e.g. 'little green Martians', robots that look like they were assembled out of tin cans, "mad scientists" with nearly magical abilities, etc.
Modern sci-fi films like Blade Runner, Gattaca, and Interstellar at least try to be more or less realistic in their depiction of the future and technology.
2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968 and proves that "realistic" sci-fi was achievable in the old days. So why are most films from the so-called "golden age of science fiction" so cheesy and fake compared to the sci-fi films we have today?
Limited budgets and not much art in sci-fi. Sci-fi movies were mostly just genre fare like capeshit. Why spend effort to make things realistic when it is likely just going to be a B-picture that only kids who don't care about those things see it?
Matthew Carter
Are you going to make a second posts will all the reasons you already have, or are you a complete retard?
Caleb Reyes
Realism/naturalism isn't the alpha and omega of fiction. Even up into the 1990s Star Trek mostly pulled its cast from theatrical pools, working with dramatic actors like Avery Brooks as opposed to naturalistic actors.
Christian Brooks
Interstellar is cheesy as fuck, honest to god cheesier than many of these 50s movies. Interstellar also mostly consists of hollow melodrama that has fuck all to do with science fiction.
David Edwards
Literally light years ahead of anything coming out today. You fucking Zoomer
Why insist on realism when you can make something so much more funny
Christian Sanchez
Looked fine on a 13” tube TV
Thomas Flores
Movies made before the Space Age didn't have anything to copy.
Colton Fisher
you have to remember that they knew a lot less then, than we do now, as far as high resolution imagery of space and the planets. So in the same way that it was once a popular belief that the canyons on Mars were structures built by Martians, the writers and producers could make up pretty much anything and it would seem believable. That and there was a much more "theatrical" mantra to television in those days, and it was made for families to watch together. Competing with shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. A space oddysey was more serious because it was something youd see in the cinema, but even then it didnt delve into alien life on stranhe planets. Imagije if it had, how would they have done it and kept it as serious?
Brayden Powell
on that, watch BBCs The Planets to get an amazing timeline of what we knew, when, and how we came to know what we know and why/how, and what motivated scientists to do what they did
Tyler Gomez
i'd honestly rather watch a super-cheesy 50s scifi than a try-hard recent movie.
Nicholas Sanders
>i'd honestly rather watch a super-cheesy 50s scifi than a try-hard recent movie.
100% this. I think I'm going to watch Barbarella!!!FACT!!!
A lot of those movies were made with next to no budget at all. Before the movies like 2001, sci-fi was seen mostly as a childish genre, not worth the money sunk into it. It really took Star Wars kind of a hit to make sci-fi a noteworthy genre
Henry Rivera
>why does old sci-fi not adhere to my delusional fucktarded view of life hmmm gee buddy gonna have to meditate on that one
Landon Morales
go reverse a polarity
Jonathan Murphy
saw this a while ago but I remember being very impressed, I should probably watch it again What was its message again? Something like "screw communism, screw capitalism, embrace christianity", right?
It is pretty interesting how much sci-fi devolved aesthetically from Metropolis for several decades after it was released. I guess, besides Lang, there were not enough actually visually talented directors who were interested in the genre.
Adrian Edwards
none of that is true you're just a baby bitch cynical redditor
Nolan Torres
It's all true. >You're a baby Redditor for not watching mindless superhero drivel for children Get fucked.
Camden Bennett
yeah nah get fucked mate
Lucas Cox
2001 is also one of the greatest works of the 20th century made by a genius who spent years researching for it, developing the idea and fictional tech, and using batshit insane techniques to capture the literal unimaginable. So fucking sorry some 150$ production made to fill time doesnt match up.
Caleb James
But Barbarella is 60s and clearly lampooning those films. Like watching Airplane! if you wanted to get into 70s disaster movies.
Caleb Thompson
The original War of the a Worlds is unironically great
Sebastian Harris
this
Dominic Morgan
>e.g. 'little green Martians', robots that look like they were assembled out of tin cans, "mad scientists" with nearly magical abilities, etc.
Protip: Modern science fiction is every bit as magical and unrealistic.
Daniel Butler
And what is wrong with being cheesy and unrealistic? If anything it makes them more enjoyable. Fuck realism in its asshole and you too
>take contemporary firearm >slap some do random gizmos on it and call it the future Scifi... Scifi never changes.
William Martin
that image looks amazing. i wish someone would make an sci fi movie like that again, love witch style. but played straight not ironic or comedic at all.
Nathan Powell
Thats all they knew back then with their limited understanding of other planets. The green aliens are inspired by the Hopkinsville goblin, that was our first big alien story everything deviated from.
Ian Flores
Those old movies unironically look like they were more entertaining to their audiences than modern sci fi flicks are to us.
Unfortunately we don't live in the 50s so we can't truly enjoy them
Parker Miller
>What was its message again? "Can't we all just get along?"
Jeremiah Mitchell
Mostly because they didn't take Sci-fi very seriously. They were making it to entertain children, not elitist film nerds.
Logan Price
Until Primer.
Jeremiah Powell
>Why is old sci-fi so cheesy and fake? Lets just put it like this: If Vernet von Braun would've gotten his wish and we'd attempt colonize mars in the 1970's, the number of dead would have been so staggeringly high that NASA would've eventually had to pretend that it was all just a big hoax to ruin the Soviet Union.
