Untitled Sci-fi Show

SPOILERS AHEAD! Rob and Tom go to Pandora for Avatar (2009), and only one of them came back blue with love for it. Rob's verdict: James Cameron being James Cameron, gorgeous world, story's shit, could be cut in half. Tom rates the tech, the mech suit and the giant bomber, and isn't fussed about the plot either. Rob also spent the first ten seconds asking what the fucking blue things are called. (Narvi. Sorry, Na'vi. Zelda's fault.) We argue about Unobtainium (yes, it's a real term, Tom checked), Jake Sully being a selfish cock, the pilot who never fired a single missile, the military supply guy who would definitely notice, why the Na'vi have four fingers and humans five, and what a ponytail does in a moment of excitement. There's a wakey-wakey moment you can't unhear. We also cover Disney's Pandora, floating mountains held up by magnets, and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Before the film: Resident Evil (Rob thinks it's the film of the year, again), Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, a failed Watchmen rewatch, Rob's Pokemon Emerald ROM hack, Alien: Isolation, Resident Evil 2 and its puzzle-only mode, and Rob's tactical game disaster. Guess the Intro is back: six sci-fi AI voices, and Rob lets slip who picked them. Lastly, the boys are actually both happy with the next Roulette pull. Social Details : Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok with @_UntitledSci-fi and @_Channel84. Facebook, you can find us with Studio:Channel84. We are part of the Studio:Channel84 network and are featured on their site https://channel84.co.uk. Find all about our old episodes including all Guess the Intro answers and film scores over on https://untitledscifishow.co.uk/. Finally, why not e-mail us: Rob mailto://[email protected] TJ mailto://[email protected] Both Hosts mailto://[email protected] The Untitled Sci-fi Show and USS Shitshow intros were created by the fantastic Reed Reimer, Fable Factory. All of their contact info can be found below. https://fablefactory.org/ FB: @FableFactoryOrg IG: @fablefactoryorg TikTok: @fablefactoryorg Tw: @fable_org

The Untitled Roulette has spun and landed on 1997's Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more? Rob and Tom wade back into Paul Verhoeven's fascist bug hunt and find a film of two halves: nearly an hour of Sweet Valley High in space that had Rob begging for the bugs to show up, followed by some of the finest shooty-shooty sci-fi action ever put on film. Tom reckons it was secretly meant to be a six-part TV series, and honestly, once you hear the theory, the maths checks out. There's the long-overdue return of the budget quiz ($105 million well spent?), a plot rundown featuring thick-as-shit Johnny Rico, narcissistic Carmen (she flies it like a cunt), poor doomed Dizzy, psychic mini-SS-officer Neil Patrick Harris, the legendary Michael Ironside, and Aldi John Barrowman getting his brain sucked out in the best practical effect of the 90s. They get into why the effects still hold up, why Casper Van Dien can't shout from the chest, why Rico should never have pulled that claw out, and the body count of 256. The wives steal the show with the two questions that break the entire film: how is everyone breathing on Klendathu, and why not just nuke it from space? It's the eagles-to-Mordor problem all over again. Plus: the Helldivers 2 love letter, the IMDb shame of Starship Troopers 2 and 3, and a correction about last episode's correction. We don't do corrections. Also this episode: a video game edition of Guess the Intro crowns a winner, Tom pitches Mars bars for Klingons (ridged for her pleasure), Star Trek IV on the big screen, an empty cinema for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lee Cronin's The Mummy (new pants, anyone?), and why Tom unsubscribed from The Critical Drinker. Tom is thrilled with the next Roulette.... It's a long one, everyone. Sorry. Listening guarantees citizenship. Social Details : Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok with @_UntitledSci-fi and @_Channel84. Facebook, you can find us with Studio:Channel84. We are part of the Studio:Channel84 network and are featured on their site https://channel84.co.uk. Find all about our old episodes including all Guess the Intro answers and film scores over on https://untitledscifishow.co.uk/. Finally, why not e-mail us: Rob mailto://[email protected] TJ mailto://[email protected] Both Hosts mailto://[email protected] The Untitled Sci-fi Show and USS Shitshow intros were created by the fantastic Reed Reimer, Fable Factory. All of their contact info can be found below. https://fablefactory.org/ FB: @FableFactoryOrg IG: @fablefactoryorg TikTok: @fablefactoryorg Tw: @fable_org

Tom and Rob finally get around to watching one of the biggest science-fiction films of all time: Planet of the Apes (1968). After being randomly selected by Untitled Roulette, the original Planet of the Apes sends us into a world where astronauts crash-land on a mysterious planet... only to discover that the apes are in charge and humans are the primitive ones. But does this 1968 sci-fi classic still hold up? We talk about Charlton Heston's rather unpleasant protagonist, the film's famous twist, the surprisingly clever social commentary, the treatment of humans as animals, the different ape societies, religion versus science, segregation, the makeup and practical effects, the locations, the filmmaking and that Statue of Liberty ending. We also get distracted by guns that apparently don't have magazines, unnecessarily long spinning spaceships, terrible green-screen, old-school filmmaking techniques and the question of exactly how the hell the apes acquired assault rifles. And, naturally, we finish with another spin of Untitled Roulette — which reveals the film we're watching next. Social Details : Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok with @_UntitledSci-fi and @_Channel84. Facebook, you can find us with Studio:Channel84. We are part of the Studio:Channel84 network and are featured on their site https://channel84.co.uk. Finally, why not e-mail us: Rob mailto://[email protected] TJ mailto://[email protected] Both Hosts mailto://[email protected] The Untitled Sci-fi Show and USS Shitshow intros were created by the fantastic Reed Reimer, Fable Factory. All of their contact info can be found below. https://fablefactory.org/ FB: @FableFactoryOrg IG: @fablefactoryorg TikTok: @fablefactoryorg Tw: @fable_org #PlanetoftheApes #CharltonHeston #SciFiPodcast #Podcast

We've done something slightly different this time. After the last episode of The Variety Show with Tom and Rob saw Tom and Rob answer five questions about themselves, we've decided to continue the experiment over here on the Untitled Sci-Fi Show. This time, Rob is asking the questions — and Tom has absolutely no idea what he's letting himself in for. Across five questions we talk about the games we can never get bored of, the films we'll happily watch again and again, things that everyone else seems to love but we absolutely don't, where we'd go if we had a time machine, and finally which fictional universe we'd choose to live in. Naturally, things don't stay sensible for very long. We get deep into The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Tomb Raider, The Lord of the Rings, Constantine, Toy Story, Star Trek, Pokémon, The Terminator, Jurassic Park and plenty more. There's also a lengthy rant about reality TV, a rather passionate explanation of why football isn't heroic, some surprisingly depressing thoughts about travelling back to the 1990s, and an extended investigation into whether Pokémon trainers are basically running an underground animal-fighting racket. So basically, exactly the sort of intellectual discussion you've come to expect from us. This is Part 2 of our Five Questions special. If you haven't heard Part 1 yet, head over to The Variety Show with Tom and Rob and listen to the first five questions before joining us here. And don't worry — we'll be back to our normal sci-fi nonsense soon enough. Social Details : Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok with @_UntitledSci-fi and @_Channel84. Facebook, you can find us with Studio:Channel84. We are part of the Studio:Channel84 network and are featured on their site https://channel84.co.uk. Finally, why not e-mail us: Rob mailto://[email protected] TJ mailto://[email protected] Both Hosts mailto://[email protected] The Untitled Sci-fi Show and USS Shitshow intros were created by the fantastic Reed Reimer, Fable Factory. All of their contact info can be found below. https://fablefactory.org/ FB: @FableFactoryOrg IG: @fablefactoryorg TikTok: @fablefactoryorg Tw: @fable_org #UntitledSciFiShow #TomAndRob #Podcast #SciFiPodcast #FiveQuestions

This week we're diving headfirst into Repo Man (1984), and things get... weird. Really weird. We try our absolute best to explain what this cult sci-fi classic is actually about, debate whether it's genuinely a comedy, and wonder how a film can be so famous while leaving us completely baffled. Along the way we chat about Spider-Man, questionable children's TV, awful movie sound design, retro sci-fi classics, hair disasters, and why some cult films deserve their reputation... while others absolutely don't. We also tackle another round of Guess the Intro, somehow manage to identify every film, spin the Untitled Roulette wheel to decide next week's movie, and discover whether our luck has finally changed. If you enjoy honest movie reviews, cult sci-fi, nostalgic classics, terrible jokes and two mates arguing about films they probably shouldn't have watched, then you've found your people. All our show notes, review scores, Guess the Intro answers and even where to watch our feature films can be found on our podcast website! https://untitledscifishow.co.uk Social Details : Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok with @_UntitledSci-fi and @_Channel84. Facebook, you can find us with Studio:Channel84. We are part of the Studio:Channel84 network and are featured on their site https://channel84.co.uk. Finally, why not e-mail us: Rob mailto://[email protected] TJ mailto://[email protected] Both Hosts mailto://[email protected] The Untitled Sci-fi Show and USS Shitshow intros were created by the fantastic Reed Reimer, Fable Factory. All of their contact info can be found below. https://fablefactory.org/ FB: @FableFactoryOrg IG: @fablefactoryorg TikTok: @fablefactoryorg Tw: @fable_org #RepoMan #SciFiPodcast #CultMovies #MovieReview #ScienceFiction