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Title: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portion
Post by: Quix on May 23, 2017, 12:30:46 am
My own nominees are:

1. Day the Earth Stood Still
2. War of the worlds
3. Start Trek
4. Star Wars
5. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind


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Addendum:

Rationalization?

I'm not a great movie person. I don't keep a lot of movie titles in my head. I rarely watch movies. I  do like Sci Fi but I'm very picky. There's a lot of trash in the genre.

Though I do fondly remember the TV series LOST IN SPACE & MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.

 I don't think I ever did watch that one about the bloke alone on Mars.

I did like the one about the huge artificial enclosed environment above the earth. Elysium?

I enjoyed some of Edgar R Burroughs' 'Mars books.'

And STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

And, ENDER'S GAME series

I vaguely recall that there's a bunch of dystopian society movies--a few of which I watched. I find them usually pretty dreary. Not a favorite use of my time.

Anyway--that's about all that's off the top of my head currently.
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portions of secret facts
Post by: Joe Wooten on July 24, 2017, 04:50:42 pm
None
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portions of secret facts
Post by: Ghost Bear on July 24, 2017, 07:21:41 pm
Yeah, I tend to think that most movies/TV series that touch on these ideas contain misdirections... plausible-sounding ideas that actually point down the wrong path, or direct people away from the "right" path.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portions of secret facts
Post by: Wingnut on July 24, 2017, 10:39:20 pm
Warning From Space. 

Starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.

Those Starfish dudes are still hereon earth.
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portions of secret facts
Post by: Joe Wooten on July 25, 2017, 06:32:38 pm
Warning From Space. 

Starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.

Those Starfish dudes are still hereon earth.

In 1962?????   :silly:
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portions of secret facts
Post by: andy58-in-nh on July 25, 2017, 06:42:49 pm
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Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: mikezpen on February 13, 2021, 02:21:29 am
Possibly the greatest movie of all time.
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Hoodat on February 13, 2021, 02:35:41 am
Contact
Arrival
Fire in the Sky
Bladerunner
District 9
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: dfwgator on February 13, 2021, 04:11:54 am
Idiocracy
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: bigheadfred on February 13, 2021, 04:15:31 am
H. G. Wells
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: catfish1957 on February 13, 2021, 04:34:47 am
Idiocracy

(nailed it)
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: catfish1957 on February 13, 2021, 04:37:46 am
Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

(https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-X-Files-Scully-and-Mulder.jpg)
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Texas Yellow Rose on February 13, 2021, 04:54:59 am
Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

(https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-X-Files-Scully-and-Mulder.jpg)
:rolling:
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: DCPatriot on February 13, 2021, 12:13:21 pm
@Quix

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.   The only 'fact' Hollywood changed was the location.  It happened at an Air Force Base...not a desert.

THREE TIMES! 

President Eisenhower met with them, and the result was a signed 'Treaty'.

(William Shatner meets with Ancient Aliens - broadcast February 12, 2021)   :laugh:
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Elderberry on February 13, 2021, 01:49:02 pm
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Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Quix on February 15, 2021, 08:28:38 am
@Quix

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.   The only 'fact' Hollywood changed was the location.  It happened at an Air Force Base...not a desert.

THREE TIMES! 

President Eisenhower met with them, and the result was a signed 'Treaty'.

(William Shatner meets with Ancient Aliens - broadcast February 12, 2021)   :laugh:

THANKS.

Will be interesting to eventually see what's accurate & what's disinformation.
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Quix on February 15, 2021, 01:12:20 pm

Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

(https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-X-Files-Scully-and-Mulder.jpg)

LOLOLOL.

THANKS. Though, actually, I wasn't thinking with my best memory when I made that post. At 74, I'm learning that the research on memory & aging is really true. LOL. But I didn't really try very hard on that post, either. Just gave a quick response off the top of my head. Though I doubt I'd have recalled their movie if I HAD of tried harder. LOL.

AND--the OP assigned task was to list 3-5 movies. I did manage that.
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I added this onto that post listing the movies I thought of at the time:


Addendum:

Rationalization?

I'm not a great movie person. I don't keep a lot of movie titles in my head. I rarely watch movies. I  do like Sci Fi but I'm very picky. There's a lot of trash in the genre.

Though I do fondly remember the TV series LOST IN SPACE & MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.

 I don't think I ever did watch that one about the bloke alone on Mars.

I did like the one about the huge artificial enclosed environment above the earth. Elysium?

I enjoyed some of Edgar R Burroughs' 'Mars books.'

And STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

And, ENDER'S GAME series

I vaguely recall that there's a bunch of dystopian society movies--a few of which I watched. I find them usually pretty dreary. Not a favorite use of my time.

Anyway--that's about all that's off the top of my head currently.

Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: Gefn on February 15, 2021, 01:17:44 pm
Idiocracy

Yes, yes, yes!

Maybe also Soylent Green?
Title: Re: Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant por
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on March 23, 2021, 10:18:59 pm
The Boys from Brazil (1978)