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Watch This! Space!

Watch This! Space!

Hey, remember that one sci-fi movie that…? Well, we just might! Join us on a journey through science fiction films from the silent era through today. Each episode, we discuss a gamut of sci-fi cinema–classics, cautionary tales, obscure gems, cult classics, fun popcorn flicks, and more. Dive through the airlock of reality and into the universe of speculative cinema as we look at what was, to see what could be.

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01:50:45

Episode 18 - AH AHHH - Flash Gordon (1980)

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2024/05/30

Alan and Paul talk about 1980's Flash Gordon. One of them loved it the other less so. Somehow it devolves into an argument about Zach Snyder's DC films (one of them hates them, the other MUCH less so), before coming back to say not everything is perfect, but there's fun to be found everywhere!

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01:23:50

Episode 17 - Have We Met?

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2024/04/18

Derek Binns joins Alan and PJ from the future as the three of them talk about Rian Johnson's Looper

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00:53:46

Episode 16 - Two Tickets to Paradise

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2024/04/04

Alan and PJ take a look at Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.

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01:09:49

Episode 15 - That Old Black Magic... Again

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2024/03/07

Alan and Paul look at 2010: The Year We Make Contact. It's the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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01:27:40

Episode 14 - Strange Visitor

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2024/02/22

Alan and Paul are joined by Derek from Tasmania to discuss Stanley Kubrick's seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey.Summary: Audience meets ape man. Ape man meets big black slab. Big black slab apparently teaches ape man to hit with a bone. Bone turns into spaceship. Spaceship docks to bicycle wheel while slow old music plays. Nondescript American man walks on, calls very British-sounding daughter, walks to a bunch of other nondescript people, and finally goes to a briefing where there may be

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01:26:27

Episode 13: Monkey Business

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2024/02/08

Alan and Paul are joined by Jim Purcell of the Savage FinCast and Legion of Substitute Podcasters to discuss the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. One reason Planet of the Apes is significant today is that it spawned a sci-fi franchise before either Star Trek or Star Wars (despite Star Trek having premiered on television in 1966). Planet of the Apes begat four sequels (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, and Battle for the Planet of

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01:30:03

Episode 12: Science Fiction…Single Feature…

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2024/01/25

Forbidden Planet was not the first sci-fi film of the 1950s, but its influence cannot be denied: Filmsite lists a number of firsts that Forbidden Planet achieved: the first film to be set entirely on a foreign planet in interstellar space, arrived at via hyperspeed travel on a flying saucer moving at more than 16 times the speed of light the first Hollywood film to have an all-electronic music score the first film in which a robot had a personality (and sense of humor), was more than just a

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01:28:46

Episode 11: Wells, Wells, Wells…

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2024/01/11

Staying on the HG Wells theme, we look at Time After Time, in which Wells is the main character, and he's got a time machine! This film is Nicholas Meyer’s directing debut. Meyer had already started to make a name for himself as the writer (both novel and screenplay) of The Seven Per-Cent Solution (1978), which was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1982, Meyer became part of Star Trek “royalty” when he wrote and directed Star Trek II, the movie considered to have “saved” the Star Trek

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01:39:22

Episode 10: Morloks and Eloi and Scares! Oh, My!

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2023/12/29

Last week, we looked at HG Wells's reaction to Metropolis. This week we look at a movie made from one of Wells's own works, The Time Machine!

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01:31:01

Episode 9: Things to Come That Came and Went

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2023/12/14

Things to Come began when H.G. Wells saw Metropolis…and hated it. Some choice bits from his review of the film: "Originality there is none. Independent thought, none…. The word Metropolis, says the advertisement in English, 'is in itself symbolic of greatness'- which only shows us how wise it is to consult a dictionary before making assertions about the meaning of words." (H. G. Wells on "Metropolis" (1927)) Harsh words! Listen in for more!

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01:25:22

Episode 8: And Now…METROPOLIS!

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2023/10/26

Metropolis was an attempt by Universum Film (Ufa) to stave off bankruptcy in the days of Weimar Republic Germany, Unfortunately, the film ended up bankrupting Ufa anyway. American film distributors were interested in distributing Metropolis in the US as a means of getting their hands on the import certificates that would allow the US studios to distribute films in Germany. American film distributors cut about a quarter of the film out right off the bat because they believed that American

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02:22:13

Episode 7: Strange Interlude, or Meet Your...

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2023/10/12

In which we learn all Alan and Paul's secrets.

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01:22:49

Episode 6: Biting Critique

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2023/09/28

You may be wondering why we’re talking about Nosferatu on a podcast about science fiction films. I added this movie to our list for a couple of reasons: As with its German Expressionist “siblings,” The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis, Nosferatu has influenced subsequent horror and science fiction films, including “the post-apocalyptic scavengers in I Am Legend, the ravaging blood-suckers in Guillermo del Toro's Blade 2 and TV series The Strain, the Pale Man in del Toro's Pan’s

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01:11:21

Episode 5: Sleep-Stalking

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2023/09/15

Today we’re going a little further afield of standard science fiction by looking at the 1920 German Expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! The writers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, who are said to have set out to write a story denouncing arbitrary authority as brutal and insane, although that’s under some debate (more on that later). The film’s plot was inspired by several events in the writers’ lives, which included A circus sideshow the writers saw

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01:25:52

Episode 4 - Homunculus Say What?

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2023/08/17

Homunculus was originally a series of six films based on an epic poem of the same name written by Robert Hamerling in 1888, created by the German studio Deutsche Bioscop GmbH. Each film was approximately an hour long, and they were released in 1916 (except for part 6, which came out in 1917). The original episode titles were: Die Geburt des Homunculus (The Birth of the Homunculus) Das geheimnisvolle Buch (The Mysterious Book) Die Liebestragödie des Homunculus (The Love Tragedy of the

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01:40:27

Episode 3: Two Sides to a Story

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2023/08/03

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published in 1886, was inspired by the life and deeds of William Brodie (1741-1788), who was a paragon of high society by day but a criminal by night. A highly renowned Scottish cabinetmaker and locksmith, Brodie would create and install locks for the houses of Edinburgh’s rich elite, while creating copies of the keys to break into their houses at night to steal money and valuables to fund his secret gambling habit and provide for

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01:15:20

Episode 2 - Crossing Boundaries (Frankenstein 1910)

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2023/07/21

This week's episode stays in the world of silent films. Still, it crosses the line between science fiction and horror as we look at an early adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, produced in 1910 by the Edison studios. Note the "fires of creation" that birth the Creature and how it's footage of a fire burning a papier-mâché (or something) prop run backwards. At least this version of Victor is smart enough to do the creation in another room, although he needs to learn

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01:06:07

Episode 1 - Imagination Brought to Life

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2023/07/07

Introduction Join us as we look at the history of Science Fiction Film. Welcome to Watch This! SPACE! Dive through the airlock of reality and into the universe of speculative cinema as we look at what was, to see what could be. For the first week, we watched four early, early examples of science fiction films: The Astronomer’s Dream (1898); see https://scifist.net/2018/02/28/the-astronomers-dream/ A Trip to the Moon (1902); see https://scifist.net/2018/02/21/a-trip-to-the-moon/ A Trip to

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