OT - Good sci fi TV shows?

steveh11 · #1 February 19th, 2003, 01:48 PM

I'll add another to that list of movies: James Cameron's "The Abyss".

Interesting note on "The Abyss" and "2001". In both cases the book was written at the same time as the film, and in both cases changes in the film were made because of the book, and vice versa. Whether this helped I leave to the viewer/reader!

Steve.

gregebowman · #2 February 19th, 2003, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by steveh11:
I'll add another to that list of movies: James Cameron's "The Abyss".

Interesting note on "The Abyss" and "2001". In both cases the book was written at the same time as the film, and in both cases changes in the film were made because of the book, and vice versa. Whether this helped I leave to the viewer/reader!

Steve.

There was a book based on "The Abyss"? I'm sure there was a novelization of the movie, but I can't picture James Cameron being dictated to by an author. On the other hand, I know that Stanly Kubrick worked hand to hand with Clarke to work on 2001. I don't see that book as a novelization of the movie.

Cheeze · #3 February 20th, 2003, 09:00 AM

growltigger...gotta give Buck credit, he had his share of pretty women. But can anyone compare to Captain Kirk (as played by the One True Shatner, or OTS as Shatnerologists reverently refer to the Great One) who would entrall anything remotely female, at any time, in any place!!!

raynor: (for post above this one) The midgets TK'ing Wilma Deering's clothes off have been mentioned several times already. Unless you said it, in which case, yes, we remember it...quite well!!

[ February 23, 2003, 15:22: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

raynor · #4 February 23rd, 2003, 10:57 AM

Does anyone remember the Buck Rogers episode where they encounter the PK-able folks who have never seen a woman before?

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DavidG · #5 February 23rd, 2003, 11:14 PM

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On a realated note can anyone think of any Sci-Fi movie (or any movie) based on a book that was actually good?

hmmm,.. The Thing, Planet of the Apes (original!), The Omega Man, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October, etc, etc, etc.

I could go on and on, for some reason the 'Good' ones seem to be 'memorable'. Dune comes to mind, but you'd have to clip the ending (prevent Paul from causing it to rain) over-all Dune is well done, but Dune had just a few 'major' bugs that basically raped the original book! The Mini-Series was/is a much better adaptation of the book!

Cheers!

OMG Dune!!! Really? Guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.

I think Dune is a classic example of a totally brilliant book (posibly my favourite of all time) and an unbelievable bad movie. But yea that mini series was pretty good. The only other examples you gave that I have seen the movie and read the book was Jurasic Park and I thought the book was much much better. I guess I always like the books better because you can get so much more depth in a novel than you can in a 2 hour movie. I suppose if you were to put all the chapters from a book in the movie it would be god knows how many hours!

Edit: I guess in my orginal post I should have said "better than or as good as the book" instead of just 'good'

[ February 23, 2003, 22:09: Message edited by: DavidG ]

DavidG · #6 February 23rd, 2003, 11:17 PM

So the absoulte best Sci-Fi show of all time ( and possible the best TV show of all time) Outer Limits is now on the Space channel at 6pm EST every weekday!!1 WOOHOO

David E. Gervais · #7 February 24th, 2003, 01:15 AM

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I guess in my orginal post I should have said "better than or as good as the book" instead of just 'good'

Easy, any Tom Clancy book made into a movie will always beat the book. IMHO all his books make for a very dry read. He always tries to cram way too much detail into his naration!

Jurassic Park was/is a better book than movie, but the movie was very well done.

I read Dune after seeing the movie and I was amazed at how much they managed to get into the film. I also imediately noticed how bad some stuff got raped. Most if not all the people I know that saw the film read the books first and all they noticed is what was missing or distorted. My having seen the film without having read the books gave me a different perspective. The reactions that my friends had prompted me to read the book to get the real story. I can't go back and say I didn't like the movie because I did like it. That would be like having a good steak diner and saying you enjoyed it very much then finding out it was bear meat and changing your mind! I don't play that game.

Also I don't agree to disagree, I prefer to say we are in agreement about dune, but have both experienced it from a different perspective. I now recognise that the film was much less than it could have been. But that could also be said of every film ever made! Hindsight is 20-20 after all!

Cheers!