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4 Sep 2024 09:17:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I unofficially declare sci-fi movie genre officially dead  
From: Darren New
Date: 24 Jun 2010 15:46:47
Message: <4c23b627$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   Every time a sci-fi movie comes out, somebody will complain and point
> out how ludicrous some detail about it is, hence making it nothing but a
> caricature of "good" sci-fi. I don't think there exists any movie which
> would be considered "good" in this regard.

Galaxy Quest! :-)

Total Recall?  (Confusions easy to brush off, as that was the point of the 
movie.)

Alien? (I never really heard any defensible complaints about it.)

>   This makes me wonder what these people are comparing the movies to.

Books?

I'm trying to think of a (hard-ish) sci-fi movie that was as good an 
adaption of the book as (say) Harry Potter was.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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