{"id":18629,"date":"2015-10-21T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:29:47","slug":"were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Living In A New Golden Age Of Space Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few years ago, we were wondering where all the movies about outer space had gone. And now, we don\u2019t have to wonder any more, because we\u2019ve been getting a crop of fantastic new movies about astronauts, spaceships, and the joy of exploration.<\/p>\n<p>There have been at least a couple of previous golden ages of space movies\u2014the period following <em>2001<\/em> comes to mind, and so does the boom in space-opera adventures after <em>Star Wars<\/em>. The post-2001 boom saw a handful of idea-rich, very human-focused movies about ideas, which used space and science fiction as a way to further conversations and arguments that were rooted in the eras they were made in. Space, following <em>Star Wars<\/em>, became a fantastical, otherworldly setting, full of the magic and monsters of pulp serials and fantasy, dressed in other-worldly garb.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"We're Living In A New Golden Age Of Space Movies \" data-chomp-id=\"1484192926958355597\" data-asset-url=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--jQ2ksuuf--\/1484192926958355597.png\" data-format=\"png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/were-living-in-a-new-golden-age-of-space-movies-1737870779\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, we were wondering where all the movies about outer space had gone. And now, we don\u2019t have to wonder any more, because we\u2019ve been getting a crop of fantastic new movies about astronauts, spaceships, and the joy of exploration. There have been at least a couple of previous golden ages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63887,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions\/63887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}