Where are the great science fiction movies?

[tuftears]

Having seen Super 8, X-Men First Class, and just today, Green Lantern, I found myself marveling most at the alien spacesuits in the opening of Green Lantern and thinking 'dang, where have all the great science fiction movies gone?'

I would so dearly love to see Chess with a Dragon done as a science fiction movie.

Admittedly filming with 'real' settings is cheap, but this is the age of CGI. We're now in much more of a position than ever to be able to film complete movies in nonhuman settings - the failing is one of imagination on the part of human directors. People seem to enjoy waxing nostalgic over the past - Cowboys vs Aliens, for instance.

Of course there have been some good science fiction shows and movies, I'm just wishing for more - movies and shows where we're invited to imagine a rich and detailed future universe.

What about y'all, what's satisfying your science fiction cravings lately?

Comments

[zrath.livejournal.com]

I'm annoyed at the very limited spaceship-content of various modern sci-fi shows. I'm in this sci-fi jazz for the ships, man! Give me fighters! Give me shuttles, freighters, destroyers, corvettes, frigates, carriers, dreadnaughts, battleships, motherships, fatherships, space stations!
Less talking, more whooshing!
Also, a sense of humor doesn't hurt. "Battlescar Angstactica" certainly could have used one.
But hey, at least, there was decent shippage in there, plus newtonian physics goodness.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Preach it, brother! ^_^