What's your Sci-Fi guilty pleasure?

[BAYLOR]

Most of my SF TV/movie watching is guilty pleasure because so few Science Fiction films are actually any good (or even Science Fiction) but the one I'm MOST ashamed of enjoying is Jason of Star Command which is so incredibly, cacking awful on so many different levels it transcends time and space and any attempt at critical analysis.

Movies? Starcrash most of the guilt here is because I think the best thing about it is Caroline Monro's sweaty tits - I kind of feel guilty about watching a movie purely because the lead has nice knockers and knows how to point them at the camera.

Reading: The Perry Rhodan books.

Comics: Alan Class reprints of all those those 'Twist in the Tale' stories (Oh MY GOD! It was EARTH ALL ALONG!) that Stan Lee churned out by the thousand back in Marvel's early days in titles like Tales to Astonish.

I have Jason of Star Command on dvd and it's a motive joy to watch !

Yes, Caroline Monro is the best special effect in Starcrash .

 

[Rodders]

I found Cleopatra 2525 to be fun, although it has to be said that i only watched it once.

Futureman, (well, the first series anyway) was also a lot of fun, but i have only watched the first series. I should go back and watch the others.

I also have a penchant for the "Ship of the Week" style Science Fiction series and kind of miss that era of telly. Of course, story telling is much better now, but because of the expense of that style of SF, we don't get much SF that falls into that category anymore.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I found Cleopatra 2525 to be fun, although it has to be said that i only watched it once.

My daughter - who may well share my (as yet unrequited) lust for Gina Tores once remarked. "Dad, you're not watching this show are you? You're just looking at it!"

 

[Foxbat]

Serials from the 1930s and 40s. I have a collection on DVD that includes all three Flash Gordon series, Crash Corrigan’s Undersea Kingdom, Gene Autrey & The Phantom Empire, Buck Rogers, Batman, King Of The Rocketmen and many more. They are all my sci-fi guilty pleasures

 

[BAYLOR]

Moontrap with Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell . On the moon there are machines that want ouse humans as spare parts and an ancient aline base of. ancient humans who found them and all but one died. This is terrify and fun B film and , the type of movie they should still be making !

 

[pogopossum]

I have a few guilty Science Fiction pleasures. Could it be indicative of a low intellect?

1. I actually quite liked Stallone's Judge Dredd. For sure it could've been better and Stallone should not have removed his helmet, but the film was entertaining enough and I still find it enjoyable. Mega-City 1 looked amazing.
2. I seem to be one of the few people that still likes James Cameron's Avatar.
3. Soldier, Event Horizon and Starship Troopers are all good fun. The Chronicles of Riddick, Flash Gordon, Millennium, Lockdown and Fortress.
4. I actually like the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.
5. I liked Costner's The Postman. (Still yet to see Waterworld)
6 .I really liked Will Smith's I Am Legend.
7 .I also enjoyed Zack Snyder's DC movies and like their darker tone.

That's quite a list. I actually agree with Nos. 2, 4, & 5 & Event Horizon & Riddick from #3.. Haven't seen some of the others.

But I am not the one to talk. If I want something short before going to bed I watch episodes of Angel

 

[Saiyali]

... Starship Troopers ...

to be fair, that film is pretty biting satire.

Another guilty pleasure .. I really enjoyed the Orville
... and my 8-yr-old thinks it's better than Star Trek

 

[JunkMonkey]

Another guilty pleasure .. I really enjoyed the Orville
... and my 8-yr-old thinks it's better than Star Trek

My 12 year old thinks Andromeda is better than Star Trek...

...he's right of course.

 

[BAYLOR]

My 12 year old thinks Andromeda is better than Star Trek...

...he's right of course.

The man who created Star Trek also created Andromeda.

 

[DrStrangelove]

The man who created Star Trek also created Andromeda.

Yes and no. Andromeda was, supposedly, based on scripts that Roddenberry could never produce for television before his death, but Robert Hewitt Wolfe's departure showed how much the show had been invented from scratch. While Roddenberry's ideas were the basis, in some form or another, in the end it was it's own beast.

 

[reiver33]

Earth's Final Hours...

 

[BAYLOR]

Yes and no. Andromeda was, supposedly, based on scripts that Roddenberry could never produce for television before his death, but Robert Hewitt Wolfe's departure showed how much the show had been invented from scratch. While Roddenberry's ideas were the basis, in some form or another, in the end it was it's own beast.

Im not surprised to learn this. I could be mis -remembering this , but the original title of this was supposed be Phoenix Rising? And the name Dylan Hunt was likely borrowed from Roddenberry produced telefilm pilot Genesis II, whose main character was named Dylan Hunt. After Star Trek, Roddenberry had a difficult time getting things produced beyond the pilot stage. The successful star film franchise and the convention circuit revived his fortunes somewhat enabling him to get Star Trek The Next Generation going.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Space Truckers, (1996) with Dennis Hopper. It's a terrible film, flawed in plot, acting and horribly cliched.

But I think it's fun.

The biggest flaw, in my opinion, is that Deep Purple's Space Truckin' is not the theme song.

 

[paranoid marvin]

to be fair, that film is pretty biting satire.

Another guilty pleasure .. I really enjoyed the Orville
... and my 8-yr-old thinks it's better than Star Trek

Yes Starship Troopers is (for me) much more about the social commentary than about the onscreen action. Paul Verhoven is a brilliant director and he did to ST what he did to Robocop by creating a alternative future backdrop.


As for Blakes 7 , I wouldn't call it a guilt pleasure, it's a stone cold classic of scifi action/adventure.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Flash Gordon and Barbarella for the sheer joyful and unadulterated camp. Battle beyond the stars for Nel and John Saxon and George Peppard hamming it up.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Flash Gordon and Barbarella for the sheer joyful and unadulterated camp. Battle beyond the stars for Nel and John Saxon and George Peppard hamming it up.

I seen Sam Jones twice at shows (once on his own, once with BB) and he really seems to be a genuinely nice bloke.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I second Barbarella. Also, I think Plan 9 From Outer Space has got to be one of, if not the, worst guilty pleasure(s) around. Also, The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). But none of that musical nonsense.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

I seen Sam Jones twice at shows (once on his own, once with BB) and he really seems to be a genuinely nice bloke.

was that at Cardiff Film and Comic con?

 

[Saiyali]

Yes Starship Troopers is (for me) much more about the social commentary than about the onscreen action. Paul Verhoven is a brilliant director and he did to ST what he did to Robocop by creating a alternative future backdrop.

I agree, PH has made some excellent films. ST is pure dark comedy from start to finish.

As for Blakes 7 , I wouldn't call it a guilt pleasure, it's a stone cold classic of scifi action/adventure.

True, yes, but so badly made. It's shocking - even worse than Doctor Who. But the writing was fantastic, that's what I mean, I want it to be better than it was.

Woah, hold on--

Paul Verhoeven should direct Season 1 of a reboot of Blakes Seven

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Paul Verhoeven should direct Season 1 of a reboot of Blakes Seven

I'd watch that in an instant!

B7media had the rights to Blake's Seven and were trying to organise a reboot with Sky TV about 10 years ago. From memory, they had a script for a teen orientated animated movie as well as a more adult orientated anime featuring the voice cast from the audiodramas. Ben Aaronovitch was the writer - I have the scripts somewhere. I don't think they were renewed when the license came up with Terry Nation's estate.