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Couldn't agree more. IMO the point of SF and horror is to use extraordinary events to comment on ordinary life. The original Trek is rife with allegories to the time it was made.

"There's one thing I do know son, and that is you are here for a reason! I don't know what reason, or whose reason... but I do know this - it's not to score touchdowns." - Pa Kent (Glenn Ford) to his teenaged son Clark (Jeff East) in my all-time favorite film, Richard Donner's Superman...

On Saturday, the wife and I went to a theater to see Silent Hill and I did NOT like it. It was impossible to follow. On Monday I watched Deathdream on DVD and liked it. It wasn't a classic, but it had a lot of substance to the story. I feel horror films work best when they work some sort of...

Call me crazy, but I loved Star Trek: The Motion Picture. My other SF faves: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan The Empire Strikes Back The War of the Worlds (1953 original, I haven't even seen the new one and probably never will because I HATE Tom Cruise) The Terminator The Thing (really...

I just finished Walter Greatshell's Xombies and was wondering if anyone else here has read it. I thought it started really strong but I didn't like the final third. That may just be because I prefer straightforward horror and this one ventures over into more sci-fi territory towards the end...

Beck's beer used to have a series of ads with the tagline, "Germans don't do [whatever]. Germans do beer." In my favorite, a man walks out from behind a curtain onto a stage. He looks a little bewildered and is squinting terribly from the spotlight on his face. He shuffles up to the...

:confused: In that footage you don't get to see the behind-the-scenes stuff, that's why. You're also not going to see the parts of their lives from before they were famous, because no one was filming them then.

The UPS man FINALLY brought my copy of The Rising today. Now I've just got to hurry up and finish Xombies.

I enjoyed Gary Brandner's The Howling. It was pretty good, and quite different from the movie. I have a copy of the sequel novel, The Howling II (not sure if Brandner wrote any more after that), but haven't read it yet. I also ran through Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf one afternoon...

'Salem's Lot is my all-time favorite book, period. I love the characters, the story, and the all-consuming sense of dread that pervades throughout. My second favorite is The Shining. As for my favorite King movie? That's harder to tell. I will always have a soft spot for the first TV-movie...

Well, The Rising and City of the Dead are both zombie stories. He also has a new one coming out early next month called The Conqueror Worms about two old men in the rural south trying to survive an onslaught of giant killer worms who come up through the ground (sorta like the movie Tremors). I...

Yes it is. In fact my wife and I just got done watching two episodes from the Season 1 set. The goofy part is they released the first season and second season, and then jumped to the fifth season. :confused: We're still waiting for the third and fourth seasons.

Two of my favorites, The Incredible Hulk and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., are having their first seasons released on DVD this summer. I've been waiting forever for The Hulk to come out; can't believe they waited this long. Some others I'd like to see on disc: Hawaii Five-O - Quite simply one...

One step ahead of you. I ordered a copy of both books from their website on Monday. It was the only place that lists The Rising as being available.

Does anyone here know what's going on with the third printing of Brian Keene's The Rising? I ordered a copy of the book (most likely from the second printing) from an eBay merchant. However, it hasn't arrived and the seller is theorizing that the package got lost in the mail - so I may or...

THat's pretty much how I feel. Once in a while I will keep reading something if I think it's "good for me", even if I don't particularly like it. Take the collection of Arthur C. Clarke stories I just read. I knew it was good in a literary sense, but I didn't enjoy them that much.

Actually I have been thinking of taking that one up. I've been reading a lot lately about sci-fi and its different subgenres and it sounded really promising! Thanks for the tip! :)

Yeah, I gave up on it last night. For the record, it was Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Ironically, I quit reading the same author's Starship Troopers a little while ago. I was just getting concerned because the stuff written by the "classic" sci-fi authors just doesn't seem to hold...

I wanted to get some input on this before I go any further. How often do the rest of you give up on a book? I have a tendency to start reading and get bored with the book very fast, and then mope as to whether or not to continue it. At first I thought maybe I had ADD, but a professional I saw...

Yes, the first two in the series are The Rats and Lair. I've read the first and third, but not the middle, though I do have a copy of it I'll get to someday...