A very thoughtful response; thanks!

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on June 20, 2002 at 12:24:01

In Reply to: All your points are valid... posted by EdM on June 20, 2002 at 07:23:02:

I do think that there's plenty of good serious SF making it's way to the screen. From Spielberg alone, last year's AI stands as a near-masterpiece, thanks in part to Haley Joel Osment's performance, and early reviews suggest that his new film Minority Report (openning tomorrow; based on a Philip K. Dick story) may be even better! Also, the upcoming film Signs from M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) looks like potent speculative SF fare. I've got to admit that my taste in SF is pretty varied (i.e., I love Spielberg's Jurassic Park series based on the popular Michael Crichton novels, ...the sarcastic wit of Paul Verhooven's Robocop & Starship Troopers, ...the imaginative cyber-addiction/machine dominence concepts explored in The Matrix, ...the edge-of-seat emotional rollercoaster of James Cameron's Terminator's I & II, Aliens and The Abyss, ...the desparation of survival in a hostile alien environment in Pitch Black, ...the religious implications hinted at in Roland Emmerich's Stargate and thoroughly explored in Robert Zemekis' film Contact, based on Carl Sagan's novel, ...and even John Carpenter's The Thing, an arguably more valid interpretation of John W. Campbell's short story "Who Goes There?" than the original '51 cold-war inspired movie, and his cult classic Escape from New York, -- I've left out around 2/3 of the Star Trek movies, both original crew & next generation, etc., and that's only from the 80's to present!).

One thing I'm very happy about is that there seems to be as much attention to story content as special effects in much of the SF being produced of late and that bodes well for the genre!

Cheers,
AuPh

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Topic - Wow, Ebert & Roeper call Minority Report one of the best - EdM 09:56:37 06/17/02 (17)

Re: Wow, Ebert & Roeper call Minority Report one of the best - olen 01:08:35 06/22/02 (0)

"Minority Report" and Steven Speilberg - mikenyc 06:22:38 06/19/02 (15)

Re: "Minority Report" and Steven Speilberg - Joe S 07:42:21 06/19/02 (14)

"George Lucas & Steven Speilberg - mikenyc 12:35:51 06/19/02 (4)

Uhhhh..... - Joe S 15:12:25 06/22/02 (0)

what Spielberg's films lack? - Lee P 07:38:59 06/21/02 (1)

Re: what Spielberg's films lack? - mikenyc 17:26:50 06/21/02 (0)

interesting post. thanks for sharing! nt - EL Cheapo 15:49:38 06/19/02 (0)

Excellent point! - Audiophilander 08:33:13 06/19/02 (8)

Can't agree about E.T. ......... - EdM 13:01:35 06/19/02 (7)

I used to think E.T. was great too, until... - Audiophilander 22:34:39 06/19/02 (6)

Dune from David Lynch is by far, the best SF - Lee P 06:35:24 06/21/02 (3)

"Dune" - mikenyc 09:20:10 06/22/02 (1)

Re: "Dune" - Lee P 18:13:53 06/22/02 (0)

Lynch has his moments, but there are times he's so abstract that he could give Picasso a headache! - Audiophilander 09:32:18 06/21/02 (0)

All your points are valid... - EdM 07:23:02 06/20/02 (1)

A very thoughtful response; thanks! - Audiophilander 12:24:01 06/20/02 (0)

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