In Germany we had in the 60s âRaumpatroulle Orionâ (in english: Space Patrol Orion). It was a TV series similar to Star Trek. They used electric irons and other home appliances to build the ship. 
Well, I amended my list. Indy is not a sci-fi movie. But War Games is.
And luckily so!
Itâs a funny movie. Itâs practically a love letter to the hippie culture.
Some of the props of the movie became quite famous. Here is a video of Adam Savage who builds the iconic Barbarellaâs rifle:
I didnât know that book. Seems interesting. 
When I watched that movie for the first time I immediately found a strong similarity between the big head aliens and a race of aliens called âAkkroniansâ that appears in a (once) popular Italian comic book: Zagor:
I never watched âMystery Science Theater 3000â. It seems funny but Iâm not sure that I would appreciate any kind of commentary, it would distract me from enjoying the superb acting of these movies.
I donât know if it was an inspiration for the authors, but I know that the character is practically identical.
I really think that he would have completely screwed Dune, mostly ignoring the story and the settings, just to create a visionary surreal film with no real resemblance with the novel. But I think that it would have been awesome nonetheless!
I loved V. It is one of the few sci-fi TV series that I watched fully and Iâll always remember both the rat eating and the unmasking scenes.
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And whoever hasn´t seen it before might be suprised how it´s status as a cult movie has influenced popular culture. This is where the group Duran Duran got it´s name from and MotÜrhead named a song after the Orgasmatron.
I think it might have been a mostly terrible movie, so the way the gathering of the âwarriorsâ as he called all those creative minds who ended up not working on the movie but still working together in some capacity worked out probably better than whatever the result would have been. The most curious thing is the fact that this would have been his first and possibly only science fiction film, because the only connection I can see to his other films is that he primarily filmed in desert areas (though I´ve only seen El Topo and Holy Mountain, I lke both but I don´t see a visonary SciFi writer or director hidden in there). Then again Kubrick mostly did War movies and crime thrillers before 2001âŚ
Oh, donât worry. The movies are pretty bad. Any acting that happens in them is purely by accident. I love bad movies of the âso bad theyâre actually hilariousâ kind, but most movies they riff are just so bland theyâd be unwatchable without funny commentary.
If youâre curious, see their treatment of Time of the Apes. Think Iâd consider that my favourite episode of theirs ever.
(EDIT) or was that sarcasm? Hard to tell over the Internet.
Has someone mentioned âPlan 9 from outer spaceâ already?
Heh, you mean that instructional video on gun safety?
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Has anyone played the adventure game?
Iâm replying to you in this other thread because you mentioned Back to the Future and movie posters and I thought that my reply would have been a good start for the topic âBest sci-fi movie postersâ.
Struzan is one of my favorite movie poster artists, but I donât like very much all these posters that just contain a collage of faces.
I understand that actors and characters represent a big reason why people go to the movies but making collages of faces is a way to limit the creativity and freedom of the artist.
The following one is genius; it almost tells a story:
This is great:
This is great:
This is great:
This is great:
This is just a colorful sequence of characters:
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Yet it´s still a 1000 times more exciting than most modern movie posters who just photoshop actors faces together.
Take the Indiana Jones or the Star Wars posters, they also combine the characters but add scenes from the movie.
I seem to see a trend that the teaser posters these days are the interesting ones and as soon as the movie is out they come up with something boring.
Take the Hateful 8 which went from this
to this
Concidentally the latter is also the cover of the home video release.
Conan The Barbarian went from this
to this
Die Hard from this
to this
Why does he look so bored?
Generally I believe that the art of the movie poster gradually died out with the advent of Photoshop in the mid 90s.
Actually, there are modern movies with good posters. I donât know if their percentage is high or low, but I still see good posters. Just focusing on sci-fi movies:
This is not bad at all (even if a bit of a clique):
This is not bad at all:
This is not bad at all:
This is not bad at all:
I will always prefer more something like thisâŚ
âŚto the original Star Wars movie poster.
By the way, the artist who made this poster is Olly Moss. You should check his gallery. Among other things he also defined the visual style of Firewatch.
That Cloverfield poster is one example of that film´s brilliant marketing. Before that one came out every one was intriguied by that image, and amazingly it even plays a role in the film (though I´ve heard from several sources that the scale of the head in the street is wrong, but still a great scene) in a way it delivered on the promise that the Escape From New York poster did NOT keep.
I also loved the Promteheus poster, but look what they used for the DVD cover:
And the brilliant early poster* for Alien Covenant
was obviously also deemed to good for the final release
*yes I´m aware that there was an even earlier one that was even more simplistic, so it was the middle one that was the best this time.
But in general I like all those that you´ve shown above.
Thatâs an interesting hypothesis that I wouldnât completely dismiss.
I didnât. Is it as bad as the movie is?
Wikipedia says:
âComputer Gaming Worldâs Charles Ardai criticized the gameâs âcheapâ user interface and mediocre graphics and sound, which made him uncertain whether various continuity errors were accidental or intended to satirize the film.â
Thatâs so meta!
I love how in the Rifftrax version they always shout in panic everytime that happens. And at one point someone (probably Murphy, can´t remember exactly who) comments:âOkay guys, I´m gonna go home now and shoot myselfâ in a casual voice.
Gremlin sounds so familiar, but I couldn´t find out why in their wikipedia article.
I have not cited my favorite comedy sci-fi movies beside BTTF. Here they are:
- Spaceballs
- Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest is the best parody ever of the Star Trek universe (but donât watch the trailer, itâs awful).
I like also âGhostbustersâ, âWeird Scienceâ and âMars Attacks!â but âSpaceballsâ and âGalaxy Questâ are on another level.
Iâm excluding âYoung Frankensteinâ (which is one of my favorite movie of any kind) from the list simply because I consider it more âhorrorâ than âsci-fiâ.
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I donât know, thatâs why I ask. (Hm⌠I remember that I have the Amiga version somewhereâŚ)
Publisher of many C64 games (link leads to a german website).
This is one of my favorite movies ever.
I wanted to show you what I consider to be the only decent fan-made Star Trek series: Star Trek Continues.
Citing WIkipedia: âThe series is an unofficial direct continuation of the third and last season of Star Trek: The Original Series, whose visual and storytelling features were reproduced to recreate the same look and feel.â
These guys rebuilt almost all the Enterprise sets.
Iâll post here just the third episode of the series: âFairest of Them Allâ.
Itâs a direct continuation of the famous TOS episode âMirror, Mirrorâ.
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Can I ask for a few carriage returns?