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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
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Subject: Re: your film fantasies
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 00:05:16 EDT
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>            asking anyone/everyone to spout off on what things they always
> wanted to see in films (esp. SF-related) - your visual fantasies, if you
> will. I think the results should be interesting and enjoyable for all.

There are two categories of movies I like to see.  The first are
movies that go far beyond the ordinary world.  Personally, I think
"Dragonflight" would make a really primo movie, if you could manage
to really make those dragons fly and live.  (The story is much smaller
and more focused than Dune, has a greater emotional impact, is much
more personal, and requires much less philosophical background.) 
Picture a really beautiful mating flight scene, or the hatching
scene, or flaming thread ...

The other sort of movie I like is the movie near our world, but just
a shade beyond.  I really enjoyed "Blade Runner."  The street scenes,
the sets, the clothes and the technology all look so much like how
2019 in downtown Los Angeles would really feel.  Notice the Atari
ads in the background, or the Hari Krishnas and the Orthodox Jew.
Note the international symbol cross walk, with speech synthasizer.
The visual detail is stunning!  The space station scene in 2001 gives
much the same feel.  Hilton & Ma Bell in orbit.

> (P.S. Has there ever been a Sci Fi Western?)

Do the Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica episodes count?
They had Gunfight at the O.K. corral and Shane, respectively.