When
you say science fiction many, perhaps most, people think of lasers
and space aliens and not much else. But good science fiction is so
much more, and less. I just watched an excellent science fiction
movie with neither lasers nor space aliens - Moon.
It
was brought to my attention by the ECJ who also told me that he
couldn't tell me what happens just that it was worth watching. I
agree, so I'm not going to tell you about the movie just that is very
good. What makes it good is that it makes you think – as a bonus its well
done from a technical standpoint as well.
It's
a shame really that we can't have two different names for the
different types of science fiction. Its unfortunate that movies like
Independence Day and Moon are lumped together as
science fiction when aside from the setting one is an action movie
and the other a... not an action movie. But I guess you could say
the same thing for other genres like war movies and westerns to name
a few some are mindless fun and some have something to say. I think there is a place for both I just want an easy (lazy) way to differentiate.
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whats up with the small font ?
I'm using Open office now and the cut and paste into blogger doesn't seem to be as smooth. I'm going to have to be more careful checking on formatting.
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