Winn always made my skin crawl!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    Absolute nonsense. I can name tons of better-written science fiction films from the 1990s:

    Dark City, The Matrix, Contact, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, 12 Monkeys, Gattaca, Tremors, The Iron Giant, Cube, both Star Trek VI and Star Trek: First Contact. I can list more.

    And the writing in the original trilogy isn’t exactly amazing either.

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      Contact, Starship Troopers,

      written in the 1960s IIRC.

      Gattaca

      Seems partly inspired by Brave New World in the era of genetic sequencing.

      Those were incredible Treks though (TUC is my favorite by far). Still, Trek wasn’t really mainstream at this point, definitely not a blockbuster, even though First Contact probably broke the threshold.

      I honestly haven’t seen Dark City yet, never got around to it. The Matrix was part of the change and came out the same year, my point was we’d had a major drought till then. I’m arguing we went from a time of dearth to a time of plenty, and then walked face first into the MCU which recently imploded.

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        You’re being ridiculous. The novels were written then.

        Do you think they just put the novels into a screenplay machine and it came out the other end with a movie script?

        Or do you think every movie adaptation of a novel is a well-written movie?

        Anyway, since that’s not enough for you, I’ll keep going with well-written science fiction films of the 90s with much better writing than any Star Wars film George Lucas ever made:

        Back to the Future III

        Darkman

        Edward Scissorhands

        Total Recall

        The Rocketeer

        Terminator 2

        Jurassic Park

        The City of Lost Children

        Six-String Samurai

        The Handmaid’s Tale

        Tank Girl

        The Fifth Element

        Primer

        The Truman Show

        Bicentennial Man

        Predator 2

        Delicatessen

        Gremlins 2: The New Batch

        Men in Black

        I’d even put Stargate above The Phantom Menace in terms of writing. Also, not one of those movies had a long and pointless sci-fi version of a NASCAR race in the middle of it.