• Question: Have you watched any science fiction movies, and if so, are the ones you enjoyed more fictional or factual?

    Asked by anon-191298 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 6 Nov 2018.
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      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I love both kinds! I do enjoy how crazy and fun Star Wars is (but I have to turn down my brain’s “science nerd” setting) and I also really liked the Martian, and how clever Matt Damon’s character was being!

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      Anne Green answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I do like watching science fiction films, especially ones which are set in the far future-so more speculative than factual. My favourite is Mars Attacks!, but that’s actually more of a comedy.

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      Kathryn answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 7 Nov 2018 10:30 am

      I really enjoy scifi films and books. I enjoy seeing how filmmakers and all the people involve visualising some concepts in science (like space travel). One of my best friends works in film and so it is great to hear stories from the inside.

      Recently I really enjoyed the Martian. The book is excellent and the film is very true to it. For the most part, it is a very good and accurate film but it does take some liberties.

      As for out fictional I really enjoy them especially looks into the future Balde Runner 2049 is by far my favourite film.

      What I really enjoy is seeing science fiction become science fact. SciFi allows thinking so out of the box that anything is possible. Sometimes the science and often engineering just needs to catch up. Look at Star Trek. The alk to tthe computer back in the 1970s, now we have Alexa and Siri. Also, Jules Verne’s 1865 Novel from the Earth to the moon was entirely sci-fi until 1969!
      Still waiting on Well’s time machine though.

      Cheers

      Kathryn

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      Adam McGuinness answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Oooh, I love science fiction films Ethan. My favourite recent one was the Martian, I’d absolutely love to go to Mars, it would be such a huge human achievement I’d love to be at the front of it, discovering it as it happens. My favourite film of all time would probably be Jurassic Park though, I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was younger and I think this came out when I was around 10, so perfect timing.

      I do like the ones where there is a bit of scientific fact behind the story, just because I think that they are more clever, they’re trying to work within the rules of known science but predict something cool in the future, which seems like it must be much harder than just saying ‘oh these people have magic engines that travel through time’.

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      Chris Davies answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I do enjoy a good science fiction movie. I’ve always been a fan of the Star Trek franchise but my favorite has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is more of a thriller set in space I guess but it’s top 10 on my list and also a great book.

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      Graeme Poole answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Yeah I like sci-fi movies and imo the best ones are the most fictional. The more outrageous the fiction the better!!

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