These kind of lists are a dime-a-dozen on the internet nowadays, but this one has some pretty valid observations.
10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed

I personally appreciated their observation concerning the HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE film...
There was a movie that perfectly captured the Douglas Adams experience, the combination of bitter sarcasm and sharp imagination, the droll British wit and whale-exploding slapstick that infused his novels. And that movie was Shaun of the Dead.

ps. I sure hope that the HALF LIFE/Quentin Tarantino thing is just a joke! My tenuous respect for Hollywood wouldn't survive it.

An excellent read...thanks for the link.

I would like to add Isaac Asimaov's "Foundation" to the list...preferably not starring Wil Smith

L8R

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

I don't think it lived up to the billing. Not enough comedy and too much horror. It was more like a horror show with some comedy. I was expecting Shawn to take out a lot more Zombies then he did.

Sweet link though. Good find.

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I just destroyed the periodic table. I only recognize the element of surprise.

True, but he took them out with a cricket bat! (and bad '70's records)

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

True, true, still a great movie.

Number 10 on that link. I forgot all about that trailer for Alien 3. The guys right. They made us believe the Aliens were coming to Earth.

"...And then the aliens start breeding in the miles of dank sewers that tangle under the bustling streets, the creatures boiling up out of manholes by the hundreds, cut to pieces by Marines with pulse rifles and maybe in the climax the Army has to nuke the city."

Never been so disapointed.

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I just destroyed the periodic table. I only recognize the element of surprise.

How about "AI" directed by Kubrick rather than Steven "sentimental until you're sick" Speilberg?

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Has anyone else actually read Gibson's Aliens 3 script? It's absolute rubbish.

Dawn of the Dead works perfectly well with Zombies, thanks. There's no need to remake it in space. For those that haven't read it, the script has those nasty scientists turning "alien"ness into an airborne virus which runs amok in a shopping mall onboard a space station. There are a few nice set pieces (the best one being a gravity-booted fight on the outside of the station that ended up being grafted almost intact into Star Trek 8) but in comparison even AVP treats the series with respect.

I did like the idea of a Hitchhiker's directed by Tim Burton or especially Terry Gilliam.

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I think I'd like to see a movie version of Phillip K Dick's "Vulcan's Hammer"

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Hmmm... How about Day of the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers Triffids! Watch the Triffids and Pods fight for supremacy! (ducking and running).

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" The universe is running away
I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Great article.

Let me add "The Forever War." I remember hearing a while back that they wanted to make a movie out of it, and it would be great--unfortunately, it would have to compete with "Starship Troopers."

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That list's awful; there's nothing new in there at all. The guy who wrote it comes across as a bit of a nerd- the bad kind of nerd, unfortunately. He seems to just want the same five or six directors to direct everything, and to make new films just like the old ones he likes. God forbid anyone should try to innovate or try anything new!

Anyone who disses Alien 3 (the deepest and most misunderstood of the Alien sequels), says that Robocop would have been better with more violence and less politics, has no clue what the "real" Alien3 actually was (a story about a wooden planet inhabited by monks), thinks there could possibly be a decent movie made out of Doom (Hello? No actual characters!), and, above all, in a list of scifi misses, fails to note the biggest travesty of all (the adaptatation of I Robot by Harlan Ellison being ditched in favour of a poached script with the name stuck on it) does not deserve my respect.

And rumour has it that the Foundation series is being adapted as a two-parter called Foundation and Second Foundation.

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An interesting read and an outstanding link!

I've bookmarked it for further perusal. Thanks.

LOL. LMAO. Your pretty passionate about all this to end up getting the writter for I Robot wrong. I Robot was written by Isaac Asimov.

Alien 3 sucked compared to the first 2. They blew it right at the start killing off Hicks, Bishope and Newt. Everybody loved those characters. I agree the special edition is loads better but thats not what we saw in the theaters.

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I just destroyed the periodic table. I only recognize the element of surprise.

I was talking about the movie script adapted by Harlan Ellison years ago but never filmed. Of course the original short story collection was Asimov's.

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

So for once in my life, let me get what I want...Lord knows, it would be the first time...

(Who can tell me what song this is and by whom?)

Seriously parralax, are you making this up??? I hope it's real!!!! My favourite book...by far...ever (and I do know that it's not the best written book ever but it is still my favourite..I've read it about 6 times at least...and given it as gifts many times!)

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Harlan Ellison's screenplay of I, Robot was actually serialised in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine back in (IIRC) the 80s. I didn't read it all, but it certainly looked better than what we got. Well, anything would!

Not wanting to get into an argument, but I thought James_Digriz's post was rather rude.

I'd love to see a good movie version (i.e., the exact opposite of "Starship Troopers") of "The Forever War".

Dave Mitsky

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It certianly was. The irony is that I actually think that The Stainless Steel Rat is one of the great unfilmed scifi novels.

I am not making it up; the project was started in the early 2000s by 20th Century Fox. The good news: they hired Elizabeth helmer Shakhar Kapur to direct. The bad news: they hired Jeff Vintar (author of the original script that became the Will Smith I Robot movie) to write. Recent news on the project is thin on the ground, and at present it seems to be stuck in development hell.

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I'm sure it's not an issue, but shouldn't you have warned that the site (and, in fact, the very article) you linked to is packed to the brim with profanity?

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