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Are you a fan of science fiction? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 400
9 Comments

  • Intomorrow - 11 years ago

    ...PS (just one more comment: promise),

    keep in mind when someone writes a marketable SF book, they might be keeping an eye fixed on a commercial Hollywood screenplay, which means product degradation; dumbing-down with for instance the standard scantily clad heroines and villainesses. Think Sigourney Weaver in her underwear at the end of Alien.
    Meatheads like that sort of thing-- and they also purchase tickets at theaters.

  • Intomorrow - 11 years ago

    "Often the they take a good idea but dumb down the details for the simpler minded."

    BTW, not merely for the simple-minded, but also for the lowest common,
    yet not unintelligent, denominator who enjoy exploitation films-- you can account for intelligence, not for taste. Say Donald Trump enjoys mediocre SF films, however
    perhaps not because he is simpleminded but because he grew up with mediocre SF or he wants to unwind with something less cerebral. Often, intelligent consumers want SF not to make them think deeper than they already do but rather to escape from reality altogether.

  • Intomorrow - 11 years ago

    "Often the they take a good idea but dumb down the details for the simpler minded."

    Yes, not all viewers are intelleckshuels.
    Not only are high budget (were talking hundreds of millions) SF films dumbed down, but also big budget non-SF, the scene in Ttitanic where the aged heroine (no, not aged-heroin) throws the diamond in the Atlantic comes to mind. That's Tinsel Town for you.

  • C - 11 years ago

    Science fiction has so much potential for film. I don't understand why there is so many big budget okay sci fi films and a handful really good films. Often the they take a good idea but dumb down the details for the simpler minded. There are so many science transhumanist themes they have not even touched on. I don't understand why they don't make more movies from books. There are some brilliant authors out there doing hard SF.

  • Alan Brooks - 11 years ago

    ..."the film didn't not explain it at all."

    The film did NOT explain the ending at all, only showed a giant baby filling the screen

  • Alan Brooks - 11 years ago

    2001 A Space Odyssey the film was the biggest disappointment for its ending:
    the book told the 'Star Child' ending well, while the film didn't not explain it at all.

  • CygnusX1 - 11 years ago

    PS. Prometheus sucks!

  • CygnusX1 - 11 years ago

    Agreed, an additional intermediate option would be preferable. Would class myself as a mostly TV/movies + some literary classics.

    Need to stimulate contemporary interest in NASA and space exploration - then bring back the Star Trek franchise, (still my favourite view of future technocracy)?

    Let us "see" some future scenario's involving renewable energy, Solar, geoengineering, augmentation, longevity, VR, space colonization?

  • Kennita - 11 years ago

    I think canon-master would lose some votess if there were an intermediate choice: visual and written, but a selection of each, not the whole kitten caboodle.

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