Out of Pod Experience

Got another terrible movie.

Robot Jox (also known as robo jockeys)

Darnit to many to choose from

Best

Blade runner
Aliens special edition ( you know the ones with the added sentry guns that remind me of baby space sentries )
Star Trek into Darkness

Worst
Oblivion ( cant stand the film my wife actually understood it which means its crap)

Best: District 9

Worst: Prometheus

Actually I will admit that Wing Commander was one of my sci-fi guilty pleasure movies. This, along with Timecop, Sliders (TV show), Quantum Leap, and Primer (no one I know, besides myself, likes this movie).

Does Donny Darko count as sci-fi?

That and Barb Wire.

Best sharknado.

Worst 2001.

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I never saw the movie but I remember a live action CD-ROM Wing Commander game narrated by Mark Hamill. I never got to play it but I could always hear it coming from the family room computer while I spent hours each day chained to the kitchen sink. Yeah I missed out on a lot of great media during those horrible years, and I knew about all of it being available, just out of reach.

Timecop was pretty great. I have to admit though, that the thing I liked most about it was Mark Hamill. But it also was just a generally higher convention quality than the big budget films we have today--by that I mean that the basic stuff was more realistic, unlike today's movies where everything takes place in a completely different universe where even the most mundane things happen completely differently from real life. I get so tired of those and will prefer some of the most mundane crap over films that insult the intelligence of viewers with Down's Syndrome.

I got into watching Sliders recently. Good show for its time. I've only seen about 8 episodes or so, but I started to get tired of it by that point.

I used to watch Quantum Leap with my dad. I liked the two main characters and I thought they had some real chemistry, but it always bothered me when he'd be someone else and still look like himself. Still a great show. I really should boot it up and start watching again. I never got tired of it, I just joined the military and then my dad died. I guess it'll bring back good memories.

And you can go ahead and add two more to that list of people who liked Primer. My brother Matthew is into indie films with thought-provoking plots, and he finds some rather interesting titles. I really enjoyed that movie and I was just blown away by the work they put into the realism and plausibility, and the depth of the explanations. For a science nerd like me, it really was like coming up for air after holding my breath underwater for the last several years.

Blade Runner was great, as was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I like all of the Next Generation Star Trek movies. Insurrection was originally my favorite, but as I look back I find that both Generations and First Contact are especially memorable, and I didn't like Nemesis when I first watched it but I saw it recently and it clicked a lot better that time. But Voyager was always my favorite series. I really wish we could get some Voyager and Deep Space 9 movies. Yeah, I'm totally a Trekker.

You liked "Stalker" but not "Liquid Sky" ? Both are kinda similar, in that they are pretty much non-technology based SF.

The audience I saw Alien 3 with mostly walked out at the end, very angry at the badness. I've never experienced anything like it before or since. I mean, people were appalled when Newt and Michael Biehn were offed before the opening credits were done, especially after the long heroic struggle in Aliens. Ugh.

I disagree with your summation of "2001", especially since you don't really outline your complaints at all. You are in a lonely field on that one.

"Enemy Mine" is pleasant enough. Morethe quality of an HBO production than a full on theatrical film, but it works. The original short story won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award. It's a very faithful adaptation.

To be fair, I did say the so-called Director's Cut of Alien 3.

If you saw the version shown in the cinema, which sounds like you did, then you're right it was a total mess. The problem lay entirely with Sony who messed around with the script, the writers, gave the first time director no power and generally seemed to go all out to make the worst film of all time.

The treatment of the director was such that he almost stopped directing there and then. But thankfully Fincher didn't as he gave us the wonderful Fight Club next time out.

Compare and contrast with the extended version that was put together by the crew which rebullt the vision that Fincher had and the film is utterly different. For a start the story makes sense. Scenes which were pivotal were restored from the cutting room floor. And there was plenty cut too; half an hour of film had been restored.

As for getting shot of those two characters; well, they had their role in Aliens but with companions Ripley wouldn't have been alone in a gothic nightmare. The supporting characters in Alien 3 were so well drawn and presented that I don't think that there would have been room for Beihn to breathe. In fact apart from the first film's casting the supporting cast in this one was the strongest of the whole series.

The extended version of the film, not the cinematic release, is little appreciated for what it is. The cinematic releae version is, on the other hand, really, really poor and should be left outside to be exposed and feed the wolves.

I know a lot of people think that Aliens is the best of the lot. But it's another Cameron film with high budget and lots of guns. It was fun when I saw it in my mid twenties but now there's nothing there that's of substance. And if one creature can cause that much damage in the first and third films then a planet full of the beasts should have been an impossibility to overcome. It was just an updated version of a John Wayne WW2 film when he and his bunch of ever so gung-ho marines are able to fight off the whole of the Japanese army without breaking sweat.

Id watch the hell out of that movie if they would have gotten Bill Murray instead of Tom Cruise.