RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 1:47 am by Cyberman.)
You're right, Darkest, when you say that Star Wars is not strictly sci fi. Though it contains sci fi ingredients, it's more correctly known as a space opera; the sci fi/fantasy equivalent of the horse opera style of western. The sci fi elements (in the truest sense of the genre) in the Star Wars trilogy would probably include the concept of the Force, the dystopian society of the Galactic Empire, the sentient machines and other similar themes. Guns, dogfights and giant fortresses are the stuff of westerns and WWII.
Personally speaking, I didn't mention them because, never having seen them, I know nothing about them. I don't know about anybody else.
(January 2, 2012 at 1:22 am)Stue Denim Wrote: How has nobody mentioned the firefly series, and by extension, serenity?
Personally speaking, I didn't mention them because, never having seen them, I know nothing about them. I don't know about anybody else.
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