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I would delete the "almost." It's beloved by flat earthers and Apollo project conspiracy nuts (basically the same thing).

Colossus: The Forbin Project is something I somehow didn't see until a few years ago and, if one can get past the '70s sexism, it...

Yeah, it’s borderline, isn’t it? I’m honestly not sure but would incline towards no.

I guess they’re not sleepers (which means obscure or forgotten, I guess). Well, Omega Man probably is, it should take Capricorn One’s...

The sun dying is not covered by “hypothetical scientific or technological advances, the existence of alien life, space or time travel”...

Yeah, I basically disagree with all of that. Supernatural is required for fantasy, of course, but it’s by definition non-scientific...

"Capricorn 1" almost qualifies as AntiScience Fiction.

Also the answer to the trivia question, “how did Mary Steenburgen meet the man she married before Ted Danson?”

The other 70s sci-fi that I loved that I would probably categorize as forgotten, in that anyone I’ve suggested this movie to hasn’t...

I mean, it depends what you mean by science fiction and I’m certainly not keen to gatekeep about it, but I do feel it should have...

Quintet isn’t that sci-fi either - it’s post apocalyptic but you could transplant it to any number of historical settings (such as any...

I can recommend Hollow Places (see below), but it is a very specific kind of horror. There is not too much gruesome stuff happening, its...

I think George Lucas saw Maul surviving in some form after The Phantom Menace as early as production on Revenge of the Sith. They...

Watched the first episode on the plane and really liked it, will definitely watch the next two on the plane back. It just does a lot of...

Ultimately, the desire to fill up Paramount+ with new content got a lot of Star Trek greenlit, but those heydays of spending are over...