Best Sci-fi movies

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Puddin'

Which 'Dune' ? The movie or the series ?



Yeah,I read the first five books.Herbert should have stopped after the first one.

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You're right, Darkest, when you say that Star Wars is not strictly sci fi. Though it contains sci fi ingredients, it's more correctly known as a space opera;

Indeed, and not very good space opera that.


An example of GOOD space opera? :'Doc Smith's 'Lensman' series.

Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others. He is sometimes referred to as the father of space opera.

THE STAR WARS CONNECTION:

Dr. Smith wrote a novelette entitled "Lord Tedric", published in Other Worlds in 1952, and which was almost completely forgotten.
Much later, 13 years after Dr. Smith's death, Gordon Eklund published another novel of the same name about the same fictional character, introducing it as "a new series conceived by E. E. 'Doc' Smith". Eklund later went on to publish the other novels in the series, one or two under the pseudonym "E. E. 'Doc' Smith" or "E. E. Smith". The protagonist possesses similar heroic qualities common to the heroes in Dr. Smith's original novels and can communicate with an extra-dimensional race of beings known as The Scientists, whose archenemy is Fra Villion, a mysterious character described as a dark knight, skilled in whip-sword combat, and evil genius behind the creation of a planetoid-sized "iron sphere" armed with a weapon capable of destroying planets. As a result, Dr. Smith is believed by many to be the unacknowledged progenitor of themes that would appear in Star Wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE_%22Doc%22_Smith