bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (05/10/85)
Expires: Quoted from <1869@topaz.ARPA> ["Criticizing the critics"], by @RUTGERS.ARPA:DINGMAN@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA... +--------------- | After reading this digest for about a year and a half, I have to say | I'm upset with the way most everyone complains about SF movies. Most | comments about SF books are neutral to good, while most comments about | SF movies are neutral to negative. Very few good, supporting | statements are made. | ... | My point is that I don't blame the movie industry for not putting | its heart and soul into SF. No matter what they try, it gets | torn apart by SF 'fans'. Nothing is good enough, nothing is acceptable. | ... | I'd like to see more constructive comments; remove the clothespins | from your noses and point out the good parts, the creative and | original ideas, the novel approaches. | ... | Comments, anyone? +--------------- Yup. Don't hold your breath. NOBODY yet realizes that SF loses in television or movie format. The best SF simply cannot be visual; it depends on the imagination, and the visual media remove too much of the imagination. Hence, we get V and Battlestar Galactica on TV, and poorly adapted DUNEs on the big screen. (Star Trek almost got past this one; Dr. Who just about does, thanks to the fact that its SFX budget is too low to render a good imagination unnecessary.) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery, Unix Consultant -- 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa; ncoast!bsa@case.csnet; +1 216 524 1416; 74106,1032