Nebula Awards Showcase 2006
Nebula Awards Showcase 2006
“I’ve been known to grouse about that topic myself. But as I sit down to write this particular essay, taking a quick overview of the year in film, I find myself in a glass-half-full frame of mind.
After all, we may see a shortage of really first-rate science fiction films each year, but the same could be said of historical dramas or romantic comedies. With the field of SF and fantasy, at least Hollywood usually delivers a healthy quantity of movies in the genre. (The same could certainly not be ...said of detective and mystery films—another popular culture formula of which I am quite fond.) Make enough films of a particular type, and you’re bound to produce a few treasures. And so it was in 2004.
Oh, yes, there were plenty of disastrous exercises in the cinematic arts that year. And one or two actually cultivated a theme of disaster. Of these, most notable was The Day After Tomorrow. A climatological variation on the big, brash, FX-loaded blockbuster wannabes Roland Emmerich has been cultivating since Independence Day (1996), Day After Tomorrow fast-forwards our fears of global warming into a full-fledged ice age.MoreLess
After all, we may see a shortage of really first-rate science fiction films each year, but the same could be said of historical dramas or romantic comedies. With the field of SF and fantasy, at least Hollywood usually delivers a healthy quantity of movies in the genre. (The same could certainly not be ...said of detective and mystery films—another popular culture formula of which I am quite fond.) Make enough films of a particular type, and you’re bound to produce a few treasures. And so it was in 2004.
Oh, yes, there were plenty of disastrous exercises in the cinematic arts that year. And one or two actually cultivated a theme of disaster. Of these, most notable was The Day After Tomorrow. A climatological variation on the big, brash, FX-loaded blockbuster wannabes Roland Emmerich has been cultivating since Independence Day (1996), Day After Tomorrow fast-forwards our fears of global warming into a full-fledged ice age.MoreLess
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