it's technically a docudrama. and then it gets bored.

When the Wind Blows is borderline optimistic compared to Watership Down.

The Day After gets way more fucked up when you watch the roundtable discussion that took place after its premiere. Now that's some parallel reality mental prolapse.

Alien 4 of all things is actually pretty accurate adaptation of Metal Hurlant wacky aesthetics.

They don't. 😂

My family migrated from the Soviet Union in 1989. My mother still watches Russian media. They're all white. All of them. Ever.

Vander Meer’s Big Book of Sience Fiction has countless stories that run at odds to the sentiment in this post.

All of you are correct! 😂

Ah, Luc Besson, solid if not particularly deep entertainment. Just what the doctor ordered.

We'll see about those breasts.

Well, it's from the 80s... Other than that it's very mild when it comes to any sexual content but very funny. Best Polish Sci-Fi ever made. Not that Polish cinema is famous for it's Sci-Fi (or fantasy for that matter. anyone saw Polish The Witcher? 😂 ) but definitely worth watching.

British one sounds realistic

Polish Witcher is actually better than Netflix Witcher. At least it sticks to source material... somewhat.

On the Silver Globe enters chat. it's a mess and a slog to watch at times, but gotta respect the ambition.

hate to remind you but Fifth Element came out 29 years ago.

Still over 100 years more recent than the other one. And, incidentally, a time I still remember well. When Fifth Element came out, that is.

At one point in my life, every time I got a serious stomach flu, I would watch Threads (1984) so I could enjoy my life.

By Dawn's Early Light and The Day After are fun too.

Agreed, Polish Witcher is so bad that I was literally ROTFLing during some scenes but it still somehow had a better vibe than the one from Netflix.

it feels homely unlike the corporate slop vibe of the netflix one

man, i wish i could remember 1902 well as well.

Death by snu-snu?

I read the first one as Hitchhikers Guide. Or maybe that's 3

American sci-fi goes all over the place. Look at Phillip K. Dick for instance.

That dude was on an island by himself with the insane shit he wrote

This makes the running joke from Extras where everyone would get the name of the main character's show wrong (a silly British sitcom called "when the whistle blows") even funnier

multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?

Everyone wants to leave this reality

i can't think of any counter evidence.

Pretty much anything written by Phillip K. Dick, for one.

It looks like if James Joyce lived in a slow-rotating space colony.

I can appreciate prose like that, but I personally don't like reading "challenging" things when I'm reading for pleasure.

This just made me think of the show Continuum... I think I only watched the first couple seasons, I remember starting to lose interest at one point but it was years ago. Maybe I'll revisit.

Show was Canadian as fuck though haha.

The cube is
amazing

As someone who read more Honor Harrington than he should have, the American one is a bit on the nose.

The Valerian movie is one of those movie I just can't get over. Like, it retroactively changed my understanding of bad chemistry so fundamentally that I genuinely get confused when people say that about other movies. It shifted my ability to tell in the way adding a thousand individual 0s to a data set shifts the average.

At the same time, it every single other facet of the movie is so astoundingly good that I can't forget it, the concepts it brings are just too deep and rich in flavor to not want more from it.

In a perfect world we'd get a spoof of the production of the movie where the director is some aged Playboy uncle to Dane Dehaan and has spent a fortune and called in decades worth of favors to orchestrate the production of this movie just to put his cronically unfuckable nephew in direct contact with the actress he's obsessed with in hopes of reliving his youthful conquests vicariously through this kid who embodies all of the distasteful behaviors of that era without any of the charisma and passé that made it acceptable at the time.

Fuck... I need to watch that movie again...

Oooh, where's that at? I'd love to watch it

Ukrainian sci-fi: Everybody just fucking dies. Nobody's fault, really. And there's meaningless but meaningful love. Also, it also functions as a very long music video for the song "Voyage Voyage", whose lyrics the author of the manuscript has clearly seen translated. (Referring here to "U Are the Universe", which I liked a lot!)

And the jetty from which 12 monkeys was ripped.

City of lost children

Alphaville

Case by case thing, maybe?

My mother's side migrated in 1800s, they still speak Adyghe and they still correct people calling them Russian.

Tho they identify as white ...mostly because Circassians fucking are.

Are the Japanese robots pink?

It was probably meant for people who want to fuck their sister, because those two had immense sibling energy. Unfortunately they also had immense asexual energy.

They are if Yoshimi battles them!

I only wish the audio books were available in non-amazon sources.

I'm a Judge Dredd fan, can confirm it's all Americas fault.

I mean ya... They're probably the only actual "white people" on earth.

I'm from what is now Ukraine I consider myself to be white but if your family hails from around that area you're more white than me.

"Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein 😬 about a man that, basically, can live forever.

...on a lurgid bee. Groop! I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes...

One of my favorite memories is watching someone on acid watching Barbarella for 10 minutes.

It's a fun, goofy movie. But the blue knife-teeth babies will ruin your week.

The Incal is fantastic. Last I heard some American studio was trying to make a movie out of it

I never thought to meet someone else who read those.

Guilty pleasure, really.

oh wow, Carl Sagan and henry kissinger on that panel for the discussion, with Ted Koppel mediating 🫥 god, remember when news was interesting and not 24/7 doom-rage mind rot?

Also the inspiration for a banging Iron Maiden track.

You are correct.

I think the meme's about some popular films & TV shows and anyhow it's just a version of countless "A British, an American and a French scientist meet in a bar" jokes.

SciFi in literature is alive and kicking and just as multifaceted and nationality-defeating as ever.

Australian Sci-Fi: The rest of the world is forced to live in a desert wasteland full of criminals the way we do every day, and they struggle to adapt.

Read the comics (Bande dessinée).
And it should have been named Laureline. Valérian can manage but Laureline is the true heroine.

British sci-FI: nuclear war. Almost everyone dead. Bit of a Tuesday, innit?

Hey! There are also Japanese sci-fi which just validate the author's fetishes. There's even two I know where that fetish is specifically polygamy.