This is the post where I request recommendations from all you special people out there for science fiction films where the pursuit of science isn't cast as a monumental act of hubris against God and Nature. Seriously.
Please tell me all about flims you enjoy that feature technology or scientific experimentation, but are as devoid of evil/insane scientists, researchers, or cold, faceless sci-tech corporations gettin' their comeuppance as possible. This includes rampaging genetic test subjects, out-of-control robots, traitorous AI, and the requisite Blind Science-Acolyte Skeptical to the End, who can't believe OMG SCIENCE HAS FAILED, but knows how to open the chamber/hack the Gibson/upload the virus/irradiate the gibbon-molesting room, so isn't as expendable as the rest of the guys in white coats.
At no point should the Hero announce "This is WRONG!", be poo-pooed by the Authority Figure, and then attempt to save the Authority Figure from the molested gibbons, only to JUST fail, because Authority Figure needs to die for daring to molest those gibbons when God never intended him to, and Hero needs to show what an awesome guy he is by even bothering to try in the first place. But not too hard.
I'd prefer a moral that doesn't involve things MAN, in all-caps, was never meant to do, because MAN (also all-caps) was never meant to wear underpants, rent climate-controlled re-conditioned lofts in the meatpacking district to impress their girlfirends, be immunized against polio, or live past thirty-five. The three pounds of hyperactive, sparking think-meat mashed up inside all of our skulls pretty much ensures that we get to do whatever the hell we please, and when you can make your own reality, what nature intended becomes irrelevant pretty goddamn fast. Taken to its logical conclusion, the assertion that scientific curiousity or advancement isn't what's meant for humanity means we should all still be living in trees, trying to find a comfortable way to sit on an estrus swelling and working termites out of the branches with twigs.
Unless you people have a problem with twigs now or something.
So yeah. Recommendations, please. I'll Netflix all the promising ones.
