Moon. Contact. Interstellar. Gravity. Project Hail Mary. None of these fit those tropes. It didn't destroy anything; it just set a mold for the next few decad

Moon. Contact. Interstellar. Gravity. Project Hail Mary. None of these fit those tropes. It didn't destroy anything; it just set a mold for the next few decades that was used to cookie-cut copies from. It cut a rut, and movie execs LOOOOVE a profitable rut to wallow in.