Science Fiction Lives!
Sci-fi is a genre that often puts people off when it comes to film, but if you are a fan then you should be excited about the goodies that are fast approaching. There has been a re-emergence of science fiction in recent years after what has seemed like a considerable lull in its quality, and this has encouraged the film industry to remake several 80s classics. So if you’re not a fan of sci-fi already perhaps you soon will be!
The 80s was definitely the decade that embraced science fiction to the full. Back then there were films such as the Star Wars trilogy, Blade Runner, The Terminator, RoboCop, Back to the Future and Total recall. These were other worldly, full of special effects and often included some kind of ’deep'moral question, something that science fiction is supposed to excel at. I will admit that not all of these films were great and to claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger movies have a deep moral question is a bit of a push, but on the whole 80s science fiction was big budget, crowd pleasing and thought provoking (Even if they did think that computers would be the size of planets by 2012).
In recent years however science fiction has had a bit of a hard time, with the exceptions of Avatar, Inception, Transformers and The Matrix there have been few quality block busters. Films have even sought to call themselves something other than science fiction; ’It’s a conspiracy thriller set 50 years from now’. You can imagine the joy of sci-fi fans everywhere then when it was released that three massive 80s films will be remade; Total recall with Colin Farrell playing Doug Quaid, RoboCop and Ridley Scott is making a sequel to Blade Runner. These three films are true science fiction tails and it shows that the genre is alive again. All Sci-fi writers who had given up hope dust off those bespoke three piece suits and prepare for the Oscars!
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