Tek wrote:

> Okay, I've got an idea which I think qualifies. Something like a Battlestar
> Galactica / Star Wars large scale space battle, with lots of automated AI
> spaceships.
> 
> I reckon that counts as classic sci-fi. :)

Reckon so, though for me I always thought of SW as "classic adventure" 
too.  But it certainly answers my criteria of depending on sets and effects.

> 
> Although now I want to design the ships to look nothing like SW! Must resist
> urge to be creative...
> 
Huh?  Really don't think so.

BTW my favorite SciFi movie that I would call "classic" is "Andromeda 
Strain", again, use of sets,...a scientific setting but an interesting 
reversal of the usual, here the encapsulation is about containing rather 
than excluding what is hostile,  recurring theme,... meeting with 
extra-terrestial life but it doesn't walk and talk, 
means,...scientific/crisis procedural but speculative modelling, 
move-counter-move, well thought out protocol proves inadequate.

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