Truly a topic for A Blog For Men
As you may
have guessed by now I am a massive Sci-Fi fan. Pretty much ninety percent of
what I watch is science fiction. And I intend to keep it that way.
But what
makes a good science fiction film? I put it down to one thing. Showing us
something we have never seen before!
Just this
one thing can magnetize you to the film. Let’s see where this has happened to
me before.
Alien.
Ridley Scott’s masterpiece and arguably the greatest sci-fi of all time! First came
the derelict spaceship. A weird design from the mind of the incredible artist
H.R Geiger. Then came the space jockey (the creature fossilised in the chair
inside the derelict spaceship) really weird design. The alien eggs, the face
hugger and the alien itself! All these thing never seen before. And even
better, there was no explanation of any of them. You never find out where they
come from or why they were there. Talk about get it right! Even today people
are still trying to piece it all together.
I will be forever a fan of Alien. I love the
mystery and the suspense. But most of all I live the concept. For sure we had
never seen anything like it before and perhaps since.
Prometheus
the sort of prequel to Alien tried to expand on the origins of the creatures
form LV-426 and did a wonderful job of it. But we had seen it before (except
for the black goo) so you kind of knew what to expect.
But good
news! The sequel to Prometheus is going to start filming and should be with us
late 2015. I do hope that we see something that we have never seen before. And
I have a new number one Sci Fi film.
Take a look
an see what I mean
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