No bad movie has ever been redeemed by a decent sequel. Ever.
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Well, when Interstellar was coming out they went on and on about how they had Kip Thorne as a science adviser and implied that somehow the movie would actually have something vaguely resembling attention to reality. For a lot of us this was exciting because we don’t get much ‘hard’ Sci-Fi.
Maybe its that Interstellar talked a whole lot about being a hard-science film grounded in real physics, created a computer model to correctly and realistically model a black hole, hired world-famous physicists to consult on the film, and then took a giant shit on all that by alluding that Mathew McConaughey was able…
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I’m kinda really into this Franklin expedition, and I would like to totally vouch for this weird and awesome book and all the amazing work Simmons put into it. Heads up it’s horror fiction, not factual or based on a real theory of what happened, but the amount of research is amazing, and the book is beautifullying…
Saw the documentary. Whoa, boy. Superman Lives would have been....I don’t think there is a word in the English language that could properly explain how awful it would have been. Let’s just say, it would have made Batman and Robin look like The Dark Knight. After seeing the treatment, it made me appreciate Man of…
Whatever they were intending to do with 1313 before it got turned into a yawn by plugging Boba Fett into it could be something.
For sure, Gene Coon deserves a ton of credit — but reading those These Are the Voyages books that came out recently left me with an appreciation for how much hard work and rigor Roddenberry brought to the first couple years of TOS. He really was an important part of the show’s early succcess— from rewriting every…
But to be fair Harlan can be an ass at times and he still holds a grudge about how his original treatment for The City on the Edge of Forever got rewritten. So he might not be the fairest critic of Gene.
Fun fact - season three was influenced too much by the execs at Syfy who wanted more of a “story of the week” structure. Ergo why Season 3 felt so disjointed in parts. There were some amazing moments in Season 3, but they never really started to regain the momentum lost in the previous series until Season 4 and No Exit…
How else can we prepare humanity for the Europen invasion?
The ultimate difference between Fury Road and the other two films is that Fury Road is a passion project by a single man with a single vision (and a shitload of talent). Jurassic World and Genysis were made by committee out of a desire to make money.
William Gibson was the first SF writer I ever read who really described the future as something I could visualize with a terrifying clarity and immediacy, down to the supply-chain routing numbers stitched on the inside sleeve of a secondhand pressure suit. I first encountered Neuromancer in 1986 or ‘87 during my first…
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I’m not sure how much he revolutionized, but David Brin informed a lot about how I understand science-fiction, and Startide Rising is a great example of future-minded science fiction that has very little exposure. I count among my absolute favorites in the genre. I suppose I wish that the book had revolutionized more.
I think you mean Mary Shelley.
George Lucas has never liked this sort of thing. In 1990, he sued Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew because he called himself Luke Skyywalker. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-26/ent…
Hubbard wasn't so bad in his early days. This 1940 post-apocalyptic novel was pretty good, kind of like Things to Come without Welles' techno optimism.
Dhalgren? Really? I HAVE read it and found ZERO redeeming qualities. Poorly written and poorly conceived. I found my copy was missing a full 64 pages from the middle and didn't even notice they were gone.
OK, 1984 once again mentioned. Fahrenheit 451 is usually a big player on lists of "must reads." But can someone tell me why Brave New World consistently become forgotten in conversations about classic sci-fi that is awesome?