How come there aren't any comfy films anymore? Blade Runner was pretty much pure atmosphere...

How come there aren't any comfy films anymore? Blade Runner was pretty much pure atmosphere, Alien had gorgeous sets that it let the camera linger on, Star Wars spent a lot of time establishing the setting. Why aren't there anything like that nowadays? Are there any modern science fiction films that focus on locations?

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I guess maybe Dredd? They do explore the setting of the megacity a bit.

I thought that said Beyblade when I was reading the thumbnail in the catalog and was sorely disappointed.

It's due to pacing and trying to keep the viewer's attention in a time when everyone is trying to do way too many things at once. Just compare one of the original Bond movies to the last few that came out, or the original Star Wars to Abrams Wars. The pacing of new films is relentless.

Anime specifically the moe genre of anime has lots of comfy atmosphere.

If you didn't have one of these pieces of shit you were a nobody.

Not only that but I think the designs used in say science fiction movies have become much less inspired. You hardly see anything memorable enough to become iconic these days. There are exceptions such as Oblivion but for the most part you wouldn't remember much of the locations even if they spent a lot of time in them.

agreed. They aren't as creative as they used to be.

Does Oblivion really stand out that much? I would've picked that as an example for your reasoning, but I only saw a trailer and some posters. It all looks like Apple and Google in space. Maybe it's a mix of cal arts disease, hollywood incest suffocating new talent, and it being cheap to make the same sterile settings.

Honestly when it comes to sci-fi designs and designs in general they all seem very derivative. They like to pay homage to earlier works instead of just doing their own thing.