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Let's suppose we have a piece of schlock that calls itself an SF movie, but it's really crap. Nobody much cares, except to poke fun at it. See the SciFi Channel movies for the last ten years.

No, it's the movies which come so close, but fall short in easily avoidable ways. which make me most annoyed. In The Matrix, changing Morpheus's speech explaining why humans are farmed by AIs in the real world from:

(wrong): as a source of energy, now that they no longer have the sun

to

(right): as the only cheap-enough source of biological computers to run the AIs themselves on

would have instantly upgraded the movie at a cost of a minute of voiceover and a very few script changes.
Which brings me to Avatar,

( as you knew it would. )

(no subject)

Let's suppose we have a piece of schlock that calls itself an SF movie, but it's really crap. Nobody much cares, except to poke fun at it. See the SciFi Channel movies for the last ten years.

No, it's the movies which come so close, but fall short in easily avoidable ways. which make me most annoyed. In The Matrix, changing Morpheus's speech explaining why humans are farmed by AIs in the real world from:

(wrong): as a source of energy, now that they no longer have the sun

to

(right): as the only cheap-enough source of biological computers to run the AIs themselves on

would have instantly upgraded the movie at a cost of a minute of voiceover and a very few script changes.
Which brings me to Avatar,

( as you knew it would. )