At 13-05-1997 15:43, Dan C. Smith wrote
>In a message dated 97-05-13 07:19:03 EDT, you write:
>
><< If such comic book simplicity is all you demand of a four star
>movie...with people crawling in and out of ventilator shafts, people falling
>through steel roofs and
> emerging unhurt and unscathed, massive barrage of firing weapons killing of
> spearcarriers left and right, perhaps the standards of what makes good sf
> have changed significantly. WHat do you think? >>
>
>
>Bravo!! Here!, Here! Very eloquently put! I too saw the movie 5th Element
>and saw absolutely nothing worth remembering. It might be called fiction and
>I suppose you could stretch the point and justify speculative fiction, but it
>is as far from Science Fiction as a story and a movie can possibly get.
> You're right! The standards must have changed while I wasn't looking! So
>long as the movie industry is convinced that it must hire children to make
>movies for children, the rest of us thirst in a distainful dessert for lack
>of anything remotely like good science fiction in any of the visual media.
> Someone needs to inform them of the existance of sizeable audience that is
>actually beyond the age of 12 and that the genre has a long and rich history
>that will shape our expectations.
>
>Dan S.
>
Sorry to add just a little line to a long quote, but I have just one
thing to say: go watch "Nirvana" when it comes out up there. I haven't
see the 5th Element (I will, and I think I will enjoy it as I did Leon
and ID4... liking it is something different) but I know what to expect.
Which is a whole lot closer to space opera (which I *also* enjoy) than,
say, William Gibson or Bruce Sterling or even Iain Banks.
Nirvana, on the other hand, is exactely the sf movie I wouldn't have
expected an italian film-maker to make - intelligent, touching, funny. (I
just hope they dub it, for your sake).
I'd put it up there with Strange Days, 12 Monkeys and Brazil. Go and have
a look.
Anna F. Dal Dan
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