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What are some good hard sci fi movies for someone looking to get away from Star Wars and Star Trek?
kelvinzero":36eqwtpw said:I might think of some more later but this one didnt seem to be on the list:
Outland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/
kelvinzero":3dou56hj said:Just for that, I am going to suggest Pluto Nash
eburacum45":2qjvt6l3 said:Perhaps I have a different definition of hard SF;
Each of these films have good points about them, but it is not really accurate to call them hard SF.
eburacum45":2ows2g5b said:Alien An unfeasibly complex lifestyle in a parasite species which relies on interstellar spacecrew as a vector; bad biological strategy, as spacecraft must be almost vanishingly rare.
eburacum45":1swiqh9h said:There's plenty wrong with the Xenomorph life cycle, even if it did not evolve as a method for infecting interstellar spacecrews. The egg stage is very large, for an egg, and hatches a surprisingly small intermediate stage (the facehugger) which does nothing except inject another egg into the stomach of an alien species. This egg matures into another intermediate stage (the chest-burster) which is the same size as the face-hugger, and so there has been no appreciable gain in biomass since the creature emerged from the original egg.
Finally the chest-burster grows into the large, powerful xenomorph stage- without, apparently killing and eating anyone. It then proceeds to eat almost everyone on board ship, but it remains the same size. None of this makes any biological sense.
eburacum45":27myqk5f said:There's plenty wrong with the Xenomorph life cycle...
yevaud":2873pha2 said:One point that always troubled me was that the chest-burster is obviously merely the immature form of the adult alien. So it bursts out and flees. Not much later, it's huge. Tell me...what did it eat to gain that size? For that mastter, what did it ever eat?
a_lost_packet_":jrtm31nb said:the impact of technological advancements are clearly demonstrated. It's carried out seamlessly and is virtually transparent to the viewer.