I remember watching "Robinson Carsoe on Mars" when I was a kid and I thought it was was neatest thing since sliced bread...anyways a couple of years ago I saw it again....oh to be a kid again....

ps...probably most sci-fi that we watched as kids seems that way now....

Buck Rogers. Erin Grey was teh hot, but my goodness was the movie ever cheesy. The party scene where Buck and Ardala "get down and boogie" was... undescribable.

In my defense, I knew Twiggy was cheesy even as a kid.

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Star Wars. Yeah, yeah, I know I'd probably get burned by the Star Wars fanboys, but Star Wars seems a lot more cheesy to me now than it did when I first saw it. So sue me.

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Well, if you're going to get in trouble, so am I--Star Trek. And I mean the original series. By the time Next Gen was on, I could see what was cheesy about it, but I liked it anyway. For one, no Captain Kirk and the Alien Women.

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'll agree with Lonewulf about Star Wars. I picked up the original trilogy on DVD a few weeks back. I hadn't seen the movie in probably ten years and...wow...what a bad looking movie.

And all the updates Lucas did, nary helped matters a bit.

Have to agree with Moose about Buck Rogers, too. One line from the series that still makes me chuckle is when some dude calls Buck "Erf trash". Hilarious.

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Heh. Gerry Anderson's stuff: Thunderbirds, Fireball XL-5, Supercar. 'Nuff siad.

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Dr. Who.
Some people of-course never grow out of it.

(Duck and cover...)

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I'm still a kid, but...

X-files. I remember watching in the '90s when I was, what, five? It's not the effects that seem hokey, just Mulder and Scully. They've really got 2-D personalities...

--hipster

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I heart Ducky. I stalk Ducky. His hair is quite fluffy, and he makes good cookies. (And now he's my prom date...)

The green slime!

Just watched Forbidden Planet. Women sure fell in love quickly during the 50s.

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I loved Thunderbirds, it was about my favorite.
How about Lost in Space (the TV program) - not a favorite but I always watched it (actually, I thought it was goofy back then too).

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Was Robinson one of the Mighty Carsoe Art Players, derived of course from the Mighty Allen Art Players?

For me it was This Island Earth. In the theater in 1955 it was spectacular, but later, especially after my knowledge of astronomy, physics, and science in general had improved, it was rather clunky here and there. I mean come on, a insectoid mutant wearing pants?

Nevertheless, it was one of the first scifi movies to give extended glimpses of another world outside the solar system, and established many of the conventions of scifi movie/TV scripts: galactic barrier anyone (ST TOS)?

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On that note, Space:1999, especially the second season.

Oddly, I still have a soft spot for UFO. I think it's the theme music.

I saw The Martian Chronicles when I was a young'un, and I loved it. I've never seen it since, and retain fuzzy and warm thoughts about it's brilliance.

Anybody who's seen it more recently - is this one I'd likely find to be "really hokey" if I managed to see it again somehow?

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Wouldn't even have thought of this except lately it's been on adult swim...

Gigantor

And that reminds me of Astro Boy. I only saw a few episodes, way back when.

Fred

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That's exactly the one I was thinking of. I loved that movie and made my folks take me to see it twice when I was 9. Now over twenty years later, I have a little difficulty getting past the dubious science...but man, Dr. Reinhardt and Maximillian still make a menacing pair!

I'll be real honest for a moment....when I saw E.T. in the theater at age 12, I was profoundly affected. Nowadays, I can't understand how anyone remotely near my age(my wife, for example!)can watch it. It's so...well, maudlin.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, a film I saw 5 years earlier, still gets better each time I see it. And when I saw that in the movies, the 'abduction of Barry' sequence terrified me so thoroughly, my mother had to take me out to the lobby for a few minutes.

(note: a few years ago, when CE3K was re-released for a short time, I was given a rare chance to conquer that skeleton in my cinematic closet by sitting through the entire film in a theater. )

This is the movie that scared me lol. I couldn't stand watching that creepy little thing with his extendo-neck and scratchy voice.

As for the topic, when I watched TRON as a kid I was amazed. I used to wish so hard that if I held onto the cardboard tube from the paper towel roll hard enough it would turn into a light cycle. And I tought myself to throw a Frisbee in an overhand motion, "just like TRON throws it".

And now, watching as an adult, I must admit that the graphics and story line are pretty cheesy, and it doesn't have the same effect on kids of the current generation as it did on mine. But I still like to watch it

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Return of the Jedi for me. I thought it was the best movie ever made when I was a kid.

I know it's not sci fi, but the animated Dungeons and Dragons....I saw it a couple of years ago and it is absolutely horrible! I remember loving it as a kid.

Battlestar Galactica (original) is unwatchable.

X-files I can't watch anymore either

Pete

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