I'm a science fiction fan from way back. I have started watching the Sci Fi channel and I really like it. They have some pretty good movies that are scary. I'm sitting here right now watching one called "Splinters" that is suprisingly good. Pretty good thing to do on a Vaentine's night isn't it?
Sometimes the Sci Fi channel movies are pretty cheap and cheesy, but when they are they usually seem to be done sort of tongue in cheek, with a wink and a nod to the viewing audience. Keep 'em coming!
WE use to love the Sci-Fi channel, but when they started running wrestling, we started looking for supplemental viewing elsewhere. Now, they have some stupid game show and Ghost Hunters is on most of the time. We had started watching "Lost" for a while, then one week they moved it to a different times lot, which pissed us off. Oh well. It was good while it lasted.
I've never really watched the Sci Fi channel. When I was a kid, I loved Lost in Space which I'd say was cheesier than Star Trek. Then I liked movies like Alien and Close Encounters and the first three Star Wars movies. More recently, we've been watching the whole X Files series on DVD before checking out the second X Files movie.
We tried Ghost Hunters because hubby and I enjoy a bit of paranormal adventure now and then, but soon it really seemed like every episode followed the exact same script, just the location changed. It got old pretty quick. You could just about make a drinking game out of when the next person was going to shriek and exclaim "something touched me!"
Sci-Fi channel did take a chance and presented a "re imagining" I think it was called of Battlestar Galactica. We watched the first episode but it seemed pretty different from the cheezy series we enjoyed in the late 70s. The old version was melodramatic and reflected the culture of the time.
I tried watching the first version and just couldn't do it. I tried watching the latest version and still can't get into it. I think it has too many people. It feels like a bad soap opera!
I think I saw part of one once. Everything was supposed to be so high tech and then I see an old guy with reading glasses. I would have thought they would have also had lasik surgery for eye correction?? Started thinking about that and then the whole thing seemed out of whack. Switched to something more interesting -- like the history channel or myth busters.
One of the things that cracks me up about the 70s and 80s sci fi movies and tv shows is how they show computer monitors in monochrome and they use CRTs instead of flat screen LCD or plasma monitors. Now, they really should have known better.
That reminds me of a seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's shot where a fellow uses a pay phone, and the insignia on the side of the phone is a Bell Telephone sticker. It's one of those things that shows how reality outstripped imagination. You can hardly find a pay phone anywhere and the Bells were all broken up years ago.
I was reading a great article on things invented because of science fiction. One is the cell phone. I love the sci fi channel. Anyone remember the movie Wargames? That is SOOOO funny now!
I chuckle when I see old sci-fi shows with computers that feature rows of light blinking on and off. Did anyone know that those lights had no basis in reality?
I doubt it. I love those old movies with the monochrome monitors......Especially the ones set in the future...like in 2010.......they couldn't even imagine the internet we now have.
