"Jay Stewart" <> wrote in
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> "Salem Splitfoot" <> wrote in message
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>> "Lookingglass" <> wrote in
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>> > ... perhaps the fact that an alien and a saucer are in the film...!?!
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>> So all sci fi movies have an alien and a saucer in them?
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> A lot of them, yes.
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I'm sure that I don't have to explain to you that "a lot" is not equal to
"all". Therefore, aliens and saucers do not qualify as a criteria. Is
Killer Klowns From Outer Space a sci fi movie? Why not- it's got aliens
and a ufo in it? Is it possible that the presence of an alien and a saucer
is not strict criteria to define genre?
If there can be said to be genre experts, I'm sure that most would agree
that The Thing (both versions) are sci fi/horror (and that's horror with
elements of sci fi). But to simply define them as sci fi would be absurd.
The whole point of these movies is to be scary, not to be scientifically
intriguing in the Jules Verne-ian sense.
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