Prometheus trailer

That's so true Sag. Aliens starts up and I'm convinced Ripley will be lone survivor yet again. Then Newt shows up and I think, "oh snap, wait a minute, now we need a father figure so Ripley gets her family back." I couldn't figure out who daddy was at all since Hicks reminded me too much of Dallas who i thought would die. Bishop surviving was a huge surprise. I never thought they'd keep him. Hicks was sort of corny to keep alive but I still liked the ending cuz it made sense.

I watched The Thing last night. One of John Carpenter's finest movies. Anyway, you could say that it was a science-fiction movie, because there is most definitely an alien from another world. But really The Thing is a horror movie. It's scary and gross, and beyond the usual fear, there is a palpable sense of paranoia. Aside from the blood test, there is no science that is especially pertinent to the story.

JonJacob wrote: Frankenstein is an early Sci-Fi story not because it happens in the 19th century without space or aliens, but because it takes a scientific idea of the time and applies it to a moral idea previously not considered.

Give Metropolis a try. Sure it's a silent film from the 20's, but its social struggle is still pertinent to today. It is a sci-fi movie, easily one of the very first.

ugh I hated Metropolis. It ripped off Snow White & The Huntsman in every single way

Black Barney wrote: ugh I hated Metropolis. It ripped off Snow White & The Huntsman in every single way

...using time travel technology to get the jump by several decades.

Shellhead wrote:

Black Barney wrote: ugh I hated Metropolis. It ripped off Snow White & The Huntsman in every single way

...using time travel technology to get the jump by several decades.

9 in fact... that really does make it the greatest sci-fi movie ever made then.

BB, can you explain or was that a joke? I'm lost.

San Defanso made a funny regarding Snow White & The Huntsman in his fun recent article (the one that comes up if you google "mediocrity in writing" so i was trying to do the same

And it's funny on BOTH ends! Calling Snow White & The Huntsman original and saying that something as great as Metropolis would actually borrow from something else, especially something starring the actress who continuously looks like she just slammed her thumb with a hammer.

Damn you JJ for making me explain my above-the-rim joke. Look how Shellhead pushes the ball forward with his reply and look how you RUINSD everything.

To paraphrase Mel Brooks, it rises below mediocrity.

the definition of sci fi is not aliens, spaceships, and fucking laser beams!

ldsdbomber wrote: the definition of sci fi is not aliens, spaceships, and fucking laser beams!

I agree with this as not everything Ray Bradbury did include those, but he is one of THE quintessential American Sci-Fi writers. Look at the twilight zone stuff, Rod Serling pushed all sorts of buttons and dials with his writing, again not all of it includes the “sci-Fi” stereotype.

Sci-Fi to me is an escape from reality, something that plays on the fringes of accepted moral & social standards, and something that challenges me peek outside of my box and explore something I may not have an opportunity to do otherwise. That is Sci-Fi. To accomplish this, it needs firm(ish) logic & a framework based on (a) scientific theory that I can readily accept as temporary fact in order to further explore the story taking place within said framework.

Galileo, the true father of sci-Fi, had no idea what spaceships and lasers were, he left those things to the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci.