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  Re: I unofficially declare sci-fi movie genre officially dead  
From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 14 Jun 2010 01:21:28
Message: <87pqzub348.fsf@fester.com>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> writes:

> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> The movie industry's attitude towards the genre indicates that they
>> have absolutely no appreciation of its potential, but merely use it
>> to entice bla money out of people who will pay to watch anything that
>> features a technological future.
>
>   It all comes down to one's *definition* of "sci-fi". Basically sci-fi
> has a wide scale of "hardness", and where people put the line between
> "real" sci-fi depends on personal opinion.

I do, however, have to agree with John that compared to sci-fi
stories/novels, the sci-fi movie business is hopelessly behind (with
only very few exceptions).


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