Last Film You Watched

chrismpw said:
And let's ignore the fact that they built this railway (presumably before the ice age) over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Sci Fi is my favourite genre, but the main problem I have with modern films is that the science bit isn't even plausible. Of the millions they have on budgets, you'd think they could have one scientist on their script writing team, to aim for some realism. The film industry seems so self indulgent only looking at the art side of cinematography.
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As long as a film applies its own internal logic consistently, I'm okay with it. It can be consistently scientific, or consistently ridiculous, it doesn't matter. What sci fi do you enjoy out of interest?
 
Prevenger17 said:
As long as a film applies its own internal logic consistently, I'm okay with it. It can be consistently scientific, or consistently ridiculous, it doesn't matter. What sci fi do you enjoy out of interest?
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You watch Sc Fi films and also action films to be entertained, not shake your head at the clangers made in quantum physics lol
 
COYBL25 said:
Stop overthinking the film and enjoy it for what it is, FFS.

If you applied that logic to every Sc Fi film, you`d never watch another one.

Please feel free to be miserable about everything else in life, but not Sc Fi films.

Thanks on behalf of all the Sc Fi fans on here.
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But but but. . .
 
Prevenger17 said:
As long as a film applies its own internal logic consistently, I'm okay with it. It can be consistently scientific, or consistently ridiculous, it doesn't matter. What sci fi do you enjoy out of interest?
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All time favourite is silent running - about a space ark. So plausible it could have happened in the 70s.

Bladerunner, total recall, dune, avatar, Star Trek and star wars*, 2001 - all classics really, plus a bunch of the 50s films like forbidden planet, the day the earth stood still, when worlds collide.

I also like post-apocalyptic films (being the grumpy arse I am as @COYBL25 would say ) where mist people have been wiped out and a few try to survive. However, I have a major problem with these in that, due to lack of imagination or laziness, practically every one if these turns into a zombie film now, at which point I switch off, muttering angrily. The original dawn of the lead was great. Everything thereafter has been a funded copies of the same story.

* star wars bugs me. I can go along with 'the force' as they attempt to explain it. However having conquered both faster than light space travel and lasers it irritates the hell out if me that they've never mastered targeting or hitting what they're shooting at! lol
 
chrismpw said:
All time favourite is silent running - about a space ark. So plausible it could have happened in the 70s.

Bladerunner, total recall, dune, avatar, Star Trek and star wars*, 2001 - all classics really, plus a bunch of the 50s films like forbidden planet, the day the earth stood still, when worlds collide.

I also like post-apocalyptic films (being the grumpy arse I am as @COYBL25 would say ) where mist people have been wiped out and a few try to survive. However, I have a major problem with these in that, due to lack of imagination or laziness, practically every one if these turns into a zombie film now, at which point I switch off, muttering angrily. The original dawn of the lead was great. Everything thereafter has been a funded copies of the same story.

* star wars bugs me. I can go along with 'the force' as they attempt to explain it. However having conquered both faster than light space travel and lasers it irritates the hell out if me that they've never mastered targeting or hitting what they're shooting at! lol
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Zombie films are fashionable at the moment, so they kick the arse of them whilst they can.

It’ll be something else in the near future.

The problem is that the bench nark was set so high with films like Blade Runner, Terminator, Alien / Aliens that it’s become incredibly difficult to match the sheer quality of these films without ploughing eye watering amounts of money in, that can ruin studios if they flop - hence all the retreads and zombie films.
 
COYBL25 said:
The problem is that the bench nark was set so high with films like Blade Runner, Terminator, Alien / Aliens that it’s become incredibly difficult to match the sheer quality of these films without ploughing eye watering amounts of money in, that can ruin studios if they flop - hence all the retreads and zombie films.
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I think another problem is the lack of new ideas. Blade Runner pretty much established what dystopian futures have looked like ever since, Alien set a benchmark for sci-fi horror that has been often emulated and never matched. Even the trope of a group of people being whittled down by a hostile entity has been done a million times without anywhere close to the same result. Alien even looks better than most modern sci-fis despite being made 40 years ago, it has an immersive world with a unique aesthetic that has been carefully calibrated. Modern sci-fi just borrows ideas from great films and dilute the impact of those ideas. There are a few exceptions, but they are rarely backed by studios with the sort of money that they need. The Endless, for instance, is a superb piece of sci-fi on a shoestring, and I was a big fan of Annihilation.

Looking forward to the new Dune, I loved David Lynch's movie tbh, but can admit it has a few flaws
 

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