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  • #46
    Sunshine
    Battlestar Galactica (TV show)
    Aliens
    Event Horizon


    Sci-fi is technically a story which deals with the social impact of new technology placed on a society or a group of people.

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    • #47
      Battlestar Galactica
      Stargate
      Armageddon
      X-men
      Starship troopers
      LOTR
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      • #48
        Originally posted by DoTheFandango View Post
        for someone arguing the definition of SciFi, you obviously don't know what SciFi is. Star Wars is NOT science-fiction, it is a Space Drama. It's an Epic. It's not Science-Fiction. The "Force" is not scientific, it's super-natural. That, sir, is fantasy. The fact that it has space and PEWPEW lasers doesn't make it SciFi, as SciFi deals with real-world political problems with advances in science and other aspects of the world making the story more complex.
        So when a film has humans in them, it is no longer science-fiction? I think it can fall under science fiction because it has certain elements, and it doesn't stop being science fiction just because it has other elements too.

        Star Wars could easily fall under both Sci-fi (space ships, lasers, human like robots) and fantasy (force, ewoks), but also action (space battles), drama (father and son mew mew), romance .. etc.
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        • #49
          Pi, havent seen that in a while, good movie tho, worth seeing.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Zerzera View Post
            So when a film has humans in them, it is no longer science-fiction? I think it can fall under science fiction because it has certain elements, and it doesn't stop being science fiction just because it has other elements too.

            Star Wars could easily fall under both Sci-fi (space ships, lasers, human like robots) and fantasy (force, ewoks), but also action (space battles), drama (father and son mew mew), romance .. etc.
            No, it's not science fiction because it doesn't deal with real-world society (EARTH) impacted by future technologies. Obviously, this could be allegorical to societies, where Galactic Empire is the evil government, and the rebels are the voice of the people, but then it just tells a story, not showing implications of anything. These wars were not caused because of a human advancement, but because of a group, basically, mutant beings that have special powers.

            Don't get me wrong, Star Wars is probably one of my favorite all-time movies, but lasers and space-ships do not make it a SciFi, it makes it futuristic. At best, Star Wars is an Epic Space Drama, not science fiction.
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            • #51
              I always thought Star Trek was sci-fi, but I start to doubt that, there is no real earthly society in Star Trek.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by DoTheFandango View Post
                for someone arguing the definition of SciFi, you obviously don't know what SciFi is. Star Wars is NOT science-fiction, it is a Space Drama. It's an Epic. It's not Science-Fiction. The "Force" is not scientific, it's super-natural. That, sir, is fantasy. The fact that it has space and PEWPEW lasers doesn't make it SciFi, as SciFi deals with real-world political problems with advances in science and other aspects of the world making the story more complex.
                I think you're looking at the interpretation of SciFi a little _too_ literally here, even more literally than the definition of SciFi itself.
                Sure Star Wars contains some fantasy elements such as the Force/Jedis (which can be analogous to Magic/Wizards). But I think that there is enough "speculative" science such as hyperspace travel, giant spaceships, planet-destroying lasers, etc. that this can quite happily be defined as a Science-Fiction film.

                Hell, even Wikipedia lists "space opera" (I assumed you meant this when you said "space drama") as a sub-genre of Science Fiction.
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                • #53
                  But I do see what you are trying to say, good science fiction would more be a moral exploration of what science brings us. Be it now or in the future.

                  Like the Island or Gattaca.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Zerzera View Post
                    I always thought Star Trek was sci-fi, but I start to doubt that, there is no real earthly society in Star Trek.
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                    • #55
                      Every movie mentioned in this thread is Science Fiction (yes, even the god-awful Armageddon and Dr. Strangelove).

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Ewan View Post
                        But I think that there is enough "speculative" science such as hyperspace travel, giant spaceships, planet-destroying lasers, etc. that this can quite happily be defined as a Science-Fiction film.
                        Again, this is not the point of a Science-Fiction piece of work. It's not JUST to be futuristic, it's to show how humanity changes based on future developments in technology or ideology. A great example of how this works in a simplistic manner is 1984, in how the then unimaginable idea of governments constantly monitoring people would effect and change privacy and thinking.

                        The story of Star Wars works whether you make the Death Star a giant castle with a huge catapult that can destroy cities but has one back entrance that rebels can enter and bomb. The story doesn't deal with the developments in terms of human being, it's all just part of the story. It's fantasy. The developments shown in Star Wars (space ships, light sabers, plasma rifles, etc.) are just to show an advanced people, not the change of the society they live in based on these elements.

                        EDIT: Did Geno just call Dr. Strangelove awful?
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                        • #57
                          Stargate SG-1 (The series) beats everything.
                          Predator
                          Alien
                          Transformers

                          I'm not going to go into a deeper analysis of what belongs under Sci-Fi, so if any of the titles I mentioned isn't according to you, please mail me a response to: whogivesashit@lolmail.com
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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by Zerzera View Post
                            I always thought Star Trek was sci-fi, but I start to doubt that, there is no real earthly society in Star Trek.
                            Isn't Star Trek all about finding their way back to Earth?

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                            • #59
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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Galleleo View Post
                                Isn't Star Trek all about finding their way back to Earth?
                                No.

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