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ecib  ·  4847 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: They're making another Blade Runner movie.
Did you hear they are putting the Robocop statue in Detroit?

I don't see how they could possibly not fuck Robocop up though. The current crop of Hollywood sci-fi directors have churned out completely soulless films that say nothing.





alpha0  ·  4847 days ago  ·  link  ·  
> The current crop of Hollywood sci-fi directors have churned out completely soulless films that say nothing.

Oh, they are certainly saying something. SciFi is a vehicle for social engineering. StarTrek (tng and later), for example, are constantly preaching; it is so annoying. Others impart existential angst (e.g. the civilization of The Alien). And nearly all -- even the supposedly utopian visions such as StarTrek's -- insist that the future of mankind is a Intergalactic-Military-Junta and one must wear a color-coded uniform..

I want to see someone actually do justice to Frank Herbert's Dune. (I am not holding my breath; that book is clearly subversive in context of contemporary (geo-)political realities).