After a month without a theme, I wanted to come in strong. Science Fiction isn’t a genre that I love. Or maybe I should say it is a genre I don’t watch all that often. I love many science fiction films – from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Alien, Jurassic Park to Mad Max Fury Road. But again it isn’t a genre I necessarily turn to regularly.
So, I thought it would be fun to watch some this month (and I just love me some rhyming monthly movie themes).
Sci-fi is a genre that’s hard to define. In a pinch, I’d say it takes place sometime in the future and deals with technology and ideas that we’ve not yet thought of. But that just scratches the surface. The genre often blends with fantasy. What’s that old line about technology becoming so advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic? And stories set on alien planets with alien life are not so different from magical creates in fantasy stories.
Looking at the sci-fi genre on Letterboxd turns up all the Marvel movies and Star Wars and where do you draw that line?
I don’t know. Don’t really care. I’m gonna watch films I think fall into the science fiction category and we’ll leave it at that.
I think this is going to be fun.
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