Trashy Sci Fi

[sharpiel]

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 :D

[LewisM]

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]

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]

Blake's 7 :thumbsup:

[glend]

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]

For REAL trash: Saturn 3

YAK YAK YAK!

[Ausrock]

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]

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]

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]

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

[sharpiel]

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]

Peter Jackson's masterpiece "Bad Taste" :P

[xelasnave]

I liked to read science non fiction☺
Alex

[beren]

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-everything-we-know-so-far

[LewisM]

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

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


Anyone seen George Lucas THX1138?

[LewisM]

I have Stuart :)

[glend]

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]

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

[Retrograde]

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.

[Andy01]

As an 8y/o my dad used to let me stay up on sat nights to watch Time Tunnel followed by Star Trek back in the late 60s. - Then my mum took me to the Drive in to see 2001:A Space Odyssey - and I was hooked.

Heinlein & Asimov novels followed - then Larry Niven who remains a favourite. Took 4 attempts to read Dune - but finally got it and read all the sequels, prequels, and spin offs - saw the movie and mini-series and sort of enjoyed both.

But to add to the movie thread, The Andromeda Strain was great, as was Silent Running.

If you though Dark Star was wierd, did you ever try watching Zardoz with Sean Connery? :lol:

My top 3 movies of all time?
2001
Aliens
BladeRunner :D

[sharpiel]

OMG OMG OMG OMG. Arrived in the mail today!!

[Andy01]

Now that’s someone who’s going to have a merry Christmas!
Lol enjoy 😉

[sharpiel]

As a side note to my above post...

It took me almost 15 minutes of editing, deleting and stuffing around, taking numerous pictures in different orientations on multiple devices to get an image correctly orientated upright so viewers weren't twisting sideways or upside down to see the picture...

I know there's an older thread here detailing the ridiculous lengths others have to go to get pictures upright...

At the end of this process my utter joy was replaced with utter frustration...hence this post. Not to mention the waste of time which is limited here.

Does it have to be so hard here...I mean...REALLY...

[sharpiel]

Thanks Andy. Same to everyone here!

[JeniSkunk]

Jealous now.
I loved watching Space: 1999, when it was in first run on channel 7.

As a rugrat in the mid to late 1960s, I watched all the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series shown on the Brisbane TV channels.
Fireball XL5, JOE 90, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds.

As for trashy sci-fi TV series, there's more which have escaped mention so far in this thread, which I did watch...

1960s
Land Of The Giants

1970s
Planet Of The Apes
The Tomorrow People
Buck Rodgers In The 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman

And one short lived series from the 1980s
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future


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edit: Remembered more 1970s trashy Sci-Fi TV series

[sharpiel]

Ahhhh Thunderbirds. I think we'd all agree this one's the biggest scalliwag of them all...

[csb]

Wow, Land of the Giants!

This was one of my most anticipated shows - up there with The Brady Bunch :D Really! :D:D

[sharpiel]

Watched another couple today.

Moon was only half as trashy as I'd like. But Iron Sky. Wow...how terribly WONDERFULLY awfully great :rofl: