The Creator (2023)
trillianregina 5 points 8 months ago*.

The trailer got me expecting golden-age scifi. So I was a bit disappointed that it was more an action flick with only a smattering of exploration of the themes driving the action.
That said, it was a pretty good scifi action flick.

greyfur 5 points 8 months ago.

About what I thought about it as well. Was really looking forward to it, and at first thought I might have stumbled onto something good, then it kinda went downhill on me. You described it pretty good. Effects were good enough, for the most part. Basic action flick turned science fiction.

What we need I think is someone to take one of those really good old fashioned Rippin’ good space operas that used to get written back in the day when I was growing up (am 61), that used to take a trilogy to write and covered thousands of years (or more), not Foundation (which they altered the heck out of, but it’s decent for what it is, just changed from the original concept), and since they have already done Dune, they could do something like the start of the Rama series by Clark, for example, or maybe Gateway by Pohl as an example.

Not like they don’t have the effects now to do it right, and is they actually stuck to those as written, they would probably have a massive hit on their hands, and could do sequel after sequel as people would probably love those…