Posted on 09/24/2017 12:04:34 PM PDT by EveningStar
By its very nature, the sci-fi genre is relatively complex: the short stories, novels, TV series and films that comprise speculative fiction necessitate detailed expository passages to build its far-flung futures, reality-bending premises, and stories set in a galaxy far, far away.
Whether the story is set on an alien world populated by creatures markedly different from human beings, in a future separated by centuries or eons from the present in which society, technology, science, and civilization itself have evolved into a nearly unrecognizable state, or center around time or space travel, sci-fi stories require complex set-ups to create a believable reality that’s very different from our own.
Because of this, the sci-fi genre also allows for its stories to become quite complex. Time travel stories thrive on complexity while, depending on the story, other elements may be willfully obtuse to create an air of mystery or disorientation in the viewer–and some sci-fi stories are much more complex than others.
Here are 10 sci-fi films that are purposely complex ...
10. Predestination (2014) ...
9. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) ...
8. The Fountain (2006) ...
7. Coherence (2013) ...
6. Upstream Color (2013) ...
5. Primer (2004) ...
4. Inception (2010) ...
3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984) ...
2. Solaris (1972) ...
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ...
(Excerpt) Read more at tasteofcinema.com ...
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Buckaroo Bonzai
12 Monkeys?
Blade Runner?
And I did see Space Odysee. Boring guy movie.
monkeys can be complicated.
I’ve heard about five of them - one through four and number nine. But I’ve only seen 2001, Buckaroo Banzai, and Inception.
Saw 2001.....very good,bordering on outstanding.Haven’t seen any of the others.
The others I have never heard of.
I guess my scifi days were 50s B movies.
I’ve seen 5 of them. Liked one of them. Sort of. Not really.
Buckaroo Banzai
2001: A Space Odyssey
I’ve seen most of them. Not sure I’d call any of them except Inception complex. Now many of them are not fully explained and you’ve got to put some thinking into it, but that’s not necessarily complex, that’s just a vaguer style of story telling.
Zardoz with Sean Connery didn’t even make the list. How odd?!
Interstellar (2014) was pretty twisty.
Ice Pirates was hilarious
What about Plan 9 From Outer Space?
Interstellar I’m gonna have to watch about 5 more times to understand.
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