10 Best Science Fiction Planets
Source: discovermagazine.com
Sometimes an author will create a world whose presence has a weight and ring of truth, a world that feels like it could happily go on existing on its own terms, with or without a protagonist or antagonist strolling around on its surface. . . . . continue
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SFX Magazine's Top 20
Best CGI Movie Moments
Source: sfx.co.uk
Computer graphics have opened up a whole new dimension in special FX, and at their best can possess an artistry and beauty that enhance a great film, or give you something worth watching in a rubbish one. Here are SFX's pick of the best CG movie moments, some for technical reasons, some for groundbreaking reasons and some because they're just damned cool. . . . . continue
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I09.com's The 10 Best
Science Fiction Score Composers
By Gary Susman | Source: io9.com
Gary Susman: "Space is silent and vast, but we can't feel the awe and terror of epic space battles without great music. Here's our list of the ten composers without whom science fiction would feel as empty . . . . . continue
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10 Unsinkable Science Fiction
Stories About The Titanic
By Andrew Liptak | Source: io9.com
The RMS Titanic sank almost a century ago, but it's still sailing through the imaginations of science-fiction writers and artists. Here are 10 Titanic tales, including Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doctor Who. On April 14th, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the most technologically advanced ship of its time, struck an iceberg, and sank beneath the Atlantic ocean during . . . . .
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Top Science Fiction graphic novels
By Tina Sena | Source: examiner.com
Sometimes the best form of entertainment is a really good graphic novel. I have nothing against books. I love books. But when movies fail to excite and television shows come and go before their storylines get off the ground, sometimes a graphic novel is . . . . .
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Ten Most Mental Movie Scientists
From TotalFilm.com, barmy, brainy and bad, the best movie boffs . . . . .
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I09's Ten Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
People often talk about which science fiction books would make good movies. But which movies would make for . . . . .
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AMZ's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films of All Time!
We sampled ten popular online top sci-fi film polls to determine AMZ's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films of All Time. Based on their average ranking per poll, each film was measured how well it fared in the lists in the sidebar. Only films that appear in at least seven of the ten polls were measured.
Calculation Example: Blade Runner appeared in seven of the ten polls below and holds the rankings of 1st (three of them), 2nd, 3rd (two of them), and 12th. These rankings total 23 divided by 7 (the number of polls it appeared), creating an average of 3.29 (The lower the score the better). . . . . continue
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Sci-Fi Stands Tall in AMZ's Top Ten Sequels of All Time!
Six of ten films that made the list are Sci-Fi including Cameron's Aliens and Terminator 2
Using the same formula for AMZ's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films of All Time, we sampled ten online top sequels polls to determine AMZ's Top Sequels of All Time.
Based on their average ranking per poll, each film was measured how well it fared in the lists in the sidebar on the lower left. Only films that appear in at least five of the ten polls were measured . . . . . continue
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AMZ's Movie Aliens vs. Pre-historic Real Beasts
By T. F. Powell
October 2009 - The more popular movie sites such as TotalFilm.com and I09.com often feature sci-fi lists that are entertaining reads, and we even showcase a few of their lists here. A few months ago TotalFilm.com featured the article "Movie Aliens vs. Real Animals." It is more of a humorous match-up and they even mix in some silliness with odd pairings for an amusing article.
Which is great for that avenue, but I wanted to see something a little more on the serious side, match-ups that were a bit more bad ass.
So I decided to compile a part two of their article sans my dry humor and focus instead on match-ups that lean . . . . .
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AMZ's Eight Greatest Weapons of Mass Destruction
of Sci-Fi Film
Whether they are needed to liquify our armies or level entire cities, sci-fi film's mega-weapons showed us how to reign global destruction supreme | By T. F. Powell
Keeping in theme with our previous sci-fi list 'The Greatest Hand Weapons of Sci-Fi Film,' we decided to expand on the checklists of doom by upgrading on a . . . . .
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The Greatest Hand Weapons of Sci-Fi Film
By AMZ Guest Writer BobLava
July 2009 - We've asked AMZ forum member BobLava to put together a list of the greatest sci-fi movie hand weapons. The firepower he listed below would easily dispatch the biggest and baddest villains or creatures on film.
You can also vote in our poll (at bottom of page) for The Best Sci-Fi Movie Hand Weapon of All Time, which includes additional weapons besides the ones featured in BobLava's list. . . . .
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Blast From The Past: Retro-Aliens - 1950's
Giant heads, giant eyes, and giant beasts ruled the screen.
By T. F. Powell
The fifties ushered in some of the most cheesiest, yet glorious alien creatures in the history of sci-fi film. Some hold the opinion that the popular onslaught was in part spawned from military air and naval personnel reporting strange sightings during World War II.
The preceding decades were peppered with alien narrative, so the fifties were clearly not the birth of our beloved fictional entity. However, the World War II sightings combined with the dawn of the atomic age, set in motion a grim reality humans had never faced before. We now have the capability to destroy our entire species (and most likely all the other species of Earth). Perhaps our own egos nurtured . . . .
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History of science fiction films
Source: wikipedia.org
The history of science fiction films parallels that of the motion picture industry as a whole, although it took several decades before the genre was taken seriously.
Since the 1960s, major science fiction films have succeeded in pulling in large audience shares, and films of this genre have become a regular staple of the film industry.
Science fiction films have led the way in special effects technology, and have also been used as a vehicle for social commentary. . . . .
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Sci-Fi Theater Film Reviews
A collection of sci-fi reviews for theater film, DVDs, and books. Reviews are from various critic sites including Associated Press, SciFi Now, 411mania.com, TotalFilm.com, IGN.com, and more. Some of the reviews include District 9, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Moon, Knowing, Sleep Dealer, Terminator Salvation, Galaxy Quest, Paycheck, Star Trek, The Ender's Game, and more.
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The Flawed Art of Futuristic Movies
By Dean Poling | Excerpt: valdostadailytimes.com
Going by “Terminator: Salvation” and all “Terminator” standards, the world will be run by machines in a few years. Watching these movies, even the old Arnold Schwarzenegger movies about this hopefully fictional future, a viewer cannot make a real comparison about what is likely right or wrong in the scenario.
In the “Terminator” future, everything that we know is in shambles. But watch a science-fiction movie like “Blade Runner,” for example, and certain potential flaws about the story’s supposed future become obvious. . . . .
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John Scalzi Explains Star Wars 3D
By John Scalzi | Excerpt: amctv.com
Last year word leaked out that George Lucas had a plan to re-release all six Star Wars movies in 3D, so that finally you could have the Death Star explode right in your lap (or alternately, get a full tongue experience from Jar-Jar Binks).
This news has inevitably led to people asking why Lucas might do such a thing. After all, it's not as if he's hard up for cash; he'll not be re-releasing these flicks to make the mortgage payment on Skywalker Ranch. . . . .
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Science Fiction's Most Illustrious Archaeologists
I09 takes a look at some of science fiction's most illustrious antiquarians.
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13 Sci-Fi Movie Remakes and Reboots Currently in the Works
We picked the sci-fi projects from Simon Brew's list of 46 movie remakes and reboots.
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Top Ten Sci-Fi Films Selected by Eminent Scientists
See the results from a poll of 60 scientists by the Guardian newspaper.
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Fiction Is the Mother of Invention
FoxNews.com's Five Sci-Fi Ideas That Became Reality.
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