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What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Anomandaris@kbin.social to c/scifi@kbin.social

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It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?

My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I've tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute "journey" through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.

But it doesn't. Because it's just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.

It insists upon itself, Lois.

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[–] sgibson5150@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've got one. I thought John Carter was a fun movie and I have no idea why everyone was so pissed off about it.

[–] DuckCake@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm with you! I thought it was fine! I mean, we weren't redefining cinema here, but it was fun.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought the biggest problem was the marketing - John Carter is not a name that tells you anything at all about the film's setting and I don't recall anything much promoting it suggesting it might be that John Carter even if you did know the source material at all!

But i am with you, it was a fun popcorn movie, and sometimes that's what you really want

[–] Jon-H558@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yep John Carter to me sounded like another action movie in the John Wick style, I didn't even realise it was sci fi

[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who'd read the books before the movie ever came near existing, I wasn't pissed off at all. I loved their representation of Barsoom, the tharks, and Woola. So I'm with you on this one.

[–] sgibson5150@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the support. There aren't many of us!

[–] infinityto1@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

John Carter is such a fun romp, I think it really captured the spirit of old scifi, where things were a little silly compared to today bc they were really just flying by the seat of their pants imagining space travel and other planets. It was a real melding of scifi/fantasy. Today, we've seen pictures of the surfaces of those planets, and now current scifi is more like reading a thesis (nothing wrong with that), where the author really delves into the science, so the old stuff does seem corny. But it's great. It's like Jupiter ascending but good

[–] falsem@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It was great. I don't know anyone who's seen it that actually disliked it. It bombed really badly due to marketing failures though.