Exhibit A: Star Wars. My personal favorite, the "Huge gaping hole with no railing." Lucas loves these things. They're in every Star Wars movie so far. Now, the only one I can explain is Cloud City, where it presumably has to do with the mechanism for keeping the place floating like that. But what about the Death Star? What happens when someone really does need to shut off the power to the tractor beam? Admittedly, that was probably an auxillary access point, but do the technicians at least get safety harnesses?
Exhibit B: Aliens. It appears to be a law that all ships and installations will have two floors and two ceilings. The floor and ceiling people use will be covered by grating, leaving plenty of room for alien nasties to crawl around in above and below. Now, in some spots, that's fine. But everywhere?
So I ask you, what stands out in your mind? Favorite buildings? Least favorite? And can anyone explain a few of the ones I mentioned?
And wouldn't Dune have been a lot better if they had gone with Giger's designs for the Harkonnens? Not that that has anything to do with anything.
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Or, maybe the Star Wars universe just hasn't yet been over-run by accident-prone idiots and their litigious trial-attorneys.
True, their galaxy is full of pirates, bounty-hunters, crimelords, and fascist military structures...but if there aren't any lawyers, how bad could it be? {my local car repair shop has work pits in the floor, these CLEARLY marked lest some simpleton attempt to swan-dive into one.}
As for Aliens and the galaxy-wide Industrial Steel look, I guess they didn't get the memo that the future is supposed to be shiny and plastic.
On the subject of architecture, how about the city-scapes we've seen so far: Judge Dredd, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, SW:Episode One.
The megalopolis triumphant.
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The archittecture in Star Wars was my favorite of movie cities so far. Trantor come to life.
Of the other things mentioned in this thread, I've only seen Dune, and while I loved the book, the movie was way out there.
For TV Cities, I really liked Minbar. The crystal city was beautiful. Quo'nos for it's dark look.
Gotham city in the first Batman movie, now there was a dark forbidding city on Earth. Very well done, and never the same in the later movies.
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