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Originally Posted by TalnSG
I hate to be reminded of how many years it has been since I truly enjoyed a Sci-Fi movie for its plot or theme..... the last one was probably in black and white and filmed at Shepperton Studios (obviously not American). No, on second thought there was something commendable in Sleeper, Blade Runner and Soylent Green. There is a place for the truly uncomfortable solutions to world problems in sci-fi, it just isn't visited very often anymore.
But with the big bucks being forked over to have the world's children babysat in movie theatres instead of living life, of course the American movie industry has been dumbed-down to fit is paying clients. As for Avatar, it fits the description too. An immature treatment with lots of visual so the viewer doesn't have to do any thinking on their own.... and to some extent the experience is probably much better if they don't think about it too much.
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I agree. A movie that I saw last year (but was released perhaps 3 or 4 years ago) called Sunshine almost delivered what I thought to be a good sci-fi film. It started off with a crew of astronaughts heading towards the sun to "restart" it with some sort of device. It was decent up untill they introduced a monster and then the film turned from being a sci-fi/thriller into a lame horror flick.
As for Avatar, I enjoyed it and thought it had something to say about colonialism (coming from a country with a relatively recent colonial past). My only gripe with it was that the Navi were presented as the "Noble Savage" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage). For example- how the ritual of entering adulthood by sending your child into the mountains to capture some wild beast where the risk of death is considerable would be a negative aspect of Navi society which would invite criticism from me, however in the film it was romanticised.