| Sci-Fi Movies
A. I.: Artificial Intelligence Creature from the Black Lagoon The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace
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Fantasy Movies Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
Somewhere along the
line, Sci Fi movies went horribly wrong. Science Fiction (or speculative
fiction or SF if you are being anal retentive) is the literature of ideas.
It is a literature that asks "What if?" And yet, ideas are something
that Sci Fi movies are particularly short on. Don't get me wrong, I love
'em to death and have since I was very young, but Sci Fi movies are almost
always more interested in drugging the eye than in feeding the mind.
As a small caveat: I have lumped fantasy movies here, too. Ideally I would lump all genres together, but no one likes that idea but me, so here they are....
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