Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Gulliver's Fugitives"

The Enterprise finds a planet where sci-fi and other storytelling is against the law, and also helps the rebels who love reading amirite readers???

RATING: 43%

(Where to place: Right before the third season of TNG.)

Sunshine

It's the year 20xx, and the only thing that can stop the sun from going out is a team of angsty scientists led by the Scarecrow. I guess the movie was pretty, but I think it's clear that Danny Boyle has serious ADD because a) he can't hold a shot for more than two seconds without cutting to something else and b) he can't tell a story for more than 40 minutes without changing it to a different story. Well, the part where the dude had to jump into the merciless vacuum of space for two seconds wearing only fiberglass insulation was kinda cool I guess.

RATING: 51%

Gattaca

Gothika is a 1997 film that depicts a future in which everyone dresses like Dick Tracy and scientists use "biometrics" to determine that writer-director Andrew Niccol has no idea how evolutionary developmental biology actually works. The climax of the film, which also serves as a microcosm of its emotional and cognitive impact, depicts an ATM machine in the rain on which the sexy words "valid" and "invalid" flash suggestively next to a grainy picture of Ethan Hawke's rat face (SPOILER: he's "invalid"). In conclusion, if you liked Guernica even a little bit, you'll love Battlefield Earth starring Tom Cruise.

RATING: 82%, apparently

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