Re: Sci-Fi clichés
I think when Science Fiction is turned up too much on the volume scale -- it can go very wrong. You want the sci-fi to be the gateway to a cool story -- but for the story to feel human and relatable.
Star Trek as others have said -- feels like a western or a navy ship. People at work, but it's in space. It just feels very human to me. It's OUR future, but it's all talking about our present and past.
But then you have Star Trek like shows that are 90% new worlds, new characters, hard to follow, maybe adpated from a book or comic, and my mind goes numb.
I think our brains (or most of us) can only take so much sci-fi added to a story -- I say about 10-20% of the story. When it goes above that -- holy crap -- you can have movies that may look cool, but it's impossible for it to rise to that next level.
This also applies to horror movies for me. Michael Myers is scary as **** because he's in the real world and he's real. Just a freak. It's a whole lot less scary to me when your cell phone is trying to kill you. It just turned the "do I believe this?" too far.
Also funny all the movies you mention as great sci-fi all had tons of sequels. Because there was too much story to fit into one film. Too much world. And how many movie deserve to have multiple movies? The Matrix I think is amazing -- the sequels are not.
I think when Science Fiction is turned up too much on the volume scale -- it can go very wrong. You want the sci-fi to be the gateway to a cool story -- but for the story to feel human and relatable.
Star Trek as others have said -- feels like a western or a navy ship. People at work, but it's in space. It just feels very human to me. It's OUR future, but it's all talking about our present and past.
But then you have Star Trek like shows that are 90% new worlds, new characters, hard to follow, maybe adpated from a book or comic, and my mind goes numb.
I think our brains (or most of us) can only take so much sci-fi added to a story -- I say about 10-20% of the story. When it goes above that -- holy crap -- you can have movies that may look cool, but it's impossible for it to rise to that next level.
This also applies to horror movies for me. Michael Myers is scary as **** because he's in the real world and he's real. Just a freak. It's a whole lot less scary to me when your cell phone is trying to kill you. It just turned the "do I believe this?" too far.
Also funny all the movies you mention as great sci-fi all had tons of sequels. Because there was too much story to fit into one film. Too much world. And how many movie deserve to have multiple movies? The Matrix I think is amazing -- the sequels are not.
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