Netflix’s Rim Of The World shows where sci-fi is headed

By Adam Rogers, Wired

As Hollywood banks on franchise blockbusters, streaming adopts beloved old film genres.

Netflix really knows how to keep this controller in the hand of certain niche audiences.

If the movie Rim of the World, which premiered on Netflix this week, looks a little familiar to you, that's on purpose. It's the story of four kids, thrown together at summer camp in the middle of an alien invasion, faced with the task of carrying the one object that can defeat the aliens across war-torn Los Angeles. It's a fun ride through childhood friendship forged amid killer aliens and saving the world. Sound like a 1980s-style adventure, like what Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment used to make? Well, good.

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