OK, best moving image Scifi/fantasy - no repeats any number you want.

[Teamcasa]

How about:

The Abyss

Good one! I wonder If we can get one of those wrist communicators?

Dave

 

[Brandon]

Dune was only good if you knew the book inside and out.

The newish SciFi Channel Dune and Children of Dune miniseries directed by William Hurt fix thix problem. It's worth watching if you're a fan of the story. Characters and special effects are 10x better, and the story is much more focused and makes sense.

The 1984 version didn't do it for me - Sting as Fayd just kept cracking me up, and you're absoutley right that you really had to have read the books for it to make sense.

Dune is by far my favorite sci-fi series. I haven't gotten into Battlestar Galactica yet, but that might come close. We'll see.

-B.

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

All good posts thus far here

Rick, I really thought the A Boy & His Dog Don Johnson movie had it all over Creature from the Black Lagoon for stuff I wanted at the time . . . the dark humor was good too ("Farm him out!")

Some of my favorites of all time, particularly for moving images:

Top two

Heavy Metal (the 1981 release - fantastic soundtrack, great art, great writing, and voices like John Candy and Harold Ramis in the mix) Some stories better than others

The Road Warrior (beats Mad Max and Beyond Thunderdome hands down IMO)

Others in the general genre not yet mentioned

Darkman (for visuals, the scene with him beside the gargoyle was probably the best in the flick)

From Beyond (best Lovecraftian themed flick I've seen)

My favorite Midnight Movie was Eraserhead

Lost interest in the Sci-Fi channel when Lexx stopped, haven't had something else in a series in this genre catch my attention in a similar manner since (the episode with Rutger Hauer - hilarious!)

 

[Thalassamania]

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[Rick Inman]

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Oh, you one of those... (should have guessed).

 

[Thalassamania]

Didn’t you catch the list at the opening of the thread?

Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But When Worlds Collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills
Like a...
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O. - Wo oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

The second time I saw Rocky Horror, I was stone sober, and that ruined it for me going forward.

How could I have forgotten Wizards? Should have put that in my prior post. Necron 99 was my user ID on the mainframe back in the day (Green Manilishi can probably relate)

Johnny Mnemonic - the only William Gibson story made into a movie that I'm aware of.

Starship Troopers - the movie was OK to me as a blend of the original book and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War - kind of like fusion cuisine

Personal Choice among the Worst - I can't remember the name of it, but there were these subaquatic Nazi zombies who wore goggles

 

[lamont]

The Road Warrior (beats Mad Max and Beyond Thunderdome hands down IMO)

good call.

anyone else play car wars in high school?

 

[Thalassamania]

good call.

anyone else play car wars in high school?

Steve Jackson Games?

 

[Divin'Papaw]

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Oh yea! There was a theater in Indianapolis near my high school that ran RHPS frequently on Fri nights at Midnight. I (fondly!) recall trips to the midnight movies with toast, newspaper, spray bottles ... what else ... I can't remember. Cooked spaghetti maybe? It was 25 years ago! :11: We knew all of the audience participation elements. What a time!

There were so many movies that I saw for the first time at Midnight on Fridays. A Clockwork Orange, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Attack of the Killer Tomatos, Fritz the Cat .....

Wow ... what a rush!