The Best Sci-Fi Film Never Made

[dps]

Is Gor the series like Conan except it's got spaceships and more sex?

Roughly, yeah, though the space travel in most of them is just there as a way to get the main character to Gor in the first place.

I thought it actually started out OK (keeping in mind that I formed that opinion when I was a teen-ager), but as jamesww pointed out, later on it pretty much dropped any exploration of other ideas in favor of just giving vent to misogyny.

[grumbler]

Is Gor the series like Conan except it's got spaceships and more sex?

Norman is nowhere near the writer Howard was, but his stories are somewhat better-fleshed-out and inter-related (in at least the first five or so books) and the action was not so pulpy.  I do recall long monologues about trivia, so I would argue that the books were quite un-Conan-like and more like Piers Anthony.  Later books (maybe after six or eight) got into pages-long paragraphs, which definitely was not Conan-like.

[jamesww]

Is Gor the series like Conan except it's got spaceships and more sex?

Norman is nowhere near the writer Howard was, but his stories are somewhat better-fleshed-out and inter-related (in at least the first five or so books) and the action was not so pulpy. I do recall long monologues about trivia, so I would argue that the books were quite un-Conan-like and more like Piers Anthony.  Later books (maybe after six or eight) got into pages-long paragraphs, which definitely was not Conan-like.

This.

I swear i must have read the detailed explanation of the gorean slave lock in at least every third book.

[Scipio]

I thought there were two Gor movies.

[jamesww]

I thought there were two Gor movies.

No, you're thinking of the one made in Money's basement. 

[Scipio]

I thought there were two Gor movies.

No, you're thinking of the one made in Money's basement. 

No, I'm right: Gor, and Outlaw of Gor.

Money of Gor was to be the third movie, but I had to spend the budget on Oreos and Crisco (don't ask).

[Caliga]

I watched some of Outlaw of Gor (MST3K) on YouTube last night.

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[DontSayBanana]

I watched some of Outlaw of Gor (MST3K) on YouTube last night.

Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot!

Seriously.  For the first 15 minutes.  At least thanks for helping me find the episode where the Fabio gag was from.

[Caliga]

At first I thought his nerdy sidekick was Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.

[Strix]

I am surprised they haven't made the Honor Harrington series into movies. It would have a ton of action and feature a strong female character.

[grumbler]

I am surprised they haven't made the Honor Harrington series into movies. It would have a ton of action and feature a strong female character.

They'd rather make remakes of movies which inevitably suck compared to the original.  Yeah, it's a mystery to me as well.  I'd do The Mote in God's Eye first (could get lots of press because it implies that birth control is a good thing and the fundies would take the entire movie as an attack on their various beliefs) but On Basilisk Station second.

[Tonitrus]

And a Honor Harrington novel being turned into a movie wouldn't have to cut much out, as just dispensing of the pages that deal with explaining "weapon system X" or "societal/political tangent Y" would compress them nicely. 

Though a six-legged cat could awkward, special-effects wise.

[Eddie Teach]

And a Honor Harrington novel being turned into a book wouldn't have to cut much out,

[Tonitrus]

And a Honor Harrington novel being turned into a book wouldn't have to cut much out,

Sleepy.

[Razgovory]

A lot of science fiction wouldn't make very good film.  Good science fiction explores ideas, be they scientific, sociological, or philosophic.  Heinlein's Starship Troopers is excellent example of this.  The novel is mostly concerned with political philosophy while the film is concerned with killing giant bugs (the political stuff is limited to some vaguely fascist militaristic society they all live in).