August 30, 2007
Sci-fi films are as dead as Westerns, says Ridley Scott

"He was the director of two of the most critically acclaimed science fiction films, but now Sir Ridley Scott believes that the genre is so tired and unoriginal that it may be dead.

At the Venice Film Festival for a special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley said that science fiction films were going the way the Western once had. “There’s nothing original. We’ve seen it all before. Been there. Done it,” he said. Asked to pick out examples, he said: “All of them. Yes, all of them.”

The flashy effects of recent block-busters, such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell tickets, but Sir Ridley believes that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey."

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2351086.ece

Do, what does PTP think? Is Sci-fi cinema dead? Or is Sir Ridley Scott just trying to stir up shit for his new Blade Runner re-edit?

My take on this is that it's less about good SF getting made but more about an out dated studio system restricting new ideas.