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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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A couple of friends, one of whom happens to be in his dressing gown and slippers, leave the earth suddenly. They manage to do this just seconds before the earth is demolished to make way for an inter-galactic super highway. They team up with a depressed robot, a leggy blond spacecraft pilot and a chap with two heads. This DVD of the BBC television series, will be enjoyed by people who can enjoy humor that is not necessarily slapstick in nature. If you don't understand what's going on, go down to your local pet shop, or mobile phone provider and get yourself a Babel fish. Once you insert that in your ear - all will become clear.
     
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UFO

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Commander Ed Straker is tough and he is cool. That's just as well since aliens are plotting to invade the earth and he is responsible for stopping them. In a secret establishment under a film studio he and his team monitor alien approaches and take appropriate action. Ladies with purple hair (including the stunning Gabrielle Drake) man Straker's secret moonbase, which provides an early defence against alien approaches. This is the next step on from Thunderbirds (also by Gerry Anderson) and uses people instead of puppets. A very enjoyable made for TV series which looked very futuristic in it's day.
     

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

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Buck Rogers leaves earth in 1987. Due to a mysterious time warp in space, he returns more than 500 years later, in 2491. His adventures in the future are graced by the sexy Wilma Deering, and a fantastic biped robot called Twiki, whose strangely shaped head and classic one line robotic utterances, set this show apart from others of the genre.
     
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Star Wars

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All the Star Wars movies excel at entertaining. Which you prefer will probably depend on how old you are. Having been easily old enough to be stunned by the effects of the first Star Wars movie to appear in the theatres, my preference is for the older ones (although they are not the first ones chronologically in the saga). When those movies were made CGI was in it's infancy, so physical models tended to be used, rather than virtual models which exist only in the digital realm inside computers.
     
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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This movie released in 2004, is unusual among the hero genre, in that it really gives the feeling of taking you back to the late 1930s, while showing you machines, which would be futuristic by today's standards let alone those of that era, but which retain distinctly 1930s thinking and design elements. Although much of the action takes place on the streets of New York, Sky Captain (Jude Law) and his aircraft are very British, as is Franky (Angelina Jolie refining her English Lara Croft accent even more). Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) a reporter is definitely American and is to Sky Captain, rather what Lois Lane is to Superman and Vicky Vale is to Batman.
     
 

PLEASE GO TO THE CHILDRENS SECTION FOR ADDITIONAL SCIFI SUCH AS CLANGERS, DOCTOR WHO AND THUNDERBIRDS.

  
     

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