Dodd wrote:To anyone who doesn't have Children of Men on their list...

"You can kiss my royal Irish ass!"

no u

RIFA wrote:

didich wrote:
Yeah but it's about the life of a robot, and how it discovers his 'humanity(?)' and how humans and machines will relate to each other in the future.

That doesn't make it sci-fi tho as a genre. It's still an animation and animations are pretty much not genre based. Their genres are influenced by the way the animation was handled instead of what the story contains.

That doesn't make any sense. Animation is a medium, it's not a genre of story. Of course animated films are genre based, just like any other movie. No one would say Persepolis is the same genre as Monster's Inc, or Waltz with Bashir is the same as Rango.

best sci -fi movies of century:
1.A.I. Intelligence
2.Minority Report
3.Children of Men.

Damn, hard to pick four.

1. Moon
2. Inception
3. Children of Men
4. Never Let Me Go


5. Looper
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

GunRanger wrote:

RIFA wrote:
That doesn't make it sci-fi tho as a genre. It's still an animation and animations are pretty much not genre based. Their genres are influenced by the way the animation was handled instead of what the story contains.

That doesn't make any sense. Animation is a medium, it's not a genre of story. Of course animated films are genre based, just like any other movie. No one would say Persepolis is the same genre as Monster's Inc, or Waltz with Bashir is the same as Rango.

+1

Dodd wrote:To anyone who doesn't have Children of Men on their list...

"You can kiss my royal Irish ass!"

Never seen it. Don't want to, either

GunRanger wrote:That doesn't make any sense. Animation is a medium, it's not a genre of story. Of course animated films are genre based, just like any other movie. No one would say Persepolis is the same genre as Monster's Inc, or Waltz with Bashir is the same as Rango.

Please, whenever you consider replying to someone at least have the dignity to make some sense and give relevant feedback.

First of all, the fact that animation is a medium and not a genre of story is exactly the reason why they are simply taken out of any conversation about story genres. Second of all, animation's genre is influenced by the design and the technique involved and not the story.

Animations are thrown in together with movies because they are part of the same art but you will never hear The Adventures of Tintin being thrown in "the best adventure films of the decade" chart. It doesn't make sense since they are from different mediums and couldn't really be fairly compared.

Let poppa RIFA tell you what's right and what's wrong, son.

RIFA wrote:

GunRanger wrote:That doesn't make any sense. Animation is a medium, it's not a genre of story. Of course animated films are genre based, just like any other movie. No one would say Persepolis is the same genre as Monster's Inc, or Waltz with Bashir is the same as Rango.

Please, whenever you consider replying to someone at least have the dignity to make some sense and give relevant feedback.

First of all, the fact that animation is a medium and not a genre of story is exactly the reason why they are simply taken out of any conversation about story genres. Second of all, animation's genre is influenced by the design and the technique involved and not the story.

Again, you're not making any sense. A film being animated has zero to do with what story it's telling. Not all animation techniques are the same, and not all the stories are the same. The animation suits the story, the same way cinematography suits live-action films. (And the idea behind cinematography is even more blurred, when something like Avatar can win the Oscar for it.) How can you possibly design a film, if you don't know what story you're telling?

Animations are thrown in together with movies because they are part of the same art but you will never hear The Adventures of Tintin being thrown in "the best adventure films of the decade" chart. It doesn't make sense since they are from different mediums and couldn't really be fairly compared.

They're still movies. Wall-E was Time's Best of The Decade. It won several Best Picture awards from critics groups that year too. If someone felt Tintin was one of the best adventure films, they would list it as such. For instance, Beauty and The Beast is on AFI's list of best musicals.

This was a tough list, great choices whoever made the list.

I chose:

Inception
District 9
Minority Report
Donnie Darko