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The Top 25 Sci Fi of the last 25 years.

andy2002 said:
There wasn't any anime stuff in there at all, was there? Absurd, frankly.

akira is like the token anime... when you need an anime in a list but you realise you don't know any

however it's slowly being taken over by studio ghibli


personally though i'd put eva in there....
 
firky said:
But that does not make it sci-fi :mad:

Not only does it take place in the future, it also speculates about the science of that future, so if Children of Men isn't science fiction then I don't know what is. Not all, but most stories about dystopian societies also happen to be sci-fi.
 
fractionMan said:
although I've never been able to see what was good about serenity.

nor me. It's fine to string together a bunch of cliches if there's something else - a great script or some humour or some style.

It had none of these things.
 
wishface said:
uh, right :rolleyes:

How on earth did you find that incoherent?


to be fair, it's not incoherent - because you know exactly what's going to happen at every point. I've never seen a film with less suspense. You know who's going to die, who's going to win, what's going to happen at every single point.
 
Shippou-Chan said:
akira is like the token anime... when you need an anime in a list but you realise you don't know any

however it's slowly being taken over by studio ghibli


personally though i'd put eva in there....

yeah but you would say that :p

Akira's still quite good tho

Can't be arsed reading the link if it's one to a page and covered in ads. besides, I was hoping this was about books so I'd have some new stuff to read.
 
Reno said:
Not only does it take place in the future, it also speculates about the science of that future, so if Children of Men isn't science fiction then I don't know what is. Not all, but most stories about dystopian societies also happen to be sci-fi.
Surely all dystopian writing involves speculation about how the society came to be dystopian - that's sci-fi innit?
 
Orang Utan said:
Surely all dystopian writing involves speculation about how the society came to be dystopian - that's sci-fi innit?

Something like Kafka's The Trial is about a dystopian society without being science fiction, but I was generally agreeing with you that most of it falls within science fiction and Children of Men certainly is sci-fi.
 
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