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The 15 Best Hard Sci-Fi Movies That Define the Genre (movieweb.com)
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We took a trip through decades of the genre and came up with a list of the most important and best hard science fiction movies of all time. They are the essence and the foundations of the book of sci-fi rules that's still being written as we, the audience, become much more self-aware of our relationship with technology, the future, and whatever those two will bring.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Your list is far better.

I loved Niven’s books, one of my favorite sci-fi authors. However, he might be a hot potato for studios, he is an outspoken libertarian and may not be the best to put in front of a camera with many studios keeping a close eye on stars' public persona and statements.

Plus, I don’t know how you’re gonna make films about Luis Wu fucking his way around the Ringworld with various aliens. Really gonna have to sanitize the story a bit, or all of Niven’s aliens are going to have to be transformed to Star Trek aliens, basically humans with some weird shit on their nose and forehead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All of the aliens that Wu is fucking on the Ringworld essentially are Star Trek style aliens.

Spoilers for decades old scifi: >!Star Trek aliens are almost all humanoid because a humanoid progenitor species seeded the galaxy with DNA that would eventually give rise to humanoid life. Ringworld is even more direct than that: it was originally peopled by the humanoid Pak, but they left a bunch of gaps in the ecology and stopped maintaining the ecosystem, so humanoids evolved to fill the empty ecological niches. Hence, humanoid otter-people, bison-people, and jackal-people, all of whom can fuck each other.!<

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So...a film furries might like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't forget all the aliens in Ringworld, besides Nessus and Chmee, are basically humans with weird changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

he had some proclivities that are indefensible.

Could you elaborate?