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Article #623991Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:55
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:55
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On Fri, 2018-06-22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:47:13 -0400 > Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Blade Runner beat them all, but I believe that came after SW. > > "Blade Runner" was a poor adaptation of "Do Androids Dream of > Electric Sheep" just as "Soylent Green" was a poor adaptation of "Make > Room! Make Room!" - although to be fair neither of them was as poor an > adaptation as "Dune" or the execrable "I Robot". > Good science fiction in visual media is extremely rare - "The > Expanse", "2001" and "The Terminal Man" pretty much covers it. Entertaining > films with a science fiction flavour are rather more common. I wonder if good SF movies tend to be percieved as something else. Cronenberg's "Videodrome" for example: to me it's excellent SF, but it's usually labeled as horror since there are no spaceships or lasers. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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