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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Dec 28, 2015 20:57:17 GMT -5
Blade Runner is awesome. What I like in Sci-Fi movies is the presentation of the universe they try to create, Oblivion is one such movie that I really like mostly for its aesthetic. Although there is a plenty of Sci-Fi now in film, I could do with more outrageous Space Sci-Fi that pushes into Fantasy boundaries rather than the current crop of 'real' sci-fi like Interstellar and The Martian. I enjoyed Ex Machina though which gave room for thought. Might thrown in a list of sci-fi movies I dislike later
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 28, 2015 21:16:17 GMT -5
Honestly, when discussing sci-fi, I think it's appropriate to seperate it into it's two types.
You have Fantasy Sci-Fi, the likes of Star Wars, that are really just fantasy with fancy technology and/or space. You can tell good stories there, the science-fiction is just a veneer, not really that necessary of an element. It's perfect fine as a genre, and honestly I thikn they tend to make more successful movies.
Speculative Fiction is where sci-fi has found itself to be more prescient. It's the likes of Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison. It's where Pre-Abrams Star Trek tended to reside, where they were more stories about ideas than action sequences with laser pistols. That's where things like The Martian and Interstellar belong, and they seem to devote a lot more into actually making their stories believable.
There's such a wide swatch of movies on these two sections that talking about "sci-fi" is difficult. In many ways, it's not even a genre, but a setting, simply using future technology to tell a story rather than trying to evoke any particular emotion like most genres do.
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Post by wakko on Dec 28, 2015 23:22:24 GMT -5
More a blend of horror and sci fi than purely sci fi, but I add Event Horizon to this conversation.
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Post by ERON on Dec 29, 2015 9:58:09 GMT -5
Sci-fi has always been my favorite genre. The Red Scare/atom bomb inspired flying saucer and giant monster movies of the 1950s are my favorite subgenre of sci-fi. 2001: A Space Odyssey is my favorite movie of all time. The original Star Wars trilogy and the original Planet of the Apes series are my favorite sci-fi franchises. I also love the post-Star Wars, pre-Jurassic Park era - Terminator, Alien, Predator, RoboCop, Blade Runner, Mad Max, etc.
On the small screen, my favorite live action show was Buck Rogers and my favorite cartoon was Transformers. Other childhood sci-fi favorites were Knight Rider, SilverHawks, MASK, Space Ace, Thundarr the Barbarian, and the Space Stars anthology series with Space Ghost, Teen Force, and Herculoids. Later on, I got into Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Doctor Who.
As far as literature goes, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Phillip K. Dick are among my favorite authors. I also enjoy sci-fi comics like Green Lantern, Captain Atom, Nova, Legion of Superheroes, and Silver Surfer. Not to mention old sci-fi anthology comics from the '50s and '60s like Mystery In Space and Space Adventures.
Some sci-fi video games that are on my short list of all-time favorites are Super Metroid, Galaga, and Captain Commando.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Dec 29, 2015 11:48:53 GMT -5
I do love this video of space in film tribute that uses the mountains track from Interstellar and has Anthony Hopkins recite Do not go gentle into that good night. Epic stuff.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Dec 29, 2015 23:59:24 GMT -5
Honestly, when discussing sci-fi, I think it's appropriate to seperate it into it's two types. You have Fantasy Sci-Fi, the likes of Star Wars, that are really just fantasy with fancy technology and/or space. You can tell good stories there, the science-fiction is just a veneer, not really that necessary of an element. It's perfect fine as a genre, and honestly I thikn they tend to make more successful movies. Speculative Fiction is where sci-fi has found itself to be more prescient. It's the likes of Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison. It's where Pre-Abrams Star Trek tended to reside, where they were more stories about ideas than action sequences with laser pistols. That's where things like The Martian and Interstellar belong, and they seem to devote a lot more into actually making their stories believable. There's such a wide swatch of movies on these two sections that talking about "sci-fi" is difficult. In many ways, it's not even a genre, but a setting, simply using future technology to tell a story rather than trying to evoke any particular emotion like most genres do. That first descriptor is accurate and I rarely even fully label such films "sci-fi." Star Wars is a Western first and foremost. It's a sci-fi-ish backdrop, but it's a Western at its core. It's a post-revisionist take on the genre. Your second definition of sci-fi is what I tend to label "sci-fi." Even if someone wants to argue that Star Wars isn't a product of the Western genre first and foremost, then I contend that it's at least more "Action/Adventure" than Sci-Fi.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Jan 5, 2016 12:30:07 GMT -5
Sci-Fi Tv Shows
What's coming out that might be good? Tried The Expanse and found it dull, Dark Matter was amusing and Defiance was just badly plotted/paced.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 5, 2016 12:37:05 GMT -5
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is excellent.
the Trilogy of Five book is great (well personally the last book is not nearly as good as the first four but still)
Never saw the movie but the 6 episode version the BBC did in the 80's is also really nice... and I love that Douglas Adams decided that every time he retold the story he would change it in some way.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jan 5, 2016 18:31:58 GMT -5
ha saw HHGtoG on broadcast, that's how old I AM! saw the movie and rather enjoyed it, pity they don't have a sequel to it, can't imagine how they'd do the restaurant at the end of the universe and martin freeman ain't doin nuthin now since the hobbit finished as for EX MACHINA, rather nice tech demo but really??? THAT FOR AN ENDING??? NO
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