re: #62 Targetpractice

That studios aren’t willing to shell out serious money for hard scifi films, that the big blockbusters are action films that audiences turn their brains off to coo at, and so the only real way to sell scifi is as action films that only kindly suggest the audience pay attention long enough for an info dump between fight scenes.

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.