Science Fiction Films

So now I'm moving onto one of the other genres that I've grown up with, and in some ways I feel has grown up with me, which is Sci-Fi, as I'm pretty sure one of the first films I ever saw was Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the first part of the greatest franchise that has ever been created and some of the only films I could watch over and over again.

Now I say I feel that the genre has also grown up with me because I remember watching Sci-Fi films as a child that were aimed at my age, and as I grew up I found films of the same genre that were maybe a little bit darker and more aimed towards me, and that's the great thing about Science Fiction, there's always a film aimed at a different age audience, so being in my late teens is pretty good for getting to see Sci-Fi, especially this year with Prometheus coming out, as Alien is one of my personal favourite films of all time, purely because of it's unpredictability of when you're actually going to get to see the alien, some of which was present in Prometheus, especially a scene that partly resembled John Hurt's incredible chest burster part in the original film. Though Prometheus certainly had some faults that maybe didn't make it the greatest film ever, but it's still worth a watch. And as I sit here typing I realise an advert for the release of the DVD has just been on, so I best not go into too much detail  into my view on the film as that will be a review in the not so distant future.

Being a geek and a nerd I also enjoy watching various film spin-offs from TV shows, and there's no better example of this than Star Trek, and I don't mean the 2009 J.J. Abram's epic, I'm talking Wrath of Khan with Will Shatner, as well as newer films with Patrick Stewart leading the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek: Nemesis. Personally I believe some of the Star Trek films are some of the best films ever made, but don't cast me out for saying this, as my only reason is that there's such a vast range of Trekkie films that they all have something different about them that make them so enjoyable, some are deadly serious, some have brilliant elements of comedy, and some even have the best action sequences in the history of film, well, maybe not that far, but they're good enough.

But it seems I'm making Science-Fiction sound too geeky for what it really is, and they're not all that geeky, but the main focus of this post is the geeky side of Sci-Fi and why I enjoy them so much, and so I'm going to end this post here and revisit the more popular side, featuring films such as Back to the Future and Action Sci-Fi films, featuring Armageddon and Total Recall, so if it sounds like something you'd like to read about be sure to come back here soon and hopefully I will have gone round to doing so.
See you soon.