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10. Silver Age Of Science Fiction On Screen

While the Golden Age of science fiction cinema has been and gone, a newer age of more introspective and character driven science fiction has risen to the silver screen. Films like 'Arrival' (pictured), 'The Martian', 'Gravity', 'Interstellar' and 'Blade Runner 2049' have shown us that there's an appetite for the kind of stories these films try to tell.

Each of these movies takes very human, very flawed characters and puts them up against a series of challenges that are within their capabilities, but tests the limits of their intelligence, instinct and reason. 'Arrival' in particular demonstrates just how much we take for granted in our everyday use of language and technology.

In many ways, the lack of understanding and striving for comprehension in 'Arrival' is similar to the predicament faced by Daniel Jackson (back when he was played by James Spader) back in the dim, distant days of 1994. There's still a desire for stories based around figuring things out with heart and head, rather than with guns.