Lack of imagination among those who allowed to be script writers for Hollywood.
There is more interesting question - there is an endless list of interesting, unique and original stories written by SciFi writers, that could be scripts for really interesting and entertaining movies. But even if Hollywood decide to film something, it removes everything interesting and mindblowing from the SciFi story and add all that uninteresting and boring "feelings and relations" into the movie script. None of such stories was ever filmed as they are and there is always some script writer who pervert and distort the original story, inserting this completely unneeded "feelings and relations" stuff and removing as much SciFi as possible.
Also, even franchises that was rare exceptions from that rule (TV series, mostly) always eventually was castrated down from SciFi story about miracles of Universe to that fucking "feelings and relations" shit.
The plots you tell about have the same pattern - minimum SciFi stuff and maximum "feelings and relations". That's why they are popular in Hollywood.
Lack of imagination among those who allowed to be script writers for Hollywood.
There is more interesting question - there is an endless list of interesting, unique and original stories written by SciFi writers, that could be scripts for really interesting and entertaining movies. But even if Hollywood decide to film something, it removes everything interesting and mindblowing from the SciFi story and add all that uninteresting and boring "feelings and relations" into the movie script. None of such stories was ever filmed as they are and there is always some script writer who pervert and distort the original story, inserting this completely unneeded "feelings and relations" stuff and removing as much SciFi as possible.
Also, even franchises that was rare exceptions from that rule (TV series, mostly) always eventually was castrated down from SciFi story about miracles of Universe to that fucking "feelings and relations" shit.
The plots you tell about have the same pattern - minimum SciFi stuff and maximum "feelings and relations". That's why they are popular in Hollywood.
Can you recommend some interesting fiction books to read?
I will recommend authors - Clifford Saimak, Stanislav Lem, Harry Harrison, Martin Gardner, Henry Kuttner f.e.
Thank you