Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Evaluating Sci-Fi films

Science fiction should not be evaluated by its likelihood to our world or even it's logic. It should be evaluated on how creative the world the film makers produce is. The more creative, the more interesting the film. By creative I don't mean a crazy world run by giant toasters that enslave the human race, rather originality and if there is a human element. And if there is how does it interact with the world. In 2001 the human element was in the computer which was creative. HG Wells evaluated metropolis on how logical the world it took place in was. He evaluated the film like a student would evaluate a research paper. He criticized it for taking place 100 years in the future but with the social constraints of 30 years prior. Science fiction does not need to be logical or likelihood of happening if it takes place in the future. It just needs to be original and creative.

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