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When will our generation start making good scifi movies?

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WALL-E, Children of Men, and The Fifth Element are the three movies from this generation that I feel can most be considered masterpieces.

Would we could The Iron Giant as this gen as well? I'd say that qualifies.
 
Mister Wilhelm said:
WALL-E, Children of Men, and The Fifth Element are the three movies from this generation that I feel can most be considered masterpieces.

Would we could The Iron Giant as this gen as well? I'd say that qualifies.
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I wouldn't call Fifth Element new.
 
ZephyrFate said:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer says suck a dick.
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Four episodes later Buffy discovers Dawn is in fact a mystical object known as The Key; a group of monks transformed The Key into human form and sent it to the Slayer for protection from the villainous Glory (Clare Kramer). The memories of Buffy and her associates were altered, along with relevant records, so that they believed her to have always existed as Buffy's sister. When Dawn learns of her origin, she resorts to self-harm and runs away from home, until Buffy assures her they are real sisters no matter what, securing it with a blood oath. Dawn then suffers more pain when her mother (Kristine Sutherland) dies unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm, which leads to Dawn resorting to black magic to try to bring her back from the grave, an action she immediately reverses upon realizing the consequences of her actions. It is eventually revealed Dawn's purpose as The Key is to open portals to alternate dimensions, a power the hell-god Glory wishes to exploit to return home. When Glory successfully uses Dawn's blood to break down the dimensional barriers, Buffy sacrifices her own life, realizing that their blood is now the same, to end the apocalypse and save Dawn.
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Anya was born as Aud in the ninth century in Sjornjost, a small Scandinavian village. Aud (pronounced "odd") grew up raising rabbits and became an outsider in her community, which dismissed her as "odd", because of her strange mannerisms and out-of-the-ordinary ideas (such as not wanting to sell the rabbits she had been breeding, but instead giving them to people in the village as gifts). She eventually falls in love with the boorish Olaf, a Viking warrior who enjoys hunting trolls and drinking at the bar. In 880, a furious Aud discovers that Olaf has cheated on her with a bar matron named Rannveig, and takes her revenge on him by using magic to transform him into a troll. Aud had previously used magic against her past lovers as well, casting spells to create boils on the penis, for example, but this act of vengeance against Olaf attracts the attention of the demon D'Hoffryn, who offers to transform her into a vengeance demon for scorned women. D'Hoffryn gives Aud the new name Anyanka, and a pendant which gives her the power to grant wishes.
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*shrug*
 
Not sure about the GAF hivemind, but it was not mentioned yet (I think) and I liked it:

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It's a bit like the quarantine of District 9 + alien animals + a tiny bit of Cloverfield maybe. It's one of those movies in which the catastrophe/monster etc. is more like a background for the story.
 
SolidusDave said:
It's a bit like the quarantine of District 9 + alien animals + a tiny bit of Gloverfield maybe. It's one of those movies in which the catastrophe/monster etc. is more like a a background for the story.
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Behold the Gloverfield monster:

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Veidt said:
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Modern Spielberg.
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Co-signed in blood. I loved every frame of this film.

Also, I think I liked Moon slightly less than the average gaffer who thought it was incredible, but only so less that I liked this one just as much (I still thought both were great).

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ThoseDeafMutes said:
That said, I do wish we could see some good Cyberpunk Films after the horrific failure that was the second and third matrix movies. I'd also like some nice Space Opera that wasn't Starwars Prequel Bad, and I don't really like Star Trek at all.
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I thought Strange Days was a pretty decent sci-fi cyberpunk flick. Not really new but hey.
 
Lets be honest, in the range of science fiction the current selection films that are considered 'good' are extremely limited. Asking for our generation to add many more to that list is not possible.
 
DarkFlow83 said:
There's the lens flare we know and love. When I saw Super 8 tonight, was kinda sad there was no lens flare till about 10 mins into the film, I was kinda freaking out.
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My post is right above yours... and you quoted it?

Anyways, I wasn't trying to point out the lens flares (which are actually pretty minimal in that scene). I meant that this was me when I saw it in the theater:
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Nothing in Star Trek can stack up to the 10 lens flares Abrams put in that one train station shot in Super 8.
 
AI is probably the best one we will get in ages. I don't see anything topping it in the forseeable future.

even children of men pales in comparison to it.
 
Discotheque said:
AI is probably the best one we will get in ages. I don't see anything topping it in the forseeable future.

even children of men pales in comparison to it.
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I remember it being pretty emotional but scientifically nonsense. Is that accurate?
 
omnomis said:
My post is right above yours... and you quoted it?

Anyways, I wasn't trying to point out the lens flares (which are actually pretty minimal in that scene). I meant that this was me when I saw it in the theater:
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True, it had a similar effect on me.
 
googleplex said:
Criminally under rated.
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Criminally terrible, you mean. Terrible animation, terrible 3D, terrible story, terrible dialogue. The one saving grace was the excellent VO. It was a panned flop for a reason.
 
Why are people posting movies that are older than ten years?
That's explicitly what I wasn't looking for, because I've seen most of them. lol
 
Trying to name off good sci-fi movies this generation has made me realize I've liked more sci-fi this generation than previous ten year periods.
 
While Inception and Star Trek are good films, they're really more action adventure films than anything else. They don't really provide what I tend to look for in the science fiction genre. Moon probably came closest in recent years.


Also, OP, have you seen the 2002 Solaris remake?
 
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
The Fountain is not sci-fi. It is literally fantasy. Although it contains sci-fi imagery and is awesome.
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It depends on your interpretation of the film.

Some believe the space travel sections are the final chapter of her book that he wrote. Some believe it literally happened, and he did in fact find a cure for dying, and would have lived forever had he not killed himself at the end

I don't think it really matters either way, it's firmly in the scifi genre.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
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Why you be hatin'? It's a movie about _science_ set in a _fictional_ enviornment. And it's entertaining.
 
Never liked Star Trek. Didn't find a single thing appealing about anything set in the universe. Then I saw the newest film and absolutely loved it. Probably helped that it was a reboot of sorts but still. Oh, and that doesn't mean anything else Star Trek related will appeal to me now. It's just this reboot that worked for me, so I'll definitely see the sequel.

Sunshine is also a fantastic film, I thought. Visually superb and the soundtrack is to die for.

The other recommendations like District 9 and WALL-E are sound as well.

No love for Children of Men though. I thought it was meh. I find Clive Owen annoying.
 
LaserBuddha said:
Nowadays, whenever I start reading about someone's Whedon love, my eyes glaze over and I hear the Meow Mix jingle in my head a la Homer Simpson.

Although I have found a fun game: Go to Wikipedia, find character backgrounds for Angel characters, and paste them on a forum with the names changed. Watch everyone who isn't familiar with the series mistake it for horrible fan fiction.
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Let's be friends
 
I wish they'd make optimistic science fiction. I'm tired of militarized dystopian worlds. I'd actually like to see something where the future and technological progress are seen as a positive thing.
 
genjiZERO said:
I wish they'd make optimistic science fiction. I'm tired of militarized dystopian worlds. I'd actually like to see something where the future and technological progress are seen as a positive thing.
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Never heard of Star Trek?
 
genjiZERO said:
I wish they'd make optimistic science fiction. I'm tired of militarized dystopian worlds. I'd actually like to see something where the future and technological progress are seen as a positive thing.
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Most old SciFi was like that. The modern fascination with crapsack worlds is a reaction to and a rejection of the "cult of the machine" we saw in early works where technology was the solution to all problems and things always got better. Relentlessly upbeat futures are pretty dull.
 
Agreed that there are some phenomenal sci fi movies out there (D9, Star Trek, Children of Men), but remember that pretty much every comic book adaptation is also a sci-fi adaptation. So that's where your money is going.
 
The reason I never cared for sci-fi was that the focus was on the environment of it. I like the ones that start out with a sense of hopelessness because the environment is part of the conflict in the story.

So although movies like Children of Men or Wall-E are pretty depressing to look at at first, they end with measures of hope which I love more than ooh ahhing at hyper space effects.
 
Avatar haters, step off. It has the best thought out, most fully-realized alien world ever seen in a movie. It's also fucking awesome.
 
jett said:
Avatar haters, step off. It has the best thought out, most fully-realized alien world ever seen in a movie. It's also fucking awesome.
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If you mean most contrived after the fact to explain horrendous shit like floating mountains, then yes.
 
If nothing else, Avatar delivered a more palpable sense of visiting another world than anything else.

I wish I'd waited to see the full thing, but just that first fifteen minute preview was incredible in that regard.

It's actually something the flat version completely misses for me. The IQ is great, but it's too colourful and specular. The 3D version had enough 'grim' in it to be a completely different experience.
 
StuBurns said:
If nothing else, Avatar delivered a more palpable sense of visiting another world than anything else.

I wish I'd waited to see the full thing, but just that first fifteen minute preview was incredible in that regard.
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Yep, it's the most amazing piece of escapism I've ever experienced.
 
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