>>As a hardcore SF fan I find myself more and more reading, and less and less watching. Writers don't have to suck up to any target demographics, lawyers, and purse string pullers. They can write whatever they want, without giving much of a thought to how'd it look on the screen. If it gets to the screen, it won't be possible to recognize it anywhere. Any civilization encountered will have just one village of two dozen people, ruled by a council of elders, whose chief has a @!%$! daughter. Any battle will be fought in the same forest or the same valley somewhere in Nevada/Arizona. All the ships will have military command with system of ranks derived from the UK naval code, with officers having something called commission, whatever that is. And there won't be any seat belts on the bridge. Airbags will have been banned too.
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>>So good writers don't even bother to thing about _screen.ability, they write what can't possibly be filmed. And I enjoy that much more.
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>I agree in general, but there have been a few sci-fi films that I thought worked well. I liked "The Matrix" - hard to believe it's almost 13 years old now. More recently, I thought "Inception" was pretty good.

And that about sums it. I like the same two (but hate the other Matrices) and maybe a few more - and have meanwhile found dozens of SF books.