Ready to scratch your sci-fi itch? Well tune up your Delorean and grab your can of T-Rex repellent because the Milwaukee Public Museum has just the festival you’re looking for.
To coincide with the Alien Worlds & Androids exhibit, MPM is launching its first ever Sci-Fi Film Festival. The fest opens with the classic Jurassic Park on Thursday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 25. Jurassic Park is then followed by E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968’s Planet of the Apes, and Back to the Future. All of the films will be playing at its Dome Theatre. So whether or not you want to relive some childhood nostalgia with E.T. or witness Jeff Goldblum’s chiseled pecks in an all-encompassing movie screen, this fest has something for everyone.
There’s one more movie playing at the very end of the festival around Thanksgiving. What movie you ask? You decide! That’s right, viewers can go to the museum’s website and make a suggestion for the closing film for the fest. There’s no set critique on what to suggest, only that they’re looking for the “biggest Sci-Fi turkey of all time.”
I can only assume that this means they’re looking for the worst sci-fi B-movie that you can think of. Personally, I’m voting for Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. Not only is it sci-fi, but it’s just in time for the holiday shopping season.
If you throw in a suggestion, in the name of all that is holy, please don’t vote for Tim Burton’s remake of Planet of the Apes.