General / Off-Topic Sci-fi anything

Mobius

Mobius
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I see many people referencing science fiction but are limited to how much they can chat about it without going off thread

here we can talk about anything Sci-fi, anything from" look at my collectables" to " was Janeway the worst captain ever"

let me begin with.

why haven't we seen a sequel to District 9, as we know the alien said he would be back in 3 years, in our time that has been and gone so why haven't they returned?
 
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Susimetsa

Susimetsa
I found District 9 rather boring. My favourite SF/sci-fi movies are: Blade Runner, Gattaca, 2001: A Space Odyssey... and perhaps Serenity just because it is a part of Firefly...
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
Wierd considering the other films you mentioned. Especially 2001, I love all the films you've mentioned. (2001 was the first film I watched on me bluray!)

However I know the only reason I understand what's going on in 2001 is because I read the book.
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
It's been a while since I saw the movie (District 9), but I seem to recall that the premise was that humans had been put into camps/slums by the new overlords and that the movie simply ended in some sort of a crazy firefight. It never explored the theme to any satisfying degree - and perhaps it is just that the said premise (concentration camps etc.) held no interest to me in the first place.
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
I think it struck the right balance, that whole exploring the theme through the victims being aliens has been done to death (and is a trope) in sci-fi. Star Trek and Alien Nation (film and movies) being the two mean explorers of that theme.

D9 made it the setting, looked at that trope and then went off in its own direction.
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
I have to say that I suffered through some of the Alien Nation TV movies in my youth as well and they never excited me either. Perhaps it is merely a setting that does not appeal to me, although I did like the "V" series when I was very young. ;)
 

psykokow

psykokow
I love the duality and exploration of our continual racist nature....
Why im loving the "In The Flesh" series on BBC 3 about Cured Zombies sent home with Partially Deceased Syndrome..

Its a lovely play on our own social models of creating outcasts and putting them away somewhere we don't have to see them or even really aknowledge they are there..

That said, it did set the scene wonderfully, then it did go off into Lethal Weapon ish style action...

I still liked it...

Blue Skies was similar... lets set the scene, create an apocalyptic movie and then lets totally undo all the good in the end credits!! :D Still i loved it..
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
I have no problem with the exploration of the theme, but using sci-fi or fantasy to examine the question is a little too overdone, it's no longer subtle or clever. On that front I prefer we look at the question head-on.
 

psykokow

psykokow
"They Live" great plot, original at its time and with the stiff acting it made a great sci fi flick for me.

I was also a big fan of Star Trek and have a huge place in my heart for the Next Generation... it was the highlight of my week..
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
psykokow said:
"They Live" great plot, original at its time and with the stiff acting it made a great sci fi flick for me.

I was also a big fan of Star Trek and have a huge place in my heart for the Next Generation... it was the highlight of my week..
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My favorite day was tuesday, Eerie Indiana, Red Dwarf, Quantum Leap
 

psykokow

psykokow
Eerie Indiana!!! WOOT I forgot all about that!!! hheh it was AWESOME... prolly cheesy as hell now..

I also loved Round the Twist when it had its first outing... it did have a much later on 2nd outing.. I wonder if it had many series in Aus, just not shown in the UK..

It was like a children's version of the Twillight Zone with the haunted lighthouse..

And who didnt like Quantum Leap!!! Scot Bakula makes anything watchable..
 

Magma

Magma
The creator of District 9 said he didn't have any interest in making a sequel if I recall correctly. And what would the sequel do exactly? The first film ended with one of the aliens' leaders fleeing Earth for home, to tell his people that these Humans imprisoned them all in camps, treated them worse than animals, all the while trying (unsuccessfully) to make the aliens' comparatively super-advanced technology work.

So the aliens know:
  1. Where Earth is,
  2. That it is full of scumbags, and
  3. That they have no way of resisting extermination.

Short sequel :p
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
psykokow said:
Eerie Indiana!!! WOOT I forgot all about that!!! hheh it was AWESOME... prolly cheesy as hell now..

I also loved Round the Twist when it had its first outing... it did have a much later on 2nd outing.. I wonder if it had many series in Aus, just not shown in the UK..

It was like a children's version of the Twillight Zone with the haunted lighthouse..

And who didnt like Quantum Leap!!! Scot Bakula makes anything watchable..
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Have you ever... ever ever felt like this? Strange things happening, are you going round the twist? Only thing I can remember about it now.
 
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