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Off topic but it would be nice is sci fi could be made in which not every scene had to be the most amazing, innovative, creative, eye popping visual you've ever

• TuringTest 9y ago
  You may enjoy the adaptations of Stanislaw Lem books, then :-P Only half-serious, since they pretty much go to the opposite extreme.
  • mattkevan 9y ago
    I love the fact that Solaris skips the whole getting to the space station bit - endless shots of Russian motorways, then suddenly we're there. Contrast to 2001 where getting to the moon is a significant chunk of the film.
• tzs 9y ago
  There's a way to both make the story the star and have creative amazing visuals that perfectly support the story. It's called radio. Seriously, I've heard radio adaptations from the 1940s or 1950s of classic science fictions stories, and they were excellent. As far as story goes, they could follow the original better than film or TV adaptions, because their cost is pretty much proportional to length. For a visual adaption, cost is a function of length, number of settings, and complexity of those settings. With a visual adaptation you often need to cut out whole settings to keep costs down. As far as visuals go, you leave that to the listener. A few deft words from a character or from a narrator to provide a little guidance, along with some sound effects, and the listen's imagination can fill the rest. As an example of the kind of science fiction that was available on radio, here is the episode list for the early '50s program "Dimension X": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dimension_X_episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dimension_X_episodes