I am dying to see Moon.

But is the Dark Knight really Sci-Fi? I mean I guess conventional meanings of it would say so, but it's not what I think of when I think "sci fi"

I also really enjoyed Sunshine.

MBK: Fictional? Sure. Science Fiction? Not even close.

I guess I was rationalizing the "futuristic" weapons that sometimes appear.

Ghastly: I'm sorry, but the new Star Trek movie was crap on so many levels. Absolute crap. Trekkies embraced is simply because they were desperate for anything Trek and thus willfully overlooked the movies many glaring flaws.

That's pretty much what you have to do with every Star Trek IP every made, from TOS to the new movie.

El Chode: I am dying to see Moon.

But is the Dark Knight really Sci-Fi? I mean I guess conventional meanings of it would say so, but it's not what I think of when I think "sci fi"

I also really enjoyed Sunshine.

Sunshine should have made the list over the superhero and monster movies.

Really?

The English Major: GAT_00: Ghastly: I'm sorry, but the new Star Trek movie was crap on so many levels. Absolute crap. Trekkies embraced is simply because they were desperate for anything Trek and thus willfully overlooked the movies many glaring flaws.

So you're another one of the fans pissed the movie was entertaining? How sad.

I wanted so bad to hate the new Trek. But I couldn't. It was a damned good film, and it will only help the franchise.

I agree, but..."red matter" my ass.

I liked all of these movies.

ALL OTHER OPINIONS ARE WRONG!

If you disliked any of these movies, you are INCORRECT.

El Chode: I also really enjoyed Sunshine.

Sunshine was no more Science Fiction than The Dark Knight. It was a character study, set in a fantasy universe. Not a bad movie, but not Science Fiction, since there was no actual science in it.

oldebayer: El Chode: I also really enjoyed Sunshine.

Sunshine was no more Science Fiction than The Dark Knight. It was a character study, set in a fantasy universe. Not a bad movie, but not Science Fiction, since there was no actual science in it.

You know as I was typing that it crossed my mind because I would tell my skeptical friends it's not a Sci-Fi movie, but just the ol' lifeboat scenario in space and a total mindfark.

But it is Sci-Fi. They employed physicists to ensure its accuracy. The fictional part was nuking the sun, but they worked to ensure that the effects from being so close to the sun would approximate what would likely happen.

El Chode: But it is Sci-Fi. They employed physicists to ensure its accuracy.

I went into this in another thread yesterday or the day before. Find me one credible physicist willing to agree that you could stick a huge space ship with a heat shield in a stable orbit between the Sun and Mercury for five years, without any on board computer to perform course corrections as needed, and (a) maintaining the orientation towards the sun so that the thing never melted, (b) taking into account the enormous pressure of sunlight itself at that distance on the heat shield, (c) allowing for all the perturbations of Mercury's gravitational pull, (d) taking into account the different flow of time itself in that region of space, and (e) about a dozen other things, each as absurd as the presence of a space speedometer on the shuttles in Armageddon, and I will admit, grudgingly, that there was actual science in this movie.

The spinning batmobile in Dark Knight was child's play in comprison.

District 9, fart.

Hender: I agree, but..."red matter" my ass.

Reconfigure the deflector dish and detonate the warp core to release a tachyon pulse and rotate the frequency of the shields and phasers.

Seriously, you're going to pick the "red matter" MacGuffin to biatch about in the new Star Trek movie of all things?

mamoru: However, less shaky cam would have been nice. I mean, seriously. They used shaky-cam (well, basic hand-held camera rather than a tripod) for Kirk talking to Uhura at the bar. Completely pointless to have any camera shake in such a scene unless you want to deliberately remind people they are watching a movie.

It's the new fad...use hand-held to give a "documentary feel" and make it more real. It'll fade into the background here shortly.

Also, the filmmakers have stated they're going to back WAAAY down on the lens flares for the sequel.

/"In the future, everything is SHINY!"