What's your Sci-Fi guilty pleasure?

[Saiyali]

I understood that Paul Darrow owned the rights (?) and had been quite demanding about reprising Avon, that this had been one of the main obstacles to doing anything more with it. If so then now he's gone, I suspect it's only a matter of time before something appears somewhere with the name Blakes' Seven.

I'm sure PD was right to be demanding, and I'm sure New-B7 will be quite bad when it finally gets made

 

[Mon0Zer0]

I understood that Paul Darrow owned the rights (?) and had been quite demanding about reprising Avon, that this had been one of the main obstacles to doing anything more with it. If so then now he's gone, I suspect it's only a matter of time before something appears somewhere with the name Blakes' Seven.

I'm sure PD was right to be demanding, and I'm sure New-B7 will be quite bad when it finally gets made

I don't think I ever read the scripts so I couldn't possibly comment!

This was 11 years ago that I saw the package. I think B7 lost the rights in 2017 ish? I can't see any B7 audiodramas with Andrew Mark Sewell's production credits on after 2015. I know they have the rights to Dan Dare now, though.

 

[paranoid marvin]

was that at Cardiff Film and Comic con?

Sam alone was at a Liverpool comic con , Sam and Brian Blessed at something similar in Manchester. Very entertaining.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Sam alone was at a Liverpool comic con , Sam and Brian Blessed at something similar in Manchester. Very entertaining.

I was at Cardiff when Brian and Sam were there. You could hear BB's voice from the other side of the arena! Yes, very entertaining.

 

[Foxbat]

This thread has inspired me to return to my guilty pleasure of serials. Not Sci-Fi this time around. I’m currently watching one called The Master Key. It’s about a group of Nazi spies trying to destroy the economy of the USA. It’s a real snapshot of wartime America. It has the national anthem at the start and then followed by a Daffy Duck cartoon (where he slams Hitler on the head with a large mallet). Then we’re up and running in the serial. I can see the Flash Gordon DVDs on the shelf and they’re calling. They’re saying ‘me next, me next!’

 

[urrutiap]

My personal favorite "guilty pleasure" sci fi action/horror movies that other people cant stand or whatever

The Postman
Contact
Waterworld
Flash Gordon
Ice Pirates
Space Raiders
Metalstorm
Krull
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
House II
C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D 2 Bud the CHUD
Space Truckers. saw it once or twice on HBO back then in the mid late 1990s

 

[BAYLOR]

This thread has inspired me to return to my guilty pleasure of serials. Not Sci-Fi this time around. I’m currently watching one called The Master Key. It’s about a group of Nazi spies trying to destroy the economy of the USA. It’s a real snapshot of wartime America. It has the national anthem at the start and then followed by a Daffy Duck cartoon (where he slams Hitler on the head with a large mallet). Then we’re up and running in the serial. I can see the Flash Gordon DVDs on the shelf and they’re calling. They’re saying ‘me next, me next!’

Have seen the 1941 Captain Marvel tv serial ? it's superb.

Tv series you might find of interest Cliffhangers 1979 . It was tv series done by Kenneth Johnson who gave us The Hulk tv series and the V. It ran for a season It set up like the old fashioned movie series . There were 3 stories to each one episodes
1.Stop Sussan Williams
2. Dracula
3. The Secret Empire which an up date of the Gene Aytry phantom empire serial
The one season it ran did compete the storylines, I think its available on dvd

Also The Adventures of Captain Zoom 1995 . It's a tv science fiction movie about a stuck up , tv actor who stars in a Flash Gordon like tv show suddenly gets transported to the Planet Pangeia where he has actually become a real hero. It's comedy but it also a got it serious moments too. I think you would get a kick out of it.

 

[Foxbat]

Have seen the 1941 Captain Marvel tv serial ? it's superb

I have this one in my collection
Never heard of Cliffhangers. Sounds interesting.
Also never seen Captain Zoom.
They are ones I will look out for

Here’s where I get some of my stuff. They are dedicated to keeping serials available and release them on DVD and Blu-Ray as they become available in the Public Domain.

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive

Movie serials from THE PERILS OF PAULINE in 1914 to COMMANDO CODY in the 1950s

www.serialsquadron.com

 

[BAYLOR]

I have this one in my collection
Never heard of Cliffhangers. Sounds interesting.
Also never seen Captain Zoom.
They are ones I will look out for

Here’s where I get some of my stuff. They are dedicated to keeping serials available and release them on DVD and Blu-Ray as they become available in the Public Domain.

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive

Movie serials from THE PERILS OF PAULINE in 1914 to COMMANDO CODY in the 1950s

www.serialsquadron.com

A cool site Thanks . ive never of the Dr Satan serial .

I wish the movie industry would start doing movie serials again. It would be one more reason to start going to the cinema again.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Blake's 7 would be a brilliant show to bring back, and it's pretty amazing that it hasn't happened yet. When you think of all the storylines today, a tale about a bunch of renegade freedom fighters banding together to attempt to overthrow a totalitarian regime is simple but brilliant. The fact that they are an eclectic bunch, and not necessarily to be trusted just adds to the pot.

It would need to be as bleak as the original series, and it would have to have the right actors for the job, but it has the potential to be brilliant, far moreso than other reimagined series like Lost in Space.

 

[Foxbat]

A cool site Thanks . ive never of the Dr Satan serial .

When I bought my copy, it had been opened and inspected by customs (it was resealed with a customs sticker). I always wondered what the customs folk thought when they saw the title.

On a similar subject (but off-topic), I’ve only ever had one movie refused entry to the UK by customs. It was a region 1 copy of the Exorcist. The reason I bought it from America was because it was banned at the time in the UK. I finally got a UK copy when they lifted the ban.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I just can't get on with Event Horizon. It annoys me because it has the premise to be a brilliant film on a par with Aliens, and it starts off really promisingly. But it descends too quickly into a silly shock-horror movie. It could have been a really great film, but it wasn't.

The love Kevin Costner films and Waterworld is brilliant. The Postman could have also been really great, but there's just too much sentimental flag waving in there for me. If it had taken itself a bit more seriously it would have been a brilliant movie; it certainly had the budget. Perhaps if I was American rather than British I may have felt differently about it.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Blake's 7 was groundbreaking, but, once the ground has been broken, it is farmed by others...

Any reboot of Blake's 7 would, these days, be compared with things like Farscape and Firefly - not seen as an original idea. Both those shows have ragbag crews that don't always trust each others motives- there may well be others that mine the same theme but those are the ones that came to mind.

I loved Blake's 7when it was first broadcast but it was of it's time. Let it lie. Not everything needs rebooting.

(And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Event Horizon is rubbish.)

 

[Rodders]

I actually thought that Alien 3 was a decent movie and don't think that it deserves a lot of the criticism it received. A few tweaks to the story and it could've been a classic.

I prefer the cinema version of Blade Runner to the Directors cut.

I also appear to be one of the few people that enjoyed David Lynch's Dune. It's not without it's faults, but there is a lot to shoehorn into a small time frame and I think Lynch did well. It's showing at the Prince Charles Cinema in a couple of weeks, s I might go and see it on the big screen.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I actually thought that Alien 3 was a decent movie and don't think that it deserves a lot of the criticism it received. A few tweaks to the story and it could've been a classic.

I prefer the cinema version of Blade Runner to the Directors cut.

I also appear to be one of the few people that enjoyed David Lynch's Dune. It's not without it's faults, but there is a lot to shoehorn into a small time frame and I think Lynch did well. It's showing at the Prince Charles Cinema in a couple of weeks, s I might go and see it on the big screen.

When I first watched Alien3 I thought I must have dozed off part way through, as there were big gaps in the story that just didn't make sense. Then when I rewatched, I realised that I hadn't lost concentration, the story was basically broken.

Years later I watched the director's cut on Blu-Ray and t was like watching a different movie. Suddenly it all made sense , and it was a decent movie similar to the original; a bunch of ordinary people with no weapons.

How the original movie was allowed to be released in such a butchered format is baffling, but whilst the DC isn't as good as Alien or Aliens, at least it's a whole movie and on a par with Resurrection.

Dune is also a pretty decent attempt at converting a large, (fairly) complex book into a film. It was a good attempt.

 

[Foxbat]

I recognise the failings of both Event Horizon and Alien 3 but I do have soft spots for both. They had the potential to be great but didn’t quite make it. Despite being a fan of Jean Pierre Jeunet, I think Alien Resurrection is far worse than Alien 3.

P.S. Lynch’s Dune is a far better experience on the big screen than on even the biggest of modern TVs. It‘s flawed but it has its moments.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I have quite a soft spot for Lynch's Dune. Last year I watched it, and the TV edit he got his name taken off, back to back. The TV edit is AWFUL!

 

[Mon0Zer0]

When I first watched Alien3 I thought I must have dozed off part way through, as there were big gaps in the story that just didn't make sense. Then when I rewatched, I realised that I hadn't lost concentration, the story was basically broken.

Years later I watched the director's cut on Blu-Ray and t was like watching a different movie. Suddenly it all made sense , and it was a decent movie similar to the original; a bunch of ordinary people with no weapons.

Have you seen / read one of the original treatments for Alien 3 by Vincent Ward? It's a bit bonkers, but also massively intriguing - a bunch of priests living on a medieval wooden satellite with Hieronymous Bosch type creatures.

There's a graphic novel here.

Kind of reminds me of Alexei Yuryevich's Hard to be a God, which is another blend of sci-fi and medieval settings.

It's a beautiful film, but the way its shot and the visceral filth of it reminds me oddly of Monty Python.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

I have quite a soft spot for Lynch's Dune. Last year I watched it, and the TV edit he got his name taken off, back to back. The TV edit is AWFUL!

The movie is nowhere near as bad as people make out and I've always enjoyed it, warts and all. The production design is top notch, and I much prefer the syd meadesque designs to the stuff I've seen in the new movie's trailer - the new one looks a bit generic.

The Spice Diver fan edit on youtube improves it a little too, imho:

 

[BAYLOR]

The movie is nowhere near as bad as people make out and I've always enjoyed it, warts and all. The production design is top notch, and I much prefer the syd meadesque designs to the stuff I've seen in the new movie's trailer - the new one looks a bit generic.

The Spice Diver fan edit on youtube improves it a little too, imho:

The 1984 film was a valiant attempt . I think had been able to d it as part one and two , the end result would have been better .