Children of Men was a really great sci-fi movie. Like Theodore Sturgeon supposedly said in 1951 when folks complained about how bad sci-fi was, ‘90% of EVERYTHING is crap.’
I would love to know at what point the majority thought of movies/TV when they hear the word ‘sci-fi.’ At Star Wars? I always think ‘books’ when I hear the word. But I think movies/TV when I hear ‘Westerns’, not books. But I was never a huge reader of westerns.
Freegards
Yeah that was a good one.
The SF I read and the SF I watch tend to be vastly different. Probably because the SF I read is of a type that they just don’t make into movies. Although the TV side is starting to evolve (turns out plot drive SF is a lot cheaper to make than big budget exploitation SF) so that may be changing.
Westerns for me are entirely a movie genre. Horror is 99% movie for me too, only really started changing for me because I became friends with a really good horror author, of course his writing is evolving more towards military/SF so I’m reading less horror as he’s writing less.