Ridley Scott: The science-fiction film is as dead as the western.

At the Venice Film Festival for a special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley said that science fiction films were going the way the Western once had. “There’s nothing original. We’ve seen it all before. Been there. Done it,” he said. Asked to pick out examples, he said: “All of them. Yes, all of them.”

It's certainly hard to think of the last science fiction film that wasn't deeply derivative of an earlier work and was also any good. I hate to think it may be 2001, as Scott says, but it may well be. Via SF Signal.