Trashy Sci Fi

sharpiel · #1 06-12-2018, 08:03 PM

I love second hand books of the masters of Sci Fi from the 50's and 60's. I love the smell of the pages of old Sci Fi books when I fan them under my nose.

I also love old trashy Sci Fi movies...like Plan Nine from Outer Space. Sometimes you can see the wires holding up the space ships.

Love the original Star Trek series on TV.

And Space 1999. How good was it...the world was still full of space optimism and 1999 was the future...and the future was pretty awesome.

Anyway recently bought myself the blu Ray collectors complete series of Space 1999. Should be here by Christmas

LewisM · #2 06-12-2018, 09:01 PM

My childhood was:

Forbidden Planet (hardly trashy though)

When World's Collide

Alien

Lost in Space (yes, I loved it - the original that is)

Thunderbirds (again, the original)

Star Blazers

Battlestar Galactica (original)

Close Encounters

E.T

Robert Heinlein books

AndyG (Andy) · #3 07-12-2018, 02:39 PM

As a young 'un:

Star Trek (original series) - "Wrath of Kahn" is still top 5 movie for me.
Last Starfighter
Dr Who (only with Tom Baker though)
Aliens
Terminator

On another note... Whoever concocted the series "Space, above and beyond"... I cannot think of a punishment too harsh. I was once, an intelligent being. Not so much now after viewing that drivel.

middy · #4 07-12-2018, 03:03 PM

Blake's 7

glend (Glen) · #5 07-12-2018, 03:20 PM

Don't forget Starship Troopers! No trash list is complete without it, even though it is only 22 years old.

Not sure this should be considered Trash, but i loved the 1984 Dune adaptation with a great cast: Sting (Feyd) and Patrick Stewart (as Gurney) in it, and must mention Sean Young as Chani who of course went on to Blade Runner).

The original B&W 1950s "Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie, and a young Steve McQueen in The Blob!

https://youtu.be/_g5vFms1kkY

Top trash pick might be "Logan's Run", with Michael York and Farrar Fawcett. I think "The Island" might have been a remake of Logan's Run.

I could go on and on... The original "The Thing from another World, 1951.

Soylent Green with Charlton Heston is pretty bad.

LewisM · #6 07-12-2018, 03:39 PM

For REAL trash: Saturn 3

YAK YAK YAK!

Ausrock (Chris) · #7 07-12-2018, 07:01 PM

Asimov, Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury and without going down to the bookcase, I can't remember what else is there within the sci-fi collection but overall, my taste has been diverse over the years.

Always enjoyed James A Michener's novels and for quick light reading Agatha Christie.

For a good laugh and reminisce about the era I grew up around music, Billy Thorpe's two auto-biographies, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, and Most People I Know{Think That I'm Crazy)

I shouldn't neglect to mention Holmes Principles of Physical Geology for some serious reading about the rock we live on.

After having read the Dune series, I found the movie(s) to be sadly lacking...........maybe my imagination was too far ahead of what could be achieved in film at the time.

Wavytone · #8 07-12-2018, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Ausrock

After having read the Dune series, I found the movie(s) to be sadly lacking

Interesting you say that. The production starring Sting was indeed woeful. 'Nuf said.

The De Laurentiis production with Kyle McLachlan on the other hand... while hopelessly flawed in many respects, IMHO that version still has a dreamlike quality and Kyle visibly matures from being hopelessly wet at the start to finally looking like a decent actor at the end.

While it was mostly panned, for those who had read the novels (as I had) it was ... OK.

...If you're in the mood for trashy sci-fi... "Barbarella" comes to mind. How anyone could ever take Jane Fonda seriously as a "feminist" after that I simply do not know. And then there is "Lost in Space", which was simply execrable.

glend (Glen) · #9 08-12-2018, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Wavytone

Interesting you say that. The production starring Sting was indeed woeful. 'Nuf said.

The De Laurentiis production with Kyle McLachlan on the other hand... while hopelessly flawed in many respects, IMHO that version still has a dreamlike quality and Kyle visibly matures from being hopelessly wet at the start to finally looking like a decent actor at the end.

While it was mostly panned, for those who had read the novels (as I had) it was ... OK.

...If you're in the mood for trashy sci-fi... "Barbarella" comes to mind. How anyone could ever take Jane Fonda seriously as a "feminist" after that I simply do not know. And then there is "Lost in Space", which was simply execrable.

Look we waited so long for Dune to be made into a movie that I was grateful for any attempt, no matter how woeful. Speaking of woeful, I remind everyone of the terrible idea of "Stranger in a Strange Land" with Mick Jagger.

Ausrock (Chris) · #10 08-12-2018, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by glend

Speaking of woeful, I remind everyone of the terrible idea of "Stranger in a Strange Land" with Mick Jagger.

Along with Heinlein's Time Enough For Love, that is one of my favourite reads, never knew it was attempted as a movie.

sharpiel · #11 08-12-2018, 06:44 AM

The movie of Battlefield Earth. Was produced and starred John Travolta. Was his homage to L Ron Hubbard. Teeeerrrrrible...

Another favourite author of mine is Jack Vance.

sn1987a (Barry) · #12 08-12-2018, 11:20 AM

Peter Jackson's masterpiece "Bad Taste"

xelasnave · #13 08-12-2018, 11:42 AM

I liked to read science non fiction☺
Alex

beren · #14 08-12-2018, 11:49 AM

When I think of campy sci fi the 1980 Flash Gordon comes up first

great title song by Queen..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmrHTdXgK4

I like Philip K Dicks and Michael Crichton novels/ movie adaptions. Looks like
Denis Villeneuve Might be involved in a Dune movie remake

https://nerdist.com/dune-remake-ever...we-know-so-far

LewisM · #15 08-12-2018, 12:01 PM

I have to admit I loathed the Dune movie (didn't enjoy the books either) - like Tremors (though I think Tremors was better

). The horrendous Pitch Black followed by the Riddick off-shoots reminded me WAY too much of Dune.

The latest Mad Max (Fury Road) is the first movie in a very long time where I actually fell asleep. Totally unwatchable.

beren · #16 08-12-2018, 12:12 PM

Lewis try watching John carpenters Dark Star err wacky �� ( co written by Dan o Brannon, Alien screenwriter)

Anyone seen George Lucas THX1138?

LewisM · #17 08-12-2018, 12:55 PM

I have Stuart

glend (Glen) · #18 08-12-2018, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by beren

Lewis try watching John carpenters Dark Star err wacky �� ( co written by Dan o Brannon, Alien screenwriter)

Anyone seen George Lucas THX1138?

Yes, I believe THX1138 was George Lucas film school project.

But hey this thread is suppose to be about Trashy Sci-fi, I would not put THX1138 in that category. Woody Allen's Sleeper for sure.
John Carpenter does do some rather disturbed movies, like Ghost of Mars. I have to mention Screamers as well, which was particularly stupid.

And I will not watch any more sci-fi movies with Matt Damon, George Clooney (Gravity and Solaris is enough to ruin his career), Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, or any other Hollywood A-List star parachuted into the project to pull in the rubes.

Please let Interstellar 2 be a hoax:

https://youtu.be/R9BKcv1em5M

sharpiel · #19 08-12-2018, 08:14 PM

I love the cover artwork on the old time classic sci fi books.

Retrograde (Pete) · #20 09-12-2018, 03:34 PM

TV series:

U.F.O.
The Time Tunnel.
Twilight Zone.

Movies:

The Andromeda Strain
Capricorn One
Fantastic Voyage

along with many of the shows & movies that have already been mentioned.