Tag Archives: sci-fi scenes

Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favorite classic science fiction films.  It borrows heavily from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to weave a tale of a scientist and his young daughter who are the sole survivors of a lost expedition on …

In 1997 a quirky and stylistic science fiction movie was released to lukewarm box office (though it did well internationally) and tepid critical response. That movie was Luc Besson’s French production of the mild sleeper hit . . . The Fifth …

In 1977 two movies were released by two future juggernauts in Hollywood.  George Lucas released his first installment in the Star Wars universe, and Steven Spielberg released Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  But Lucas had no confidence that Star …

Alien was another movie that was not spoiled by the internet.  In 1979 audiences going in only knew three things about it:  there was an alien, it was set in space, and “in space no one can hear you scream.” …

It’s not often that an anime feature has an impact on mainstream science fiction, but in 1995 Ghost in the Shell popped on to the scene.  It absolutely tanked at the box office but has probably gone on to make …

When Star Wars opened in May of 1977 no one really knew what to expect.  There was no internet.  There was no Youtube.  There were no forums with people endlessly speculating and posting spoilers to the length that the entire …

2001 is 45 years old. Almost two generations have been born since it appeared in theaters and took viewers on a total mind trip. People still debate the meaning of the movie, and the movie has many memorable scenes. For …

Thorne’s book, Sol, makes a terrible discovery . . . and by now I hope everyone on the planet knows what it is.  Yes, the overpopulated, polluted, and globally toasty Earthers are eating the dead to survive.  Sol decides to …

Ahhh, Roy, Roy, Roy.  You desired life so much that you killed to find its secret, but in the end you loved it so much that you couldn’t bear to take another life.  The lesson . . . we only …