selleck, I thought the smart bullets in that were scary. And who could ever forget Looker which was very forward looking in its ideas of how virtual actors would be used.

David

Silent Running has always been a favorite.

I am not a Dern fan per se but no one else could have played a misanthrope better that he did in that role.

[soundmotor]

I am somewhat shocked that Westworld has not reared it's head yet.