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Which is interesting since there is still a lot of 'slick' SciFi being made. And lots of money is being poured into it. I'm thinking mainly of stuff like A.I. or Minority report. So there's still a market for it, it seems.
Not to mention the action movies with futuristic touches (X-Men, Reign of Fire, Chronicles of Riddick). I mean just because it isn't Space and 'flying around in starships' kind of scifi (which was always the type of scifi I liked the least), doesn't mean that it isn't out there. (BTW the reason I didn't put Minorty Report under action SciFi was because in my eyes they mainly advertised the futuristic aspect of the movie. while things like Reign of Fire or X-men are mainly drawn to for their action or human components) [ 04-16-2003: Message edited LolaRuns ] |
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I don't think SF films are considered geek territory though. The Matrix, the Star Wars movies, the Terminator movies, etc. have all made a lot of money, which means that more than geeks went to see them. They get a heck of a lot more respect than SF TV shows or books. __________________
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I don't think SF films are considered geek territory though. The Matrix, the Star Wars movies, the Terminator movies, etc. have all made a lot of money, which means that more than geeks went to see them. They get a heck of a lot more respect than SF TV shows or books. __________________
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Okay! I finally found it! Not through a hard copy (hahaha) but instead through e-library strangely enough. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Anyways. Now that I don't have to type it up...too bad there are no pictures! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Feeding On Fantasy Forward into the past! At a time of uncertainty, American culture looks backward for comfort (Time) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byline: Lev Grossman Reported by Mike Billips and Marc Schultz/Atlanta, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles and Andrea Sachs and Heather Won Tesoriero/New York Publication: Time Issue: December 2, 2002 Vol. 160 No. 23 Publication Date: 12-02-2002 Page: 90+ Section: Culture Quote:
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Okay! I finally found it! Not through a hard copy (hahaha) but instead through e-library strangely enough. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Anyways. Now that I don't have to type it up...too bad there are no pictures! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Feeding On Fantasy Forward into the past! At a time of uncertainty, American culture looks backward for comfort (Time) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byline: Lev Grossman Reported by Mike Billips and Marc Schultz/Atlanta, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles and Andrea Sachs and Heather Won Tesoriero/New York Publication: Time Issue: December 2, 2002 Vol. 160 No. 23 Publication Date: 12-02-2002 Page: 90+ Section: Culture Quote:
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That Time article is a load of BS! The authors ignored movies like Spiderman, The X-Men, and the Star Wars prequels, which made a lot of money in the past few years, and they never mentioned all of the science fiction movies and mini-series being made or being released this year. I think there are more SF movies coming out this year than there have been in the past few years combined. I thought it was really funny that the article mentioned the Earthsea mini-series, but completely omitted the fact that SciFi is also making Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness into a mini-series. And what about Taken and Children of Dune? They had great ratings for SciFi and both were science fiction, rather than fantasy.
The paragraph about how politically incorrect the LOTR movies are is just silly when you consider when the books were written. If Jackson had made the movies too PC, he'd anger most fans of the books. Ugh, more extemporizing from college professors about how bad speculative fiction is, yet they wet themselves over the opportunity to get authors like Le Guin, Atwood, Marge Piercy, etc. to come to their colleges to give lectures. Hello, they all write speculative fiction! Just because it's more intellectual than a Buffy novel doesn't change the fact that it's a science fiction or fantasy book! And just one nitpicky comment, Abarat is a quartet, not one book. Only one book has been released so far, but there are three more forthcoming. Disney made the deal for all four books, not just the first one. It would have been a lot easier to take the article seriously if they had gotten things right and if they hadn't ignored evidence contrary to their hypothesis. __________________
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That Time article is a load of BS! The authors ignored movies like Spiderman, The X-Men, and the Star Wars prequels, which made a lot of money in the past few years, and they never mentioned all of the science fiction movies and mini-series being made or being released this year. I think there are more SF movies coming out this year than there have been in the past few years combined. I thought it was really funny that the article mentioned the Earthsea mini-series, but completely omitted the fact that SciFi is also making Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness into a mini-series. And what about Taken and Children of Dune? They had great ratings for SciFi and both were science fiction, rather than fantasy.
The paragraph about how politically incorrect the LOTR movies are is just silly when you consider when the books were written. If Jackson had made the movies too PC, he'd anger most fans of the books. Ugh, more extemporizing from college professors about how bad speculative fiction is, yet they wet themselves over the opportunity to get authors like Le Guin, Atwood, Marge Piercy, etc. to come to their colleges to give lectures. Hello, they all write speculative fiction! Just because it's more intellectual than a Buffy novel doesn't change the fact that it's a science fiction or fantasy book! And just one nitpicky comment, Abarat is a quartet, not one book. Only one book has been released so far, but there are three more forthcoming. Disney made the deal for all four books, not just the first one. It would have been a lot easier to take the article seriously if they had gotten things right and if they hadn't ignored evidence contrary to their hypothesis. __________________
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That article is totally bunk. Maybe people liked LoTR because it had a great story, breathtaking cinematography and jaw-dropping action scenes. I certainly didn't flock to see it because I was disenchanted with technology and had a profound nostalgia for the medieval age. Get real. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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That article is totally bunk. Maybe people liked LoTR because it had a great story, breathtaking cinematography and jaw-dropping action scenes. I certainly didn't flock to see it because I was disenchanted with technology and had a profound nostalgia for the medieval age. Get real. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Strange, I never really considered Spiderman Sci-Fi (or Daredevil or Batman). Maybe because its society is basically identical to ours. They just have one extraordinary character which they throw into our normal society.
X-Men on the other hand society is vastly different because it is being portrayed after certain changes in the political and social structures took place in reaction to the existance of mutants. I agree that the article leaves out a lot. Fantasy had two amazing successes with LOTR and Harry Potter. But where is the wave of embarassing knock offs that really symbolise a huge social phenomenon? The only *other* Fantasy movie I can think of is Dungeons & Dragons and that wasn't particularly successfull as far as I remember. I hope it's not just my bias but I can honestly remember more Sci-Fi themed movies than Fantasy movies in the last few years (lets see Rollerball (puke), Minority Report, Reign of Fire, Star Trek, Armageddon) I don't have a problem if the escapism theory, but I wouldn't call it fantasy. If I wanted to argue escapism and 'middle ages' I'd rather throw LOTR in a category with Gladiator or other historical epics (lets see Troy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alexander all coming up) and movies like Knight's Tale. I happen to think that Fantasy still has much more constraints. Sci-Fi at least still has action Sci-Fi. But you'll hardly get any orgres or elf onto the big screen unless you have "Stamp of literary work of Art" approval. Xena is Dead, Hercules is Dead, Lost World is dead (even that had time travel), Dinotopia the tv series was cancelled. Buffy and Angel (well if you want to consider them fantasy) are ending. Yet SciFi (lets see Andromeda, Enterprise, Smallville [hey since they's given the the ship a starring role it's starting to look almost like scifi], Mutant X) is the one in trouble? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] |
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Strange, I never really considered Spiderman Sci-Fi (or Daredevil or Batman). Maybe because its society is basically identical to ours. They just have one extraordinary character which they throw into our normal society.
X-Men on the other hand society is vastly different because it is being portrayed after certain changes in the political and social structures took place in reaction to the existance of mutants. I agree that the article leaves out a lot. Fantasy had two amazing successes with LOTR and Harry Potter. But where is the wave of embarassing knock offs that really symbolise a huge social phenomenon? The only *other* Fantasy movie I can think of is Dungeons & Dragons and that wasn't particularly successfull as far as I remember. I hope it's not just my bias but I can honestly remember more Sci-Fi themed movies than Fantasy movies in the last few years (lets see Rollerball (puke), Minority Report, Reign of Fire, Star Trek, Armageddon) I don't have a problem if the escapism theory, but I wouldn't call it fantasy. If I wanted to argue escapism and 'middle ages' I'd rather throw LOTR in a category with Gladiator or other historical epics (lets see Troy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alexander all coming up) and movies like Knight's Tale. I happen to think that Fantasy still has much more constraints. Sci-Fi at least still has action Sci-Fi. But you'll hardly get any orgres or elf onto the big screen unless you have "Stamp of literary work of Art" approval. Xena is Dead, Hercules is Dead, Lost World is dead (even that had time travel), Dinotopia the tv series was cancelled. Buffy and Angel (well if you want to consider them fantasy) are ending. Yet SciFi (lets see Andromeda, Enterprise, Smallville [hey since they's given the the ship a starring role it's starting to look almost like scifi], Mutant X) is the one in trouble? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] |
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The line gets really blurred. Sci-fi has a cult following with big names; they'll keep certain sci-fi shows on the air despite low ratings due to huge profits to be made off merchandise. Fantasy is, at least in huge-budget Hollywood terms, a genre that's reasserting itself.
I don't know that I'd agree that sci-fi is in trouble (although the Sci-Fi channel seems hell bent on changing that), but fantasy is much more "in vogue" right now. There's also very vague line between the two; what one person calls sci-fi another may call fantasy. One person calls Buffy sci-fi, another calls it fantasy, and a third will say they're both wrong and chuck it in the category of horror. *shrug* __________________
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The line gets really blurred. Sci-fi has a cult following with big names; they'll keep certain sci-fi shows on the air despite low ratings due to huge profits to be made off merchandise. Fantasy is, at least in huge-budget Hollywood terms, a genre that's reasserting itself.
I don't know that I'd agree that sci-fi is in trouble (although the Sci-Fi channel seems hell bent on changing that), but fantasy is much more "in vogue" right now. There's also very vague line between the two; what one person calls sci-fi another may call fantasy. One person calls Buffy sci-fi, another calls it fantasy, and a third will say they're both wrong and chuck it in the category of horror. *shrug* __________________
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