Friday, February 25, 2005

The fun of Sci-Fi/Fantasy

There are many stories that deserve mention. They deserve mention because of their qualities to inspire us. Inspire us to greatness, inspire us to dream.
Many of these stories are real, most of them are imagined. Even an imaginary story can have qualities of reality in its characters and scenarios.
Just imagine what you would do in their place.
These stories are unique, they are interesting because their story is not a xerox of many other stories that have come before. Unique stories, unique characters, and unique views of life.
These stories fall into this category:
Farscape
Harry Potter
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street
Babylon 5
Predator
Ender's Game
Thieves' World
Hobbit & LotR
Firefly/Serenity
Transformers
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Dark City
5th Element
Galaxy Quest
The Island
ID4
Last Starfighter
Men in Black
Minority Report
Matrix
Stargate
Starman
Terminator
Star Wars
Star Trek
2001
War of the Worlds

There are many other movies that are great to see, and while I don't agree with everything on the following list, it has many of the great ones...
http://www.homevideos.com/

It would be nice if Hollywood would produce movies that meet these criteria and standards, but as it is, they produce so many movies that are duplicates of each other.
The names change, the way the scenario plays out is different, but the story is usually the same...how many times can you watch a psychopath kill everyone but the "hero" and come back time after time...
The original of each of these movies is the Unique one, while the others, if not careful, are the repeat...
Some of the different ones are
Aliens

I think horror movies are most at fault for xeroxing stories, but others follow the same trend...
Friday the 13th, Jaws, Jepers Creepers, The Ring, I know what you did, Saw, (etc)...
Just tell me, what is the real difference between all these movies...???

We should mention this to Hollywood, and often..."we want ORIGINAL Movies, with UNIQUE Stories...We want Inspiration!"
Something that isn't so far out there that we cannot believe it, but still enough of a stretch to excite the imagination!

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