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Article #623992Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:52
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:52
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On 22 Jun 2018 07:55:44 GMT Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > 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 Good point, I had forgotten about it but yes that qualifies as SF in my book and good SF too. > it's usually labeled as horror since there are no spaceships or > lasers. True enough. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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