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Planet Earth (1974) IMDb TMDB
Planet Earth
director: Marc Daniels actor: John Saxon / Janet Margolin
other title: Planète Terre
The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 20th-century scientist awakened from suspended animation - just the "breeder" a Confederacy dominatrix has been waiting for! Can Hunt defy the Confederacy and free his downtrodden fellow males, or is he doomed to slavery on Planet Earth? A sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II.
River: The Timeloop Hotel (2023) NeoDB TMDB Skybridge Douban WikiData IMDb
リバー、流れないでよ
8.2 (8 ratings) director: Junta Yamaguchi actor: Riko Fujitani / Yuki Torigoe
other title: River / River - The Timeloop Hotel
The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again. The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop!
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB
狂い咲きサンダーロード
director: Gakuryu Ishii actor: Koji Nanjo / Tatsuo Yamada
other title: 狂い咲きサンダーロード / 狂雷街区
When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend.
Laserhawk (1997) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Laserhawk
250 million years ago, a carnivorous species 'planted' a crop of humans on an uninhabited planet known as Earth. Now, the alien life form has returned to harvest its yield. With total destruction looming just moments away, a futuristic warrior and a prophetic mental patient join forces against the creatures, but with mortal weapons no match for the superior alien technology, the duo's only hope for victory lies in finding a 250 million year-old spaceship known as Laserhawk. The future of the world depends on it.
Beginning of the End (1957) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Beginning of the End
5.0 (5 ratings) director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Peter Graves / Peggie Castle
other title: Le Début de la fin
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
The Mysterians (1957) IMDb TMDB WikiData
地球防衛軍
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa
other title: I misteriani / Os Bárbaros Invadem a Terra
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
July 27, 2026 watched
Some impressive footage but long stretches of not much happening, and missed opportunities to explore some of the ideas: e.g. would we sacrifice others to save ourselves?

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon
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Waterworld (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge
Waterworld
6.2 (6 ratings) director: Kevin Reynolds actor: Kevin Costner / Dennis Hopper
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Solarbabies (1986) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Solarbabies
director: Alan Johnson actor: Richard Jordan / Jami Gertz
other title: I guerrieri del sole / Solarfighters
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
Sleeper (1973) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Sleeper
director: 伍迪·艾伦 actor: 伍迪·艾伦 / 黛安·基顿
other title: 傻瓜大闹科学城 / Il dormiglione
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
The Iceman Cometh (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
急凍奇俠
director: Clarence Fok actor: Yuen Biao / Yuen Wah
other title: Les Guerriers du temps / Espadas a través del tiempo
When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-Ching sets out to capture vicious rapist Fung San, both men end up falling into a glacier to be frozen in time. Thawed out by scientists over 300 years later, the confused guard must learn to cope with the modern world and continue in his quest to vanquish his opponent.
Crash and Burn (1990) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Crash and Burn
director: Charles Band actor: Paul Ganus / Megan Ward
other title: Distruzione totale / Kampf der Roboter
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".
Futuristic Google Books Goodreads Open Library
author: Mark Voger / Bill Gaines (Illustrator) publishing house: TwoMorrows Publishing 2025 - 10
Blast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities... and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and '60s pop culture from the "duck and cover" era of the Cold War, the Space Race, the UFO Craze, and the 1969 moon landing. Read about the movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), TV shows (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, The Jetsons), and collectibles (robots, rockets, comic books, TV tie-ins) that had us looking to the stars. Also featured are interviews with such comic book creators as William Gaines, Joe Orlando, Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, and Larry Lieber about their sci-fi work, plus recollections from sci-fi movie stars (Kevin McCarthy, Peter Graves, Linda Harrison), TV cast members (from shows including Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Invaders), and others. A graphically immersive experience written and designed by Mark Voger (Monster Mash, Zowie!), Futuristic is a time trip to a future that never exactly came to pass, but lives on vividly in our imaginations!
Past Perfect (1996) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Past Perfect
director: Jonathan Heap actor: Eric Roberts / Laurie Holden
other title: Todesschwadron aus der Zukunft
In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective to try to save him from the same fate.
Alternative 3 (1977) TMDB IMDb
Alternative 3
director: Christopher Miles actor: Tim Brinton / Gregory Munroe
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
Runaway (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway
director: Michael Crichton actor: Tom Selleck / Cynthia Rhodes
other title: Døden løber løbsk / Runaway - Spinnen des Todes
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
In the Year 2889 (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
In the Year 2889
director: Larry Buchanan actor: Paul Petersen / Quinn O'Hara
other title: En el año 2889
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.
June 15, 2026 watched
Dull, absurd but not the fun kind, and never even comes close to the year 1989, let alone 2889.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Giant Claw (1957) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Giant Claw
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Jeff Morrow / Mara Corday
other title: Il mostro dei cieli / O Ataque Vem do Polo
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.