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

[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
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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. 👍

[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