1/2/2023 0 Comments The explorers 1985 alien voice![]() ![]() ![]() With Spielberg’s help (and clout), Robert Zemeckis struck absolute box office gold with Back to the Future. John Carpenter had his biggest post-Halloween hit with Starman (a grown-up variation of E.T.). The fledgling Star Trek franchise finally found its voice with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. came along and cemented the notion that science fiction was most-lucratively presented as family fare, exasperated after more adult oriented (but no less expensive) films like Blade Runner, The Thing and Dune became notorious critical & box office disasters (hard to believe today, isn’t it?).īut there was still enough room for creative filmmakers with more limited budgets to grab a slice of the sci-fi pie. ![]() Though many tried, nobody managed to come-up with the next Star Wars (other than its sequels, obviously). The 80s were a strange decade for science fiction. Sure, there was still a lot of earthbound sci-fi being made at the time, but if you were a producer trying to hit one out of the park, you aimed for the stars. Well into the following decade, studios used the same template to try and create the next Star Wars, the next Alien. For the most part, we now thought of outer space as an action-filled playground populated by creatures both wondrous and horrifying. In the late 1970s, Star Wars and Alien left such a huge mark on modern science fiction cinema that both films arguably redefined the genre for the average moviegoer. ![]()
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