Sci-fi movies involving spaceships or time travel?
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ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
i'm a sci-guy bro, trek, star wars, stargate, it's all awesome to me. i'm a huge fan of sci-fi
I spoke briefly with McDowell at a Star Trek convention a few years ago. He seemed pleasantly surprised when I mentioned that role and clearly had fond memories of the film.
That's very cool.
I feel old . . . .
For the record, the original novel by Frank Herbert came out 1965 and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel.
You should check it out. It's a classic.
If you're unaware of Dune, I'm gonna have to question your credentials.
No, This Island Earth, which at least pretends to be more serious than "Queen of Outer Space". Its from 1955 I believe. If anything it'll make a good comparison with modern films, worth watching once even if you don't like "old" movies. There's an attempt made to show a plausibly alien starship bridge in it...the intefaces are not typical of the period, ie: big boxy computers with nobs and light on them.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
does anyone know of a movie where a spaceman somehow arrives to the middle ages? i remember the spaceman landing into what looked like a viking culture. it's a recent movie.
More space films that might fit your bill (we see the bridge (or control-room) and there's some order following elements (though not too much in Moon Zero Two)):
(if anyone mentioned these before my apologies).
Destination Moon (1950-something)
Spaceways (1950-something)
The First men In The Moon (50's or 60's - not sure)
Barbarella (1968)
Moon Zero Two (1970-something?)
(if anyone mentioned these before my apologies).
Destination Moon (1950-something)
Spaceways (1950-something)
The First men In The Moon (50's or 60's - not sure)
Barbarella (1968)
Moon Zero Two (1970-something?)
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Outlander, I should think.
Frankenstein Unbound is awesome.
John Hurt from 2050 something and his super robot car meets Mary Shelly, Lord byron, and Percy Shelley. They have an orgy, and then he fights Victor Frankenstien to silence his advance in medtech that would surely see the prisons turned into organ banks and the Monarchs of Europe suddenly immortal and merciless which would unfold a new and odd 21st century which he is unfamiliar with except for the time visions of the distopia yet to come which plauge him between blinks because "time" is pissed with him.
Worst Timetravel movie ever is Time Changer.
Captain Stubbing from the love Boat sends an adventurous Church scholar forward in time a century to "modern time" where the time traveler is disgusted and horrified by the depravity of what must be the end of days... In the end, after the hero is relieved to return to the past, Captain Stubing is trying to use his time machine again but he can't seem to get it to deliver anything else into the future past 2010 because, it is alluded by the tone that 2010 is post rapture.
John Hurt from 2050 something and his super robot car meets Mary Shelly, Lord byron, and Percy Shelley. They have an orgy, and then he fights Victor Frankenstien to silence his advance in medtech that would surely see the prisons turned into organ banks and the Monarchs of Europe suddenly immortal and merciless which would unfold a new and odd 21st century which he is unfamiliar with except for the time visions of the distopia yet to come which plauge him between blinks because "time" is pissed with him.
Worst Timetravel movie ever is Time Changer.
Captain Stubbing from the love Boat sends an adventurous Church scholar forward in time a century to "modern time" where the time traveler is disgusted and horrified by the depravity of what must be the end of days... In the end, after the hero is relieved to return to the past, Captain Stubing is trying to use his time machine again but he can't seem to get it to deliver anything else into the future past 2010 because, it is alluded by the tone that 2010 is post rapture.
And (loosely) based on a novel by Brian Aldiss, btw.
No supercar in the novel, as I recall, although the protagonist does have sex with Mary Shelly . . . .
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ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
ok, thanks bro. that's the right one. good movie? what are some things i can look out for?
yea, i saw it like 10 years ago. i'll try and watch it again.
"Chess? To the death?"
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is a little funnier if you've seen the Seventh Seal.
"Chess? To the death?"
Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered that film.
There's also Unidentified Flying Oddball...
"Chess? To the death?"
Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered that film.
My favorite part is where his sword is magnetized and he's fighting Mordrid!
But not by much.
