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Well, I like Defiance so much that I bought the DVD for Season 1. In contrast to that, I really tried to get into Hyperdrive, which has good CGI, but it’s just not my kind of tea. I like my show to be a bit more serious to themselves. Same for red Dwarf. I still remember my initial reaction: “WTF?!?” ;-P
Yeah! Red Dwarf!
I just discovered that there is a season 10, and maybe 11. Had no idea.
How about: Doctor Who! Both the old and new incarnations. Must be some hands up for those if we are talking SciFi.
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I just discovered that there is a season 10, and maybe 11.
[/quote]Season 11 of Red Dwarf has already been confirmed and is to be aired at the end of the year:
I just love Red Dwarf! Riding alligators and shooting Nazis, that’s funny even for me as a German. Although it’s a bit sad to see how old the actors all got 🙁
[quote=”cambragol” post=19361]How about: Doctor Who! Both the old and new incarnations. Must be some hands up for those if we are talking SciFi.[/quote]
Doctor Who used to be my favorite SciFi show, but the last season was really…lame. I just hope it gets more intense with the next one.
Also, the first seasons (the black and white ones) really haven’t aged well. I don’t speak about the video quality, but the storytelling takes so much time, it doesn’t fit into 2015 anymore.
Space. The final frontier.
I’ve seen Babylon 5 season 1, Agents of SHIELD season 1, the three hour miniseries of Battlestar Galactica, and episodes 4 and 5 of Star Wars.
Unimpressive list, when compared to my games list. 😛Best: Agents of SHIELD, by far. Great story line, great conversations, acting, and action.
Babylon 5 comes right after it. It would be better if the aliens were a little less stereotypical. I’m a wee bit tired of humanoids that are clearly wearing lots of makeup.
Battlestar Galactica is not all that good, in my opinion. There’s way too much profanity (any show that invents its own bad word can’t be good.) Also, it could do with turning down the adultery a little.
Star Wars is definitely my least favorite show. The massive amount of total technobabble, the weak story line, and the poor (for this time), amateurish graphics kill it for me. Feel free to bomb my house now in retribution for disliking this show. :silly:
The others you guys have been mentioning I’ve never even heard of until now, and I might be too busy on my projects (space game included) to watch them. A bummer, because one or two of them looked interesting.
–IronDuke
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Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂[quote=”IronDuke” post=19392]Best: Agents of SHIELD, by far. Great story line, great conversations, acting, and action.[/quote]
I have to disagree – and that is hard, because all of my friends dig this show, too. I don’t know – it’s the typical Marvel “Let’s beat people up – and there are superheroes and tits, too.” Guess I’m not so much into superheroes at all. The last Captain America movie was SO BAD, nothing happened all the time! I don’t know how Marvel keeps on getting away with this.
Babylon 5 comes right after it. It would be better if the aliens were a little less stereotypical. I’m a wee bit tired of humanoids that are clearly wearing lots of makeup.
Well, B5 is a series deep from the 90s. If you take that into account, it is very modern. One of my favorite shows, I have to rewatch it soon, since I forgot most of the stuff that happened there. But I still have my Psi-Corps pin on my jacket every day and I like it when people ask me about it. Last week someone thought I’m a member of an occult club somewhere. 😛
Battlestar Galactica is not all that good, in my opinion. There’s way too much profanity (any show that invents its own bad word can’t be good.) Also, it could do with turning down the adultery a little.
Did you only watch the pilot film of the series that never happened – Blood and Chrome? I have to agree, that this could’ve been better.
Otherwise, I love the show. I mean, there are frakkin’ toasters! And women who can act (didn’t have that in the original, there were just there for tits I guess). I even loved the ending, that most people are b*tching about 😆
Star Wars is definitely my least favorite show. The massive amount of total technobabble, the weak story line, and the poor (for this time), amateurish graphics kill it for me. Feel free to bomb my house now in retribution for disliking this show. :silly:
Totally agreed! 🙂
Space. The final frontier.
I have to disagree on Captain America. Granted, I only watched the first movie (where the little guy turned into superhero), but it was so shockingly bad that I still mourn for the 10 EUR that I wasted for this shit (a friend had dragged me into cinema). I DO know, however, how Marvel keeps getting away with crap like this. Just read some of the reviews on IMDB, and you’ll notice that if it’s a comic adaption, some ppl immediately switch off their brain and go into full basement-kiddie mode.
I admit, I really liked Pacific Rim, which is a guilty pleasure as well, but it was still infinitely better than Captain America.
B5: I still have the Revell model kit for the Starfury waiting for me to be built (standing next to the Revell Perry Rhodan SOL generation ship ^^), and I’m using my black B5 mug for drinking tea. It’s just the best!
BSG: It has some, if the THE, best CGI of any SciFi shows out there. Also, I really like the gritty realism. IronDuke, I strongly recommend to find yourself a copy of the original mini-series (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battlestar-Galactica-Edward-James-Olmos/dp/B0001M1JFM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427470253&sr=8-1&keywords=battlestar+galactica+pilot). If you’re still not into it, then all hope is lost for you. 😉
It’s not the fault of the shows actually, I’m just really, really, really, really picky. It doesn’t help that the ideas floating in my head for my space game practically always conflict with what is present in these shows. 🙁
Also, I borrowed all of these from the library, so if they’re trash it’s all I paid for. 😛I never mentioned the Captain A movies, but since someone did…
I actually didn’t like the first one much, but the second was much better.—(Spoiler alert!)—
Hydra wiping out SHIELD delighted me, because I felt they deserved it, which was also why i liked watching Agents of SHIELD. Also, the helicarrier battle scene at the end was somewhat reminiscent of a spaceship battle, like maybe a couple heavy destroyers at each other with Gatling turrets. 👿
–IronDuke
P.S. Admittedly, if I think about it, the Marvel movies are a little cheesy, with slathers of action and colorful explosions, and little story line, but I usually watch them at the end of a day, when thinking about anything harder than a leather couch will make me turn into a mushroom cloud.
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Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂[quote=”IronDuke” post=19415]I usually watch them at the end of a day, when thinking about anything harder than a leather couch will make me turn into a mushroom cloud.[/quote]
Yeah, I guess that’s what Marvel movies are intended to. I don’t even want to have a plotline in a Marvel movie where I have to think too much at the end of the day.
But that doesn’t justify no plotline at all, like in the last Captain America 😉 But that’s okay, he’s a hero that represents a nation being proud of itself, they can do that. I’m just glad we don’t have “Kapitän Germany” here and that’s strange, since we Germans tend to copy a lot of things and make them worse. 😀
Space. The final frontier.
I’ve just watched “Chappie” – if you don’t know it, here’s the trailer for you.
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6bmTNadhJE[/spoiler]
WARNING – SPOILERS!
This film is total junk and deserves a place in this thread, amongst the worst movies I have ever seen.
– The music in the movie is loud and unpleasant. Most of the time it sounds like “Die Antwoord – Rich Bitch”, which is just really bad gangster rap.
– The robot can’t speak properly. He learns the language from his family and since these all talk like “Yo I’m gonna get ya, I’m da pimp” the robot does, too.
– This movie also doesn’t give us any moral values. His “family” steals cars and property, they kill people and they even abandon the robot so he ends up being set on flames. Then he comes back and they live “happily ever after”. Seriously?
Also, this movie is full of clichés. The operating system of the robots is DOS, the programmer is a skinny white guy who’s working in a cubicle and doesn’t get credit for his hard work…PURE, UTTER GARBAGE. I so regret watching this! :angry:
Space. The final frontier.
Well, the music sounds like Die Antwoord because the main characters ARE Die Antwoord. Also, my first video of them was “I Fink U Freeky” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw). The robot looks a bit like Briareos Hekatonchires from “Appleseed” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briareos_Hecatonchires):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_(manga) :
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp has cited Appleseed’s Briareos as an influence on the design of the robot in his 2015 film, Chappie.The thing is that Neill Blomkamp, the director of the movie, made great movies like Elysium (IMDB: 6.7) or District 9 (IMDB: 8.0). IMDB gives it a rating of 7.2, which means something like “great for fans of the genre”. When the movie is out on BD, I might give it a chance and post here what I think of it.
Briareos is way cooler than this stupid gangster robot. How dare you! 😛 You can’t compare Chappie to this epic beast:
And yes, I was aware that “Die Antwoord” is actually playing in the movie. Maybe it would’ve been better without them.
To be completely fair: “Chappie” is still better than the last Appleseed movie. :unsure:
Space. The final frontier.
To be honest, I haven’t watched the newest Appleseed movie yet – I think (you mean Appleseed Alpha?). Be that as it may, I think the ones that I DID watch (the cell animation OVA and the first two computer animated ones, Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina) weren’t really good. In fact, they weren’t even remotely on par with the mangas. But that’s entirely my own opinion.
While I think that the Ghost in the Shell movies were really good (especially the first one) and I did enjoy both seasons of Stand Alone Complex, I think Shirow had much less luck with Appleseed. I find it pretty sad that the TV show never got finished (Appleseed Genesis), but I wonder if the newest show Appleseed XIII fills that gap. Did you have had the chance to watch it?
Did you know that Tsutomu Nihei’s manga series “Knights of Sidonia” was turned into a CGI series? More conventional than Blame!, and with mostly one-dimensional characters, but fun to watch anyway. And I just love Nihei’s works!
I only know the three movies. I don’t watch many animes, mostly western ones.
I’ve seen Ghost in the Shell, though – the first movie I believe. It was awesome and I want to watch the series. Basically, I want more – but there’s no time in between I-War and other things.^^
The first Appleseed movie was great. Intense action, a little love, a decent plot…and 2D characters in a 3D world looked really unique.
The second one wasn’t super-great (yeah, white doves! Let’s do more doves!), but it was watchable.The third one killed the franchise for me. The animations looked really cheap and broke the immersion of the series completely. And the plot was like a 5 year old wrote it. Also…sooo many pauses in the movie! I almost fell asleep.
I’ve decided to skip Appleseed XIII because of that.
Space. The final frontier.
What exactly did you mean by “third” movie? Can you give me the exact name? I recently watched Appleseed Alpha from 2014, and I was pleasantly surprised of the quality of the 3D animations. Also, the story was not as bad as I was afraid of.
I meant Appleseed Alpha. And I hated that movie.
I just sat there waiting for stuff to happen and all I got was cheesy dialogue, a thin plot and whacky animations. Maybe my standards are too high but I think this movie is pure and utter garbage.
Agreeing with most of the imdb reviews here. The somehow “off” animations aren’t even the real problem, there is no real character development and I can’t really remember the story after a few months of watching it, which doesn’t speak for it, I guess 😀
Space. The final frontier.
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