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I liked it better when it was called The Emerald Forest.

I used to love this film. Until I found out that Ridley Scott thought Deckard was a replicant. Not only does that idea not make any sense, since Deckard is physically inferior to the replicants he hunts, but it robs the film of its meaning. We see Leon the replicant collect photographs. We...

I love this movie. It's my favorite sci-fi film of 1970s. No remakes please.

I did see this once on video many years ago. I thought it dumb that the aliens who otherwise had superior technology were somehow (I can't recall exactly) dependent on a circa 1970 NASA Lunar Module to execute their plans for conquest. Of the two choices you provide, the second one is more in...

I haven't seen this in many years, but I recall liking this better than the Universal original version.

Personally, I vote for misfire. It started well. The scenes of them encountering the apparently derelict ship at the beginning, and then discovering that it is still operational were good. But the scientific inaccuracies mount and the film becomes ridiculous by the end. The John Barry...

I was at a science fiction marathon last month. The two films I was looking forward to the most were Arrival (2016) and Akira (1988). I had never seen either one before and they didn't disappoint.

I think the last two ACC books I read were "Rama II" and "Imperial Earth". I read "Imperial Earth" for the first time decades after publication, and it was interesting to see what ACC got right and got wrong. He got wrong what happened to the Titanic - in the book it was recovered intact from...

Both I guess. For example, the 2001 novel actually explains what the heck is going on at the end. Kubrick wasn't interesting in explaining much of anything. He deliberately cut expository dialog from the film. Good luck trying to figure out that TMA-1 stands for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One...

Actually, I prefer this film because it is closer in spirit to Arthur C. Clarke's writing. I got to see 2010 in a theater in 70mm with surround sound and it was impressive. I remember the escape launch scene when the Discovery's engines were fired. HAL said "full thrust", we see the back of...

Jon Pertwee is my second favorite Doctor after Tom Baker. I own "The Time Warrior" on DVD. I have also rewatched some of his stories on-line.

Another example of what I meant when I said the finale made no literal sense. That's one way to look at it. I think it started out as a very very good spy/sci-fi show, but completely fell apart at the end.

Several years ago, around Xmas time, Amazon.com put the first season DVD set on sale so I bought it. Up through episode #17 "The Keeper: Part 2, it's a pretty solid, if juvenile, sci-fi series. But after that the camp quotient jumps with episodes like "The Sky Pirate" and "The Space Croppers"...

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As you can see from my list above, the stories I own are all from Seasons 12-15. I think those are Tom Baker's best years. Yes, Season 15 was a step down from Season 14, but it still had enough Hinchcliffe/Holmes Classic Who feel to seem like a legitimate continuation of the prior era...

I bought this series on DVD some years ago so I could finally see the whole thing. The beauty of early episodes like "Free for All" was that they could be interpreted two ways. They could be interpreted literally and they could be interpreted allegorically. "Free for All" holds together as a...

I own the 1990 version on DVD. I haven't seen the remake.

The casting was one of the things they did right. The script was the problem. So many memorable scenes from the book were left out. They changed the ending too. Furthermore, Peter Ustinov's old man character was a poor substitute for Ballard from the book.

There have been earlier attempts to do a remake. Bryan Singer was attached to direct at one point.

I love the movie. I didn't know until now that it had been revived as a TV series.