WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from November 12, 2024

Listener comments!
	👍 6:01pm Sean T-Rex: Time to start swingin! Hi Jim & all!
	6:01pm DanFA: Hello James.
	6:01pm HyperDose: we're being invaded!
	6:02pm chresti: Hi thumb movies show with Jim the Poet!
	👍 6:02pm Folsom: Wasn't Han the only person to shoot in the original version?
	6:03pm Spikey BXL: Spaceballs
	6:03pm Listener Robert: My question is, do you think the figures in the song wound up making out that night or not?
	6:03pm Bklyn_Dutch: Greedo was a Rodian bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt
	👍 6:04pm Sean T-Rex: John Carpenter's The Thing wasn't the original btw
	6:04pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:03 with a name like that he must have been from Jersey or LI
	👍 6:04pm Folsom: I figured Jim's favorite is Zardoz.
	6:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 The Thing From Another World!
	👍 6:05pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:03 Yea, he was a Rodian. Not slimy tho!
	6:05pm dale: too many good ones....metropolis, war of the worlds, THEM, district 9 for a recent one...
	6:05pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 My mistake
	6:05pm Listener Robert: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 Funny what these young whipper-snappers think is the original. And it's not just them, loads of examples, especially where a commercial interest has motivation to label something as original.
	6:05pm Yawp: I’m cooking…. so I’ll contribute here, EVENT HORIZON! Such a great combo of so-bad-it’s-good/actually scary at times and starring a ridiculous ship that becomes possessed in a black hole! What more do yah need?
	👍 6:06pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:05 lol, no worries. But it is the best Thing by far so your good! :)
	6:06pm Tom from Stirling: Alien all the way. Alien set the standard.
	6:06pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Listener Robert @6:05 I’m 40 😆
	6:06pm HyperDose: if you have the despecialized version (which is the closest to the original theatrical release) and you watch in slo mo, Greedo indeed shoots first. but every other version is Han
	👍 6:07pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Listener Robert @6:05 To be fair, I'm a youth and get amazed when you find out it wasn't the orignal
	👍 6:07pm Folsom: Does Gonks Go Beat count? How about Cat from Outer Space?
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Yawp @6:05 That's a good one.
	6:08pm UFOspecialist: The Dan....is very Steely
	6:08pm Listener Robert: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:06 And I'm 70, so you're a kid to me. Which is amazing, because my generation wants to be kids forever.
	6:08pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:04 Are you thinking of Guido? From Saturday Night Fever?
	👍 6:09pm Folsom: Maybe Jim likes Flesh Gordon!
	6:09pm Luisa24: One of the best I've ever seen is ANIARA, a 2018 Dutch/Swedish production. It soooo good!! For me it was gripping, the main character so sympathetic. Anyone else seen it?
	6:09pm Hunterian: Never heard of "A Boy and His Dog"? I can't believe it…
	6:09pm dale: james arness was the original thing. wearing a frankenstein head.
	6:09pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:08 With some imagination, it's pronounced the same ;)
	6:10pm David Shortell: As Mark Hamill said, the Star Wars movies are not science fiction. They're fairy tales in future-tech trappings.
	6:11pm chresti: Under The Skin
	6:11pm Land Phil: Can we please talk about David Lynch's Dune
	6:11pm Deano de los Muertos: I saw a pretty good one called Annihilation recently from 2018…and it’s got Natalie Portman, so that’s good
	6:11pm full_english_breakfast: favorite sci-fi movie? gotta think more about it but the first one that popped into my mind was Starship Troopers
	6:11pm Tom from Stirling: Star Wars is more of a fantasy movie.
	6:12pm common: alien
	6:12pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:09 Haha! Lets not confuse Greedo with Father Guido Sarducci though, he was a funny guy.
	👍 6:12pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Land Phil @6:11 "The Spice Must Flow"
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Land Phil @6:11 Please, no. Even Lynch doesn't like it.
	6:13pm common: coherence is great
	6:13pm Spikey BXL: As a fan of parallel universes, DARK (the German Netflix series) must be right up your alley, Jim. And Land Phil has to love it because of the time accurate use of metal in the early season.
	6:13pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:12 So? Plenty of people do, including me. Cult classic
	6:14pm David Shortell: Did the caller just mention "Sleeper"? That was funny.
	6:14pm Luisa24: BOKEH!! Also so very good.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:13 Some good parts, mostly bad. Ugh
	6:15pm Buttfrog: Across the spider verse
	6:15pm et_: Repo Man. One of the best movies ever! It harnessed peak Emilio Estevez and peak Harry Dean Stanton!
	6:15pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:13 DARK was great, only saw the first series - was there a second one? the dubbed dialog was hard to take at first...good soundtrack too!
	6:16pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:14 Great soundtrack too
	👍 6:16pm Sean T-Rex: Starship Troopers (1997) The Fifth Element (1997) Some of my favorites
	6:16pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:15 There were FOUR series and it got increasingly complicated.
	6:16pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ et_ @6:15 Harry Dean Stanton was in Alien!
	6:17pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:16 if it's still streaming i'll look for it.
	6:17pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:15 using Kreator (indeed a German band) and their correctly timed Pleasure To Kill record was superb
	6:18pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:17 a notepad could be handy towards the end of S2
	6:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:16 I loved Paul Verhoeven's over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek film adaptation, but I don't think Robert Heinlein would've appreciated it.
	6:19pm Nikita: Event Horizon ! With Sam Neil and Laurence Fishburne. Terrified me as a kid. Begins in the usual “come across an abandoned ship in space” but goes to such a dark place. Excellent Sci-fi/ Horror. Must See!!
	6:19pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:18 when you need to diagram the character interplay i check out.
	6:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:18 On the contrary, I think he would've laughed like mad.
	👍 6:19pm Folsom: ↳ et_ @6:15 Best soundtrack ever.
	6:19pm chresti: More like horror/sci-fi - brainiac
	6:20pm Spikey BXL: unpopular opinion: Blade Runner didn't age well
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:20 Neither does the original Dune.
	6:21pm Rekman: The Andromeda Strain, based on the Michael Crichton book, David Wayne, Arthur Hill....
	6:21pm dale: robocop is fantastic. terminator, total recall, the fifth element, predator....the 80s delivered.
	6:21pm Listener Robert: My favorite movie for decades is one that incorporated a little sci-fi, but I don't know if that qualifies it as a SF film: "The President's Analyst".
	6:21pm David Shortell: I heard that the first movie to display an extraterrestrial civilization was "This Island Earth". It was quite different from Raymond F. Jones' novel, but I don't think it deserved the ridicule from "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie".
	6:22pm dale: except fifth element was 90s...
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:21 all good
	6:22pm Bklyn_Dutch: Elysium is a good modern sci-fi film.
	6:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:21 Noteworthy for the band Clear Light, if nothing else.
	👍 6:22pm Folsom: Last Starfighter is good with Robert Preston.
	6:23pm Nikita: Animation in the original Ghost in the Shell is INCREDIBLE 💖
	6:23pm Buttfrog: What other great anime Sci-Finis there? I want to transported to other world.
	6:23pm Deano de los Muertos: Zeriam 1991 Dark City 1998 *Batteries Not Included 1987 are some other favs in my collection a little less popular than my call-in answer
	6:23pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:22 Were they the hippie band?
	6:24pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:22 That’s a great one. Chappie and District 9 along with it
	👍 6:24pm Sean T-Rex: I hear Tetsuo: The Iron Man is an awesome but sick movie.
	6:25pm dale: i want to say galixina with dorothy stratton is good except i've never seen it and it probably stinks. ooh- logans run! roscoe lee brown as a robot that looks like a tesla truck!
	6:25pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:24 Yes!
	6:25pm Buttfrog: Primer was awesome!!! Time travel perspective was wild!!!
	6:26pm common: ↳ dale @6:25 yea! logan's run and coma! invasion of the body snatchers '78
	6:26pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:22 Reminds me -- when the home recording of it came out, they couldn't get the rights to "Changes", the music over the field full of assassins, and they substituted something that had nothing of the irony.
	6:26pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Buttfrog @6:25 I barely remember it, but remember loving it.
	6:26pm Land Phil: ↳ Nikita @6:23 Also Neon Genesis Evangelion
	6:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:23 Yes, though they substituted Barry McGuire for their actual singer, the actor Cliff DeYoung.
	6:26pm dale: ↳ Buttfrog @6:23 love, death and robots was a great series if you haven't seen it.
	6:26pm Buttfrog: Omg I did watch it twice back 2 back
	6:26pm Tom from Stirling: Looper is a good science fiction movie.
	👍 6:26pm Sean T-Rex: I also like Dark Skies (2013) but it's not a amazing film or anything. Just fun tho
	6:28pm Imgur: It’s pronounced “Boo-tay!”
	6:28pm Kathleen from JC: Yesss! Buckaroo Banzai!
	6:28pm Listener Robert: Mother took me and my cousin Mary Lou to "Fantastic Voyage", but I didn't like it much even with Raquel Welch.
	6:28pm DjLorraine: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:23 I like Dark City, 5th Element, Ultra Violet
	6:29pm Deano de los Muertos: I saw a really good Italian film with time travel…..I can’t find the title now…I thought it was “Time Cop” but all that comes up is the Van Damme movie
	6:29pm Bklyn_Dutch: Mad Max: Fury Road
	6:29pm brycepunk1: The Day After is one of my favorite movies. It's so brutal. Threads as well, but I guess I related to Day After more.
	6:29pm dale: ↳ Listener Robert @6:28 i'm surprised no one has remade that with today's cgi technology
	6:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:26 Ugh, I remember that VHS tape. They replaced Barry and Clear Light with some lousy new music.
	6:31pm Erik/VT: Annie has gone glitch sci-fi robot !
	6:31pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:28 Guess Mother thought I'd appreciate it as a future doctor, but I preferred the dark satire of "The President's Analyst" that came out the same year. Maybe that foretold that I wouldn't be a doctor.
	👍 6:31pm Sean T-Rex: But speaking of George Lucas, anyone ever see THX-1138?
	6:31pm Deano de los Muertos: nvm, I think it’s Timecrimes, and was Spanish
	6:31pm common: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 so good!
	6:32pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 Robert Duval is in that. Filmed in SF, really a sleeper.
	👍 6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ common @6:31 Well, I guess I gotta watch it then. lol
	6:32pm brycepunk1: ↳ Luisa24 @6:09 Aniara kicked my ass for a week, easily. It's so good! And so painful. What happens when you have everything except any hope at all? I could talk about that movie for days.
	👍 6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:32 Even more of a reason then
	6:32pm dale: i saw westworld in the theater. also saw the porn ripoff 'sexworld' in the same theater a year later.
	👍 6:33pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 Yes! I was just talking about THX-1138. Thought about calling in. You should.
	6:33pm common: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:32 brutal and great!
	6:33pm Listener Robert: "Lathe" was great -- better on film even than LeGuin's book. The Jane Roberts who had a bit part in it was unrelated to the author of the Seth books, which is too bad because it fit so perfectly.
	👍 6:34pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:33 Yea but the Children of Bucci take over! lol
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: wow, rewatched Jurassic park for like the first time just last night
	👍 6:34pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:34 Ha!
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: and that is the best part “I’m gonna run you over when I come back down here”
	6:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like the original first Planet of the Apes movie, you dirty ape!
	6:35pm Deano de los Muertos: I like when Newman tries the Barbasol fan, then puts the shaving cream on his pie
	6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: *can
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:35 lol
	6:37pm full_english_breakfast: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:36 yep, i also like when samuel jackson says "hold on to your butts", and the great memed to death "clever girl"
	👍 6:38pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ full_english_breakfast @6:37 "Ah ah ah, you didn't say the magic word!"
	6:38pm Tom from Stirling: Yup, the Dune remakes were very good indeed. Yes, they were.
	6:39pm David Shortell: I thought Terry Gilliam’s “12 Monkeys”, based on the 28-minute still photo sequence “La Jetée” (1962), was a masterpiece. A time travel story where time is treated as an immutable absolute.
	👍 6:39pm zachary: ↳ David Shortell @6:39 The stuff of nightmares.
	6:39pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ David Shortell @6:39 One of my favorite movies.
	6:40pm Buttfrog: Holy cow - I watched all those old Flash Gordon reels
	6:41pm Bklyn_Dutch: Radio
	6:41pm David Shortell: Which Flash Gordon is being discussed? The Alex Raymond strip or the Buster Crabbe serials?
	6:42pm dale: ↳ David Shortell @6:41 flesh gordon.
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: With the punk song from Star Trek: Nate the K ( Burn It Down!) had a premium with a band that did a cover of that song on his CD. Awesome stuff. lol
	6:42pm dk50b: Buckaroo is a one of kind brilliant, low key satire. And of course it's set right here in NJ, leading to John Gomez exclaimaming "electromagnetic energy, back on Route 3!".
	6:42pm cristinap: is this todd pretending to be a random listener?
	6:42pm brycepunk1: Netflix and Prime have a ton of great B-level sci-fi. I can't get enough of it.
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:41 RA-DI-O
	6:43pm Barney Grubbs: one of the main premises of Buckaroo Banzai was that the War of the Worlds radio broadcast was actually real
	👍 6:43pm Sean T-Rex: Do it Jim! You the man!!
	6:44pm dale: he said 'alf movie.'
	👍 6:45pm zachary: Is that you, Sean?
	6:45pm C: Sam J my very first crush! Flash dada Gordon. MmM
	👍 6:46pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:45 No, lol
	6:46pm dale: when the kid was talking jurassic park it reminded me of 'dinosaurus!' a 60s b movie about finding two dinosaurs and a cave men in frozen in suspended animation. in the end a guy battles the t rex with a backhoe, which reminds me of when ripley battles the queel alien in that fork lifty kind of suite you strap yourself in to.
	👍 6:46pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:46 No?
	6:47pm David Shortell: Harlan Ellison bore a serious grudge about how his teleplay for that episode was altered. He even wrote a book about it! archive.org...
	👍 6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:46 Not me. I'll let you know if it was me.
	6:48pm bill the cat: Harry Potter ain’t sci-if……it’s low fantasy
	6:48pm brycepunk1: I'm too shy to call. Bummer.
	6:49pm Bklyn_Dutch: LotR and The Hobbit are also Fantasy, not sci-fi. Hey there is a difference.
	6:49pm cristinap: people took me to see one of them in grad school but it was like the fourth one and I'd never seen or read any of them, I still haven't lol
	6:49pm chresti: Jeffery is a sci-fi character
	6:49pm Nick K: Escape From NY, and a Clockwork Orange are some of my favorites
	👍 6:49pm Sean T-Rex: I mean speaking of George Lucas early movies, I saw American Graffiti not too long ago and it's awesome.
	6:50pm cristinap: I guess for sci fi, I like repo man, ai, stuff like that
	6:50pm Bklyn_Dutch: 2001: A Space Odyssey
	6:50pm chresti: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:48 Same here
	6:50pm dale: been watching have gun will travel on meTv on saturday afternoons and many of those were written by gene roddenberry.
	6:50pm Bklyn_Dutch: Snowpiercer
	6:50pm cristinap: although idk if the host will note that a lot of sci fi is written by women or queer people as we envision an accepting future
	6:50pm brycepunk1: Has Three-Body Problem come up? The book was great, the series is fantastic
	👍 6:51pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:50 Finally, I'm shocked no one said it first. If I'm not mistaken, its like #1
	6:51pm chresti: ↳ Nick K @6:49 Oh Lucky Man!
	6:52pm chresti: ↳ chresti @6:51 although it may not be sci-fi
	👍 6:52pm Sean T-Rex: Uncle Mo! He we must worship!
	6:53pm dk50b: The panicked reaction to Welles' War of the Worlds is a baseless myth created by the newspaper industry attempting to smear upstart radio's reputation. Very few actually heard it, and neither CBS nor any local police received panicked calls. slate.com...
	6:53pm ?: Project X, William Castle with Monte Markham
	6:53pm David Shortell: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:50 The Chinese TV maxiseries that repeats on PBS?
	6:54pm Bklyn_Dutch: For All Mankind the series is good sci-fi
	6:54pm Listener Robert: ↳ dk50b @6:53 Yeah, I thought of phoning in to say that, but...nah.
	6:54pm David Shortell: ↳ chresti @6:52 Where "Seinfeld" got the pig-man idea.
	6:55pm brycepunk1: ↳ David Shortell @6:53 No, they did it on Netflix. Eight parts.
	6:56pm David Shortell: Does “Slaughterhouse-Five” count? Kurt Vonnegut liked that movie. It was one of the few film versions of his work that was good.
	6:56pm chresti: psycho drama?
	6:57pm Nick K: Fail safe
	👍 6:57pm zachary: I was just getting ready to talk about The Day the Earth Stood Still. Classic 50s sci-fi.
	👍 6:58pm zachary: Thanks Jim! Thanks Sean! Thanks Nick, cresti, David, brycepunk1, Listener Robert, Bklyn_Dutch, and everyone else above the scroll. Cheers!
	6:58pm Nick K: Thanks
	6:59pm Erik/VT: oh, i Loved that "Oh Lucky Man" 1973? when i saw it back in the 80's after attempting to learn more abt Malcolm McDowell's career! - still worthy & epic. - great soundtrack & interludes as swell by Alan Price. weird adventure movie. early Helen Mirren perf as well! i believe it influenced boots Riley's great "Sorry to Bother You"
	6:59pm chresti: ↳ Song: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" by "Le Tigre" Genius!
	6:59pm HyperDose: luv u Jimothy!
	6:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" by "Le Tigre" John Cassavetes misogynist? That's new to me.
	6:59pm Tom from Stirling: Isn't there gonna be a vote?
	👍 7:01pm zachary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:59 Which one do you vote for, Tom?

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Listener comments!
	👍 6:01pm Sean T-Rex: Time to start swingin! Hi Jim & all!
	6:01pm DanFA: Hello James.
	6:01pm HyperDose: we're being invaded!
	6:02pm chresti: Hi thumb movies show with Jim the Poet!
	👍 6:02pm Folsom: Wasn't Han the only person to shoot in the original version?
	6:03pm Spikey BXL: Spaceballs
	6:03pm Listener Robert: My question is, do you think the figures in the song wound up making out that night or not?
	6:03pm Bklyn_Dutch: Greedo was a Rodian bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt
	👍 6:04pm Sean T-Rex: John Carpenter's The Thing wasn't the original btw
	6:04pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:03 with a name like that he must have been from Jersey or LI
	👍 6:04pm Folsom: I figured Jim's favorite is Zardoz.
	6:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 The Thing From Another World!
	👍 6:05pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:03 Yea, he was a Rodian. Not slimy tho!
	6:05pm dale: too many good ones....metropolis, war of the worlds, THEM, district 9 for a recent one...
	6:05pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 My mistake
	6:05pm Listener Robert: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:04 Funny what these young whipper-snappers think is the original. And it's not just them, loads of examples, especially where a commercial interest has motivation to label something as original.
	6:05pm Yawp: I’m cooking…. so I’ll contribute here, EVENT HORIZON! Such a great combo of so-bad-it’s-good/actually scary at times and starring a ridiculous ship that becomes possessed in a black hole! What more do yah need?
	👍 6:06pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:05 lol, no worries. But it is the best Thing by far so your good! :)
	6:06pm Tom from Stirling: Alien all the way. Alien set the standard.
	6:06pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Listener Robert @6:05 I’m 40 😆
	6:06pm HyperDose: if you have the despecialized version (which is the closest to the original theatrical release) and you watch in slo mo, Greedo indeed shoots first. but every other version is Han
	👍 6:07pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Listener Robert @6:05 To be fair, I'm a youth and get amazed when you find out it wasn't the orignal
	👍 6:07pm Folsom: Does Gonks Go Beat count? How about Cat from Outer Space?
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Yawp @6:05 That's a good one.
	6:08pm UFOspecialist: The Dan....is very Steely
	6:08pm Listener Robert: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:06 And I'm 70, so you're a kid to me. Which is amazing, because my generation wants to be kids forever.
	6:08pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:04 Are you thinking of Guido? From Saturday Night Fever?
	👍 6:09pm Folsom: Maybe Jim likes Flesh Gordon!
	6:09pm Luisa24: One of the best I've ever seen is ANIARA, a 2018 Dutch/Swedish production. It soooo good!! For me it was gripping, the main character so sympathetic. Anyone else seen it?
	6:09pm Hunterian: Never heard of "A Boy and His Dog"? I can't believe it…
	6:09pm dale: james arness was the original thing. wearing a frankenstein head.
	6:09pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:08 With some imagination, it's pronounced the same ;)
	6:10pm David Shortell: As Mark Hamill said, the Star Wars movies are not science fiction. They're fairy tales in future-tech trappings.
	6:11pm chresti: Under The Skin
	6:11pm Land Phil: Can we please talk about David Lynch's Dune
	6:11pm Deano de los Muertos: I saw a pretty good one called Annihilation recently from 2018…and it’s got Natalie Portman, so that’s good
	6:11pm full_english_breakfast: favorite sci-fi movie? gotta think more about it but the first one that popped into my mind was Starship Troopers
	6:11pm Tom from Stirling: Star Wars is more of a fantasy movie.
	6:12pm common: alien
	6:12pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:09 Haha! Lets not confuse Greedo with Father Guido Sarducci though, he was a funny guy.
	👍 6:12pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Land Phil @6:11 "The Spice Must Flow"
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Land Phil @6:11 Please, no. Even Lynch doesn't like it.
	6:13pm common: coherence is great
	6:13pm Spikey BXL: As a fan of parallel universes, DARK (the German Netflix series) must be right up your alley, Jim. And Land Phil has to love it because of the time accurate use of metal in the early season.
	6:13pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:12 So? Plenty of people do, including me. Cult classic
	6:14pm David Shortell: Did the caller just mention "Sleeper"? That was funny.
	6:14pm Luisa24: BOKEH!! Also so very good.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:13 Some good parts, mostly bad. Ugh
	6:15pm Buttfrog: Across the spider verse
	6:15pm et_: Repo Man. One of the best movies ever! It harnessed peak Emilio Estevez and peak Harry Dean Stanton!
	6:15pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:13 DARK was great, only saw the first series - was there a second one? the dubbed dialog was hard to take at first...good soundtrack too!
	6:16pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:14 Great soundtrack too
	👍 6:16pm Sean T-Rex: Starship Troopers (1997) The Fifth Element (1997) Some of my favorites
	6:16pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:15 There were FOUR series and it got increasingly complicated.
	6:16pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ et_ @6:15 Harry Dean Stanton was in Alien!
	6:17pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:16 if it's still streaming i'll look for it.
	6:17pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:15 using Kreator (indeed a German band) and their correctly timed Pleasure To Kill record was superb
	6:18pm Spikey BXL: ↳ dale @6:17 a notepad could be handy towards the end of S2
	6:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:16 I loved Paul Verhoeven's over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek film adaptation, but I don't think Robert Heinlein would've appreciated it.
	6:19pm Nikita: Event Horizon ! With Sam Neil and Laurence Fishburne. Terrified me as a kid. Begins in the usual “come across an abandoned ship in space” but goes to such a dark place. Excellent Sci-fi/ Horror. Must See!!
	6:19pm dale: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:18 when you need to diagram the character interplay i check out.
	6:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:18 On the contrary, I think he would've laughed like mad.
	👍 6:19pm Folsom: ↳ et_ @6:15 Best soundtrack ever.
	6:19pm chresti: More like horror/sci-fi - brainiac
	6:20pm Spikey BXL: unpopular opinion: Blade Runner didn't age well
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:20 Neither does the original Dune.
	6:21pm Rekman: The Andromeda Strain, based on the Michael Crichton book, David Wayne, Arthur Hill....
	6:21pm dale: robocop is fantastic. terminator, total recall, the fifth element, predator....the 80s delivered.
	6:21pm Listener Robert: My favorite movie for decades is one that incorporated a little sci-fi, but I don't know if that qualifies it as a SF film: "The President's Analyst".
	6:21pm David Shortell: I heard that the first movie to display an extraterrestrial civilization was "This Island Earth". It was quite different from Raymond F. Jones' novel, but I don't think it deserved the ridicule from "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie".
	6:22pm dale: except fifth element was 90s...
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:21 all good
	6:22pm Bklyn_Dutch: Elysium is a good modern sci-fi film.
	6:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:21 Noteworthy for the band Clear Light, if nothing else.
	👍 6:22pm Folsom: Last Starfighter is good with Robert Preston.
	6:23pm Nikita: Animation in the original Ghost in the Shell is INCREDIBLE 💖
	6:23pm Buttfrog: What other great anime Sci-Finis there? I want to transported to other world.
	6:23pm Deano de los Muertos: Zeriam 1991 Dark City 1998 *Batteries Not Included 1987 are some other favs in my collection a little less popular than my call-in answer
	6:23pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:22 Were they the hippie band?
	6:24pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:22 That’s a great one. Chappie and District 9 along with it
	👍 6:24pm Sean T-Rex: I hear Tetsuo: The Iron Man is an awesome but sick movie.
	6:25pm dale: i want to say galixina with dorothy stratton is good except i've never seen it and it probably stinks. ooh- logans run! roscoe lee brown as a robot that looks like a tesla truck!
	6:25pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:24 Yes!
	6:25pm Buttfrog: Primer was awesome!!! Time travel perspective was wild!!!
	6:26pm common: ↳ dale @6:25 yea! logan's run and coma! invasion of the body snatchers '78
	6:26pm Listener Robert: ↳ David Shortell @6:22 Reminds me -- when the home recording of it came out, they couldn't get the rights to "Changes", the music over the field full of assassins, and they substituted something that had nothing of the irony.
	6:26pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Buttfrog @6:25 I barely remember it, but remember loving it.
	6:26pm Land Phil: ↳ Nikita @6:23 Also Neon Genesis Evangelion
	6:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:23 Yes, though they substituted Barry McGuire for their actual singer, the actor Cliff DeYoung.
	6:26pm dale: ↳ Buttfrog @6:23 love, death and robots was a great series if you haven't seen it.
	6:26pm Buttfrog: Omg I did watch it twice back 2 back
	6:26pm Tom from Stirling: Looper is a good science fiction movie.
	👍 6:26pm Sean T-Rex: I also like Dark Skies (2013) but it's not a amazing film or anything. Just fun tho
	6:28pm Imgur: It’s pronounced “Boo-tay!”
	6:28pm Kathleen from JC: Yesss! Buckaroo Banzai!
	6:28pm Listener Robert: Mother took me and my cousin Mary Lou to "Fantastic Voyage", but I didn't like it much even with Raquel Welch.
	6:28pm DjLorraine: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:23 I like Dark City, 5th Element, Ultra Violet
	6:29pm Deano de los Muertos: I saw a really good Italian film with time travel…..I can’t find the title now…I thought it was “Time Cop” but all that comes up is the Van Damme movie
	6:29pm Bklyn_Dutch: Mad Max: Fury Road
	6:29pm brycepunk1: The Day After is one of my favorite movies. It's so brutal. Threads as well, but I guess I related to Day After more.
	6:29pm dale: ↳ Listener Robert @6:28 i'm surprised no one has remade that with today's cgi technology
	6:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Listener Robert @6:26 Ugh, I remember that VHS tape. They replaced Barry and Clear Light with some lousy new music.
	6:31pm Erik/VT: Annie has gone glitch sci-fi robot !
	6:31pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:28 Guess Mother thought I'd appreciate it as a future doctor, but I preferred the dark satire of "The President's Analyst" that came out the same year. Maybe that foretold that I wouldn't be a doctor.
	👍 6:31pm Sean T-Rex: But speaking of George Lucas, anyone ever see THX-1138?
	6:31pm Deano de los Muertos: nvm, I think it’s Timecrimes, and was Spanish
	6:31pm common: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 so good!
	6:32pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 Robert Duval is in that. Filmed in SF, really a sleeper.
	👍 6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ common @6:31 Well, I guess I gotta watch it then. lol
	6:32pm brycepunk1: ↳ Luisa24 @6:09 Aniara kicked my ass for a week, easily. It's so good! And so painful. What happens when you have everything except any hope at all? I could talk about that movie for days.
	👍 6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:32 Even more of a reason then
	6:32pm dale: i saw westworld in the theater. also saw the porn ripoff 'sexworld' in the same theater a year later.
	👍 6:33pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:31 Yes! I was just talking about THX-1138. Thought about calling in. You should.
	6:33pm common: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:32 brutal and great!
	6:33pm Listener Robert: "Lathe" was great -- better on film even than LeGuin's book. The Jane Roberts who had a bit part in it was unrelated to the author of the Seth books, which is too bad because it fit so perfectly.
	👍 6:34pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:33 Yea but the Children of Bucci take over! lol
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: wow, rewatched Jurassic park for like the first time just last night
	👍 6:34pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:34 Ha!
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: and that is the best part “I’m gonna run you over when I come back down here”
	6:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like the original first Planet of the Apes movie, you dirty ape!
	6:35pm Deano de los Muertos: I like when Newman tries the Barbasol fan, then puts the shaving cream on his pie
	6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: *can
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:35 lol
	6:37pm full_english_breakfast: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:36 yep, i also like when samuel jackson says "hold on to your butts", and the great memed to death "clever girl"
	👍 6:38pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ full_english_breakfast @6:37 "Ah ah ah, you didn't say the magic word!"
	6:38pm Tom from Stirling: Yup, the Dune remakes were very good indeed. Yes, they were.
	6:39pm David Shortell: I thought Terry Gilliam’s “12 Monkeys”, based on the 28-minute still photo sequence “La Jetée” (1962), was a masterpiece. A time travel story where time is treated as an immutable absolute.
	👍 6:39pm zachary: ↳ David Shortell @6:39 The stuff of nightmares.
	6:39pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ David Shortell @6:39 One of my favorite movies.
	6:40pm Buttfrog: Holy cow - I watched all those old Flash Gordon reels
	6:41pm Bklyn_Dutch: Radio
	6:41pm David Shortell: Which Flash Gordon is being discussed? The Alex Raymond strip or the Buster Crabbe serials?
	6:42pm dale: ↳ David Shortell @6:41 flesh gordon.
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: With the punk song from Star Trek: Nate the K ( Burn It Down!) had a premium with a band that did a cover of that song on his CD. Awesome stuff. lol
	6:42pm dk50b: Buckaroo is a one of kind brilliant, low key satire. And of course it's set right here in NJ, leading to John Gomez exclaimaming "electromagnetic energy, back on Route 3!".
	6:42pm cristinap: is this todd pretending to be a random listener?
	6:42pm brycepunk1: Netflix and Prime have a ton of great B-level sci-fi. I can't get enough of it.
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:41 RA-DI-O
	6:43pm Barney Grubbs: one of the main premises of Buckaroo Banzai was that the War of the Worlds radio broadcast was actually real
	👍 6:43pm Sean T-Rex: Do it Jim! You the man!!
	6:44pm dale: he said 'alf movie.'
	👍 6:45pm zachary: Is that you, Sean?
	6:45pm C: Sam J my very first crush! Flash dada Gordon. MmM
	👍 6:46pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:45 No, lol
	6:46pm dale: when the kid was talking jurassic park it reminded me of 'dinosaurus!' a 60s b movie about finding two dinosaurs and a cave men in frozen in suspended animation. in the end a guy battles the t rex with a backhoe, which reminds me of when ripley battles the queel alien in that fork lifty kind of suite you strap yourself in to.
	👍 6:46pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:46 No?
	6:47pm David Shortell: Harlan Ellison bore a serious grudge about how his teleplay for that episode was altered. He even wrote a book about it! archive.org...
	👍 6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:46 Not me. I'll let you know if it was me.
	6:48pm bill the cat: Harry Potter ain’t sci-if……it’s low fantasy
	6:48pm brycepunk1: I'm too shy to call. Bummer.
	6:49pm Bklyn_Dutch: LotR and The Hobbit are also Fantasy, not sci-fi. Hey there is a difference.
	6:49pm cristinap: people took me to see one of them in grad school but it was like the fourth one and I'd never seen or read any of them, I still haven't lol
	6:49pm chresti: Jeffery is a sci-fi character
	6:49pm Nick K: Escape From NY, and a Clockwork Orange are some of my favorites
	👍 6:49pm Sean T-Rex: I mean speaking of George Lucas early movies, I saw American Graffiti not too long ago and it's awesome.
	6:50pm cristinap: I guess for sci fi, I like repo man, ai, stuff like that
	6:50pm Bklyn_Dutch: 2001: A Space Odyssey
	6:50pm chresti: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:48 Same here
	6:50pm dale: been watching have gun will travel on meTv on saturday afternoons and many of those were written by gene roddenberry.
	6:50pm Bklyn_Dutch: Snowpiercer
	6:50pm cristinap: although idk if the host will note that a lot of sci fi is written by women or queer people as we envision an accepting future
	6:50pm brycepunk1: Has Three-Body Problem come up? The book was great, the series is fantastic
	👍 6:51pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:50 Finally, I'm shocked no one said it first. If I'm not mistaken, its like #1
	6:51pm chresti: ↳ Nick K @6:49 Oh Lucky Man!
	6:52pm chresti: ↳ chresti @6:51 although it may not be sci-fi
	👍 6:52pm Sean T-Rex: Uncle Mo! He we must worship!
	6:53pm dk50b: The panicked reaction to Welles' War of the Worlds is a baseless myth created by the newspaper industry attempting to smear upstart radio's reputation. Very few actually heard it, and neither CBS nor any local police received panicked calls. slate.com...
	6:53pm ?: Project X, William Castle with Monte Markham
	6:53pm David Shortell: ↳ brycepunk1 @6:50 The Chinese TV maxiseries that repeats on PBS?
	6:54pm Bklyn_Dutch: For All Mankind the series is good sci-fi
	6:54pm Listener Robert: ↳ dk50b @6:53 Yeah, I thought of phoning in to say that, but...nah.
	6:54pm David Shortell: ↳ chresti @6:52 Where "Seinfeld" got the pig-man idea.
	6:55pm brycepunk1: ↳ David Shortell @6:53 No, they did it on Netflix. Eight parts.
	6:56pm David Shortell: Does “Slaughterhouse-Five” count? Kurt Vonnegut liked that movie. It was one of the few film versions of his work that was good.
	6:56pm chresti: psycho drama?
	6:57pm Nick K: Fail safe
	👍 6:57pm zachary: I was just getting ready to talk about The Day the Earth Stood Still. Classic 50s sci-fi.
	👍 6:58pm zachary: Thanks Jim! Thanks Sean! Thanks Nick, cresti, David, brycepunk1, Listener Robert, Bklyn_Dutch, and everyone else above the scroll. Cheers!
	6:58pm Nick K: Thanks
	6:59pm Erik/VT: oh, i Loved that "Oh Lucky Man" 1973? when i saw it back in the 80's after attempting to learn more abt Malcolm McDowell's career! - still worthy & epic. - great soundtrack & interludes as swell by Alan Price. weird adventure movie. early Helen Mirren perf as well! i believe it influenced boots Riley's great "Sorry to Bother You"
	6:59pm chresti: ↳ Song: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" by "Le Tigre" Genius!
	6:59pm HyperDose: luv u Jimothy!
	6:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" by "Le Tigre" John Cassavetes misogynist? That's new to me.
	6:59pm Tom from Stirling: Isn't there gonna be a vote?
	👍 7:01pm zachary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:59 Which one do you vote for, Tom?

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