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Writer's Block: Future forward
Jun. 28th, 2010 10:18 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
As one reply said, "that's like asking me to choose between my hands and my feet," for after all, my favorite genre is science-fiction for watching, reading, and writing. However, I managed to split my answer into two. So many people said Star Wars, without identifying which film, some said Star Wars, and meant Episode I (ouch). Other major contenders were 2001, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, and The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original; "Klaatu Berada Nikto"). One person even said, Dune, bless them, but no. As wonderful asall most of those are, I chose two films, one classic sci-fi, and the other more recent:
Logan's Run and part III of Children of Dune by the Sci-Fi channel (before they became the ridiculously named and poorly managed "SyFy")
They may not be the best films ever, but they're the ones I go back to again and again. They don't border into any other cross-genre like horror, noir, comedy, or otherwise, they are pure science fiction, and the latter choice did an excellent job (James MacAvoy, Susan Sarandon) of capturing the essence of the particular characters in the same titled book. As for Logan's Run ("Renew! Renew!"), any sci-fi film that quotes T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats wins my vote.
As one reply said, "that's like asking me to choose between my hands and my feet," for after all, my favorite genre is science-fiction for watching, reading, and writing. However, I managed to split my answer into two. So many people said Star Wars, without identifying which film, some said Star Wars, and meant Episode I (ouch). Other major contenders were 2001, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, and The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original; "Klaatu Berada Nikto"). One person even said, Dune, bless them, but no. As wonderful as
They may not be the best films ever, but they're the ones I go back to again and again. They don't border into any other cross-genre like horror, noir, comedy, or otherwise, they are pure science fiction, and the latter choice did an excellent job (James MacAvoy, Susan Sarandon) of capturing the essence of the particular characters in the same titled book. As for Logan's Run ("Renew! Renew!"), any sci-fi film that quotes T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats wins my vote.
