18. "I'll take it that this means you haven't seen the director's cut" In response to In response to 6
>First of all - and let me just get this out of the way - Blade >Runner sucks. So that's strike one.
he's also redone a 'final cut' that's coming out soon (apparently he was limited in the stuff he was able to put together for the director's cut). you should really check that out.
>There may be an argument here if it were possible to draw a >distinct line between now and a time where all sci-fi movies >were on par with 2001. But seeing as how that was never really >the case, I can't really clap to this.
yeah pretty much.
>Second - I find it hard to declare Sci-Fi dead when it seems >to be so damn popular. I realize that this is an attack on art >and not commerce, but come on. Popular culture has gotten a >LOT nerdier over the past 20 years and there are sci-fi >elements almost everywhere you look. Our action movies are all >sci-fi thrillers now. Our most popular TV shows have >superpowers, mad scientists and smoke monsters. Some might see >this as a negative thing, a retread and dilution of concepts >that were played out decades ago. Maybe so, but I see it as >more of a positive thing, an integration of sorts. And >attacking originality is such a slippery slope. There's the >whole 'there are no new ideas' thing for one. And plus, I >think it puts too much responsibilities on the storytellers to >focus on the wrong things. I think the audience has some >responsibility here as well to not be so damn jaded. It's not >always about seeing new things, but rather seeing things with >new eyes.
you could replace the words sci-fi with hip-hop in there and have this same argument in the lesson - LOL.
>I do agree that great Sci-Fi depends on ideas and not effects. >Sometimes you get both, and I will actually defend The Matrix >as an example of this. Then there's stuff like Pi and Primer, >films that are able to blow minds on a shoestring budget. And >they will always be the minority, it doesn't mean Sci-Fi is >dead. It just means that the good shit is hard to come by. >That's why it's called the good shit.
good call on Pi. haven't seen Primer, I'll have to check that out.