When Is Someone Gonna Make A Sci-Fi Show Or Movie Without Any People In Them?

this is a good idea scott. but wouldn't the space turtle lobster fracas just be, like, the akira version of benji or the journey home or something? how about a film in space with no characters at all! it'd be like nasa footage only made up

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In this battle, we all win

Leee, I haven't read phoenix. Quick check on reviews gave me the impression it's deeper than most other mangas, you would agree?

But, if it does, I bet it comes from some neat whacko with a tricked out home editing studio.

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My wife and I were just saying the other night that Pixar should do a serious, absolutely-no-cuteness version of Animal Farm.

"Alien aliens

Life on other planets develops on its own, it doesn't have to imitate Earth at all. The basic physical, chemical and ecological rules are the same, but they allow infinite variation. An intelligent alien species will not look like a human in a funny suit - it may not even be similar to a vertebrate at all. Genetically we have more in common with an amoeba than any alien. And if they are not humanoid, their psychology and culture will be vastly different. Just as humans are different from each other and divided into a myriad groups, aliens will also be individual, not races where everybody is a wise mystic, stoic warrior or thieving businessman. "

It could be fun to make tight the "vow of sci-fi awesomeness" by including future studies stuff like forecasting methodology, the aims of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame etc

Greg Egan: I think both effects apply. What disappoints me is that most SF filmmakers aren't even aiming for more sophisticated themes or a higher level of logical consistency, let alone real-world scientific plausibility. The science in, say, Lorenzo's Oil wasn't perfect - from what I've read, the oil prevented the formation of one marker for the disease, but has little or no clinical benefit - but by merely putting some simple biochemistry on screen and discussing it logically, that film beat 99% of Hollywood SF into the ground. So as well as all the mood-driven movies like Alien and Blade Runner, and the futuristic action movies like Terminator, I think there's room for a few SF analogues of Lorenzo's Oil.

The film you're thinking of is the classic Silent Running.

Read about it here.

The film you're thinking of is the classic Silent Running.

Read about it here.

"And while I would love to see a crazy CGI flick about balloon-creatures extracting tin from air at the expense of a hive-mind's sanity, it's doubtful that it'll happen anytime soon."

this still sounds so good to me.

{puts on his Aristotle hat}

Where would the katharsis come from?

This thread sort of explains why I can't really stomach any sci-fi that's not set in the immediate future.

hey scott:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_is_Wild
http://www.amazon.com/Future-Wild-Phillip-Currie/dp/B0000YEDYU

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Ever since this thread I imagine Scott sitting around at home watching third-generation VHS copies of Lancelot Link: Ape Detective.

I think there may have been one where he went to space, actually.

dude scott you need to play metroid

speaking of "space divorce," did anyone even see that lawyers-in-the-fyoocha show?

wtf was i on about

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_is_Wild";

this looks like a misanthrope's dream come true! i never even knew about it.

I totally remember a similiar thread to this one, but started by Tuomas! People just went "Star Wars lol".

Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

the discount CGI for 'future is wild' just adds to the fun, it's basically animal planet + sci-fi, you can not miss with nerd / stoner / sci-fi / animal geek sect convergence, 100% happy

Squibbons are air-breathing squid who can swing through trees. They swing better than modern day gibbons due to their lack of an internal skeleton. Because of their need to coordinate their many-muscled limbs and the complex visual perception needed to swing from branch to branch, their brains are highly developed. As a result, they are highly intelligent and can even outsmart a megasquid, which sometimes tries to eat them. It is implied that they have the capacity to evolve into sapient beings, thus allowing civilization to once again develop on Earth.

they can even outsmart a megasquid! squibbons are amazing

thanks for that, milton. i asked a similar question about fiction on this sci-fi thread if you have any examples:

School Me On Some Sci-Fi My Astral Brothers And Sisters!

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speaking of "space divorce," did anyone even see that lawyers-in-the-fyoocha show?

wtf was i on about

Century City, probably?

films featuring no humans = that pokemon short. 15 minutes of some cartoon thing going 'Pika, Pika...'. not good.

when they going to make a move about lichens and molds?

alien vs. predator was kinda close.

not to lichens & molds, but to "no people." (there were PEOPLE, but they were only vehicles to tell us that PREDATORS ORIGINALLY BRED THE ALIENS TO TEST THEIR YOUNG AS A RITE OF PASSAGE.)