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And it did nothing of any significance with those themes. Didn't explore them in any depth. It felt like set dressing.

And Pacific Rim

Then you weren't really paying attention.

Also, for god's sake, if something doesn't do some massive deep interpolation of the human condition via future technology it's not science fiction? You are, and I apologise, massively massively wrong.

Technically, like, they weren't robots.

Or I have a different opinion to you. Chill out.

I am, like, totes chilled.

But the idea that something isn't "proper" sci fi if it doesn't explore the depths of the human condition via advanced technology or whatever is patently cobblers. ("Basically District 9 was actually sci fi, but Elyisum wasn't.")

Sci fi is a setting. End of.

Whether you enjoy any given film in that setting, be it an action film, romance, comedy or whatever (for you because it is some arthouse bollocks or whatever) is a matter of opinion to which you are of course entitled

Talking of which, for Billy Elliot and Captain America fans, I recommend Snowpiercer. Sort of a cross between The Cube or whatever it was and something else.

I believe you're quoting someone there. A genius, perchance.

I think you're confusing "science fiction" with "futuristic setting". I don't think of Star Wars or Firefly as science fiction.

Or, to quote Wikipedia, which is always right:

This is where we get into the boring discussion of whether Firefly is more of a Western or a Sci Fi.

But watching one using an oil tanker as a club was amazing

Been watching Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Its basically a new version of Moses vs the Pharaoh

Great CGI and nice to see ancient Egypt shown in such grand scale

However its not without its turkeys, once the plagues arrive on the Egyptians a technical advisor to the Pharaoh appears in the film

He is played by Spud from Train Spotting and he doesn't really do a good job of hiding his Scottish accent

And, technically, it wasn't "tops". It wasn't even "middles".

Also, in on sci-fi not being a genre.

Indeed! It was me wasnt it?



No no no no no no no no no no. I'm not confusing anything.

"Science fiction" isn't a genre of story in and of itself. It's a setting. I can think of vey very very very very few books in the "science fiction" section of the library that are actually about "the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting". They're all either action, thriller, crime or whatever, that are set in space or with lasers and robots and shit. A type of book that is purely about "the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology" would be fucking dull.

"Western" is a setting as well, as it goes.

Real Steel was great. The kids loved it. I loved it, even though it was in the "family movie" genre.

Yeah, I quite liked it too, although the idea of talking to a robot in a fight was a stupid one.

It was utterly silly, but suspension of disbelief and that. The shadow function thing wouldn't have worked in reality either. BUT ROBOTS SMASHING EACH OTHER UP.

Disagree, of course sci-fi films contain elements common to many other genres but for instance Blade Runner, that's sci-fi because although it's something of a crime drama the real point is that the science fiction elements pose philosophical questions.

Sci-fi is at least as much of a genre as anything else. But you can distill any genre until the only ones that you would "allow" would be those which describe the emotions they are supposed to create. All you would have left would be comedies, horrors and dramas or something.

Then fine, "films about people living in London" is a genre. Living in london clearly poses philosophical and social questions, or at least it does in all the films set there.

This is actually fucking mental. There isn't some equation which you can apply to reliably define genres and then categorise films into them. Sci-fi is a genre because it's a genre, you can go on Netflix and there is a section for sci-fi or browse Amazon for a book etc. etc. There isn't one for "people living in London".

Notting Hill certainly does

Loads of people put an apostrophe in "its" wrongly, but that doesn't make it correct punctuation. Having a "sci fi" section in Netflix doesn't make it a genre. Any more than "world cinema" is.

Also, this is all Grim...'s fault.

I'm a setting and a genre.

Yeah

Actually it would be really cool if i could browse films by cities. Or planets.

"World cinema " means porn

The world is more than Hungary and Brazil

A wise man once said

Brazil is definitely sci fi.

Is there a gaming equivalent to the Dewey Decimal system? TheVision probably uses one for his spreadsheet.

Feel free to not join in then.

I've always thought it was a little bit on the patronising side. And it's a bit random when things tip over into being "romance" or whatever rather than "World cinema", given that the main differentiator used for world cinema is "forrin and forrin language". So Amelie's in the wrong place.

Amelie is superb. I loved every moment of it.

It really was, yes. I'm normally a spaceships, guns, lasers and 'splosions kind of a chap, but it was a very sweet film.

Very much so. Like 'world music'. Ghastly term.

It's not boring, it's hilarious to see Kissy stuck in an untenable position.

4 Kissy

An untenable position supported by (and indeed originating from) Cras and Grim..., I'd note.

And we're right.

Science fiction can be a setting and a genre.

In some instances it is more the former, and in some the latter.

Sorry, that came across as a bit dickish.

If you want to call sci fi a genre, and use that weird ass wikipedia definition, you can. But that makes 90% of sci fi films not sci fi films, but instead "genre x in space/the future" which is pretty silly.

If it's got lazors, it's sci-fi, and frankly I don't give a shit if it's a Pride and Prejudice remake.

Shut up Curio, it's Friday morning on the Internet. That's no time or place for compromise.

is the title of your sex tape.

But can it be sci-fi without lazers? Hmm?

Is Planet of the Apes Sci Fi?

Planet of the Apes is Gorillas In The Mist in The Future (spoilers).

Well, the Portuguese title of Planet of the Apes is actually "the man that came from the future". And "Vertigo" is "The woman who lived twice".

Cracked even made an article about countries with silly film translations, and these made the cut.

The best of all are the Brazilian translations. "Teen Wolf" is "The Boy from the future".

It doesn't have to be all about the impact of bla bla etc to be Science Fiction, but it should have some part in the plot. At the very least, a (semi-)plausible line from our current technology to that depicted should be established or understood. Which is why Elysium is science fiction, incidentally. I would call Star Wars Futuristic Fantasy or something like that, although it is probably usually categorized as Space Opera, which is seen as a subgenre of Science Fiction, so people obviously disagree on this point. Science Fiction still isn't a setting, either way.

Look, Science Fiction is a genre of fiction. It's right there in the words.

awakenings - scI Fi?

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