Wait a minute, I though Transformers the Movie came out when I was a kid with music from Weird Al and Stan Bush.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmfDHW87JNU Actually, one of my mission compainions used to play the music from it which was kind of odd considering all the butt rock 80's stuff didn't quite seem to fit in the allowed category of classical and mo-tab.
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I prefer the books because of the ethical delimmas that are explored by "playing God" and messing with nature..
A dilemma also explored in Blade Runner, based on a book called Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick. That kind of ethical dilemma has been a standard theme of science fiction for quite some time, I'd dare to say.
Yeah...also the Robot series by Isaac Asimov.
I think the ethical dilemma of "playing God" is going to continue as our science develops...someday we're going to be able to clone (if we choose to of course).
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Coggins7 wrote:[ I classify Kong as a science fiction adventure fusion, combining elements of the popular pulp science fiction adventure literature of the times (such as Burroughs's novels) with high adventure and an implied science fiction background (the only real difference between Kong and The Lost World is that there are no scientists in Kong; no Professor Challenger and no mention of scientific motives)
There are no particularly definable fantasy elements in Kong. Giant Gorilla's and Dinosaurs on lost islands are far closer to our understanding of what the world could be like than dragons, wizards, and elves casting spells.
LOL!! Not intellectually serious, Loran. Kong is not science fiction. Keep trying. Burroughs's novels are better classified as adventures, rather than SciFi. But if you were truly intellectually serious, you would know that.
Wait a minute, I though Transformers the Movie came out when I was a kid with music from Weird Al and Stan Bush.
We have that movie on DVD, my kids watch it all the time. I remember beign shocked when in the movie all these characters from the tv series were being killed. It really gave the character of Megatron an edge. The second half of the movie lost me, but the first half was great.
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Wait a minute, I though Transformers the Movie came out when I was a kid with music from Weird Al and Stan Bush.
We have that movie on DVD, my kids watch it all the time. I remember beign shocked when in the movie all these characters from the tv series were being killed. It really gave the character of Megatron an edge. The second half of the movie lost me, but the first half was great.
I was devastated........in a ploy to sell more toys they killed off many of my heroes. My first crushing experience with capitalism.
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LOL!! Not intellectually serious, Loran. Kong is not science fiction. Keep trying. Burroughs's novels are better classified as adventures, rather than SciFi. But if you were truly intellectually serious, you would know that.
So then, you would classify his Pellucidar books, his Land That Time Forgot books, the John Carter series, the Carson Napier series, and his Moon series, as strictly, "adventure"?
LOL!! Not intellectually serious, Loran. Kong is not science fiction. Keep trying. Burroughs's novels are better classified as adventures, rather than SciFi. But if you were truly intellectually serious, you would know that.
So then, you would classify his Pellucidar books, his Land That Time Forgot books, the John Carter series, the Carson Napier series, and his Moon series, as strictly, "adventure"?
No, not "strictly". I said there were better classified as adventure, rather than SF.
No, not "strictly". I said there were better classified as adventure, rather than SF.
Upon what grounds? I say they're better classified as a science fiction/action fusion. I'll even go so far as to say a science fiction/action/fantasy crossover genre.
Please don't let this thread descend into genre parsing, either of you! These are useful as descriptive categories only; they wield no other critical weight. In other words, you're both right. However, I think Coggins here is slightly righter.
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