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_refugee_  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What the fuck is a "space movie?"

What, is a little imagination too much to ask? ;)





kleinbl00  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right - so what we're looking for here is "give us a list of movies we've previously discussed, but also the feature-length version of Firefly because duh, obviously it needs to be discussed."

I got up on the wrong side of the bed today (actually, the discount Ross-purchased yoga mat and furnie pad underneath the mixer) but this shit ain't helpin'.

user-inactivated  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually what I was saying is you just apply that stanza to every movie and if there's any sort of correlation then it's a space movie.

kleinbl00  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Much cleverer than anticipated. That said, it discounts movies where the protagonists would much rather not be in space, such as the entire Alien franchise.

user-inactivated  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    movies where the protagonists would much rather not be in space

There's a joke in here somewhere about art imitating life.

_refugee_  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I SAY WE TAKE IT TO A VOTE

Who says Serenity is actually a space movie according to Klein's parameters? Or is it really a Western that just happens to happen in Space? (Sub "towns" for "planets")

mknod  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay well if we're ONLY doing Serenity, I am going to say it's a Western in space. The place doesn't really matter.

But background and context matters right?:

If we are going by Firefly, I'm going to say it's part of the "Space Genre" because there are reasons that they need to be in space, space plays a big role in some of the drama in the show and the distances the crew are from home.

briandmyers  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good answer. The episodes "Out of Gas" and "Objects in Space" are, I think, clearly space, um, movie-like things. Most of the other episodes are space Westerns.