What kind of Sci-Fi?

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Permalink Reply by Mikael Gustavsson on April 13, 2008 at 5:14pm

Whatever will make me take the film and mull it over for a very long time. Movies like 2001 and Primer succeeded in this. The Matrix sort of did, but mainly because of the watered down Buddhist philosophy and the fact that I was just a kid when I watched it. So I guess I mainly belong in the first category, though imo, A.I. was just a glorious failure.

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Permalink Reply by Diana on April 14, 2008 at 1:38am

I really have no inclination towards on type of sci-fi or another. I like GOOD sci-fi. What is good sci-fi, now that depends on each person, but for me it is a very human story that takes place in a very un-human setting, which usually in sci-fi terms means outer space, or technocratic societies. For me sci-fi is more about the setting than about the robots and the cool ships. Sure, cool robots and ships make for some great entertainment :D but science fiction in a way is meant to show people what our potential could be, or our inevitable down fall if we don't maximize that potential.

I also like science fiction comedies a lot. :D

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Permalink Reply by Ike on April 14, 2008 at 1:42am

I like either catagory of sci-fi. Solaris was great, as was Event Horizon. Of course The Black Hole(1979).

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin David on June 2, 2009 at 10:37pm

I can think of more fantasy sci-fi then hardcore real science sci-fi but if I have to pick one or the other I'd go with sci-fi that have more science then fantasy.
Movies like Soylent Green, Children of Men, Sunshine, Cube, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, You already listed 2001: A Space Odyssey even movies like Equilibrium and Close Encounters of the Third Kind come to mind.
But sci-fi fantasy have so many good movies to pick from, movies like The Host, Predator, the Star Wars trilogy, Back to the Future trilogy, Enemy Mine, Total Recall, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Robocop, The Thing, The Iron Giant, The Terminator, The Fly, Donnie Darko, Alien Nation. It's not an easy call, I really don't know which one I like more.

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Permalink Reply by Signius on July 27, 2009 at 3:22pm

I like all of it. So long as the story holds up. My only gripe about a lot of science fiction set in the future is that they always seem to set things too close to the time that the movie was made.

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