Quote - Well, that's Mr. Pohl's position, which, to be honest, does seem to have been designed to cut the ground from under his competitors.    It never makes much sense to allow a practitioner to lay down the ground rules of practice.   Pohl stands in the same line of charlatans as Alban Berg, Picasso, Schoenberg and, well, Kubrick and QT    Schoenberg tried to dictate how music should be written;  Pohl wanted to set parameters for SF.  

Yeah... That's why I always look to my baker to lay down the procedures of the triple-bypass I need. The grocer defines my root canal... What, you mean your butcher didn't determine how that diamond was to cut? tsk.. tsk... tsk...

Citing Frederik Pohl is not endorsing his body of work-- he's never been my cup of tea, I quoted him because I agree with that quote (that must be cheating or something).

My point, most of which has been covered by jonthecelt, is that the genre is not dead in film, because so much of what is called science fiction in film is not science fiction. Far too much is just an excuse to use FX. And perhaps as that gets played out we'll have more films that are story-driven instead of FX driven.

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