Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko on September 20, 1999 at 06:05:00:

In Reply to: Favorite Science Fiction movie? posted by Ears on September 17, 1999 at 14:14:29:

I used to think of that genre as something different, and typically something that would require a bit of tinking and would provoke thoughts (remember the great science fiction writers?). They used to be philosophical and intriguing. Apparently Hollywood had stolen the name and turned it into something different (yeah, new notion...). Now it usually involves a moron in a ridiculous outfit with a huge plastic toy weapon.

It's gotten so bad that my wife would run at the first mention of that genre name - and I used to be able to slip the best ones by her without her realizing she was viewing one. Forget my wife, even I now switch channels quicker than that moron can fire his plastic toy - and I can watch almost anything when I am tired.

So what gives? Where Clark and Lem used to tread gently, you now have one-eyed Kurt Russel beating shit out of someone.