MERGING MOVIES

Its coming on Christmas and sci-fi films will be on the telly.

Some Sci-Fi films I've seen once but I'm unsure if I would watch them again. 

As a result of a single viewing they are starting to merge in my percolated mind.

Stargate is such a flick. I remember pharaohs and ancient Egypt and golden superbeings rocketing in on curved spacecraft. Kurt Russel is in there too dressed as a groomed Pentagonned Snake Plissken. There's lots of sand and sandstone and long zapping lances. I think the gate in the title was a spinning portal of some sort. The toy line in the shops included strange large animals like woolly rhinoceros but I don't recall them in the film. I wonder if the toys sold well?

Another fading film is The Fifth Element, which I may have seen twice over the years. I do remember more about it than Stargate. It involves a superbeing and much zooming round in a rocket taxi-cab driven by a disgruntled grizzled John McLane drafted in from Die Hard. There's a floating galleon called the Floss Plissken or something with a singer who looks like the Bib Fortuna Star Wars figure graced with the singing voice of an angel. An immensely annoying pop host cavorts around the space galleon as do huge lizard headed troopers doing dodgy cosmic deals with Gary Oldman. A slimy slithery creature is his oft-stroked pet I think. There's sand too.

Some Sci-Fi flicks remain stubbornly missing from my viewing pleasure despite having some of them on VHS. Dark Star, 12 Monkeys, Dark City and City of Lost Children.

Do you have merging flicks and missing films?