[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction,” a new AMC documentary series where James Cameron interviews various contemporaries about the “big questions” surrounding sci-fi.
Spoilers, in this context, are purely new information or resurfaced stories from those conversations.]“James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction” is a perfectly fine talking heads history of the genre.
With a “big question” on a new topic every week — “Aliens” is Episode 1, followed by “Space Exploration,” “Monsters,” “Dark Futures,” “Intelligent Machines,” and “Time Travel” — Cameron interviews prominent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Christopher Nolan as well as other expert subjects range from Will Smith to Screencrush editor-in-chief Matt Singer to paleontologist Jack Horner, who consulted on “Jurassic Park.”Moving at a brisk pace to fit everyone and everything in, the episodes are both easy to watch and annoyingly superficial.
Speaking to Ridley Scott, Cameron brings up how the sexual aspects of the
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