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I will disagree here and say it all hasn't been done yet we just haven't seen genius like in Stanley Kubrick's 1968, Blade Runner, Alien or Star Wars etc in a while. I have several ideas myself that i think would translate well to film. I believe the problem with sci-fi lies with producers not willing to take the risk they once did.

As a sci-fi conceptual artist (in my spare time) I can say that as long as people like me exist sci-fi will never die. Although I do agree that the re-hashing of old ideas is wearing thin the one thing that made older sci-fi movies great was their plots and atmosphere.

THe matrix was great, the chronicles or riddick were great, but I have to agree that everthing after them (warofthewordlds and onwards) are not worth the money

Sadly enough, I agree.

I love sci - fi films, but it seems as though all new "sci fi" films are bland, lacking creativity. It angers me to see films with generic themes, and angers me to no end that there aren;t any creative sci -fi films lately.

What load of rubbish. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Encounters of the Third Kind, and half the other 'epics' I personally found to be completely boring.

The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds were all good movies.


This is just a difference in taste in movies and a change in style. Claiming the genre is dead because nobody makes sci-fis without cgi now-a-days is like claiming nobody makes good crime dramas because the severed arms in CSI don't look like they're made of plastic anymore as they did in the old days.

Its one thing to hark back to an era long gone, but its just childish to moan that the genre is dead because the special effects are better. For crying out loud in case this idiot hadn't noticed The War of the Worlds was based on a book from the 1880s, which pre-dates his 1968 movie no matter what calander he's going by.

Can I remind everyone that in Alien, Ridley Scott wanted it to end with the Alien killing Riply and contacting earth in her voice to say it was coming home. Thank god Cameron had written it and not him. This man nearly destroyed one of sci-fis greatest series, he should therefore not be considered an expert in the genre just because Blade Runner (based on a book he did not write) was a descent movie.

Apparently he hasn't seen, Pitch Black, Children Of Men, and Event Horizon.

Sci-Fi isn't dead it is just going through a quiet phase at the moment in my opinion.

The same thing happened several years ago regarding supernatural films, but they are coming back with a vengeance.

They'll take off again, they just need to get some new ideas

What he is saying is that everything we see in sci-fi has been done already and it has it's just now they have uber effects and what not. Eventually people will grow weary of sci-fi and stop going to theaters to watch I personally believe this prediction too unless Hollywood starts getting some fresh writers with new ideas as opposed to rehashing the same stuff.