Sci-fi is dead?

Found this interesting article on Times Online about Ridley Scott where he says sci-fi is as dead a genre as westerns. While I agree that intelligent sci-fi films are few and far between these days, I still think that there's lots of life left in the genre. Sci-fi movies continue to be extremely popular (just look at Transformers) and it's a genre with endless possibilities, since the future is always, well, in the future! If anything, that article only makes me wish Scott would make another sci-fi film, since his last two (Alien and Blade Runner) are still influential to this day.

Speaking of which, there are a ridiculous number of Blade Runner DVDs coming out this year for the 25th anniversary. There's the two disc Final Cut edition, then for more die hard fans there's a four disc version with four different versions of the film. Finally, for complete monster raving loony completists, there's a five disc version in a briefcase! Now I just need to decide which version to get . . .