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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

  100 best Science Fiction films Popular Mechanics list #84. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)     1.)          Introduction “But for many, the magic of ‘Star Wars’ is inseparable from the magic of the movies and, hey, that's no small thing. These movies make us lose ourselves in the spectacle. They make us forget our best instincts. They make us love the advertising as much as the art. They make us kids again.” n WJZ News, Baltimore   That unnamed Critic nailed it. I remember the first two films my parents brought me to an old-school Movie Palace, and I was blown away. Later, I realized they both films sucked (“Lost Horizon” (1973) and “International Velvet” (1978)) but experience of the massive theatre seduced me; in that moment I loved those terrible films far more than the clearly-superior cinema I’d already experienced watching TV.   When the first “Star Wars” came out (1977) I was...
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Interstellar (2014)

  100 best Science Fiction films Popular Mechanics list #86. Interstellar (2014)   “[This film] knows that our future is in the hands of all us deeply flawed and deeply conflicted humans, but that there’s still plenty of reason to hope anyway. But we do actually have to try.” --quote from a Critic whose name I can’t find   This is a remarkably bold attempt to capture the Crown of the Greatest of All Space Epics for Grownups, so long sitting on the head of “2001: A Space Odessey” (1968). It strove to celebrate Humanity’s relationship with the Infinite with the same of Scientific Fidelity as “2001 ..,” which is no small task, and though “Interstellar” does eventually fudge some Scientific Rules, it does no more so than “2001 …” did.   The challenge for stories like this is that Humans are Finite in a Universe that is the opposite; even though our travels within it will expand, anything beyond Pluto is pretty improbable for Human Flesh-and-Blood. ...
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