I remember when I first saw Earth Girls are Easy on Comedy Central. I actually thought it was pretty good. I don't know how I missed it at theaters.
On a side note, I completely forgot Howard the Duck was Marvel until I saw him again in Guardians. Then I started to think of his movie and remembered why I competely forgot about it.
I remember when I first saw Earth Girls are Easy on Comedy Central. I actually thought it was pretty good. I don't know how I missed it at theaters.
I remember watching it at a friends house while I was at school. He'd rented it from a petrol station and looked proud of picking up what looked like a dodgy adult film. The look on his face when the first musical number kicked in was priceless.
Speaking of musicals... Little Shop Of Horrors. Feed me Seymore.
Star Wars.
None of you guys said it. Shame on you. Shame.
Also Thundercats. I suppose it qualifies as sort of a Fantasy / Sci-Fi Hybrid.
He said "lesser known". Are you saying that "A new Hope" is some obscure 70's art film?
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Now there's an obscure one.
I think I saw part of it on a BBC sci-fi documentary before I tracked down a DVD copy.
Stuff i watched as a kid:
Captain Power
Silverhawks
Robotix
ROTJ
Battlestar Galactica ( the proper one with the chrome cylons!)
The usual cartoons ofcourse: Tranformers, MASK, Thundercats,..
Mysterious cities of gold
Buck Rogers (reruns)
Stuff i watched as a Teenager:
Flash Gordon ( Savior of the universe !)
Masters of the Universe
Doctor who
Silent Running
Enemy mine ("ef your Mickey mouse!")
Critters
The usual stuff: Star Wars, Aliens, Predator (I didn't see the Terminator until T2 came out) Star trek...
Total Recall
Tron
Space 1999
Stuff from the80's i watched much later:
Do the Godzilla movies count as scifi?
Gunhead
Tetsuo
Black Hole (somehow sliped my radar for years)
Dark Star
The Thing
They Live
Dune
Transformers the (animated) movie ( Optimus Prime! Noooooo!)
I also remember 'britains' making these die cast and plastic modular space ships... the humans had yellow and red ships with gravity ball cockpits and domed helmets, the bad guys had 'kawizaki' green space ships (same components, just different colours) with the same bodies cast in black but with wierd red heads rather than human heads with domes.
Anyone else remember them?
Those Britain space/ Star System toys look pretty cool, shame they didn't make it across the pond.
Gandahar (aka Lightyears) is an awsome french scifi animated movie, by the same guy as Fantastic Planet, but not nearly as tripped out. Iirc Isaac Azamov wrote the intro and worked on the english adaptation.
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC version) is great and extremely low budget.
I think every thing else I like from 80s scifi has already been listed.
Awww, man, there's still memories trickling in.
Laloux, the guy who directed Gandahar, directed also Time Masters with the design of Moebius. It was the least mindbending of his three movies, yet the most approachable one, and still a lot of fun to watch.
Then there was Phoenix 2772, a movie inspired by Ozamu Tetzukas Hi No Tori series (and sadly not as good as the original series was, but still o.k. ish ...! )
On British series I remember fondly The Tripods , which was pretty scary for a teenagers series.Still is..:!
In Germany we also had The Guardians , another one of Christophers dystopian novels put into a series.
Star Wars.
None of you guys said it. Shame on you. Shame.
Also Thundercats. I suppose it qualifies as sort of a Fantasy / Sci-Fi Hybrid.
He said "lesser known". Are you saying that "A new Hope" is some obscure 70's art film?
I remember when I first saw Empire. I had always like ROTJ as a kid. I found Empire on a VHS. I think it was the middle movie that our friend had taped off HBO. I was like 8 years old. It blew my mind. I watched it like 3 times over the next could days.
Any of you guys remember Invaders from Mars?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/
It freaked me out as a kid.
Anyone mention the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly? It's worth it for the scenes when his body parts start falling off.
Any of you guys remember Invaders from Mars?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/
It freaked me out as a kid.
Anyone mention the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly? It's worth it for the scenes when his body parts start falling off.
I totally forgot about Invaders for Mars.
I saw The Fly in the theater on my first date ever. I haven't seen that in forever, I think I might have to rewatch it, Goldblum is so weird.
Gandahar (aka Lightyears) is an awsome french scifi animated movie, by the same guy as Fantastic Planet, but not nearly as tripped out. Iirc Isaac Azamov wrote the intro and worked on the english adaptation.
[...]
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC version) is great and extremely low budget.
I think every thing else I like from 80s scifi has already been listed.
Awww, man, there's still memories trickling in.
Laloux, the guy who directed Gandahar, directed also Time Masters with the design of Moebius. It was the least mindbending of his three movies, yet the most approachable one, and still a lot of fun to watch.
Then there was Phoenix 2772, a movie inspired by Ozamu Tetzukas Hi No Tori series (and sadly not as good as the original series was, but still o.k. ish ...! )
On British series I remember fondly The Tripods , which was pretty scary for a teenagers series.Still is..:!
In Germany we also had The Guardians , another one of Christophers dystopian novels put into a series.
I think I saw TIme Masters, but I might have only seen whatever clips are up on youtube. I love Moebius, it's a shame The Incall animated film want never finish, what I've seen of it looks perfect.
Just throwing this out there: I wasn't born early enough to be a part of the 80's sci-fi or 80's anything generation, but I DID just finish playing Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Any of you who really love the 80's action/sci fi archetypes, this game did an absolutely hilarious yet brilliant reproduction of such... in a modern video game. I can't believe I didn't play it earlier, it really is a novel and awesome concept.
Just throwing this out there: I wasn't born early enough to be a part of the 80's sci-fi or 80's anything generation, but I DID just finish playing Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Any of you who really love the 80's action/sci fi archetypes, this game did an absolutely hilarious yet brilliant reproduction of such... in a modern video game. I can't believe I didn't play it earlier, it really is a novel and awesome concept.
Radical!
Oh yeah It's like all the 80's scifi action movies rolled into one! Even the trailers are awesome. And they got the guy who played Kyle Reese for the voice acting!
Here's an obscure one from the 80's for you - Terrahawks.
The last great puppet show from Gerry Anderson, following on from the likes of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons.
Bloody hilarious.
I watched Flash Gordon last night. I was surprised to learn that it was released AFTER Star Wars. It really highlighted how ahead of its time SW was.
Cartoons: Ullysees 31 was a favourite, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Astroboy, G-Force, Voltron, Thundercats, Transformers, Sky Commanders. Also have a give an honourable mention to Thunderbirds.
Movies: Never-ending Story, Dark Crystal plus many others already mentioned .
Flash Gordon was supposed to be campy, look cheap, and have very lame special effects. It was a tribute to the ultra cheap old black & White serials which it endeavored to immitate, albeit with color, and a pretty rocking sound track (thank you queen). It may not be the best movie to use as a "special effects benchmark".
I was totally going to recommend Kung Fury
Thanks I'm singing True Survivor in my head now (the italian hard rock version, not The Hoff...)
I watched Flash Gordon last night. I was surprised to learn that it was released AFTER Star Wars. It really highlighted how ahead of its time SW was.
Cartoons: Ullysees 31 was a favourite, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Astroboy, G-Force, Voltron, Thundercats, Transformers, Sky Commanders. Also have a give an honourable mention to Thunderbirds.
Movies: Never-ending Story, Dark Crystal plus many others already mentioned .
Flash Gordon was supposed to be campy, look cheap, and have very lame special effects. It was a tribute to the ultra cheap old black & White serials which it endeavored to immitate, albeit with color, and a pretty rocking sound track (thank you queen). It may not be the best movie to use as a "special effects benchmark".
I did not know that. Thanks for putting me on the correct path. Not sure about Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness but I loved the use of stop motion Jason and the Arganouts style skeletons in it.
My friends & I were obsessed with Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness when it came out. That's an awesome movie, but it's from the '90s.
Battle beyond the stars, Space raiders, Ice Pirates, Cherry 2000, Space hunter-Adventures in the forbidden zone, Radioactive Dreams, World gone wild. A large number of post apocalypse films that i love. And of course Empire etc. TV shows like Blakes Seven and original Galactice (minus G80 of course) and Buck Rogers. Space Battleship Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam, Crusher Joe, Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express. Galaxy Rangers