After reading all the Riddick press & backlash over the last few days, it has got me a little worried. Doesn't it feel like the Sci-Fi genre is starting to crumble & close up. It seems like any real attempt at launching a new series or franchise have failed, either critically or at the box office.
The Matrix sequels did perform well & were major revenue takers for wanrer bros, but panned by critics fairly hard, the Star Wars prequels have been a mixed bag. I don't know... it just seems like everything in the past three years have been flat & escpecially this year, only a few movies interest me this year and they are mainly foreign releases (Immortel, GiT: Innocence, Godzilla: Final Wars & Casshern).
I'm hoping that Sky Captain will be good & a success, but it doesn't seem likely, maybe a little too ambitious for its own good. AVP should be a fun romp, but doesn't look like it wants to be taken seriously, just a popcorn pass off & I,Robot well.. I hate to doubt Alex Proyas, but the trailers (all 20 of them) have done nothing for me, as does Will Smith & well Thunderbirds, well that thing looks and sounds like a trainwreck.
A now look into the future, after Episode III what's left for the Sci-Fi movie? T4 with the Rock? Spyhunter with the Rock! AVP:2? Alien V with Ridley.... maybe? some crappy John Woo Metroid movie... is Hollywood slowly closing the doors on truly original sci-fi & allowing the explosion of unoriginal sequels and spin-offs and adaptations that aren't all that great to crowd the theaters of the world. I don't know about you, but I'm not all that optimistic about the future of the science fiction movie, not at all.
The Matrix sequels did perform well & were major revenue takers for wanrer bros, but panned by critics fairly hard, the Star Wars prequels have been a mixed bag. I don't know... it just seems like everything in the past three years have been flat & escpecially this year, only a few movies interest me this year and they are mainly foreign releases (Immortel, GiT: Innocence, Godzilla: Final Wars & Casshern).
I'm hoping that Sky Captain will be good & a success, but it doesn't seem likely, maybe a little too ambitious for its own good. AVP should be a fun romp, but doesn't look like it wants to be taken seriously, just a popcorn pass off & I,Robot well.. I hate to doubt Alex Proyas, but the trailers (all 20 of them) have done nothing for me, as does Will Smith & well Thunderbirds, well that thing looks and sounds like a trainwreck.
A now look into the future, after Episode III what's left for the Sci-Fi movie? T4 with the Rock? Spyhunter with the Rock! AVP:2? Alien V with Ridley.... maybe? some crappy John Woo Metroid movie... is Hollywood slowly closing the doors on truly original sci-fi & allowing the explosion of unoriginal sequels and spin-offs and adaptations that aren't all that great to crowd the theaters of the world. I don't know about you, but I'm not all that optimistic about the future of the science fiction movie, not at all.
