Favorite top 5 Classic Sci-Fi movies

[dan bailey]

Just shows how little you pick up from life. Even my kids have past their teen years, so let me give you an advice, little punk.
When your parents let you watch some grown up HORROR movies you can come back and state your opinion, otherwise zipp it when adults are talking.

My parents have been dead for 44 1/2 & 28 years, respectively. (And they didn't come back as zombies. Dammit.)

The better part of valor, of course, in the face of blatant trollery is to put the offender's posts on "Ignore."

There we go ...

Done.

[The Confessor]

Of course, in the sense that I suppose (might be overly simplifying things here, since as per usual I can't really call myself fully awake) all sequential art is automatically comics. Or all stories set in the Old West are Westerns, whatever else they may be.

Hmmmm...not sure that's an adequate comparison, since clearly not all sequential art is comics. For example, the Bayeux Tapestry is made up of sequential art, but it’s a stretch to call it a comic. My point is that since it has no ties to earth or earth bound science, Star Wars can’t really be termed science fiction. Space fiction of space fantasy is a much better fit.

That would be the same Paul Kantner whose LP (with or without various other Jeffersonians; can't remember to whom the record is credited, don't really care & have never sought out the album anyway, though probaby I've heard at least one song courtesy of the Flight Log double-LP comp from when I was a kid) whose Blows Against the Empire won a Hugo some 40 years ago, IIRC.

That's right....good memory! That album was credited to Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship and yeah, it's a concept album telling the story of a bunch of hippies who hijack an intersteller starship in 1990 (wishful thinking!) and leave earth's troubles behind, for a life wandering the stars.

By strange coincidence, if you check my facebook page, you'll see that I posted a YouTube clip to the song "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite" from that very album just two days ago. Visit my FB page and have you're mind blown, dan.

You can make almost the exact same argument that is made about Star Wars not being SF about Dune. But I don't see very many people doing it.

I don't know about that, never having read the books and having only seen the movie once, but if Dune has absolutely no ties to the real world whatsoever, then yes, I agree that it shouldn't really be classified as sci-fi.

Anyone else here as psyched about Prometheus as I am?

Actually, yes...I am really looking forward to it. Especially since there won't be an alien or face-hugger in sight!

There was a good comics adaptation of the song in an early issue of Star*Reach.

Woah! I had no idea about that Rob, thanks for the tip-off. Sounds mighty intriguing.

[Rob Allen]

Woah! I had no idea about that Rob, thanks for the tip-off. Sounds mighty intriguing.

Found it - it's in Star*Reach #3 - http://www.comics.org/issue/29033/

Wooden Ships on the Water
comic story / 5 pages
Script:Mike Friedrich
Pencils:Steve Leialoha
Inks:Steve Leialoha
Letters:Tom Orzechowski
Inspired by the song by Crosby, Stills and Kantner.

[The Confessor]

Thanks , Rob. I'd never heard of Star*Reach before. Is it a good series and is it worth picking up issue #3 for the Wooden Ships story?

[Rob Allen]

Never ... heard .... of .... Star*Reach ??? *swoons*

The "Wooden Ships" story is really nice, but it's only 5 pages. There are more reasons to pick up #3 - the wraparound Brunner cover (http://www.comics.org/issue/29033/cover/4/) and accompanying sword & sorcery story, the sf story, the erotic/Lovecraft story... Yes, it's a good series. An anthology, so somewhat uneven, but the high points are very high - Chaykin, Starlin, Brunner, Leialoha, Staton, Workman, Vosburg, Russell, Marrs, Giordano...

The argument has been made, by sometime CBR poster Richard Arndt, that Star*Reach was the most important comic series of the 1970s. His Star*Reach bibliography has all the credits plus his reviews of every issue and an overview of the series' and the company's importance in comics history:

http://enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/Star-Reach.htm

I guess they didn't have distribution in the UK, or you would have heard of them. I hope they're not too difficult to find.