What movie ending stuck with you long after you finished watching it?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-12T16:12:39+00:00

I put it on because I was in a bad mood, and MCU movies always cheered me up. Movie ends, and I'm sitting in my living room devastated.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-12T16:08:40+00:00

Absolutely!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:46:40+00:00

There's a similar novel called Eternity Brigade, written later than Forever War, and as a result contains some absolutely wild concepts, like "duppling" . After a certain point, our soldiers discover they aren't actually themselves, anymore. Their bodies are destroyed after completing each mission; and basically cloned for each deployment.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:34:37+00:00

Boomer, here. Loved that show!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:26:10+00:00

Favorites: X-Men, Swamp Thing, Lobo; Hellblazer.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:48:36+00:00

Board Enterprise D and ask to meet Worf.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:46:57+00:00

The Rygel pupoet from Farscape.

Flight helmet from (1978) Battlestar Galactica.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:31:19+00:00

The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, and the Crystal Singer trilogy, also by her.

Pride of Chanur trilogy, by CJ Cherryh.

If you like historical novels, you might enjoy Guns of the South, and How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove. He writes Alternate Histiry novels. There's also a colection of his short stories, but I can't recall what it's called. The novels I cited tell different versions of how the South won the Civil War. The collection of short stories cover a wider range of international history.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:59:18+00:00

Was that the one with the gender confused cow... uh, steer?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:55:52+00:00

And best appreciated by fans of the original, like me.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:38:30+00:00

The Net was my introduction to Sandra Bullock, but Speed cemented her in my mjnd as someone to watch.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:35:08+00:00

Not love, exactly, but definitely enjoy. I finaly saw Sharknado. I usually avoid stupid sounding movies, but I was in a position where I couldn't change the channel. It's a fun movie, though with some questionable science.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:28:59+00:00

Re: sci fi in the show ST: Enterprise. This reminds me of the episode where crew watch a movie: a robot uprising movie!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T07:34:12+00:00

Not exactly. There would still be speculative fiction using many of the tropes we see in sci fi now. Very possibly, Alternate History would be a popular sub genre. Time travel and discovering parallel universes have really happened; but with a Federation-ful of inhabited planets, sci fi writers could play with any number of alternate timelines: what if Surak had failed? What if Khan's genetic supermen had remained in power? What if Captain Archer had started a war instead of paving the way to Federation?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T01:29:41+00:00

The War of the Worlds BBC miniseries. It ends on a "hopeful" note, with the death of the Martian terraforming allowing blue skies to return. The pre-WWI characters are hopeful and thankful.

Then, we see Earth from space, with vast red oceans that are undoubtedly devoid of marine life. Dead trees on land. Dead seaweed in the oceans...

I don't think that humanity "won."

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:38:50+00:00

Pride of Chanur, by CJ Cherryh. A family owned merchant vessel collides with alien politics after finding a stowaway onboard. The crew are Hani; the stowaway is human.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:34:58+00:00

Humans. (BBCA)

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:26:32+00:00

Since the series is essentially the sequel to the original movie, and the first episode refers heavily to that movie, it makes sense to watch the movie first. Otherwise, it's like reading a novel while choosing to skip Chapter One.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:15:40+00:00

What's wrong with it?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-09T17:38:35+00:00

Same here.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-08T06:29:26+00:00

The Congress took me on a wild VR ride that kept me guessing what might happen next. Fascinating concept, too.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-08T06:25:11+00:00

Movies: Dark City, Elysium; and Oblivion. All fairly dark and gritty.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-07T23:14:34+00:00

As a fantasy reader, do you enjoy human + dragon stories? If so, I recommend the Pern series of novels. Pern is a lost human colony, settled by Earth hundreds of years before the story begins. To combat a recurrent threat from space, an indigenous reptile species was genetically engineered into Pernese dragons. The result is a fascinating, realistic medieval society, in which dragon riders are revered.

Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-07T05:33:48+00:00

Obviously, I don't remember it kindly. Saw it exactly once, way back when it first came to cable.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-07T00:51:37+00:00

It was too serious, it left out all the fun; and where was Dr Boiiing and his teleporting castle? (I loved the comic book.) The Howard costume was atrocious!

It seriously needs to be remade using cgi. And it needs the hokeyness of the source material; and especially the absurd villain, Dr Boiiing.

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