GumbyDamnIt WetGeek
Fantasy seems a loosey-goosey category. Harry Potter goes there, right? I have visited used DVD stores that sold the Johnny Depp Pirate movies under the 'Fantasy' Category. I think I saw one of the Pirate movies but the categorization (word?) as Fantasy is over my head. That old Anne Rice Vampire Interview movie seemed like a history movie with a couple vampires in it. Mickey Rourke's fantatic Angel Heart, set in the same city, is a Fanstasy movie to me though film people call it noir. The more i write, unsurprisingly, the less I know🙂.

      8 months later

      My favorites are Blade Runner 2049, Dune, and, of course, the Star Wars series (except for the newest ones). By the way, thanks for the suggestions in this thread, some of them are on my watchlist now. I am especially eager to watch The Chronicles of Riddick, Donnie Darko, and the old Mad Max. I’ve heard many about these movies but never got to watch them.

        sasabottle I removed the last part of your post because this forum is not a place for sharing links to illegal content.

          2 months later

          At Goodwill today: a $1 DVD of the Kurt Russell/Spader sci-fi movie Stargate. Saw a lot of great Kurt Russell action films but I always missed this one..LOVED the tv series. Hopefully I will dig the movie.

            Solarmass I only saw this movie not tv series

            My wife and I were big fans back in the day, both of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. We bought DVD sets of all the episodes of both series, and ripped them to our Videos NAS share. (We had no idea at the time that we'd one day be streaming movies from Netflix, Amazon, Disney, etc.)

            It's been so long since we watched those, it's probably time to start at the beginning and run through them all again. Being retired, we watch a lot of movies. Especially during the rainy season.

                WetGeek My wife and I were big fans back in the day, both of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. We bought DVD sets of all the episodes of both series, and ripped them to our Videos NAS share. (We had no idea at the time that we'd one day be streaming movies from Netflix, Amazon, Disney, etc.)

                and probably in far better quality! I always remember this joke from MiB:

                It's been so long since we watched those, it's probably time to start at the beginning and run through them all again. Being retired, we watch a lot of movies. Especially during the rainy season.

                This is awesome! 🙂

                  6 days later

                  STARGATE the movie

                  I'd adored the tv series so finally saw the movie last night.
                  Impressed. Imaginative, and a great story and acting. Don't laugh, I'd park this in my Sci-Fi top ten. No-nonsense, minimal CGI, no cliches.

                  Conditional rec: paid $1usd at a thrift. would've paid $2. If you can see it streaming for 2.99 that's as high as I'd go (for any movie basically). If it comes your way for free then all the better.
                  I dug it.

                    brent I'd adored the tv series so finally saw the movie last night.

                    I fell in love with Samantha Carter sometime during the first episode of the series.

                        brent you and me both

                        Even better, she was in Stargate Atlantis, too. One episode there had her in a bikini instead of fatigues.

                            WetGeek what was Atlantis? the sequel series or spinoff? [scrambles to find bikini episode]

                                brent what was Atlantis?

                                Same Stargates, different premise, different bad guys (wraiths instead of g'oulds), many shared characters, including Samantha. Another good series that overlapped a bit with Stargate SG1. There were a number of individual movies, too, but I can't recall their names right now.

                                    WetGeek There were a number of individual movies, too, but I can't recall their names right now.

                                    Here you go ...

                                    If you have Amazon Prime, I think you can watch all of these (and Stargate Atlantis) on Prime Video.

                                      brent Don't laugh, I'd park this in my Sci-Fi top ten.

                                      Not at all, it was cool movie, I still remember some dope scenes from it, like the scene where they enter Stargate for the first time! 😃

                                          Solarmass I still remember some dope scenes from it

                                          How about the scene where Carter explained where her sex organs are located?

                                            1 Blad Ranner
                                            2 Akira (
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                                            3 Gost in the shell

                                            4 The original trilogy of star wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Matrix, Back to the future, Therminator2, I Am Legend (If is considered sci-fi), Inception (if t's considered sci-fi), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and many others

                                            They are not among my favorites (a bit boring too) but they have impressed me more than others because they are very particular: Avalon ( , Brazil

                                            a year later

                                            40 years later someone makes a modern trailer for their film school project that this masterpiece deserved.
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