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Topic: what do you think of new sci fi films?? (Read 4104 times)
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Scott
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Nemesis was... okay, at best. I enjoyed the two new Star Wars movies, but that's probably because I'm a total Star Wars nerd already (plus they're not TOTAL crap... you just need to learn to block out Jar Jar Binks in TPM and block out the really freakin' long Anakin and Padme scenes in AOTC..). But yeah, you're right, there hasn't really been a good new sci-fi flick in a while. The last really good one would be the Matrix, but I get the feeling you're thinking of of spaceship related sci-fi.
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Firefly was great, but the Nielson families want their westerns to be westerns and their Sci-Fi to be Sci-Fi. Never the twain shall meet.
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Unless it's anime. Trigun is cool s&%t.
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I enjoyed the two new Star Wars movies, but that's probably because I'm a total Star Wars nerd already (plus they're not TOTAL crap... you just need to learn to block out Jar Jar Binks in TPM and block out the really freakin' long Anakin and Padme scenes in AOTC..)
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Maybe I'm just getting old, but I posit that any movie that requires you to "block out" ANY scene for ANY reason in order to convince yourself that you enjoyed it is total crap.
You paid your money to be entertained, and the onus is on the filmmakers to do the job -- the only "work" that should be required from you is the occasional suspension of disbelief; for instance, when you see a spaceship or an alien or other such doesn't-really-exist foible onscreen. Anything else -- such as ignoring plot holes, wooden acting, inane dialog or tacked-on scenes -- is a disservice to yourself, and to movies in general, because NONE OF THAT SHOULD EVER HAPPEN IN A MOVIE. Not only should you focus on the bad parts, you should complain loudly about them, since the only way for filmmakers to stop producing crap is for people to stop putting up with it.
For the record: I used to be downright fanatical about Star Wars, but Episode I completely cured me. I didn't even waste my time seeing Episode II, but I did see the Yoda fight scene at a home theater demo; if that was the best scene in the movie, that movie must have sucked hard. Fortunately, Peter Jackson stepped up where George Lucas could not, and the Lord of the Rings series has (so far) revitalized my faith in moviemaking as entertainment.
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Cyamarin
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The fact is, not everybody is going to like every movie. If you think that any movie that has a part in it that you would have to overlook is total crap, you're depriving yourself of a great deal of enjoyment.
I loved the LOTR movies. There are some places where I think Peter Jackson handled the books poorly. But you know what? I blocked that out, and the movies were great.
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Cyamarin
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Besides, the other Star Wars movies had the same problems. Return of the Jedi was fine as long as you ignored the Ewoks. New Hope and Empire were fine as long as you ignored the plot inconsistencies that went between Episodes IV and V--when Lucas was still unsure whether he was going to make a trilogy or just one movie. And all three were great as long as you could ignore Luke's hairstyle. ^_^
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I didn't really think of Episode II as a movie. I thought of it more as a "string of really cool sequences that you always wanted to see held together by the thinnest of threads".
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Well, yeah. I mean, I watch porn too. I don't watch it when I'm looking for great cinema, I watch it when I feel like looking at people having sex. It's just in your expectations.
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Apparently, intelligent sci-fi is not "in".
