Saturday, March 29, 2008
10 Most Prophetic SF Movies?
10 Best Science Fiction Movies Ever – Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films - Popular Mechanics: "When Arthur C. Clarke died last week at the age of 90, science fiction—hell, science in general—lost one of its greatest, most forward-looking masters. In his honor, PM’s resident geek and sci-fi buff analyzes the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future. They’re not necessarily the best movies—just the ones that got the science right, or will sometime soon."
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The utter dumbth of GATTACA lies in the ill-defined nature of the genetic discrimination (it's basically a heavyhanded anti-Chauvinism story with genetic profiling standing in for racism, sexism, etc.) and the really badly-realized attempt to imagine the daily lives of this society...to gain access to certain buildings, etc., you have to let your finger be pricked for blood sample. Every damned time. Happily, the future has eliminated pain and communicable disease but still needs to genetically profile. (Well, some reason why the Haves are better than the Have-nots and therefore deserve to Have will probably be in place, but still, this is Pull me right out of the story dumb as a practical measure, as a diabetic who has to steel himself up for ever lancet puncture.)
But, then again, any list which includes SOYLENT GREEN but excludes, say, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT...
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