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Yep. It's all been way overdone. Brazil and 12 Monkeys were different because it was all more or less new then. Both also had great arc and reveals, but It's Be
by ArkyBeagle 12y ago
Yep. It's all been way overdone. Brazil and 12 Monkeys were different because it was all more or less new then. Both also had great arc and reveals, but It's Been Done Now.
I say "new then"; dystopian SciFi was a staple of drive-ins in the '70s - from Silent Running to Planet of the Apes to Logan's Run...
It's not like there isn't a huge backlog of great sci-fi to draw on that isn't dystopian. I'd like to see The Foundation Trilogy as a multi-year "Breaking Bad" style series.
It's basically a massive essay, but Scorcese's "Personal Journey" manages to explain why movies are in terrible shape without being hopeless about it. The reasons are profound.
- r00fus 12y agoDisagree - it's not what you do, but how you do it. Execution matters. The Matrix was even old hat at the time - future dystopian, man vs. machine - Terminator 1 and 2 really hit those themes. But the Matrix took the idea and dug down, found ore, and refined it, crafted it, polished it. Gilliam has some good notches on his belt so I'm hopeful there will be substance.
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoNot a big Matrix fan. I agree it was extremely well-executed. I also hope Gilliam hits this one out of the park on general principles.