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  • Many great recommendations.

    Some other that I don’t think were mentioned so far:

    • The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi

    • Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements

    • Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie

    • Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller

    • Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time

    • Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller

    • Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick

    • Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting

    • Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure

    • Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy

    • Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future

    • Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective

    • Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin

    • Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell

    • Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base

    • Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst

    • The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella

    • Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror

    • Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though

    • The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror

    • The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.

    • Cyber Bandits / A Sailor’s Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp

    • Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass

    • Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror

    • Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)

    • Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi

    • Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien

    • Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien




  • There are probably going to be ~10 Minecraft movies over the next ~20 years (if not more)

    If kids like it, that’s a top end target market. No parent is going to lecture their child for shit taste. 😆

    The children are not going to say “this is an atrocious screen adaption of the spirit of Minecraft, I am extremely disappointed in Jared Hess’ direction and Jason Momoa, who has once again proven himself to be a subpar actor as we saw in his work in See”.


  • IMO, it would be far more difficult to make movies covering Frank Herbert’s books after Dune Messiah. Especially Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.

    While I really enjoyed Dune: Part II, it in many ways compressed the developments the middle and ending of the book. Dune: Part I was much more aligned with pacing of the book; it covered the relatively short intro of the book. I would have much preferred if Dune: Part II was split into two parts; the rise of Muad’Dib (this would introduce us to on-going developments in Dune, broader history and world-building, as well as developing Paul and Jessica’s Atreides characters) and a final movie dedicated to the narrative finale of Dune (1965).

    An additional movie covering the events Dune Messiah would be a perfect fit to the “original trilogy”. A postscript movie of sorts, before starting new trilogies based on the later books.

    I am not just saying this as a Dune fanboy. I spoke to several people who don’t normally watch sci-fi (let alone have an interest in Dune specifically), but who watched Dune Parts I/II and they all mentioned that Part II was difficult to follow and was a bit disjointed and that Part I had better pacing.

    And no Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson novels. I admit I’ve only read one (I believe it was Dune: House Atreides from 1999), but it was complete dogshit and did not feel like a Dune novel. Felt more like a generic space scifi novel.