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Most good Scifi movies like Bladerunner, Gattaca, 2001: A Space Oddessy and others of similiar ilk get pushed onto the back burners and covered by the studios in favor of commercial successes that miss the mark from a dramatic stand point.

I agree, perfectly. Hollywood is actually capable of making a damned good SciFi flick once in awhile. Problem is, they would prefer not to. For every BladeRunner, Fifth Element, or Equilibrium, there are 50 warmed-over sequels like Transformers, sheer dreck like Independence Day, and utterly crap remakes of good films like The Day The Earth Stood Still.

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That is the 'why' of Hollywood stripping what makes a good story GOOD out of almost every novel to movie production ever done.

True, and it all gets pushed through the sausage-grinder of having to squeeze a complex novel into a 2-hour (if you're lucky) timeframe. Good luck getting a decent version of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy into that time slot. Hell, they have a hard enough time as it is packing in a short-ish Philip K. Dick story into that slot - and with very few exceptions (like BladeRunner), even those attempts usually turn out to be an utter abortion.

This usually winds up leaving me nodding my head off in agreement of MST3k (and hell, yes I miss that show, damnit!)