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Perhaps Not
09/15/09

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In the same vein as "The Book of Dave," I would recommend "A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Brisco_County_Jr
09/08/09

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Where's Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan?!
(A Brit in his bedclothes and a girl he met once at a party, Hitchhiker's Guide!)
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Grey_Area
09/08/09

@Brisco_County_Jr: As unlikely as the British are, they are not very interesting.
(Coffin Dodger's retort in 3... 2... 1...)
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Brisco_County_Jr
09/08/09

@Grey_Area: Is that why so many Americans don't watch Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Torchwood?
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joetato
09/08/09

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Mutants of 2051 AD is one of the great forgotten classics! MEGA-KUDOS for including it. The album of the soundtrack for Strange Brew explains what happens after the film breaks. Bob MacKenzie goes to a disco planet, and all the mutants go shopping. Completely wonderful! Thanks IO9!
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Allen_Richards
09/08/09

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Cheers to you, Charlie Jane! I don't think I've watched my copy of ROLLERBLADE in 20 years, easily. My friend Conrad Brooks worked for Don Jackson a number of times, and nobody made better 80's cheese than Don Jackson.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@Allen_Richards: I cherish my VHS copy of Rollerblade and would kill for a DVD copy. Greatest Movie Ever.
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Allen_Richards
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: I just checked eBay and saw that there's a Region 0 disc going for 11.99.

[dvd.shop.ebay.com]

Amazon has it for 24.00, and it appears to be the same disc. There's an item on that page that makes me think it might be a Canadian import similar to the Canadian release of BATTLE ROYAL that Netflix rents. IMBd doesn't list any recent U.S. distributors.

With Don Dead, I'm not sure who has control of the rights as he made a series of these films long after New World Pictures went under, the original distributor.
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Golem100
09/09/09

@Allen_Richards: Is this the one where the woman (nun?) in the wheelchair says something like "When we were young we would skate for fun, now we skate or die!"
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Allen_Richards
09/09/09

@Golem100: Yikes! It's been so long since i've seen it that I couldn't tel lyou. I'll ahve to do some serious unboxing to find my old vhs and give it a look.

Being that there's 4 films in the series, that line could potentially have come from any one of them.
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regis
09/08/09

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I was reading the description of "Rollerblade" and trying really hard to shoehorn it into what I remember of "Rollerball", and it JUST WOULDN'T WORK, not even if I tried to remember that horrible remake. (let us not speak further of it. ever.)

"Rollerblade" looks *awesome*. I wonder if any of Garen's sources can dig up a copy for the SF Movie Marathon this year.
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Allen_Richards
09/08/09

@regis: To the best of my knowledge, ROLLER BLADE has never been on DVD. You might be able to find the vhs on eBay. It was released by Good Times, who eventually became Anchor Bay. The more I think about it, it was one of those EP speed cheapie releases.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@Allen_Richards: I once saw a copy advertised on DVD for like $60 bucks but it seemed really scammy.
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DerwinPoe
09/08/09

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Whither Zardoz? I feel like Sean Connery in red patent leather lederhosen following the gospel of L. Frank Baum deserves a mention.
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Allen_Richards
09/08/09

@DerwinPoe: Holy fuck, dude. I just watched ZARDOZ for the first time last friday and had to pick my brains off the wall behind me after that trippy bitch completely blew my mind. I've seen some weird movies, but never one so far out there by such a well-respected director.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@DerwinPoe: Thing is, you would expect Sean Connery to survive the apocalypse. You just wouldn't expect him to wear that outfit.
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golddiggersof2033
09/08/09

@Allen_Richards: The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was.
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Allen_Richards
09/09/09

@golddiggersof2033: and now i've got the image of Sean Connery sporting a boner so big all the girls are giggling. thanks..
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Darklighter
09/08/09

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I think A Canticle for Leibowitz wins the "bits of cultural flotsam surviving" award.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

@Darklighter: I agree. If it didn't do it first, it certainly seems like it established the genre.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

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My goodness, the young Don Johnson was a beautiful kid, wasn't he?

I think I've seen all of these. HBO in the 80's was a fun thing to have.

I actually saw "Strange Brew" in the theaters (matinee price).
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Chip Overclock
09/08/09

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Am I alone in liking NIGHT OF THE COMET?
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m_faustus
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: Good Lord, no! Night of the Comet is one of those films from the late 80s-early 90s that will always be on my list of favorites. Back when they made cheap sci-fi movies that didn't completely suck. Night of the Creeps, Blood of Heroes, Split Second, Deep Star Six. Classics. Definitely E-Ticket attractions.
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it must be bunnies
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: "Daddy would have got us Uzis!"

You are not alone! One of my favourite 80's flicks.
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Grey_Area
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: Umm, no. It had Mary Woronov in it, duh! And that guy who was in Eating Raoul, wasn't he in some other science fiction thing?
Hmm, it's on the tip of my tongue...
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thufir_hawat
09/08/09

@Grey_Area: That would be a younger (though not necessarily younger looking) Robert Beltran.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@thufir_hawat: That still doesn't answer the question of what other science fiction thing he was in... it's on the tip of my tongue too... Scavenger? Dowager? Uh... it'll come back to me.
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disatess
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: no not at all, wish they make sci-fi like that again.
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thufir_hawat
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Thresholder?
Forager (a shout out to the fourth world)?
Or perhaps you are thinking about Manticore.
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m_faustus
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Ha! Star Trek: Dowager. Roaming the space ways solving interstellar disputes through arranged marriages and tea.
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Grey_Area
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Wasn't there a TV show called Voyeur? Something about a mission from the Federation of Space Perverts...probing may have been involved.
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Chip Overclock
09/08/09

@Grey_Area: Holy Cats! I'd completely forgotten that Beltran was in EATING RAOUL with Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel. Another one of my favorite movies. Yeah, Mary Woronov, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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astrogirl
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: It's one of my favs too. The 80s was a great time for cheesy scifi I must say!
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joetato
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: I'm in! Any flick that has zombies and valley girls with Mac 10s is ok by me. I also love the classic Buick Hector manages to find.
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Zyg
09/08/09

@Chip Overclock: love it
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franklinshepard
09/09/09

@Chip Overclock: I'm pretty sure I saw it on WB when I was 12 on a Saturday afternoon, and I was immediately hooked. I still have very fond memories of it, and I re-watch it every few years. I think a lot of people love it (well, obviously judging by these comments!)
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bluehinter
09/08/09

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No love for the 80's New Zealand sci-fi flick The Quiet Earth?

The main character's a balding scientist who wakes up one morning to discover that the project he was working on appears to have eradicated all other life on Earth, and does the only logical thing...

He breaks into the biggest mansion he can find, gorges himself on champagne and caviar, dresses up in woman's clothing and begins making Hitler-eque speeches to the army of famous historical figures cutouts he's set up in the garden.

He then goes on a destructive rampage, bursting into into a church, shooting the crucifix with a shotgun, and declaring that he is now God.

Man, if I ever inexplicably survive the end of the world, that's the first thing I'm going to do! (well, obviously second after busting into the local gun store)
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@bluehinter: We have ultimate love for Quiet Earth. When Annalee and I were in New Zealand recently, we bored everyone to tears talking about it...
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Chip Overclock
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Okay, so now you've got to write about any SFnal stuff (including LOTR-related) in New Zealand. Mrs. Overclock (etc.) and I are planning pre/post-WorldCon activities when it's in Melbourne in 2010. We already did a pretty good Australia tour the last time it was there. New Zealand is definitely on our radar screens.
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Grey_Area
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: "You tell lies!"
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Cash907Censored
09/08/09

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Don't forget, the red comet spared a young Chakotay too. He lived on to get the girl and save the day.
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Atomictao
09/08/09

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Buddy Holly in Six-String Samurai. I guess he's like the dinosaurs... you think he's dead, then he goes and survives an apocalypse.

"Only one man can kill this many russians. Bring his guitar to me!"

Also, while I'm quoting, Yor Hunter from the Future features the immortal chestnut: "DAMN YOU, TALKING BOX!"

I quote this line CONSTANTLY.
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Cash907Censored
09/08/09

@AtomicTao: "Bow before the weight of HEAVY METAL!"

I love that movie. I know it's horrible, but it's one of my most cherished DVD's.

The Red Elvises played the local state fair the year after it was released, and I got them to sign the cover.
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Atomictao
09/08/09

@Cash907Censored: I'm actually jealous.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

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what's the chihuahua from?!
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Grey_Area
09/08/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Mexico.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: He was from Hard Knuckle... I had to replace him with the cool image from Nite Of The Comet. But the original image is over at post-apoaclypse, and I link to it further down.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
09/08/09

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Why wouldn't you expect amazons with eye lasers to survive? In fact, how would you expect amazons to survive without eye lasers?
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/08/09

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I think the worst case scenario in both the Postman and Waterworld is Kevin Costners survival rate. How does that guy do it. On the one hand, he has his own ranch and he's a bit of a mans man...so he's handy to have around at the end of the world. On the other....if he survives, society will rebuild and Costner will be able to pen and direct another film like The Postman. Maybe after being saved by Costner, we could cover him in concrete and just worship him as a statue!! Hmm, just saying.
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wanion
09/08/09

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) WTF? The Postman was AWESOME!!! (compared to Waterworld, and only compared to Waterworld)
Do you really want something as permanent as a statue of Costner around your post-apocalyptic wasteland? Maybe you could just sculpt him out of butter?
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/08/09

@wanion: Either way, we would have to dispose of him after he saves us all. If we cover him in concrete, we not only get a statue of Costner..but the most lifelike one ever. Then we can write on it.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Best idea yet. Concrete Costner. Do we have to wait till after the apocalypse?
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@wanion: I feel that io9 should soon have a Kevin Costner butter statue contest.
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Charlie Jane Anders
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Winner has to eat all of them. And Kevin Costner judges it.
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/08/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Only if he's allowed to be held in the UK....opps!! lol
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Fine by me! Go for it!
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: This idea makes no sense. Yet, it is funny. So I support it. But shouldn't it be loser has to eat all of them?
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Dunny0
09/08/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Concrete Costner is gonna be my next bands name. Or it would be if I were the type to form bands.
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wanion
09/08/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I think if you put the time and effort into winning a contest by making the "best" butter Costner, then words like "winner" and "loser" no longer have meaning.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/08/09

@wanion: They have meaning -- everyone who enters is a loser.

But, point taken.
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