Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?
No, Firefly doesn’t count as lesser-known.
You could try Sliders, but the 90s corniness might turn you off.
As a kid, I was obsessed with the nickelodeon remake ofThe Tomorrow People but it doesn’t stand up very well
Then there’s Dark City and Gattaca for some more late 90s sci fi that I feel was bigger back then but no one really references anymore, but I think they are worth a view.
City of Lost Children is super weird but you can’t deny the aesthetic is unique.
Winner of best movie with stupidest climax goes to Sunshine
I cannot bring myself to watch sunshine, as the entire premise is dogshit. Exploding a nuke that small (compared to the sun) on the surface of the sun would do absolutely nothing.
Even disregarding that, I didn’t like the movie at all. Very overrated IMO.
This is true- the premise isn’t scientifically sound in any way. But the movie isn’t really about that. It’s about the journey through space under the stress of this being earths last chance and also kind of eldritch horror. Plus probably my fav roll for Chris Evans. He does a great job being an unlikeable guy who is technically right so you can’t really be against him. I liked it lol.
But the entire premise not making any sense whatsoever, in a sci-fi film, completely takes me out of it and renders me unable to enjoy any of it.
It’s explicitly not a nuke, if that helps.
You seem to have some bad info.
“A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057”
You telling me every description of the movie I can find is wrong?
Yes, apparently? The device is literally set off and there’s an entire speech about how the word bomb is a misnomer. But yes, person who hasn’t seen the movie, I’m sure you know better
You don’t know what was in the nuke, whether it cascaded particles to origin by some unknown yech. Calling it a “nuke” saves the audience technical mumbo-jumbo whilst conveying accurate intent, in the same way that a “phone” probably refers to a mobile phone that can connect with several tech frameworks, instead of a landline dial toner.
I used to whisper “SLIDERS!” as loud as I can to my husband several times a month, so I made him watch it to know what I was talking about.
I realized that child-me made up that part of the intro, since they definitely don’t shout-whisper sliders.
I stopped whispering sliders at him.
Now there’s a show that takes me back. I wasn’t sure if anyone else ever watched that show. I can picture the cgi dinosaurs as if I watched it yesterday…
For some reason Sliders and Spellbinder are grouped together in my head. I wonder if anyone else remembers that show.
And the sad thing is that Sunshine started out with a lot of potential, but holy shit did it not stick the landing