To Infinity And Beyond

'Sci-Fi is only for geeks, I just like movies with aliens and robots in space'

The Sci-Fi genre has probably been the fastest growing genre in film over the last few decades. The disgusting aliens, destructive machines, and abundance of explosions strike a chord with at least 80% of the male population from the age of about 12. Sci-Fi movies are amongst the easiest to watch because they rarely require you to think about a complicated plot, or any ulterior motives that the characters may be hiding, or even to question your own moral choices. It's just "Here's an alien, they're bad. The humans aren't as strong or advanced as they are but they'll fight anyway cos they're the good guys".

You don't understand why they're doing what they're doing but there's shiny things and a lot of movement that keeps your attention.

We laughed with shiny keys as babies,

now we laugh at shiny robots as grown-ups

But, in the end, sci-fi (at least to me, a male 19 year old university animation student) is the chance for people to re-experience all those silly games we all played as kids... only this time it's on the cinema screen in front of you or at the behest of the the xbox/ps3 controller in your hands.