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If your looking for something that almost no one will have seen try Charlie Jade http://www.charliejade.com/
Its good for a South African production but not amazingly good. 6.5/10 imo
Don't forget Carnivale, some of the best TV ever produced.
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If you are into checking out the Batman animated series, should also get some Justice League Unlimited. Recently watched a few eps and found it to be on average just as good as the batman series. They have actually been adapting some of the better stories from the books, such as the Alan Moore Superman story "For the man who has everything". Good stuff
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What about Taken it wasnt to bad and other people have said itbut Blade runner always blade runner, get bit drunk watch it and all of a sudden its full of the most incredible symbolgy on mans search for god so well worth it. Its a classic cant be beat.Oh yeah and a flim that i cant remember name where its a western theme park where people have gun battles with robots that always lose but one of them goes crazy its a classic(sorry can someone help with the name)hey what about comic films xmen ect expand the geekdom horizions.
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The movie you're describing seems to be Westworld, which starred Yul Brenner, best known as Lurch in The Adams Family.
Quote:For those interested, the DCU tooniverse continuity goes something like this:
Originally posted by Jothanax:
If you are into checking out the Batman animated series, should also get some Justice League Unlimited.
Batman: The Animated Series (the show that started it all).
Superman: The Animated Series (a slightly less-successful spinoff of B:TAS, which segued into. . .).
Justice League (Unlimited) (the first two seasons were just "Justice League," the "Unlimited" part was added when they decided to expand beyond the core members).
Batman Beyond (the only completely original DCU series, set many years in the future. Bruce Wayne has retired and passes the cowl to a new Batman.)
Exactly how and if the Teen Titans series fits in remains to be seen. It seems to be fairly distinct, especially given the confused timelines involving Robin (IIRC, the Batman series skipped right over Dick Grayson's reign and went right to Tim Drake, yet the Titan is pretty obviously a young Grayson [he's shown eventually turning into Nightwing]).
There's an OAV (i.e., a TV movie) that crosses over between the Batman & Superman series and sets the stage for Supes' decision to create the League. It's mainly noteworthy for the chance to see Superman being an utter d*ck (when you meet someone who wears a mask, don't peak!) and for Joker's quip about "propulsion envy."
I'm a big fan of Batman Beyond, and consider the movie (Return of the Joker) to be a high point of American cartoons, featuring one of the best fight scenes in a franchise known for awesome fight scenes. Obviously, I'd recommend it, both for the animation and for the witty dialogue ("Good bad dog"). Of interest to Browncoats, the future Gotham has a number of Asian influences, up to and including a few bits of shuai Chinese slang.
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How about Earth 2? I don't think anyone else has mentioned it. It was a really good show and it's out on DVD.
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Two that come to mind right off the bat is Quantum Leap and Sliders. Most of the people I know never even heard of Sliders but it was one of my favorite shows for a while. X-men is also considered Sci-fi even though about everyone's seen those by now, but X3 comes out next month so a good time to watch the other 2. Stargate was another good movie as well.
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hmm alot of good stuff has been named so far but I think yall are missing some good stuff from the land of the rising sun,
Movies:
Princess monoko (sp?)
Spirited Away
Ghost in the Shell
Series:
Cowboy Beebop
Inuyasha
Evangelion series
Ghost in the shell: Stand alone complex & 2nd gig
Samurai Champloo
just to name a few 
there's lots more but those are the only ones that I can think of off the top of my head
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Hehehe Blakes 7. One of our Brits not too bad shows. Yeh I can see that it was similar to Firefly but a much cheaper budget. LOL. Another 2 cult Brit Shows you may be interested in are Space 1999 and UFO. They are Gerry Anderson, however no puppets here they are both live action and alot darker than his usual kiddy stuff. Also they both have killer theme tunes :)Oh yeh and of course RED DWARF and Spaced
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Originally posted by kilgoretrout:
What about Taken it wasnt to bad and other people have said itbut Blade runner always blade runner, get bit drunk watch it and all of a sudden its full of the most incredible symbolgy on mans search for god so well worth it. Its a classic cant be beat.Oh yeah and a flim that i cant remember name where its a western theme park where people have gun battles with robots that always lose but one of them goes crazy its a classic(sorry can someone help with the name)hey what about comic films xmen ect expand the geekdom horizions.
(akira and ghost in the shell for manga sc fi)
The film is called Westworld. A Michael Crichton film. It stars Yul Brynner as the android gunslinger. His total dialogue consists of 'get this boy a bib' and 'Draw' .lol. It's about a Theme park in the future called Westworld, 1 of 3 (the other 2 are Medieval World and Roman World). The whole Theme park is inhabited by Androids who go berserk and start killing the humans and the creators are unable to shut them down. Brilliant film. So good The Simpsons have payed homage to it in more than 1 episode. The most noticeable is when the simpsons go to Itchy and Scratchy land and just like in Westworld all the robots go berserk. There was a follow up to it called Futureworld but it was never as good. I mentioned it in work the other day and I was disgusted to hear that nobody had heard of it. That's no surprise none of them have even heard of Serenity :( On the bottom of my Email signature I have 'Can't Stop the Signal'. My manager asked me what it meant. So I tryed to explain. In the end I had to remove it. He didn't ask me to but I knew he didn't approve :(
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I think all the good series have been mentioned, but I'll plug Blake's 7 again. Avon was a sort of Jayne. Disruptive, treacherous, sell you out in a heartbeat, highly intelligent criminal mastermind (Ok, maybe a little divergence, there...), but cool and likeable. Servelan had probably the greatest haircut in Science Fiction. And she was hot.
Old Doctor Who. The Talons of Weng Chiang. Cracker. And it had Leela in it, being well 'ard. However, don't come whining to me about its non-PC-ness. I will accept criticism of the giant rat, though...
Comic Book heroes. Pretty badly served, apart from Batman and Spiderman. I thought Hellboy was great.
Werewolves. Dog Soldiers and Ginger Snaps are good variations. Dusk Till Dawn will leave you sorted for vampires and strippers.
Moving on to British (although not exclusively) stuff.
See if you can find a BBC series called Campion. Totally brilliant. 1920s Detective stories by Margery Allingham, who completely kicks Agatha Christie'a arse on every possible level, walks off, changes her mind and goes back to give her a real doing.
Tutti Frutti, if you can find it. 1980s Glasgwegian rockers. Funniest thing ever.
Amelie. Will make utter saps of all of you. And you won't mind a bit.
Invasion. Not the interminable boring contemporary one. This was a British effort a few years back. Really, really bleak.
Space Above and Beyond gets my vote. Pretty much perfect except for Vanson's lips. That could just be me, but collagen implants give me the shuddering horrors. And on a Marine...
The Avengers.
Adam Adamant. Your basic Edwardian adventurer frozen by arch-enemy. He thaws out in the swinging sixties.
Edge of Darkness. Top-notch conspiracy stuff with golf.
The Book Group.
Coupling. Learn lots about The Sock Gap and The Melty Man.
Green Wing and A Very Peculiar Practice. Off the wall medical dramas. Way, way off the wall. All the way over there. Almost out of sight. Here, you can borrow my binoculars if you want.
The Coen Brothers.
Christopher Guest's stuff.
And you'll surely be after watchin' every episode of Father Ted with a pot of tea. Go on. Go on go on go on go on.
Feck! Arse! Girls! Drink! Never has a priest spoken wiser words.
That's me for now.
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