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The 10 Most Underrated Classic Science Fiction Films
PJ Media ^ | August 4, 2014 | Pierre Comtois

Posted on 08/09/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by EveningStar

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To: Joe Brower

In a way, I’m surprised that ME-TV hasn’t run that since at times is a Quinn Martin lite channel. Don’t get me wrong, most of the QM stuff I always liked.


121 posted on 08/09/2014 3:50:57 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Joe Brower

and let us not forget the greatest congtribution to sci fi from the bbc - red dwarf


122 posted on 08/09/2014 3:55:37 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Me too!


123 posted on 08/09/2014 3:57:35 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: camle

That one is remembered. Our Doppelgangers. The end of the movie remembered a positive to negative effect, and the guy fooling around to determine what went where as to wiring, blew up the entire launch site.


124 posted on 08/09/2014 4:02:51 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Zardoz!”””””

The only time Sean Connery wore a diaper on screen.


125 posted on 08/09/2014 4:25:50 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: EveningStar

Wasn’t the time travelers the one with the dwarves in the late 80s? I thought it was pretty good


126 posted on 08/09/2014 4:34:55 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: EveningStar

Certainly can’t leave out the larger than life insect movies.

Grasshoppers -”Beginning of the End” in 1957 w/Peter Graves
Ants-”Them” w/Fess Parker and James Arness from 1954
Praying mantris - “The Deadly Mantis”- another ‘57 movie w/Craig Stevens(Mr. Lucky), & William Hopper (Perry Mason PI
Giant crabs, giant birds;
Giant squids seen in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” Kirk Douglas, James Mason

and though not giants...’Frogs” with Ray Miland (not his best film)

Saturday nights meant great SyFi movies shown on the local channel in Dallas Popcorn, Coke, and a floor cushion would be all that was needed for a good Sat night watching the films


127 posted on 08/09/2014 4:35:27 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: liege

Same here. Sand dunes were avoided, easy as the coast line is miles from Big D. However, would occasionally glance at the back of the neck of a person...just checking.


128 posted on 08/09/2014 4:45:17 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: raybbr

LOL!


129 posted on 08/09/2014 4:48:19 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: V K Lee

Don’t leave out the spiders, as in “Tarantula” (1955) and “Earth vs. the Spider” (1958). Heck, I seem to even recall Tarzan battling a big old spider in a cave in one of his 1940s-era films.

My gosh, but I used to love all the old creature-feature/sci-fi type films that all the local channels used to air. Whether saturday afternoons, or weekend late-shows, or even weekday, after-school “Dialing for Dollars Theaters,” those things were such a joy. Absolute bliss, for a wide-eyed youngster.


130 posted on 08/09/2014 4:56:08 PM PDT by greene66
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To: EveningStar

The Trollenberg Terror LOL - actually kinda cool Z-grade schlock on a Saturday night. Forrest Tucker as a leading man, anyone?


131 posted on 08/09/2014 4:56:25 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean I'm wrong.)
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To: EveningStar

The Incredible Shrinking Man


132 posted on 08/09/2014 5:01:06 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: EveningStar
We all know the standards that no one questions: 2001, Forbidden Planet, Things to Come

I looked. Didn't happen. I think I need a blue pill.

133 posted on 08/09/2014 5:02:35 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: Rockpile

I’ll buy that for a dollar!

Great movie. Roudy Ronnie Piper!


134 posted on 08/09/2014 5:07:30 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: EveningStar

Any Sci-Fi that got the MST3k treatment. Specially Gamera movies.

Hardware Wars

SpaceBalls


135 posted on 08/09/2014 5:33:26 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Great flick that one.


136 posted on 08/09/2014 5:45:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: EveningStar
Mars Attacks!


137 posted on 08/09/2014 5:46:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

I do not know of most of them, however, ‘Kronos’ is terribly under-rated!!


138 posted on 08/09/2014 5:51:20 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: rbg81

#9 definitely. excellent film. can find online or on amazon.


139 posted on 08/09/2014 5:57:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Varsity Flight
The Incredible Shrinking Man

Excellent film.

140 posted on 08/09/2014 6:22:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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