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There's not going to be any actual sci-fi movies ever again. There's going to be movies with computers and space ships and lasers in them, but there's never going to be a movie that asks questions, because movie executives are too stupid. They've been stupid for longer than I've been alive. Remember the movie Enemy Mine? Which does have actual sci-fi in it? There's the whole rescue from a mine sequence because the executives thought audiences would be too confused if there wasn't a literal mine in the movie.
Hell, Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The Earth, the movie you suddenly become very interested in when your testicles turn 30. The enemy ship in that movie is...a Yankee-built...French heavy frigate? Yeah no, that was supposed to be USS Norfolk, a sister ship of the USS Constitution. Why are they French? The studio thought that American moviegoers wouldn't be okay with Americans being the enemy. In a movie set in 1804.
Studio executives are rock chewing stupid and they think everyone else is too.