Posted on 01/03/2024 12:51:37 PM PST by Red Badger
On the back of COVID-related production delays and massive Hollywood strikes, the next 12 months will be a strange mix of long-awaited content and out-of-the-blue oddities. More than half of last year’s list has yet to appear, so there is likely to be a lot of interesting film and TV to come.
I’m ignoring most of the big franchise stuff as it has recently proved to be utterly disappointing. Instead, we have lots of strange, creative and original work to look forward to including an apocalypse musical, an android exploring human emotions, and a story about a clone who lives forever.
Constellation (Apple TV)
Murderbot (Apple TV)
Dark Matter (Apple TV)
Dune: Prophecy (Max)
Alien (FX)
Mickey 17 (Warner Bros)
Civil War (A24)
The End (Final Cut For Real)
The Electric State (Netflix)
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That is one of the movies that makes me so furious that I can not enjoy it for what it is. A "kill human eating aliens" popcorn flick.
The book was, among other things, a study into the idea of what if you needed to do something other then just reach a certain birthday to be allowed to make political decisions.
While the movie leaned in hard on the military angle the book made clear that ANY service was what was required. If you did your two years (IIRC) scrubbing public toilets that qualified. They made up someone who had multiple physical handicaps but wanted to serve and asked if he would be allowed and the answer was yes. They would invent something that he could do if necessary. Because it was the idea that you were willing to give of yourself to keep your society running that counted.
I couldn’t wait so i went and read all the Silo books, by the way I thought the Foundation adaptation by Apple was AWFUL, Main Characters turned into black women, a triune Emperor, Harry Seldon alive when he was already dead in the book. It was a complete give in to wokeness. They totally destroyed it.
I haven’t read the Foundation Trilogy, so I don’t know enough to be as critical as you, but you’re not the first person that’s criticized it.People just can’t leave the original story alone. Instead of coming up with their own ideas, they have to use others’ stories and change them. It’s laziness.
I’m guessing that Dark Matter has nothing to do with Dark Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqwBlTQfTg
Watching on Netflix now a Korean series called Tomorrow. Fantastic concept, each episode is a separate story that blows away anything Hollywood is putting out. I would call it sci-fi.
You are correct
I wish that someone would do an adaption of the rest of the Narnia series for families.
The three they did were wonderful. The fourth one did not get made probably because it is similar to the Arab world A Boy and His Horse.
There should be enough worldwide interest though.
The original trilogy, though, is solid gold. I'm getting ready to go through it again, for about the 10th time. The first time was while I was in college, and it was my introduction to quality sci-fi.
Reading that led to devouring almost everything the Good Doctor wrote, then Heinlein, Farmer, and a collection of post-apocalyptic stories, as well as Brunner. Of course, all of that spoiled me for the run-of-the-mill stuff.
The real “science fiction” doesn’t make it up on the screen.
Now all the special effects come from computers. Soon the scripts will come from AI, and then the actors.
Subscription only with Apple TV......Oh well
It’s more fantasy than sci-fi; but I do hope Natasha Lyonne comes out with another season of “Poker Face”. That lady is a genuine genius. She combines a Columbo-like investigative style with a Mae West nonchalance and an inexplicable knack for detecting when people are lying.
I’ve read Heinlein, Farmer, Clark, Niven, Pournelle, although it’s been a long long time since I’ve actually picked an actual book up and read it. I gotta get back into it.
Nothing in that list I give two squats to see!
From the publicity photos I’ve seen of recent sci-fi series, the future will be filled with brilliant black female scientists.
The fifth Foundation was okay. It should have ended there.
The sixth was embarrassing. There's a scene in which a brilliant, beautiful, kick-ass female swoons when the wimpy, older Seldon verbally defends her from a sexist comment.
I got the feeling that Asimov fantasized that a beautiful, much younger woman would find him attractive in his old age, just for saying nice things about her.
I never read Asimov's seventh. Nor have I read the many Foundation sequels written by other authors.
I’ve never seen her in any shows/movies, but her Old Navy ads are annoying.
I love her Old Navy ads — she’s in the nonchalant character she developed for “Russian Doll” and “Poker Face”. I’ve become a real fan — and it’s hard to get me to be a fan of anyone in movies/TV. She just makes me laugh, much in the way that Gilda Radner could, just by looking at her.
She writes the shows and is executive director.
I think she has a cult following (like me) and that is why she gets the Old Navy spots.
I found a bunch of old yellow spined daw books recently at my local thrift shop, and yes I bought them all.
Asimov’s Foundation series is a classic. Harry Seldon and pyschohistory. Probably being practiced somewhere today.
Beacon 23 is pretty good, too.
Good comments on Foundation.
I was stunned when one of my favorite SF short stories by Ted Chiang was turned into an outstanding movie a few years ago:
https://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Amy-Adams/dp/B01LTHYE04
I thought the story was far too complex to be turned into a movie—but they did it—and did it well.
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