Comments on: Sci-fi films are as dead as Westerns http://mail2web.com/blog/2008/02/sci-fi-films-are-as-dead-as-westerns/ Keep informed about our products, services and the company. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:24:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: GFS3 http://mail2web.com/blog/2008/02/sci-fi-films-are-as-dead-as-westerns/comment-page-1/#comment-19031 GFS3 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:34:16 +0000 http://mail2web.com/blog/2008/02/sci-fi-films-are-as-dead-as-westerns/#comment-19031 Ridley Scott should talk since he helped kill the genre with "Blade Runner," one of the most overrated sci-fi movies ever made. Nothing original? Not in "Blade Runner" which features more stereotypical characters than "Star Wars" and has so many plot holes it could be a colander. You can read more of my take on "Blade Runner" here: <a href="http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/2008/02/fantastically-bad-cinema-blade-runner.html" rel="nofollow">"Blade Runner" Never Rises Above Mediocre Film Making</a>. //...ed. note: comment modified bec previous link did not seem to work...// With the success of the Matrix movies -- I can't see how people think sci-fi is dead. Ridley Scott should talk since he helped kill the genre with “Blade Runner,” one of the most overrated sci-fi movies ever made. Nothing original? Not in “Blade Runner” which features more stereotypical characters than “Star Wars” and has so many plot holes it could be a colander.

You can read more of my take on “Blade Runner” here: “Blade Runner” Never Rises Above
Mediocre Film Making. //…ed. note: comment modified bec previous link did not seem to work…//

With the success of the Matrix movies — I can’t see how people think sci-fi is dead.

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