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    Posted: June 12 2010 at 22:08
Yeah... I was checking out and it was part of the "Real Aventures of Jonny Quest" that Cartoon Network brought out in 1996 or so... I checked out, but is a little expensive... I'm not deciding yet for the original by twice the price of the 1st season of the Real Aventures... which I enjoyed as well... well... I hope I will solve that little problem soon... I'm out of money... guess I need to get a job again... let's hope I find it soon...
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Points: 65603 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 18:21
yeah I think just the 1st season was made available, and is probably the best.. and the movie may have been a compilation of episodes from the new series
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

all the remakes are really sucks... well, no, the Cartoon Network remake, the first 18 chapters were great...


the movie is pretty good but yeah, the new series was bad


I don't remember a movie but it's probable that if it exists I saw it...
 
now... I found the DVD....!!! it's a little expensive... I will make some numbers to see if I can buy it... the first season...
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

all the remakes are really sucks... well, no, the Cartoon Network remake, the first 18 chapters were great...


the movie is pretty good but yeah, the new series was bad
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It has special features...? well, I will make a research right now... maybe I'm lucky... thanks... oh... what a memories I have with that cartoon...
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Points: 65603 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 15:46
it's part of the Hanna Barbera Golden Collection.. out of print but can be found used, if you see it grab it, very cool to see all the episodes they stopped airing, plus great special features
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How do you get it...? I haven't seen a DVD version ever... and believe, I'm an expert in searching through the web... I wish I could have it... and the season 1 is what worth isn't...? all the remakes are really sucks... well, no, the Cartoon Network remake, the first 18 chapters were great...
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I just got the 1st season Jonny Quest on disc and it's great
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I'm particularly fond of the 'steampunk' genre, Jules Verne [Mysterious Island], HG Wells [Time Machine], and on TV the Wild,Wild West  ..also a huge Jonny Quest and Twilight Zone fan


Jonny Quest...!!! I just love it... great themes, great atmosphere... good plots... just great... and of course, Verne and Wells were the master of the genre...
 
I guess I can't denied I'm a geek right...? ConfusedLOL
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Doctor Who is what I mainly love as regards Sci-Fi on TV/Movies. I loved Farscape too; I had a real thang for Claudia Black for ages. Torchwood was OK, but really just a DW derivative show. Quatermass, which is going back a bit, but was cool, especially the Hammer movie version of Quatermass & The Pit. And last, but certainly not least, the Resident Evil movies, with the amazingly lovely Milla Jovovich...purrrrr.Star

Books wise, I think I already did this somewhere else, but...Alistair Reynolds, Philip Pullman, Asimov's Foundation books, John Wyndham ( I know Embarrassed, but I can't help myself), Neal Stephenson, Peter F Hamiltons 'Void' Novels and Michael Moorcock (too many to mention) Approve


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Excellent! I used to watch Wild, Wild West all the time! The original Twilight Zone was also top notch. The Time Machine with Rod Taylor is a good film.

Johnny Quest, there's another forgotten gem! One of the better animated scifi TV series.
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I'm particularly fond of the 'steampunk' genre, Jules Verne [Mysterious Island], HG Wells [Time Machine], and on TV the Wild,Wild West  ..also a huge Jonny Quest and Twilight Zone fan
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2001 has long been a favorite.  I just love the "look" of the space shots, the music, the laid back pace for much of it.  
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I've seen Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse-5.  Slaughterhouse-5 was done well, and I didn't care for the movie version of Breakfast.  I'd like to see 2081.
Concur-Slaughterhouse 5 was very well done, but Breakfast of Champions was not very good. I haven't seen 2081 either.
Sirens of Titan was one of my favorite books, but I am not aware of a movie version.

Another good movie that I just remembered is "Dark City." Wonderfully dark and a bit eerie, but a wonderful concept and an exceptional cast: Keifer Sutherland, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connolly, Sir Ian Richardson and Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror fame.
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Points: 3247 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 17:01
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I count Brazil and Clockwork Orange too.

Another favourite of mine is the animated La Planete Sauvage (aka Fantastic Planet).  It also has one of my favourite soundtracks (listed in PA too).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys8AkwMRvgo

Wow I haven't seen Fantastic Planet in many many years.  It's a pretty good cartoon movie, I must say.

WOW-Fantastic Planet! Greta animated movie!!! 
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I have just seen 2001 two days ago... It was a mission almost because of all I have heard about it... I find the movie a little slow for my tastes but there's an atmospheric intension behind that pace and I do like the movie... It has a lot to talk about... and I'm still wondering about what wasthe goal of the movie... I should check it again... but I'm too tired of thinking over and over again about it...
 
X-files was great... the first five seasons were truly amazing... there was suspense, mistery, a little bit of action a lot of geeky talk... wonderful...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 16:29
Originally posted by James James wrote:



Farscape annoyed me.  The use of alternative swear words like Frag for one thing... and secondly the average acting skills.

The word is "Frel" or "Frek", "Frag" (or more accurately Fragging) comes from Babylon 5, similar swearing is used in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica (Frak and Frakking), Judge Dread (Funting) and of course Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy (Zarking Fardwarks).
 
You obviously weren't raised on a weekly diet of drokking 2000 AD.Wink
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 14:45
 
 
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Points: 37232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 14:43
I haven't seen Mother Night.  Strangely, I was just wondering if there was a movie version of Sirens of Titan when I was writing that.  I do remember reading that Jerry Garcia had purchased the rights or something to it for a film but then he died and it didn't get made.
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Have you not seen Mother Night then?

Was there a film version of The Sirens of Titan?  When I read the book it brought back memories of a film I'd seen...
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