Posted on 02/23/2010 5:23:39 AM PST by Stoutcat
There are good sci fi movies, mediocre sci fi movies, bad sci fi movies, and really bad sci fi movies*. And each movie flavor has something to recommend it to viewers. (I have to admit that one of my favorites is The Giant Claw.)
The unifying theme throughout, of course, is the science fiction element. And from the great movies to those which are laughably awful, the element of science always plays a role in advancing the storyline, developing the characters, or simply defining the world in which the story is set.
But if Prof. Sidney Perkowitz has his way, you may never see another movie like “Avatar”, “Star Trek”, “Godzilla”, or “The Giant Claw” again...
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Another Ivory Tower Dilettante who thinks he knows what’s best for us all.... probably a failed screenwriter as well.
Based on his reasoning, love stories should be banned, too. Fairy tales. Talking animal stories. All stories.
The man has no imagination or heart.
Oh please. If I had any animation skills, I’d make some pretty bad scifi on the kitchen counter. With toys! lol.
Please say they will not cannot include Spongebob in this list of banned movies.
They would also have to include any biographies of rational liberals who were born after 1950. That is real fiction.
Love stories = sci fi?
Who hurt you?
(Yeah, I’m joking with you.)
I must have missed the part that pointed out where Prof. Sidney Perkowitz has the power to ban science fiction movies. “Avatar” has pulled in what, $2.5 billion worldwide? With that kind of money a movie could scrap physics altogether and it’d still be made.
How bout’ “Attack of the Crab Monsters”? They had GIANT claws too!
The author has a point. Science fiction originally meant extrapolation of the scientific state-of-the-art to tell a story. Star Trek actually went very far to be true to this ideal.
Avatar isn’t science fiction, but fantasy, like Harry Potter. It doesn’t make it bad, it is just a different genre.
From the article:
The proposals are intended to curb the film industry’s worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.
The guidelines are by Sidney Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the US National Academy of Sciences.
SSSSSHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh - don’t let Oboy hear about him!!!!
He’ll make him a Space CZAR if we’re not careful!
Just one problem tho....Oboy the Zer0 has no interest whatsoever in Space or advancing technology. But that goes with his idealogically backward ‘religion’.
“Based on his reasoning, love stories should be banned, too. Fairy tales. Talking animal stories. All stories.
The man has no imagination or heart.”
Guy’s a Taliban/Al Qaeda Muzzi Fundie who just doesn’t know it yet.
And like I said, if it comes down to a choice between correct science and a $100 million boxoffice gross then science will lose every time.
I hate to say it, but I with the professor here. Nothing irritates me more than a so-called science fiction tv show or movie where the “science” is completely fictional and has no relation to the real world.
I’ve often thought that it wouldn’t cost all that much for Hollywood to hire a scientific consultant or two to vet scripts for scientific realism. Sticking to actual physical laws needn’t detract from the story. In fact, it would be far less distracting than the frequent scientific inaccuracies, which are so numerous that my husband and son don’t want me watching those shows with them. Because I’m either correcting the scientific blunders, or laughing out loud at them, sometimes during what are supposed to be serious, dramatic moments.
So I guess that would mean no more "Day After Tomorrow" type flicks with EEEEvil Climate Change as the enemy. Maybe this is worth doing after all....
What part of the word fiction in the term science fiction do you not understand?
As a Mystery Science Theatre fan I came to appreciate cheesy science fiction movies. Some were so bad they were good...
Good lord, people.....
These are movies...Entertainment...Time to rest and relax...Movies should have NO influence on everyday REAL life....They are SCRIPTED to entertin...Life is not...
Sit back...enjoy the show and don’t spend all your time trying to analyze the freakin’ film....
ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!!!! Get it?????
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