Total Recall (1990)
The idea for Total Recall began after screenwriter Ronald Shusett’s feature screenplay effort, 1974’s W, went awry. Looking to start anew, Shusett found Philip K. Dick’s short story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,”...
Category: Science Fiction
Aeon Flux (2005)
Needlessly dull, Aeon Flux is a film that diffuses any claim to entertainment value by trying to have things both ways as an action/sci-fi flick. Those seeking action have to sit through a convoluted plot...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978)
For years prior to making Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg was fascinated by UFOs. As a teenager in Scottsdale, AZ, he made a 135-minute 8mm feature called Firelight. The $400 film paid...
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Following on the success of E.T., there were quite a few clones involving a being that changes the lives of ordinary families for the better, only to have scary government agents out to destroy the...
Runaway (1984)
Sometime in the near future, robots have become common household appliances and machines used in every facet of the business. As advanced as technology can sometimes be, that doesn’t stop the occasional robot from...
*batteries not included (1987)
Steven Spielberg (producer of Innerspace, Back to the Future) served as the executive producer for *batteries not included, which is definitely inspired with the (at that time) Spielberg vision of friendly aliens beings, state-of-the-art special effects,...
The Island (2005)
An exciting science fiction premise (possibly lifted from the awful 1979 MST3k lampooned flick, Parts: The Clonus Horror) gets dumbed way down for mass consumption in The Island, the latest film that Michael Bay ruins by...
Timeline (2003)
A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so. Here, it’s fairly easy to see...
War of the Worlds (2005)
Yet another adaptation of the oft-visited alien invasion classic by H.G. Wells, Steven Spielberg takes his turn for a credible, but a touch underdeveloped, update of War of the Worlds. Produced at breakneck speed for...
Alligator (1980)
For generations, people have rumored that there were alligators in big city sewers, flushed down the toilets by owners of baby alligators who no longer wanted to care for them as they became larger...