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Schwarzenegger’s Best Sci-Fi Movie Is Actually A Stallone Movie
Sylvester Stallone is an action god. Rambo, Cobra, Cliffhanger, he basically invented the modern muscle-bound hero who punches first and …
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How The 2000s Raunchiest Comedy Erased Nerds
The year is 2004, and audiences are buying tickets to have a laugh at the expense of a boy named …
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The Sci-Fi Masterpiece Rejected For Being Too Hardcore
Dredd is another in a long line of movies that, for one reason or another, failed to find a theatrical audience despite being fantastic.
The 24 Best Sword & Sorcery Movies Of All Time, Ranked
The fantasy genre is too often overlooked, and it’s time that changed. Some of the best movies ever made have …
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Rated-R, Raunchy, And Toxic: The Movies That Cracked Men’s Brains
The end of World War I was a mess. Soldiers flooded home, without jobs, and with nothing to do. Veterans …
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Hollywood Destroyed The Best 80s Sci-Fi By Turning It Into DMV Star Wars
The 1980s were the golden era for Saturday Morning Cartoons. Half-hour animated spectacles that were commercials in disguise, carefully constructed …
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The Controversial, R-Rated Sci-Fi Thriller That’s Better Than The Book
In 2006, the Wachowskis, the minds behind The Matrix, poured the proceeds of their success into a lie. A lie they …
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How Spielberg’s Team-Up With Michael Jackson Destroyed A Fantasy Icon
The 1990s belonged to Steven Spielberg. Having established himself as the most bankable director in Hollywood with movies like Raiders …
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The R-Rated Crime Thriller Viewers Can’t Stop Watching, And How It Created Madness
screenwashed (adjective) — When something seen on a screen completely changes how someone thinks or feels, as if their old beliefs were erased and replaced by what they just saw.
18 Most Extremely R-Rated, Ultra-Graphic, Sci-Fi TV Shows
There was a time when watching sci-fi on television meant keeping things PG-13, and only in movies could you see …
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Forget Star Wars, These Sci-Fi’s Are Better And Capture The Same Vibe
Star Wars used to be the end-all, be-all in space sci-fi, but in the years since the original trilogy, others …
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The Movie That Turned Male Rage Into A Trap
Noted cartoonist and persuasion expert Scott Adams pioneered the concept of two movies on one screen. Two Movies On One Screen …
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The Iconic 80s SF No One Dares Remake, And How It Was Destroyed By Rot
Ask someone to name the most popular action shows of the 80s, and chances are you’ll hear Miami Vice, A-Team, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., …
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The Rejected Gen X Movie That Cracked The Millennial Brain
Not every movie that attempts to screenwash its audience succeeds right away. Sometimes, the agenda being pushed is so outlandish …
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Ranking The 15 Best One-Season Sci-Fi Shows
Science fiction is a risky business, and more often than not, that risk does not pay off. The result is a …
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How Star Trek Was Destroyed: The Full History Of Its Modern Ruination
Star Trek has never been at a lower point. The franchise’s last batch of shows received almost no ratings, and …
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The 15 Most Extremely Graphic Superhero Movies Ever Made
Superheroes are usually dismissed as being for kids, but that’s never been true. Some of the wildest, craziest scenes ever …
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The Beloved Sci-Fi Series Destroyed By Battlestar Galactica
The 1990s were a golden age for science fiction, but even in the decade of infinite space awesomeness, no one …
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Star Trek’s 10 Best Shows, Ranked
Debate over the current state of Star Trek is always raging, but because there’s been so much Star Trek made …
The Must-See 1970s Series Responsible For Modern Sci-Fi And Marvel’s Best Movies
The two most popular sci-fi franchises in the world, Star Trek and Star Wars, tackle the genre from opposite directions; …
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The Sci-Fi That Failed Twice And Demands A Third Chance
No other genre falls victim to early cancellation more often than science fiction. Networks are notoriously impatient with anything that …
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How Leonardo DiCaprio Made Evil Look Acceptable
People don’t just want to belong, they need to. Rejection isn’t treated by the brain as a metaphorical pain; it …
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How A Movie Destroyed Sci-Fi’s Greatest Story By Being Good
Some of the best science fiction ever written has never been adapted into a feature film, specifically because it’s so …
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The Movie That Broke The Boomer News Brain
Americans used to believe the news was unbiased, and, whether that was ever true or not, for a long time, …
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The Sci-Fi Space Ship So Totally Inappropriate, It’d Get Everyone Involved Cancelled Today
You can tell a lot about someone by asking them their favorite spaceship. Ask 100 sci-fi fans, and you’ll get …
23 Sci-Fi Shows From The 1980s That Are Actually Still Worth Watching
The 1980s were a foundational piece in building what would become Sci-Fi’s golden age in the 1990s. Star Wars had …
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How The All-Time Greatest Trilogy Was Saved From Hollywood Destruction
In the early twenty-teens, Hollywood was flying high off a decade of cinematic successes. The future had never been brighter, …
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The Sci-Fi Spinoff That Destroyed Our Chance At A Franchise To Rival Star Wars
New space science fiction shows rarely catch fire right away. Star Trek was infamously cancelled after three seasons due to …
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The Movie That Trapped A Generation In Adolescence
During World War 2 millions of American men were forced to march in lockstep to their death. Whether you think …
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Ranking The 13 Best Alien Invasion Movies Of All-Time
Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we’re …
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