Sci-fi Cliches

• There is always something out there in a classic science fiction film. No one knows what is out there, or what they want, or where it comes from, or what it wants, but it is out there.
• When the alien death ship makes its first appearence it will be hundreds of times larger than the vessel sent to defeat it. Women play an important role in sci-fi movies. fiesty, resourceful, inomitable women have pivotal roles in all the star wars films, the aliens franchise and the terminator movies.
• Callow youths play a major role in sci-fi films. They will question authority. They will lock horns with their superiors. They will carp endlessly with the heroine. But, in the end, they are the ones who will destory the Death star, or send Bana back to Romulus.
• There has always been the problem with sci-fi films: when the terrifying aliens finally turn up, they look like bean stalks or fetuses or Keanu Reeves or jumbo-sized scorpions or ET; with few expectations, aliens are just not scary.