movie review
Reviewing the best science fiction movies from the past, present, and future.
'Star Wars' a Western?. Top Story - June 2019.
Western, a term that has circulated for quite a long time in the American space, but not only that, taken by its connotation as an artistic genre, refers to the 19th century America, and more accurately, to the American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, while not only one event, represents a corpus of disputes and events between the European government and colonists, later known as the United States, and the different tribes of Native Americans. This dispute can be traced back to the earliest colonial settlement, and it was due to the cultural discrepancies between the two societies, various disagreements in reserve to the ownership of the land, numerous criminal cations carried by both sides continuously, and many other debated subjects that bring with themselves a lot of ambiguity. With the aid of this history, the western genre has kept some of the historical elements and transferred them, with some modifications made by reinventing some of the elements, into the artistic field, some of the historical elements that can still be seen in the western genre are the wild frontier, the constructions of railroads, large ranches, revenge stories caused by criminal activities that were taking place in the Wild West, the American Natives cavalry fighting with the European colonists, the stories about bounty hunters and outlaw gangs.
By Denis Pinzariu7 years ago in Futurism
Reality or Fiction? Surveillance Society
Control and Choice: Banality of Surveillance sutured into The Truman Show and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Nowadays, surveillance that we all know is the centre and the universal feature of our social lives. Due to the massive technological innovations, only in our modern times, we created this systematic, and needless to say, invasive system where surveillance is everywhere. Even though its origin might seem that it comes from the eleventh century from Domesday Book, the evolution of surveillance throughout the centuries (especially nineteenth century) was climactic. In a very paradoxical way, surveillance society grew at the same time with democracy, and with the “demand for equality” movement. The reason why this feature made its way in our lives so quickly is owed to multiple factors that strongly influenced and helped surveillance to, inevitably, be a part of who we are right now. The key factors of this global phenomenon are government administration, the business that constructs and builds the capitalistic environment, and also the military growth, and industrialization of cities and towns. It was, and is, a means of power; but not merely in the sense that surveillance enhances the position of those 'in power'.
By Denis Pinzariu7 years ago in Futurism
'Men in Black: International' Is Well-Intentioned, but Weakened by Uninteresting Characters and Poor Comedy
"I can't wait for this film. I know this movie looks like a big cash-grab, but it looks like an awesome action-packed film with some good comedy and badass moments."
By Jonathan Sim7 years ago in Futurism
Classic Movie Review: 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier begins on a laughable, risible, note. After a prologue that vaguely introduces the film's villain, Laurence Luckinbill, we open on a mountain in California where a man is free climbing El Capitan. This handsome, in-shape, young man is nearly half way up the mountain when, in a scene of stunning incompetence, bad special effects, and remarkable arrogance, the strapping young climber is revealed to be the then nearly 60 year old, paunchy, William Shatner.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Futurism
'Ad Astra' Five Takeaways from the First Trailer for New Brad Pitt Movie
After moving to Netflix for his most recent movie, War Machine, Brad Pitt has two blockbuster movies on tap for 2019. The first up will be, arguably, the most talked about movie of 2019, Quentin Tarentino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which stars Pitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in a story that trails along the Hollywood of the late 1960s and the Manson Family murders.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Futurism
Stopping the Clock on Spike Lee's 'See You Yesterday'
I've said it on Twitter, and I've probably said it elsewhere, but I'm VERY busy these days—too busy to keep track of such things. I will not support any more time travel science fiction that doesn't get the science right, or at least close. What's close? No paradoxes, no butterfly effects, no time loops, and no predestination. In other words: NO BOLLOCKS! Since the unmitigated disaster that was Timeless—which I called as such, what with the writers like Arika Mittman, Lauren Greer being completely clueless about time travel science and co-creator Shawn Ryan lying about it while dissing fans and not giving a damn when called on it, and actor Malcolm Barrett lying about his expert knowledge of time travel physics and then lying about mine when his sorry sack got exposed for it. I've sworn to stop supporting time travel science fiction that doesn't deserve it. I'm going to call all of them out for all the stupid mistakes and asinine assumptions they make because it's all due to the fact they didn't care enough about the science behind the genre they're pilfering to make it accurate. Not even close. All they do is copy off of the prior bad time travel movies—like a dog returning to its vomit. As it stands, most time travel sci-fi has about as much accuracy as the early space movies.
By Marshall Barnes7 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'IO'
IO's a quiet gem of a movie—on Netflix—which reverses the usual pattern of humans embarking out into space, to the edges of our solar system and to neighboring star systems such as Alpha Centauri, so humanity can survive a dying Earth. I'm vividly in favor of humans going out into space—see Touching the Face of the Cosmos—but not at the expense of our planet. I want to see humanity thrive both on our planet and off it in the universe beyond.
By Paul Levinson7 years ago in Futurism
