Director: Joe Crowe. The American Sci-Fi Classics Track journeys into the archives of awesomeness. Along with their pals at the Urban Fantasy track, Classic Track is.Sci- Fi Movies. Marvel Studios presents “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the epic follow- up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure. Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” stars Robert Downey Jr., who returns as Iron Man, along with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, the team must reassemble to defeat James Spader as Ultron, a terrifying technological villain hell- bent on human extinction. Along the way, they confront two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor- Johnson, and meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision. Written and directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige, Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is based on the ever- popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1. Louis D’Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Patricia Whitcher, Stan Lee and Jon Favreau serve as executive producers. Get set for an action- packed thrill ride when The Avengers return in Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” on May 1, 2. Science fiction - Wikipedia. Artwork by David Revoy for the preproduction of the fourth open movie of the Blender Foundation, . Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a . Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying . The first news about the supernatural science fiction thriller film Spectral started to come out over three years ago, and big studios including Legendary Pictures. SCI-FI-LONDON 17 - 27th April - 6th May 2017; Vital, viral and viridescent festival at the heart of SF culture. Unmissable and unforgettable. Bill Thompson, BBC Click. Check out IndieWire’s newest list of best sci-fi films of the 21st century! As kids, we looked ahead to the imminent 21st century and thought of a big bold, sci-fi. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a wide range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying "science. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography: you do not know what it is, but you know it when you see it. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision. Science fiction is the improbable made possible. Science fiction elements include: A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record. A spatial setting or scenes in outer space (e. A True Story, written in the 2nd century AD by the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian, contains many themes and tropes that are characteristic of modern science fiction, including travel to other worlds, extraterrestrial lifeforms, interplanetary warfare, and artificial life, and is considered by some to be the first science fiction novel. Elango and his friend Pulivetti Arumugam come in possession of a time machine and start profiting from it. However, their meddling with time prevents the death of a. Francis Bacon' The New Atlantis (1. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Kepler's work the first science fiction story. Wells and Jules Verne created a body of work that became popular across broad cross- sections of society. It is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 1. 9th century, the term . This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott. The term would continue to be used into the early 2. Olaf Stapledon. In the early 2. American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. The 1. 92. 8 publication of Philip Francis Nowlan's original Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2. Amazing Stories was a landmark event. This story led to comic strips featuring Buck Rogers (1. Brick Bradford (1. Flash Gordon (1. 93. The comic strips and derivative movie serials greatly popularized science fiction. In the late 1. 93. John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Olaf Stapledon, and A. Working outside the Campbell influence were Ray Bradbury and Stanis. Campbell's tenure at Astounding is considered to be the beginning of the Golden Age of science fiction, characterized by hard SF stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress. Gold, and a new generation of writers began writing stories with less emphasis on the hard sciences and more on the social sciences. In the 1. 95. 0s, the Beat generation included speculative writers such as William S. In the 1. 96. 0s and early 1. Frank Herbert, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison explored new trends, ideas, and writing styles, while a group of writers, mainly in Britain, became known as the New Wave for their embrace of a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self- consciously . Le Guin and others pioneered soft science fiction. Dick, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Star Wars franchise helped spark a new interest in space opera. Cherryh's detailed explorations of alien life and complex scientific challenges influenced a generation of writers. Lois Mc. Master Bujold's Vorkosigan novels brought the character- driven story back into prominence. Stargate SG- 1, a TV series, premiered on July 2. Spin- offs include the animated television series Stargate Infinity, the TV series Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, and the direct- to- DVD films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. Stargate SG- 1 surpassed The X- Files as the longest- running North American science fiction television series, a record later broken by Smallville. This topic has been more often discussed in literary and sociological than in scientific forums. Cinema and media theorist Vivian Sobchack examines the dialogue between science fiction films and the technological imagination. Technology impacts artists and how they portray their fictionalized subjects, but the fictional world gives back to science by broadening imagination. How William Shatner Changed the World is a documentary that gave a number of real- world examples of actualized technological imaginations. While more prevalent in the early years of science fiction with writers like Arthur C. Clarke, new authors still find ways to make currently impossible technologies seem closer to being realized. Some accurate predictions of the future come from the hard science fiction subgenre, but numerous inaccurate predictions have emerged as well. Landis, David Brin. Forward, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge. Other noteworthy hard SF authors include Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Bear, Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Sheffield, Ben Bova, Kim Stanley Robinson, Anne Mc. Caffrey, Andy Weir and Greg Egan. Soft science fiction. Noteworthy writers in this category include Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Common themes in cyberpunk include advances in information technology and especially the Internet, visually abstracted as cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics and post- democratic societal control where corporations have more influence than governments. Nihilism, post- modernism, and film noir techniques are common elements, and the protagonists may be disaffected or reluctant anti- heroes. Noteworthy authors in this genre are William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, and Pat Cadigan. James O'Ehley has called the 1. Blade Runner a definitive example of the cyberpunk visual style. The first major time- travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The most famous is H. Wells' 1. 89. 5 novel The Time Machine, which uses a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively, while Twain's time traveler is struck in the head. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. Back to the Future is one of the most popular movie franchises in this category; Doctor Who is a similarly popular long- running television franchise. Stories of this type are complicated by logical problems such as the grandfather paradox. These stories may use time travel to change the past, or may simply set a story in a universe with a different history from our own. Classics in the genre include Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore, in which the South wins the American Civil War, and The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, in which Germany and Japan win World War II. The Sidewise Award acknowledges the best works in this subgenre; the name is taken from Murray Leinster's 1. Sidewise in Time. Harry Turtledove is one of the most prominent authors in the subgenre and is sometimes called the . Stories include detail about military technology, procedure, ritual, and history; military stories may use parallels with historical conflicts. Heinlein's Starship Troopers is an early example, along with the Dorsai novels of Gordon Dickson. Joe Haldeman's The Forever War is a critique of the genre, a Vietnam- era response to the World War II–style stories of earlier authors. Williamson, S. Stirling, and John Carr. The publishing company Baen Books is known for cultivating several of these military science fiction authors. This can stem either from natural causes such as in Olaf Stapledon's novel Odd John, Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human, and Philip Wylie's Gladiator, or be the result of scientific advances, such as the intentional augmentation in A. These stories usually focus on the alienation that these beings feel as well as society's reaction to them. These stories have played a role in the real life discussion of human enhancement. Frederik Pohl's Man Plus also belongs to this category. Apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic. Typical of the genre are George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides and Pat Frank's novel Alas, Babylon. Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post- apocalyptic fiction can deal with anything from the near aftermath (as in Cormac Mc. Carthy's The Road) and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake to centuries in the future (as in Stephen Vincent Ben. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Apocalyptic science- fiction is a popular genre in video games. The critically acclaimed, role- playing, action- adventure, video- game series Fallout is set on a post- apocalyptic Earth, where civilization is recovering from a nuclear war as survivors struggle to survive and seek to rebuild society. Space opera. The conflict is heroic, and typically on a large scale. It is also used nostalgically, and modern space opera may be an attempt to recapture the sense of wonder of the golden age of science fiction. The pioneer of this subgenre is generally recognized. George Lucas's Star Wars series is among the most popular and famous franchises in cinematic space opera. It covers epic battles between good and evil throughout an entire galaxy. Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn, Pandora's Star series, Stephen Hunt's. Sliding Void series, Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre. Space Western. These stories typically involve colony worlds that have only recently been terraformed and/or settled, serving as stand- ins for the backdrop of lawlessness and economic expansion that were predominant in the American west. Science fiction film - Wikipedia. Science fiction film (or sci- fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science- based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held. The next major example in the genre was the film Metropolis (1. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark 2. A Space Odyssey (1. In the late 1. 97. Star Wars and paved the way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades. Characteristics of the genre. However, there are numerous well- known examples of science fiction horror films, epitomized by such pictures as Frankenstein and Alien. The visual style of science fiction film can be characterized by a clash between alien and familiar images. This clash is implemented when alien images become familiar, as in A Clockwork Orange, when the repetitions of the Korova Milkbar make the alien decor seem more familiar. Strangelove, the ,distortion of the humans make the familiar images seem more alien. It was produced at Studio Babelsberg, Germany. They usually had a technological theme and were often intended to be humorous. In 1. 90. 2, Georges M. Several early films merged the science fiction and horror genres. Examples of this are Frankenstein (1. Mary Shelley's novel, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. Robert Louis Stevenson. Taking a more adventurous tack, 2. Leagues Under the Sea (1. Jules Verne’s famous novel of a wondrous submarine and its vengeful captain. In the 1. 92. 0s, European filmmakers tended to use science fiction for prediction and social commentary, as can be seen in German films such as Metropolis (1. Frau im Mond (1. 92. Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage (1. The Motorist (1. 90. Conquest of the Pole (1. Himmelskibet (1. 91. Caligari (1. 92. 0), The Mechanical Man (1. Paris Qui Dort (1. Aelita (1. 92. 4), Luch Smerti (1. The Lost World (1. Starting in 1. 93. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, both starring Buster Crabbe. These serials, and the comic strips they were based on, were very popular with the general public. Other notable science fiction films of the 1. Frankenstein (1. 93. Bride of Frankenstein (1. Doctor X (1. 93. 2), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. F. P. 1 (1. 93. 2), Island of Lost Souls (1. Deluge (1. 93. 3), The Invisible Man (1. Master of the World (1. Mad Love (1. 93. 5), Trans- Atlantic Tunnel (1. The Devil- Doll (1. The Invisible Ray (1. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1. The Walking Dead (1. Non- Stop New York (1. The Return of Doctor X (1. The 1. 94. 0s brought us Before I Hang (1. Black Friday (1. 94. Dr. Cyclops (1. 94. The Devil Commands (1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. 94. 1), Man Made Monster (1. It Happened Tomorrow (1. It Happens Every Spring (1. The Perfect Woman (1. The release of Destination Moon (1. Rocketship X- M (1. While many 1. 95. B movies, there were several successful films with larger budgets and impressive special effects. These include The Day the Earth Stood Still (1. The Thing from Another World (1. When Worlds Collide (1. The War of the Worlds (1. Leagues Under the Sea (1. This Island Earth (1. Forbidden Planet (1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1. The Curse of Frankenstein (1. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1. On the Beach (1. 95. There is often a close connection between films in the science fiction genre and the so- called . Examples of this are Them! During the 1. 95. Ray Harryhausen, protege of master King Kong animator Willis O'Brien, used stop- motion animation to create special effects for the following notable science fiction films: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1. Earth vs. Stanley Kubrick's 2. A Space Odyssey (1. Other 1. 96. 0s films included Planet of the Vampires (1. Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, that is regarded as one of the best movies of the period, Planet of the Apes (1. Fahrenheit 4. 51 (1. Barbarella (1. 96. Jean- Luc Godard's French . Andrei Tarkovsky's slow- paced Solaris (1. Stalker (1. 97. 9) are two widely acclaimed examples of the renewed interest of film auteurs in science fiction. Science fiction films from the early 1. George Lucas's directional debut THX 1. The Andromeda Strain (1. Silent Running (1. Soylent Green (1. Westworld (1. 97. Futureworld (1. 97. Logan's Run (1. 97. The science fiction comedies of the 1. Woody Allen's Sleeper (1. John Carpenter's Dark Star (1. Star Wars (1. 97. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1. In 1. 97. 9, Star Trek: The Motion Picture brought the television series to the big screen for the first time. It was also in this period that the Walt Disney Company released many science fiction films for family audiences such as The Island at the Top of the World, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Black Hole, Flight of the Navigator, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The sequels to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back (1. Return of the Jedi (1. Ridley Scott's films, such as Alien (1. Blade Runner (1. 98. James Cameron's The Terminator (1. In contrast, Steven Spielberg's E. T. Clarke's sequel to 2. Disney's Tron (1. The strongest contributors to the genre during the second half of the 1. James Cameron and Paul Verhoeven with The Terminator and Robo. Cop entries. Robert Zemeckis' film Back to the Future (1. James Cameron's sequel to Alien, Aliens (1. Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards. The Japanese anime film Akira (1. Japan when released. Other themes included disaster films (e. Armageddon and Deep Impact (both 1. Independence Day (1. Jurassic Park (1. Gattaca (1. 99. 7)). Also, the Star Wars prequel trilogy began with the release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which eventually grossed over one billion dollars. As the decade progressed, computers played an increasingly important role in both the addition of special effects (thanks to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park) and the production of films. As software developed in sophistication it was used to produce more complicated effects. It also enabled filmmakers to enhance the visual quality of animation, resulting in films such as Ghost in the Shell (1. Japan, and The Iron Giant (1. United States. During the first decade of the 2. Matrix trilogy. In 2. Star Wars saga was completed with the darkly themed Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Science- fiction also returned as a tool for political commentary in films such as A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Sunshine, District 9, Children of Men, Serenity, Sleep Dealer , and Pandorum. The 2. 00. 0s also saw the release of Transformers (2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2. In 2. 00. 9, James Cameron's Avatar garnered worldwide box office success, and would later become the highest- grossing movie of all time. This movie was also an example of political commentary. It depicted humans destroying the environment on another planet by mining for a special metal called unobtainium. That same year, Terminator Salvation was released and garnered only moderate success. The 2. 01. 0s has seen new entries in several classic science fiction franchises, including Predators (2. Tron: Legacy (2. 01. Star Wars series, and entries into the Planet of the Apes and Godzilla franchises. Several more cross- genre films have also been produced, including comedies such as Hot Tub Time Machine (2. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2. Safety Not Guaranteed (2. Her (2. 01. 3) and Monsters (2. Real Steel (2. 01. Edge of Tomorrow (2. Pacific Rim (2. 01. The superhero film boom has also continued, into films such as Iron Man 2 (2. X- Men film series, and The Avengers (2. New franchises such as Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy have also begun in this decade. Further into the decade, more realistic science fiction epic films have also become prevalent, including Hugo (2. Gravity (2. 01. 3), Interstellar (2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2. The Martian (2. 01. Arrival (2. 01. 6). Many of these films have gained widespread accolades, including several Academy Awards wins and nominations. These films have addressed recent matters of scientific interest, including space travel, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Alongside these original films, many adaptations have been produced, especially within the young adultdystopian fiction subgenre, popular in the early part of the decade. These include the Hunger Games film series, based on the trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins, The Divergent Series based on Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy, and the Maze Runner series, based on James Dashner's The Maze Runner novels. Several adult adaptations have also been produced, including The Martian (2. Andy Weir's 2. 01. Cloud Atlas (2. 01. David Mitchell's 2. World War Z, based on Max Brooks' 2. Independent productions have also increased in the 2. These films include Attack the Block (2. Source Code (2. 01. Looper (2. 01. 2), Upstream Color (2. Ex Machina (2. 01. Academy Award for Visual Effects, in a surprising upset over the much higher- budget Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2. Themes, imagery, and visual elements. However, as often as not the . The definition can also vary depending on the viewpoint of the observer. The movie Forbidden Planet employs many common science fiction elements, but the film carries a profound message - that the evolution of a species toward technological perfection (in this case exemplified by the disappeared alien civilization called the . These films usually employ quasi- plausible reason for the hero gaining these powers. In addition to science fiction horror, space opera is most common.
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