So I suppose I'm the only one who quite liked Robin Hood then? Thought so :-p I guess I just approached it as typical Saturday early-evening viewing. I wasn't expecting do see a "drama", and certainly very little in the way of historical authenticity (I doubt I would have recognised it if I had seen it, tbh). I think you're right about the Hercules comparison, but I don't mind that.
AOL to what you said about Veronica Mars.
Similar to what you said about Children of Men, except the SF bit (go on, you know you're not the slightest bit surprised about that).
What I was saying was that it didn't feel like highbrow SF to me. It felt like high-quality drama; it seemed to me to have more in common with the conspiracy thrillers of the seventies/eighties than anything else (guy thrown into a situation out of his depth and control, not knowing who to trust, artificially imposed deadlines, people shooting at you, that kind of thing). That was what it felt like to me.
Well it's an odd film in that it clearly *is* SF, but it also postulates no significant new technology - it merely exaggerates the world and attitudes of today using one particular SF concept (the infertility) as a catalyst. Which is just the kind of thing that leads mainstream authors to make futile claims that their novel is not SF, even though everyone knows that it is. But I could understand why the film might not come across as overtly SF in a lot of ways.
it merely exaggerates the world and attitudes of today using one particular SF concept (the infertility) as a catalyst.
What's interesting about this is that it's exactly what vast amounts of 'golden age' sf always did. Almost anything John Wyndham wrote, for instance. What we now think of as traditionally multivariate (tm Graham) futures arguably didn't become mainstream until Stand on Zanzibar/Neuromancer.
AOL to what you said about Veronica Mars.
Similar to what you said about Children of Men, except the SF bit (go on, you know you're not the slightest bit surprised about that).
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Okay Children of Men isn't particularly highbrow, or particularly SF, but to me it still feels more like highbrow SF than an action flick.
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"sf's no good!" The bellow 'till we're deaf
"But this looks good--" "Well then, it's not sf."
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btw, I didn't realise that had posted; am playing with my shiny new phone, and it just have of an error message when I tried posting.
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Ah! To write it makes your good English.
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What's interesting about this is that it's exactly what vast amounts of 'golden age' sf always did. Almost anything John Wyndham wrote, for instance. What we now think of as traditionally multivariate (tm Graham) futures arguably didn't become mainstream until Stand on Zanzibar/Neuromancer.
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