The best low budget bad movie that was great sci fi has to be They Live

(04-07-2013 12:55 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  The best low budget bad movie that was great sci fi has to be They Live

For years (and on a few boards still) my sig line always said from that movie.

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm out of bubble gum"

(04-07-2013 04:35 PM)OwlFamily Wrote:  

(04-07-2013 12:55 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  The best low budget bad movie that was great sci fi has to be They Live

For years (and on a few boards still) my sig line always said from that movie.

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm out of bubble gum"

I originally thought that line came from Duke Nukem 3D.

After I looked it up, I stand corrected. You learn something new every day.

This thread had me going back and re watching all the Firefly episodes, what a fantastic show! The final episode "Objects in Space" is brilliant.

I love Farscape but never could quite get in to Babylon 5.

If they send this Vulcan to make first contact, I'll volunteer to greet her in the appropriate human male fashion.

(04-06-2013 11:35 AM)mathenis89 Wrote:  

(04-06-2013 12:34 AM)Dracorex Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 11:28 PM)mathenis89 Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 07:40 PM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 07:33 PM)mathenis89 Wrote:  Deep Space Nine was my personal favorite.

What is wrong with you? :beammeup:

It's the best series. :)

DS9 only got good with the additions of worf. Season 1 was garbage, but by season 6 it is one of my favorite series.

Voyager and TNG were pretty much good throughout.

Ben Sisko's acting was god awful at times, but I think the overall storylines throughout the entire series was much better than TNG or Voyager. Voyager was excellent and is my third favorite series, and I love TNG, but it's very corny and dated compared to DS9.

Plus, Quark is one of the best characters ever. And Garak. And Gul Dukat. And especially Weyoun.

Those three alone were a good enough reason to watch the show, that and Nana Vistor's interestingly shaped posterior.

Would have loved for there to have been a season 5 of Enterprise just because Combs was going to be added as a regular as Shran.

(04-08-2013 11:22 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I love Farscape but never could quite get in to Babylon 5.

I lived both shows. B5 was such a great story arch.

Also farscape is on sale this week @ Target $11.99 per season.

(04-08-2013 01:36 PM)eagleriffic Wrote:  

(04-08-2013 11:22 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I love Farscape but never could quite get in to Babylon 5.

I lived both shows. B5 was such a great story arch.

Also farscape is on sale this week @ Target $11.99 per season.

Wow. I totally forgot about B5. It's the one on my list I had forgotten. It took a couple of seasons to get going but when it did, I was hooked.

I guess I should give Stargate U another look. The first few episodes just didn't catch me. Maybe it's on Netflix. I'll have to try it again.

(04-08-2013 03:30 PM)slow-runner Wrote:  

(04-08-2013 01:36 PM)eagleriffic Wrote:  

(04-08-2013 11:22 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I love Farscape but never could quite get in to Babylon 5.

I lived both shows. B5 was such a great story arch.

Also farscape is on sale this week @ Target $11.99 per season.

Wow. I totally forgot about B5. It's the one on my list I had forgotten. It took a couple of seasons to get going but when it did, I was hooked.

I guess I should give Stargate U another look. The first few episodes just didn't catch me. Maybe it's on Netflix. I'll have to try it again.

Stargate U is on Netflix. Just watched the last season again recently.

i just can't get past the BAD graphics in Babylon 5...their battles look like screen savers off windows 95...DS9 was the best of Trek IMHO (Enterprise was the worst)...I REALLY enjoyed Battlestar Galactica...Caprica is OK...i've enjoyed watching the remastered Star Trek TOS.

(04-08-2013 04:58 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  i just can't get past the BAD graphics in Babylon 5...their battles look like screen savers off windows 95...DS9 was the best of Trek IMHO (Enterprise was the worst)...I REALLY enjoyed Battlestar Galactica...Caprica is OK...i've enjoyed watching the remastered Star Trek TOS.

It's important to remember that that was the first show on TV to use CGI for all special effects. Before that most shows, including TNG, used starship models. It looks bad today but for the early '90's that was brand new stuff.

That's what I keep reminding myself...I just finished "geometry of shadows" in season 2...didn't like Sinclair...but I like Sheridan.

(04-08-2013 07:38 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  That's what I keep reminding myself...I just finished "geometry of shadows" in season 2...didn't like Sinclair...but I like Sheridan.

Sheridan was far better than Sinclair. Also, Jakar was by far the best character as the show progressed through the years.

(04-08-2013 07:43 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(04-08-2013 07:38 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  That's what I keep reminding myself...I just finished "geometry of shadows" in season 2...didn't like Sinclair...but I like Sheridan.

Sheridan was far better than Sinclair. Also, Jakar was by far the best character as the show progressed through the years.

They could have done a whole show on G'kar, Londo and Vir.

J'kar was so welk written & performed by Andreas Katsulus (rip). his development & storyline was fantastic. A series with him & garaboldi would have been fun.

(04-09-2013 07:39 AM)eagleriffic Wrote:  J'kar was so welk written & performed by Andreas Katsulus (rip). his development & storyline was fantastic. A series with him & garaboldi would have been fun.

I was just about to mention Garibadi(sp?)....great character.

(04-09-2013 07:41 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(04-09-2013 07:39 AM)eagleriffic Wrote:  J'kar was so welk written & performed by Andreas Katsulus (rip). his development & storyline was fantastic. A series with him & garaboldi would have been fun.

I was just about to mention Garibadi(sp?)....great character.

The Poor Man's Bruce Willis.

(04-09-2013 07:39 AM)eagleriffic Wrote:  J'kar was so welk written & performed by Andreas Katsulus (rip). his development & storyline was fantastic. A series with him & garaboldi would have been fun.

(04-07-2013 11:59 AM)mathenis89 Wrote:  

(04-07-2013 10:15 AM)slow-runner Wrote:  

(04-07-2013 09:32 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(04-07-2013 08:59 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(04-07-2013 07:05 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Really liked Farscape as well. It got a bit "out there" to me at times.

while one of my all time favorites I don't think farscape was the best show I think it has the best science fiction of the sci fi shows. if that makes any sense.

Speaking of Farscape, I was probably one of the few who really liked the direction Stargate went once Browder and Black joined the show.

I loved SG-1! Claudia Black brought a dynamic and a character that I thought could really push the show for another 6 seasons. Oh, well.

Firefly tops my list just above SG-1. Also on the list are Doctor Who (classic and modern with the "Blink" episode one if the best episodes ever), Fringe, TNG, Farscape, BSG. Sliders was good too.

On another list is Haven, Buffy, Angel, Supernatural, and another that seems to have escaped me at the moment. I guess when I remember it I should remove it since I can't recall its name.

Have you seen Stargate: Universe? Was the best Stargate series, in my opinion. I wasn't a big fan of SG-1.

Farscape was good for the first few seasons, then just started... sucking. Fringe seems to be good so far.

Universe started off horribly.Wanted to be BSG too much. But after episode 5 found its rhythm and ended up being one of the best sci-fi series I have seen. Currently a big fan of Falling Skies. They got the Alien Apocalypse right.