Enough With the Unoriginal Sci-Fi. Looking at You, Life
Enough With the Unoriginal Sci-Fi. Looking at You, Life
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March 27, 20176m 11s
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Show Notes
Science fiction cinema has a longstanding problem:Good ideas abound, butgreat ones are in short supply. (And most of the good ones have been used.) After decades of drought, 2001: A Space Odyssey spawned Solaris andStar Wars and Alien, and the genre became popular, but pulpily so; parades of familiartropes spackled over withterrible visual effects.
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