As opposed to the movie where Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura betray Kirk after getting a little Vulcan psychobabble? And that ends with the our heroes singing “Row, row, row the boat”?

The horror, the horror . . . . :)

The Voyage Home is my second-favorite Trek movie, after KHAN. It always leaves me with a smile on my face.

With THE FINAL FRONTIER being the bottom of the barrel?

Nice article, although I would argue that The Original Series was more optimistic than “utopian.” Yes, it was a future you might actually want to live in, and where humanity had succeeded in overcoming many of its old problems and prejudices and made it to the stars, but we never actually visited the “utopian” Earth…

Yep. I first saw it in Cinerama during its original release and watched it in wide-eyed wonder, even if the trippy ending completely flew over my little nine-year-old head. Many years later, I caught up with it again during a theatrical screening in college and . . . whoa, I was caught up in the whole cosmic scope of…

Regarding FORBIDDEN PLANET, it should be noted that despite the black-and-white publicity still shown above (which is not actually from the movie), FORBIDDEN PLANET is very much in glorious Technicolor.

Just in case that matters to anyone.

If we’re talking #corrections (am I doing this newfangled “hashtag” thing right?), the annoying proofreader in me can’t help pointing out that Charlton Heston’s name is misspelled in the Planet of the Apes entry.

Glad to see POTA listed, though. Possibly my favorite sf movie of all time. It’s basically the world’s…

In my opinion, 2001 isn’t really meant to be seen on the small screen. It’s an experience, not a conventional narrative, so you need to experience it on a big screen as intended. If you’re in the right frame of mind, it’s awesome, but I can’t imagine watching it on Netflix or, god help us, your phone . . . .

Nice list, with a decent selection of older movies as well. One of my pet peeves is “Best of” movie lists that consist largely of films made after 1975 or later, aside from maybe one or two token older films.

I probably would have included at least one George Pal film (The Time Machine? The War of the Worlds?) and…

And let it be noted that Sons of the Serpent have been running around Marvel Comics since 1966, usually as some sort of racist hate group, so this is nothing new.

Not sure it was Lugosi’s call. Lord knows he was already stuck doing low-budget horror movies in the forties. Playing Dracula again would have been a step up at that point in his career, especially for a major studio like Universal.

Story-wise, I actually have this pet theory that “Count” Dracula is a title that…

Interesting, but I’m not sure I agree. Cotten’s character is supposed to be this naive, clueless American who is in way over his head. He’s not supposed to be remotely street-smart. He’s an amateur bumbling around in the dark, thinking he’s the hero of the story—and he doesn’t even get the girl in the end.

Harry Lime,…

A few more: No offense to Lee Meriwether, but even as a kid it bugged me that the 1966 BATMAN movie didn’t have the “real” Catwoman, by which, of course, I mean Julie Newmar . . . .

And whose bright idea was it to cast John Carradine as Dracula in the later Universal movies instead of Bela Lugosi?

Have you read the recent Star Trek/Planet of the Apes crossover comic book? Taylor and Kirk end up coming to blows in an epic battle between Heston and Shatner.

If only we could have seen that in real life! :)

It’s not exactly SF, but I will go to my grave wishing that Boris Karloff could have played “Jonathan Brewster” in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE as he did in the original Broadway production. Raymond Massey is fine in the movie version, but the whole joke is that Jonathan is a dead-ringer for Karloff, so casting Karloff…

Yeah, that bugged me, too. Ichabod supposedly recognizes Jack the Ripper’s M.O. and is able to discern a pattern stretching over centuries-even though the murders in Eton and Sleepy Hollow bear little or not resemblance to the actual Whitechapel murders, which involved mutilated prostitutes, not mysteriously bloodless…

Did I mention that there’s an audio version of my “52” novelization, too?

As it happens, there IS an audio version, available from Graphic Audio.

Thanks for asking!

I made them all: The Universal Monsters, the Dark Shadows models, the Planet of the Apes models, the Pirates of the Caribbean models, Mister Spock, Superman, Batman, and even Vampirella!

Ditto. Painting the models was half the fun. Why would you want a King Kong or Wolf Man that had a white glow-in-the-dark head? I always skipped the glow-in-the-dark option.