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What is your #1 gripe about Science Fiction movies?

Doppel

Doppel

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Pick one.

Here's mine, and I think in the future our generation will have to answer for this, as we should:

See-through screens are ubiquitous in sci-fi movies and video games and in 99% of cases are a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.

Example, Minority Report

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Nothing. I know the difference between fantasy and reality.

Movies were invested to entertain people. If you cant grasp that concept, quit watching them.
 
Doppel said:
Pick one.

Here's mine, and I think in the future our generation will have to answer for this, as we should:

See-through screens are ubiquitous in sci-fi movies and video games and in 99% of cases are a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.

Example, Minority Report

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- Every button, knob, or slider on anything anywhere needs to make a sound when used.
- When someone has to quickly rig up some kind of crude device, they often have time to equip it with functioning indicator lights and audio feedback.
- Laws of physics vary from scene to scene.
- Space often has the properties of warm molasses - if a spaceship's engines die, it immediately grinds to a halt. But again, this is sometimes dismissed when the plot calls for it. (Stargate: A ship, Daedalus I believe, is being pursued, when their engines cut off. It quickly comes to a halt. Different episode: Teal'c and O'Neill are in a small fighter, and it continues to drift long after its engine power cuts out.)
- The fiction:science ratio is shifting, because the perception is increasingly that science and any manner of high-brow stuff just ain't cool no more.
- Any explosion in space looks like everything's been packed full of gasoline and oxygen.
 
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shortylickens said:
Nothing. I know the difference between fantasy and reality.

Movies were invented to entertain people. If you cant grasp that concept, quit watching them.
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This is my gripe with Sci-Fi movies. Just look at the thread arguing about gravity in The Avengers and how Iron Man wasn't supposed to fall back to earth through the worm hole. It's a freaking fantasy movie. You don't question the demi-god, aliens, or the guy turning into a monster when he gets mad, you question the gravity.
 
my number one gripe is sounds in space.

whether its a ships engines or a meteor/comet or firing of some weapon -laser/missile or a ship exploding.

space is a vacuum. There is no sound propagation.
 
Iron Woode said:
my number one gripe is sounds in space.

whether its a ships engines or a meteor/comet or firing of some weapon -laser/missile or a ship exploding.

space is a vacuum. There is no sound propagation.
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BSG,
Firefly,
and the latest Stat Trek movie at least made nods in this general direction.
 
That the SciFi genre has been Reduced to anything with lasers and outer space. Star Wars began this trend and the horrible horrible Transformers movies have perpetuated it.

Fantasy genre is now considered sci fi, and sci fi is now considered science fact like Ancient Aliens..
 
Lack of 3 boob+ aliens other then a very select amount of movies that have them.

That is what mankind has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars.
 
I wish more movies and TV would get their plots from real science fiction writers like Larry Niven, Robert Forward, Greg Bear, etc. instead of from Hollywood writers who have apparently never read a book.

Bablylon 5 used the Lensman series as inspiration for the shadow war, but almost no "sci fi" makes even that much of an effort.

Imagine a Tales of Known Space limited-run series, or Forward's Dragon's Egg as a TV movie.
 
DaveSimmons said:
I wish more movies and TV would get their plots from real science fiction writers like Larry Niven, Robert Forward, Greg Bear, etc. instead of from Hollywood writers who have apparently never read a book.

Bablylon 5 used the Lensman series as inspiration for the shadow war, but almost no "sci fi" makes even that much of an effort.

Imagine a Tales of Known Space limited-run series, or Forward's Dragon's Egg as a TV movie.
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doesn't matter. they'd still dumb it down to be no better than what we've got on the screen right now. gotta have that mass appeal, and the people involved in production don't think like sci-fi authors.
 
zerocool84 said:
This is my gripe with Sci-Fi movies. Just look at the thread arguing about gravity in The Avengers and how Iron Man wasn't supposed to fall back to earth through the worm hole. It's a freaking fantasy movie. You don't question the demi-god, aliens, or the guy turning into a monster when he gets mad, you question the gravity.
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I'm not talking about Avengers so much, as that's obviously impossible fiction. Something like Minority report is in great part quite feasible, though. The see through screens are simply a technology that would never be pervasive as it is totally non-functional.
 
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