RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 13, 2016 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2016 at 2:14 am by Alex K.)
(June 12, 2016 at 7:30 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I think I loved the martian as much or better than interstellar.Ok I'm going to rant a bit. Interstellar isn't a bad film. But - could have been much better.
In hindsight I can't really grog the feeley-lovey BS in interstellar. Loving father connects to his daughter's bookshelf via spacetime rift in order to save the world. As a science nerd, this to me is simply one more scifi movie ruined by liberal artsy types who couldn't bear the thought of having a film about cool spacetime phenomena without it all being a heavy-handed metaphor for human feefees. The no-nonsense plot of the Martian is a breath of fresh air in comparison. Don't get me wrong, a good space movie can absolutely reflect on the human condition, and love, and loss and all that. But why can't you let dead cold space simply be dead cold space - why does the wormhole have to be a daddy-loveotron. That's BS by people lacking the imagination to do anything but love stories. That's the same reason why Lem hated the new Solaris movie - because the director and writers were too dumb to understand the astonishing philosophical point of the novel and made a love story out of it.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
