Best Sci-Fi of the past 25 Years....

Jarochai Alabaster · Post by **Jarochai Alabaster** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:45 pm

I thought that Dreamcatcher was some darn good sci-fi

Dreamcatcher was a terrible book, and even worse movie (Even ignoring for a moment that it's basically a rip-off of the theme from the Alien series, with the exception that the aliens are deliberately trying to take over). Hell, The Langoliers was better sci-fi than Dreamcatcher, as was The Tommyknockers.

I will agree though that King is more than just a horror writer. Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption...just off the top of my head. It's just that most of his books are horror in nature, and most of his really good stories are, too. It, Pet Sematary, Carrie, The Shining, just to name a few.

jookkor · Post by **jookkor** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:28 pm

bah just started watching farscape on a tv with the best picture possible atm rather then crappy fuzzy large-pixled net tv so like, nm about claudia black being cute even back then =D And now I can see that the frog guy isnt always shitting, sometimes he is spitting pissing or puking as well. He clearly rules.

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:07 pm

Finglefinn wrote:I thought that Dreamcatcher was some darn good sci-fi, from a so called "horror" writer. I think that it is a gross misrepresentation of Stephen King to classify him as a horror writer.

Horror-fantasy, might be more accurate. But it was be a stretch to call him sci-fi.

I didn't care for Dreamcatcher, but I really don't like anything of his except the Dark Tower series.

Riggen · Post by **Riggen** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:30 pm

Spaceballs really deserves a mention.

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:46 pm

I do love me some Spaceballs.

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:13 pm

Finglefinn · Post by **Finglefinn** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:18 am

I see that your Schwartz is as big as mine!

Post by **Ddrak** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:22 am

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Turaylon Soulshadow · Thu May 17, 2007 10:43 am

Ddrak wrote:Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Dumb and tasty!

Garrdor · Post by **Garrdor** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:55 pm

Battlefield Earth should be #1

Riggen · Post by **Riggen** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:54 pm

Just for that you should be given the title 'Raging Scientologist'

Finglefinn · Post by **Finglefinn** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:44 am

Post by **Nadia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:03 am

that was a bad list

a scifi movie I recently saw that I think is worth recommending is Equilbrium
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/

3 things the movie can be faulted for
- rehashed storyline concepts (but it was entertaining)
- not realistic because people show emotions - just gotta look beyond that
- GunFu

Post by **Ddrak** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:30 am

/nod. Equilibrium is a good movie despite the cliche.

While we're on good obscure sci-fi, "The Cube" is worth a watch too.

Dd

Saevrok · Post by **Saevrok** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:07 pm

The cube, is that the one where convicts are plopped into an ever changing dungeon consisting of cube shaped rooms and the only way to get out is to stay in the room you start in?

Post by **Ddrak** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:15 pm

Saevrok wrote:The cube, is that the one where convicts are plopped into an ever changing dungeon consisting of cube shaped rooms and the only way to get out is to stay in the room you start in?

I don't remember them being required to stay in the starting room, but yes.

Dd

Saevrok · Post by **Saevrok** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:34 am

The starter was the one that would move back to the starting point, it was referenced by the weird math inbetween rooms.

Post by **Ddrak** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:03 am

Saevrok wrote:The starter was the one that would move back to the starting point, it was referenced by the weird math inbetween rooms.

Hmm... that does sound right. See - now I need to go watch it again!

Dd

-=Xilanthanax=- · Post by **-=Xilanthanax=-** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:28 pm

The mention of both Spaceballs and Equilibrium in this thread makes my penis hard.