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...sights are more forlorn than an old sci-fi film whose predictions of the future have, with the passing of time, been proved incorrect. We watch the flying cars, the robotic dogs, the pills that expand with a drop of water into seven-course meals and think: "This future's already past. This film was set in 1980; it's 1999 already, and none of this has happened." It's a fate worse than simply being dated. Films set in the hippie '60s or the greedy '80s will always have a time and place; futuristic failures belong nowhere, residing...
...Planet of the Apes" or "Gamera," but the sci-fi classic Fantastic Planet, which won the Grand Prix at The Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, is back at the Brattle in all of its French, animated glory. Follow life on Yagan, a planet led by 10 foot humanoids called Draggs that treat "Oms" (human beings) like house pets. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Square...
...with an army of invisible vegetable-chopping elves, a lifetime supply of those miniature glass bowls that hold no more than a dab of anchovy paste, and children who gladly eat dishes with French names and 23 ingredients. Then I realized that show would have to run on the Sci-Fi Channel...
...This isn't science fiction. It's science fact. [laughter] What is that phrase from? Who said that? Is that from like some cheesy sci-fi movie...
...death-wish fantasies go, none of those is anywhere near as satisfying as our fading images of nuclear war, which had the great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem...