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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF vs. The SCREEN
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 18:18:19 EDT
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Quoted from <1869@topaz.ARPA> ["Criticizing the critics"], by @RUTGERS.ARPA:DINGMAN@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA...
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|   After reading this digest for about a year and a half, I have to say
| I'm upset with the way most everyone complains about SF movies.  Most 
| comments about SF books are neutral to good, while most comments about 
| SF movies are neutral to negative. Very few good, supporting
| statements are made.
|	...
|    My point is that I don't blame the movie industry for not putting
| its heart and soul into SF.  No matter what they try, it gets
| torn apart by SF 'fans'.  Nothing is good enough, nothing is acceptable.
|	...
|   I'd like to see more constructive comments; remove the clothespins
| from your noses and point out the good parts, the creative and
| original ideas, the novel approaches.
|	...
|    Comments, anyone?
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Yup.  Don't hold your breath.

NOBODY yet realizes that SF loses in television or movie format.  The best SF
simply cannot be visual; it depends on the imagination, and the visual media
remove too much of the imagination.  Hence, we get V and Battlestar Galactica
on TV, and poorly adapted DUNEs on the big screen.  (Star Trek almost got past
this one; Dr. Who just about does, thanks to the fact that its SFX budget is
too low to render a good imagination unnecessary.)

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