Do you like Sci-Fi?

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by 12lives, Jul 22, 2021.

  1. knucklebusted

    knucklebusted Well-Known Member

    The Travelers was a good show. People from the future sent back into the bodies of people the moment before death. Very cool premise and good execution. On Netflix. 3 seasons with a closure ending.
     
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  2. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    No, I did not. Something worth watching?
     
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  3. knucklebusted

    knucklebusted Well-Known Member

    It was about a vet that goes into a simulation. They put him in a coma/trance to interact with the program to help shut it down but he gets trapped in it. If you can find it. It was canceled before the full season was shown. I guess people could not handle that much virtual reality. At the time, I thought it was pretty interesting. You learn some things pretty early on but I don't want to spoil it. I'll just say that some of them want to stay in the simulation because it is better than their real life.
     
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  4. 12lives

    12lives Control the controllable, let the rest go

    42? No one? Pan-dimensional beings, bring a towel, Zaphod Beeblebrox? The original BBC, not the following imitations.
     
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  5. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    I knew what you meant as soon as I read it! 42 is my answer for just about anything that I don't know the answer to... So long, and thanks for all the fish!
     
  6. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    All three of these comic books are autographed by James Doohan. He was the star at a Stars & Cars auto show back in the 90's. I stood in line for hours to have him autograph them. He was a really nice guy.

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  7. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    Some of my Sci-Fi comic books that I dug out of the basement today. All from the 60's & 70's.

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  8. Mister T

    Mister T Just truckin' around

    Also a CB radio response instead of using 10-4.
     
  9. 12lives

    12lives Control the controllable, let the rest go

    Then there's Red Dwarf.
     
  10. 72STAGE1

    72STAGE1 STAGE 1 & 2

    What say we advance this thread alittle……..Name your Top 5 favorite Sci-Fi movies….I’ll start.

    #1………Alien
    2. Blade Runner
    3. Robison Crusoe on Mars
    4. Silent Running
    5. 2001
     
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  11. 12lives

    12lives Control the controllable, let the rest go

    1. Any Star Wars movie
    2. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    2.5 Terminator
    3. 5th Element
    4. Any Star Trex movie
    5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
     
  12. 12lives

    12lives Control the controllable, let the rest go

    Any thoughts on the NEW Dune movie? Trailer looks good...

     
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  13. Duane

    Duane Member

    The original move was good until the very end when they really deviated from the book. They also did a 2-part mini series. I have it but have not watched it yet.

    The new movie is supposed to be good, but we will see. It took Frank Herbert 15 years to write the first book. I don’t see how any single movie could truly do it justice. It would have to be very long.
    Duane
     
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  14. 72STAGE1

    72STAGE1 STAGE 1 & 2

    Yes Duane, I read Dune in Jr High, loved it, but I couldn’t make it thru the second one.
     
  15. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    Can't narrow the list down to five, not yet. I'm at 14 and keep adding to it...
     
  16. Duane

    Duane Member

    72STAGE1
    That’s a shame, the third book “Children of Dune” was a great book, and the 4th one “God Emperor of Dune” was almost on par with the first book.

    To be honest the first three books were actually a single story, but were split up for consumption.
    Duane
     
  17. Kaisym66

    Kaisym66 Well-Known Member

    I do not like Sci-Fi.
     
  18. Duane

    Duane Member

    You're allowed.

    I can't give you my top 5 but here are my top 20, and not in any particular order;
    War of the Worlds (Original)
    The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original)
    The Omega Man
    Forbidden Planet
    The Fly (Original)
    Star Wars (The 1st Movie)
    Edge of Tomorrow
    The Book of Eli
    V for Vendetta
    Escape from New York
    John Carter
    Mad Max (Original)
    Roller Ball (Original)
    Soylent Green
    Surrogates
    Alien Nation (The movie, not the series)
    Blade Runner (Original)
    The Andromeda Strain
    Minority Report
    Paycheck

    Duane
     
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  19. cole

    cole Platinum Level Contributor

    I think I watched these series on Netflix
    Altered Carbon and Love, Death and Robots
     
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  20. TrunkMonkey

    TrunkMonkey Totally bananas

    Love, Death and Robots is good.

    I like the "shorts". Often just a little conveys a lot.
     

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