Any Good 2013 SF Films Coming?

[saundby]

Anyone know of anything coming?

Personally, I'm looking forward to Star Trek and the new Riddick movie. Action films certainly seem to be dominating SF these days. I hope Ender's Game will keep some of the "think" in.

Oblivion looked like a "thinker", but then I saw the names Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman and realized it's going to be a preach-fest.

After Earth? I dunno. It's got Will Smith, but it's a film by M. Night Shya'Right.

51 Degrees? I don't think that one's gonna be worth seeing, either. Just a mainstream movie that thinks it's being edgy by doing a 1950s treatment of a well hashed over subject. At least Meteor, in the 70s, had Sensurround.

World War Z isn't exactly SF. More like an overworked genre in a setting where the year number is higher than now. And Brad Pitt isn't promising, at least not for me.

Pacific Rim? Is it SF or Superheroes? Gravity--what? Sandra Bullock in space?

Cloud Atlas: described as "genre-blending". Seldom a good sign.
Elysium--I know nothing about this one.
The Prototype--Again, I know next to nothing. Mad android vs. the Army. Is this 1956?

Any more, or any more on these? What's going to be on the "Worth paying for theater seats behind teenage spazzes with cell phones" list this year?

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Well, at least one sounds good...

Anyone know of anything coming?

Personally, I'm looking forward to Star Trek and the new Riddick movie. Action films certainly seem to be dominating SF these days. I hope Ender's Game will keep some of the "think" in.

Oblivion looked like a "thinker", but then I saw the names Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman and realized it's going to be a preach-fest.

After Earth? I dunno. It's got Will Smith, but it's a film by M. Night Shya'Right.

51 Degrees? I don't think that one's gonna be worth seeing, either. Just a mainstream movie that thinks it's being edgy by doing a 1950s treatment of a well hashed over subject. At least Meteor, in the 70s, had Sensurround.

World War Z isn't exactly SF. More like an overworked genre in a setting where the year number is higher than now. And Brad Pitt isn't promising, at least not for me.

Pacific Rim? Is it SF or Superheroes? Gravity--what? Sandra Bullock in space?

Cloud Atlas: described as "genre-blending". Seldom a good sign.
Elysium--I know nothing about this one.
The Prototype--Again, I know next to nothing. Mad android vs. the Army. Is this 1956?

Any more, or any more on these? What's going to be on the "Worth paying for theater seats behind teenage spazzes with cell phones" list this year?

I am looking forward to Ender's Game, Star Trek I am not real sure about, I mean the dude destroyed Vulcan and I don't know if I can forgive that, I didn't know about the Riddick movie, but will go and see it as I just like the character even if he is a munch, Pacific Rim is of course a must see, I mean how can I miss Giant Robot rocket-punching Giant Monsters? Most of the rest I may or may not see, but The Prototype I pretty much have to see since a friend of mine let me know the premise which is dude invents nifty robot and then downloads himself into it, shenanigans ensue.

 

[Spinward Scout]

The Prototype--Again, I know next to nothing. Mad android vs. the Army. Is this 1956?

The more I read about The Prototype, the more I'm convinced that the writers read a novel called Weapon (by Robert Mason) which was made into a crappy movie called Solo with Mario Van Peebles. The novel Weapon is really good if you ever get a chance to read it.

 

[Cryton]

Not sure about films, but SyFy Chanel has a pretty interesting lineup this season, including Continuum and coming up in a few months, Defiance.