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One of the best films ever made are fantasy films - LOTR series. But I was obsessed with scifi when I was a teenager. I used to love it because it was escapism, I saw scifi setting as wondrous utopia with endless possibilities.

Best Sci-fi story is Xenogears.

Making a poll to see which genre should be trashed next?

Either or both as long as the story is good with science or fantasy as the scene and doesn’t rely on solutions like “because magic” or “because tech” to wrap up the stories.

Hard SF is a tough one these days. All of the good ideas have already been done, usually multiple times over by now, so it leaves the authors to wander into social commentary which, today, means woke attitudes. And it's just so fucking boring. Another futuristic setting with space ships and other cool tech and the leads are gay or trans or some other woke BS.

There was a time when adding a gay character added a sense of edginess but those days are waaaaay behind us.

The Expanse was some pretty great SF with strong, capable characters on both sides... up until season 4. Then the obvious agenda pedaling started detracting from what up to then has been some really good story telling and knock out fx.

The Man In The High Castle got the similar treatment in its last season. Such a pity because the show had been outstanding up to that point.

I prefer SF over fantasy because good fantasy is much harder to write. The inherent "anything goes" nature of fantasy means that it can easily devolve into, essentially, "a wizard did it" at some point. SF can of course fall into the same hole, but because it's 'science' there are, generally, more explicit rules to the story's universe.

Of course they are practically the same thing now. Did you know that the majority of films are classified as sci-fi now.

Scifi created the new setting for fantasy, and fantasy did fantasy with it.

Sci-Fi is based on the hope that we survive the current dangers and rise above (literally) those who now hold us back.

I prefer "War of the Worlds" and "Matrix" types over "Avatar" types.

Are there any popular films that are both sci-fi and fantasy? These aren't genres I dig around a lot.