Lost In Space: Sci-Fi For People Who Don't Like Sci-Fi

The purest and most effective science fiction movies are the ones that ignore expository mumbo jumbo and focus on character or the ones whose portrait of the future is so ridiculous, you just have go along for the ride. Avatar is just such a film. So, naturally, here’s a list of sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi.

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PopMe: Why V 'The Visitors' lost me at hello

COLUMN: Well. I’m pretty much the target audience for any science fiction show, having been born and raised on SF films (my parents took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinerama dome at age 6), and TV. I enjoyed the original “V” series with the mall hair, member’s only jackets, and moral heavy handed overtones of Visitors = nazis.

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1950's "Space Explorers" Rocket Sci-Fi Series Rediscovered

It's rare when a lost classic retro babyboomers cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in an old dusty film archive. It's the story of a young boy who stows away in a crate and sneaks aboard a rescue rocket Polaris-II with an old "Professor Nordheim" to help save his father who is believed to have crash landed on Mars

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Lost moon landing documentary unveiled

A film documenting the Apollo 11 space mission is finally released as NASA celebrate 40 years since the first man landed on the moon. Must see for everyone!

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