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Does the popularity of modern super hero movies mean that we get less fun Sci-Fi movies?

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I’m looking for some fun and modern sci-fi movies without superheros; lots of dark and incoherent ones for sure. What am I missing?

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Shadow@lemmy.ca
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I feel like SciFi has shifted to tv more for the longer and more complex storytelling.

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Revan343@lemmy.ca
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Fun sci-fi for sure

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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Dune part 2 is in theaters now. Meanwhile, Marvel is releasing Deadpool 3 and DC plans to release Joker 2 in the fall. It’s a really light year for superhero movies.

If you’re looking for a recommendation, I have They Cloned Tyrone on my watchlist, but I haven’t seen it yet.

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graymess@lemmy.world
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They Cloned Tyrone is excellent.

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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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I still haven’t seen it and don’t know anything about it. I should really get going.

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Okay good someone else immediately thought this too. If anything making sci-fi more popular has increased the number, and there’s a lot of chaff for sure, but there’s a lot of really good stuff too.

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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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I’m so excited for dune 2. Sadly it’s kinda the only thing i’m excited for.

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
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It’s a really light year for superhero movies.

Sony has already released a superhero movie last month, with two more on the way this year. But we don’t talk about those.

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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I literally was not counting them.

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CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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Eh, I’m more concerned with the Star-Wars-ification of Sci-Fi. As in Sci-Fi movies being about starships going boom with lots of pew-pew.

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Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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And always multi part

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lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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Free Guy, Boss Level… maybe Fried Barry if that kind of film speaks to you.

There’s some good series too - Resident Alien and Scavengers Reign come to mind.

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veee@lemmy.ca
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Scavengers Reign was such a refreshing reset for me!

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Aolley@lemmy.worldOP
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FG and FB were fun but BL was filled with bad GCI which I am not as much of a fan of.

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mihnt@lemmy.world
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Times like that are the best to go back through and find movies you missed or that flew under the radar. For example, the movie Dark City. I’ve watched that film more times than I care to admit, but when I ask people about it a lot have never even heard about it.

This was all poorly worded because I haven’t be awake for long but I hope my point comes across.

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Num10ck@lemmy.world
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13th Floor vanilla sky cube running man strange days paprika

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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You need to put two spaces after each line or an extra newline between each. Or add dashes to make it a bulleted list.

Ftfy:

  • 13th Floor
  • vanilla sky
  • cube
  • running man
  • strange days
  • paprika
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enix@reddthat.com
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Not enough people have seen Strange Days… Werid af movie. I need to re-watch it

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