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When will our generation start making good scifi movies?

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Ninja Scooter said:
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Thagomizer said:
Oh shit I just realized no one's mentioned Dark City

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I had a lot of trouble enjoying it, dunno why.
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One thing that is great about all the immature 'Avatar is popular so I hate it' backlash is that I've noticed Titanic has been welcomed by a lot of people again as a great movie.

Gin said:
how is children of men sci fi ?

5th element , event horizon, aliens - now this is sci fi..
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For real? Do you know what Sci-fi is?
 
Thagomizer said:
You like Avatar your opinion is invalid
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Ah burn, hit me where it hurts.

I thought seeing Avatar in 3D was utterly incredible, and I completely stand by my fanboy pant creaming admiration for the technical accomplishment of that film.

Note I didn't recommend it in this thread as a good scifi film, because it is not.

EDIT: I'm not saying it's not a good film, it absolutely is. But it's really more a fantasy movie to me. Not what the OP was after at all.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
I had a lot of trouble enjoying it, dunno why.
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because it's bad. and poorly acted. Sunshine also is a terrible movie, should've called it Emo's in Space.

Some movies in this thread though i haven't seen so thanks for the recommendations.
 
Gin said:
how is children of men sci fi ?

5th element , event horizon, aliens - now this is sci fi..
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Children of Men fits the most classical definition of Sci-Fi. It's a commentary on the effect of future science/technology on the human race.
 
Serenity is great, but it's just the end of a TV show. You're really making a big recommendation to suggest someone sink that long into seeing something.
 
StuBurns said:
Serenity is great, but it's just the end of a TV show. You're really making a big recommendation to suggest someone sink that long into seeing something.
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I know plenty of people that saw the movie, and loved it, knowing nothing about the show.
 
Gin said:
how is children of men sci fi ?

5th element , event horizon, aliens - now this is sci fi..
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children of men, by most definitions, is genuinely "more sf" than 5th element. at no point in 5th element does the "science" have any bearing on the "fiction". basically it's indiana jones with spaceships and outrageous costumes. i'm not saying that makes it a bad movie though.
 
I wouldn't exactly consider movies made in the 90s (though if so, 12 Monkeys needs more love) as part of this "generation". That was 2 fuckin decades ago.
 
A lot of people dont know what "our generation" means

like. at all.

The only movies that would qualify would be like, District 9 and Moon, D9 moreso
 
Ninja Scooter said:
I wouldn't exactly consider movies made in the 90s (though if so, 12 Monkeys needs more love) as part of this "generation". That was 2 fuckin decades ago.
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11-21 years ago. And I guess it doesn't matter too much anyway, a good SciFi movie you've never seen is still good to recommend even if it's >10 years old.
 
filler said:
Solaris

Sphere

Red Planet/Mission to Mars(I think I liked one of those)

Contact

City of Ember

Ghost In the Shell
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I'd argue that none of those were made by our generation. Sphere, GITS, Contact, and Mission to Mars are ancient.
 
The thread is not about films 'our generation' saw, it's about films our generation made. It says it in the OP. Scifi films directed by people who are 25 to 35. We gave up because there basically are none.
 
StuBurns said:
The thread is not about films 'our generation' saw, it's about films our generation made. It says it in the OP. Scifi films directed by people who are 25 to 35. We gave up because there basically are none.
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District 9

Actually, I take back moon.

Just D9

Extremely video game influenced, pop-politics, anime/mech influence, etc, etc. Its entirely a product of our generation.
 
StuBurns said:
The thread is not about films 'our generation' saw, it's about films our generation made. It says it in the OP. Scifi films directed by people who are 25 to 35. We gave up because there basically are none.
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To be fair, most people who are writers/directors able to command big budgets are quite old.
 
Dead said:
District 9

Actually, I take back moon.

Just D9
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Yeah, there are a few, but very few, and they've been mentioned pretty much. Primer is another one. Aronofsky was about that when he did The Fountain, and certainly when he did Pi.

ThoseDeafMutes said:
To be fair, most people who are writers/directors able to command big budgets are quite old.
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Certainly.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Yes. It was written/directed by an engineer if I recall correctly. If it was a novel instead of a well acted film, it would probably end up being "Wiring Diagram Fiction".



When people who I saw inception with in the cinema said they had trouble understanding it my jaw was like hanging out. It was more complex than a straight forward action film, but it wasn't that bad.
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It's strange... I understood Inception, but I still felt that it didn't really make sense.
 
I really need to watch Children of Men again. Such a good movie.
 
I dont see why one would drop their jaw at someone not understanding Inception.

I mean, yeah, its a 100% hollow film, but the convoluted nature of it makes it easy for people to overthink it and get lost in the maze of nothingness.

Just enjoy the music and pictures.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
Kinda off-topic, but the bolded is pretty much how I've always felt about Memento, too. Although that's a better puzzle box movie than Inception is, I think.
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Its way more interesting to return to, for sure.

I mean I like Inception, but it would probably more fair to describe it as "Inception - A Hans Zimmer film (featuring moving images by Chris Nolan)"
 
icarus-daedelus said:
Kinda off-topic, but the bolded is pretty much how I've always felt about Memento, too. Although that's a better puzzle box movie than Inception is, I think.
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I thought Memento was pretty straightforward once you watch it a second time at least, and the movie itself bears repeated viewings after the audience discovers everything with the character. Watch it again now that you know everything and it is a completely different experience.
 
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