Sixties Overload!

by **shaqui** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:36 am

With NCS barely on screen for a few weeks, we have an updated new millenium version of 'Doctor Who' due to hit the screens the weekend after next! I've just seen the trailer and new titles, and like many others my age - god, it's like being a kid again! It looks fantastic!!!!

Saturdays suddenly have that indefinible quality again!

:grin:

by **C21** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:28 am

There is even talk of a 'live' update of the Quatermass TV series!

Seems like sci-fi fans have taken over the TV Boardrooms and going retro.

C21

by **Captain Indigo** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:10 pm

shaqui wrote:With NCS barely on screen for a few weeks, we have an updated new millenium version of 'Doctor Who' due to hit the screens the weekend after next! I've just seen the trailer and new titles, and like many others my age - god, it's like being a kid again! It looks fantastic!!!!

Saturdays suddenly have that indefinible quality again!

Isn't it fantastic? I love Saturdays all of a sudden!

by **CSfan** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:30 am

60's overload is fine with me. It seems to me that something is missing from sci-fi since the 60's. I'm not sure what it is, is it confidence? Is it optomism? Have environmental concerns somehow broken our positive view of the future? Have shifts in the political landscape affected sci-fi? To me, Captain Scarlet (and also the Thunderbirds) have something, (attitude? confidence?) that is definitely missing in Star Wars and other "better" sci-fi that has come after it. Maybe, Captain Scarlet was less (or more) pretentious. Maybe I'm just blinded by nostalgia. Has anybody else ever had any thoughts along this line?

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:49 am

i have found the newer scifi gets too wound up in its special effects & background music. something i really enjoy about older series (and not just scifi) s they are easier to watch.

special effects are fun, but they don't make a movie on their own.

i find a lot of the newer movies try too hard too. they beat you over the head with whatever message they trying to get across. they also don't leave much to the imagination.

i like some room to think for myself, let my head fill in the details, its like the difference between a good creepy movie and a boring slasher film.

i don't want everything explained, i want to wonder what is going on, i want my imagination churning and making it more interactive. THAT is what sucks me in to movies. StarWars I cna watch and it is fun, but I can also walk away from it. there isn't anything going on that keeps me glued.

I can't walk away from Scarlet.
just enough going on to get my head going and keep it going, (and now i can't turn it off!!!!!)

Sasha

by **MMK** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:14 am

SBFurr wrote:i have found the newer scifi gets too wound up in its special effects & background music. something i really enjoy about older series (and not just scifi) s they are easier to watch.

special effects are fun, but they don't make a movie on their own.

i find a lot of the newer movies try too hard too. they beat you over the head with whatever message they trying to get across. they also don't leave much to the imagination.

i like some room to think for myself, let my head fill in the details, its like the difference between a good creepy movie and a boring slasher film.

i don't want everything explained, i want to wonder what is going on, i want my imagination churning and making it more interactive. THAT is what sucks me in to movies. StarWars I cna watch and it is fun, but I can also walk away from it. there isn't anything going on that keeps me glued.

I've finally found someone who has the same opinion/view about films as me!

by **tinderbox** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:28 am

SBFurr wrote:i find a lot of the newer movies try too hard too. they beat you over the head with whatever message they trying to get across. they also don't leave much to the imagination.

I agree. My three favourite movies of all time are Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still, and Forbidden Planet - all of them are centred around a very real and obvious message, and yet the scripts and the acting just naturalized them into another part of the movie.

I JUST WISH MODERN HOLLYWOOD WOULD STOP RE-MAKING OLD MOVIES. And screwing them up. I just heard a couple of days ago that they're remaking The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves and are changing the message of the film from peace to the environment. Die, Hollywood. :evil:

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by **MMK** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:37 am

tinderbox wrote:I JUST WISH MODERN HOLLYWOOD WOULD STOP RE-MAKING OLD MOVIES. And screwing them up. I just heard a couple of days ago that they're remaking The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves and are changing the message of the film from peace to the environment. Die, Hollywood.

I could tell you why they (Hollywood) do it but I fear I would end up so off topic that I would attract the mods' attention *hides*

:wink:

by **tinderbox** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:38 am

I just thought it was to do with money...

by **Marion** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:58 pm

Gentle reminder, folks - with my Mod hat on - to keep on topic, please.
The doings of Hollywood, however fascinating they might be, are not what this site is about - unless and until they decide to make 'Captain Scarlet: The Movie.' :wink:

p.s. - Well spotted MMK - you knew we'd do it!

by **CSfan** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:24 pm

I guess what I meant in my previous post was, that we can all agree that Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was unique, special and irresistable, but has anyone stopped to think about why this is so? Maybe we're better off not knowing, but its interesting-no? Did the 60's have anything to do with it? Was it where it was filmed? Was it simply the unique vision of the creators? Its probably a combination of all these factors plus others, but it seems interesting to me to try to put a finer point on it.

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:43 pm

like the mysterons, Scarlet has powers we can only guess at
how else could a marionette be so mesmerizing?
...
I think the idea of fighting somethig unseen and untouchable is creepy, and the idea of a hero who can withstand almost anything is a good counter to it. make the hero still a person, who does not always succeed and who acts and feels and thinks like a person instead of seeing themselves as a superhero and completely apart from everyone, and it is easier to connect with the show.

the two ideas, creepy evil to fight and mostly human hero, with enough "will this work or not" to keep me guessing, is a powerful combination for my head. I really LIKE that Scarlet does not always 100% succeed, if he always fixed everything and prevented everything the show would be much more dull. We know he can fail, so does he, and so we are kept wondering not just "will he succeed' but HOW will he, and to what degree?

i find all the other characters to be believable, too. I esp like Lt Green in the first 8 episode as he gets more and more antcy wanting to go out and do something rather than just stay in at the base.
well, the angels I find to be very flat but i don't pay much attention to them anyway.

Sasha