What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion?

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My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I've tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute "journey" through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.

But it doesn't. Because it's just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.

It insists upon itself, Lois.

cerebrate,

@Anomandaris

Unpopular SF opinion?

Peter Watts (Blindsight, et. al.) really, really, really needs a hug.

wave_walnut,
@wave_walnut@kbin.social avatar

I think Mobile Suit GUNDAM directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino is one of the best SF TV show.

iNeedScissors67,
@iNeedScissors67@kbin.social avatar

My unpopular opinion is that Mass Effect 1 is the best game in the series. 2 was a giant side mission, and 3 was great but, the ending (which isn't as bad to me as it was to others). I keep going back to the first one (24th playthrough now) because it's more of an RPG than a shooter and had the best story of the 3.

djmarcone,
  1. DS9 is the best trek
  2. Babylon 5 is the best sci fi show of all time
chahk,
  • Babylon 5 is the best sci fi show of all time

"The Expanse has entered the chat*

djmarcone,

that's the standard response, every time lol.

"Babylon 5 is the best!"

"But But THE EXPANSE!"

tqgibtngo,
@tqgibtngo@kbin.social avatar

"We've been borrowing your good ideas for years," The Expanse co-author Ty Franck once tweeted to the creator of Babylon 5 (who later called The Expanse "brilliant and a worthy successor to Babylon 5," to which Franck replied: "Successor is a lovely way to say 'walking in the shadow of.'").

gingerrich,

Mine is probably that Philip K Dick is seriously overrated. Great ideas. Terrible writing.

Ragnell,
@Ragnell@kbin.social avatar

Upvoting because I disagree so much with, but you understood the assignment.

Saxitoxin,

My SciFi unpopular opinion is that is that any book by H. G. Wells is mind numbingly boring.

DLBPointon,

Someone finally said it. I tried War of the World's twice and couldn't get past Chapter 1. My in-laws mocked me for shunning it.

w3dd1e,

Star Wars is not good, for the most part. There are a couple good movies and shows, but the majority of Star Wars is not good at all.

Rian Johnson’s movie didn’t deserve the hate it got! It wasn’t bad.

Rogue One is fantastic. Full stop.

gingerrich,

Episode 4,5 and 6 are great. The Prequels were a mess and visually did not fit, story was dreadful and George should have been shoo'd away.

The sequels are some of the worst cinema ever, and I have seen Vampire Trailer Park in full as well as the full, uncut version of Pink Flamingos.

joonazan,

Don’t know about good but Star Wars is not scifi. Most “scifi” movies aren’t but SW doesn’t even try.

kinyutaka,

For me, 2001 was a great little mini episode about an awesome killer AI, surrounded by weird imagery about monkeys and fetuses.

But my unpopular science fiction opinion? Fantastic Four (the one with Ioan Gruffadd) was a good movie.

DestroyerOfWorlds,
@DestroyerOfWorlds@lemmy.world avatar

The Fast and Furious movies are science fiction movies. The complete disregard for how physics work is literally impossible visual fiction foisted into our faces against against the concept of reality.

and because, Family.

kinyutaka,

For me, 2001 was a great little mini episode about an awesome killer AI, surrounded by weird imagery about monkeys and fetuses.

But my unpopular science fiction opinion? Fantastic Four (the one with Ioan Gruffadd) was a good movie.

JoaquimCarneiro,
@JoaquimCarneiro@kbin.social avatar

Unpopular opinion: I really liked Star Trek Discovery Klingons...

str82L,

Blade Runner and its sequel are just too damned long.

arquebus_x, (edited )

Interstellar is a terrible film. It's not just bad at science (which it is); it's not just bad at storytelling (which it also is). It's an actively offensive (and racist!) movie that lionizes an emotionally abusive parent.

I even wrote a long essay about it once. The tone of the piece is humorous but I believe every word I wrote.

Robbsen1,

In what what way do you think it is racist? I did nit find any mention of that in your essay

pasci_lei,
@pasci_lei@kbin.social avatar

Star Wars isn't Sci-Fi, it's a space fairy tale.

frogfriend,

Serialized scifi shows are very boring. Especially when the focus of the show is on the serialization instead of the scifi.

Episodic morality plays are much more likely to support the wonder and excitement of discovery that a truly great scifi is capable of delivering.

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