Things I learned from 1980s scifi movies.

Jenny Agutter looks great in a nurse’s uniform.

(Yeah, I know AAWIL isn’t a sci-fi movie, but we can stretch the category a bit for her, can’t we?)

Don’t cross the streams!

As bad as the original Battlestar Galactica series was, it could be worse. Much, much worse. No, really. Scary worse.Ed Woods worse.

That’s 90s fantasy/horror! Shenanigans!

In any case, the lesson to learn here is never put your lives in the hands of an idiot, even if he did pass high-school metalshop.

Teenage whizz kids never need to use a mouse when hacking,just type incredibly fast.

When a computer is trying to kill you it will always have a nice, reasonable sounding, fluffy voice.

Percussive maintenance works in souped-up YT-1300 light space freighters.

It is to be expected that when sentient beings from different planets converse with one another, each will speak in its own language and yet neither will have any difficulty understanding the other.

Sons’a…you’re right. But I couldn’t remember what the guy on the recording said to open the wormhole in Evil Dead II. Bummer.

I also noticed after posting that one of my movies was released in '77, so it really shouldn’t count either. But it could be said that Han’s “only in it for the money” front is continually dismantled by the other two movies, too, so maybe I’m OK.

The only way to win is not to play the game. (War Games 1983)

Don’t ever get a computer angry with you, or you’ll get derezzed and wind up stuck inside it.

•It’s possible to “transfer” programs and data between computers, rather than merely copying the information to a different computer, and deleting the original afterwards. This both eliminates uncomfortable philosophical issues when transferring AIs and “scanned” humans, and makes information theft much easier and convenient.

•It’s perfectly acceptable, and in fact may be indicative of good character, for women to take hairstyling cues from Irish Setters.

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If you see a helicopter full of Norwegian scientists trying to shoot a dog, for God’s sake – help them do it!

You might be right. I was torn between Norwegian and Swedish. I’m about 51% sure they were Norwegian.

“They’re not Swedish, Mac. They’re Norwegian.”

You’ve been whooshed.

Space is noisey! Starships sound like an old-out of tune radio!
Plus, nobody uses bathrooms in the starships.

Always remember–Flash will save every one of us. Every one of us!!! Wow.

Why they haven’t called in Flash on the economy is a mystery to me.

Without Queen for the backing vocals, he ain’t got no mojo.