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more about #theisland bookwench: I know they use the Hollywood Operating System for copyright reasons, but it still makes me twitch when I see it. more » J-a-z: I'm pretty sure anyone from 25 years ago looking at what's on my Mac screen right now would probably have their brain melt and fall out of their head.... more » phoenix: Ugh. Of all of these, I think I liked number 7 and 8 the most. The rest are really REALLY busy, which doesn't necessarily mean they're not valid, it j... more » tamahome: User interfaces of the present in movies are ridiculous enough. more » TemporalSword: He probably spends dozens and dozens of hours on each one for all of 2 seconds of screen time. That would seem frustrating to me. more » Mathmos: These don't look futuristic, just like current GUIs designed by graphics designers. more » tetracycloide: if there's one thing i've learned from star wars it's that the user interfaces of the future never look the way we think they're going to look. (and ... more » ♠ Final ♠: Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism. more » AngeloPolyxena: no one minded when luke killed a billion sentient beings on an artificial planetoid. more » Jeyl: "Does Marcus actually kill anybody directly, or just cause their deaths by tearing apart their security?" No. The only time anyone dies while persuin... more » Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » comrade_leviathan: This entire discussion does hinge on the concept of acceptable collateral damage. Working for the greater good with the greatest possible expediency ... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » origin002: Batman begins sticks out in my mind for this. The scene that bugged me was when he dropped little explosive devices that flipped cop cars. I'm sure th... more » elysdir: I was gonna toss in a discussion of BSG here, but I'm not sure how relevant it is. Still, I think it's at least tangentially connected: Cylons kill *b... more » Faustic_Caust: We need more movies about heroes trying to discharge their humanity. more » wetware242: i am not sure that these examples are about reclaiming humanity so much as control, volition and person-hood. i think it is not so much whether the h... more » tnmnsquare: Hercules and Odysseus run through friends like kleenex. That's why I avoid heroes or doing heroic things. more » DraconisXC: Clearly the lesson to take away from these movies is: you can only be unique if everyone else is dead. more » jamesryan: Would I be wrong in assuming that the last time we had a hero trying to achieve his humanity by NOT killing everyone was in the movie THE IRON GIANT? ... more » -
#conceptart
The Designer Who Creates the User Interfaces of the Future
Designer Mark Coleran designs user interfaces for high-tech and near-future movies, those computer-based visuals that flash briefly across your screen. But the information designs he's created are often more detailed than you might think. More » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#triviagasm
15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction
If you're looking for a job, here's a list of successful, influential corporations you might want to work for. That is, as long as you don't ask too many questions.
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#neverletmego
Keira Knightley's Clone Bits Are Up For Grabs
Diminutive British actress Keira Knightley is starring in the cloning drama Never Let Me Go, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel. So thinkThe Island, but probably with fewer people exploding and more actual character development. More » -
#productplacement
The History Of Product Placement In Science Fiction
Science fiction is all about showing us new and startling worlds — and it doesn't hurt to sell a few widgets along the way. Like Eureka, which recently proved that you can save the world using Degree antiperspirant. Or the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which showed on Monday that a certain brand of car is the official vehicle of the anti-robot resistance. Product placement has been a part of science fiction for decades, but it's grown as the genre has become big business. Here's our history of the phenomenon since the beginning. More » -
#falseutopias
Paradise Is A Lie: A History Of False Utopias
If you're living in a shiny happy world where everything is provided to you, and your white pajamas never ever get stained, then chances are you're in a false utopia. Someone's going to be coming and harvesting your organs, or culling you at age 30, or drugging you into obedience. The fake paradise built on a foundation of shit seems to flourish most during times when technology seems to be solving all our problems (like during the dotcom boom.) Click through for a list of false utopias. More » -
