The Internet has taken our entertainment opportunities from naught to absolutely spectacular over the last few decades. We can now watch latest movies online for free, download Hollywood movies and music from all languages at the behest of a few clicks. And we haven’t even started on the note of social networking sites. With such a plethora of entertainment opportunities at our disposal, one is but drawn into the world of movies, what with the great number of free online movies, where abound many a great motion pictures and still many unscripted stories that never saw the light of the day. I am going to deal expressly with the science fiction genre here. 1. Vincent Ward's Alien 3: Having rejected a script by sci-fi author William Gibson, the producers of the Alien franchise planned to follow James Cameron’s â€Vietnam in space†Aliens with an ambitious, arty third installment by Vincent Ward, the visionary New Zealand-born director of The Navigator and, more recently, The River Queen. A planet made of wood, and spaceships modeled on clipper ships, were just two of the strange ideas in Ward’s approach. Unfortunately, Fox went with another unorthodox director, David Fincher. 2.Superman -vs. - Batman: The movie, a script by Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker in which Gotham’s caped crusader would face off against Metropolis’ Man of Steel was what Warner Brothers opted for as an alternative approach to their long-gestating revival of the Superman movie franchise. With pre-production in full swing under Troy director Wolfgang Petersen, the studio switched gears again, when a brand new script by Lost creator J.J. Abrams plonked onto their desks. Later they were to make the very disappointing Superman Returns. 3.Steven Spielberg's Night Skies: As a sequel to the smash hit Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg came up with the idea of a family attacked in their farm by malevolent extraterrestrials. In the script one of the invaders, he decided would befriend the farmer’s young son, and during the shooting of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg and Mrs. Harrison Ford †screenwriter Melissa Mathison †isolated this idea and turned it into the basis of what would be his biggest film, E.T. the Extraterrestrial. Spielberg didn’t abandon the family-in-peril idea, however: he simply altered the evil aliens into ghosts and produced another smash hit: Poltergeist. 4.John Carter of Mars: Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ other famous creation, John Carter, was an American civil war veteran who uses a form of astral travel to visit a Mars crawling with monsters. Twenty years after its 1912 debut in the pages of a pulp magazine, John Carter of Mars almost became the first feature-length animated film. Despite Bob Clampett’s stunning early animation tests, Disney abandoned the plans and made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs instead. You may watch it as a free movie online today, but John carter of Mars was and still is a league apart. 5.Star Trek: Planet of the Titans: The surprise success of the original Star Trek TV series in syndication, several years after its cancellation, led Paramount to consider a feature film outing for the original crew, with Invasion of the Body Snatchers director Philip Kaufman at the helm. Although Paramount ultimately shelved the project in 1977, the success of Star Wars a few weeks later prompted a rethink, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture †dubbed The Slow Motion Picture for its glacial pace †was born. Though we may never get to witness these totally awesome script turn into real motion picture, we may still take much wanted solace from watching movies online without downloading and imbibe the rest of the sensational stories that litter the movie portals.
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