Posted on 07/06/2023 4:06:26 PM PDT by sphinx
Yes, science fiction is rooted in profound origins, examining humanity’s deep-seated fear of itself and the intimidating possibility of worlds unknown. But the last two decades have seen a metaphoric rush on sci-fi storytelling that’s left the once niche subgenre a supersaturated movie market. On the one hand, that’s produced an onslaught of sci-fi(ish) titles that aren’t always up to snuff. But on the other, it’s prompted some of the best sci-fi films ever made. Masterworks like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Nope” both arrived this year, and top our list at number five and number eight respectively....
Simply put: In determining the 50 best sci-fi movies of the 21st century, you must draw a line in the sand — even if that’s the sands of Arrakis. To that end, a few rules have been set.
No fantasy-centric superhero movies will appear here, and the same goes for those space-borne fantasy franchises “Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” For an action, horror, or animated movie to make it onto this list, it needs to be firmly rooted in sci-fi origins and make notable use of the tropes and themes therein.
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Can’t recall the title and it was a limited tv series. The aliens couldn’t see but they had these real big ears. You had to be real quiet, walk around barefooted.
“Idiocracy” is SciFi? Hardly. It’s a Democrat blueprint for the future, the exact same way they are using “1984” and “The Lives of Others” as blueprints for our future.
The remake of “The Time Machine” also missing, and “Hunger Games”.
I am not even a movie buff, but these seem likely to belong in the list.
I made myself obnoxious on several movie sites by pointing out, persistently, that the basic social premise of the film is predicated on not being able to get off the train. The herd of independent minds -- all those self-styled "critical thinkers" goosestepping along in unison -- took very badly to me point out that being imprisoned on the train is a parable of SOCIALISM. Rightist tyrannies are generally happy for dissidents to leave (provided that they don't take up arms and wage war against the regime). It is leftist tyrannies that turn whole societies into prisons.
The NPCs are very fragile. But you already knew that.
This last version of Dune blows.
The original version of Dune ‘blowed’.
Enders Game is good. I’m watching Synchronicity now. Has all the elements of a bad sci-fi. Rich investor, a sequence, and radiation in the first 5 minutes. Just waiting on the nerdy love interest and a strange image.
“ Just waiting on the nerdy love interest and a strange image.”.
Oops, change that. Nerdy love interest and strange image just appeared.
I am NOT a sci Fi person, but I do want to see Ex Machina.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
“With Theo, there is no zero.”
Thankfully, have seen none of these turkeys. Read Dune; everyone says the movie(s) is/are awful.
Event Horizon, then (and these two need to be watched in this order) Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant. ;)
I liked Forbidden Planet.
War of the Worlds with Gene Barry.
I enjoyed Ex Machina as well. The world hates A.I. but I actually like it.
The Martian was okay. Interstellar was good until the end. I thought it overl-long, generally. Inception I liked.
Moon, I liked. Gravity, was good. Arrival, I enjoyed about as much as Ex Machina.
Bladerunner: 2049 was good until Harrison Ford showed up.
The Cell, was good but it was basically Silence of the Lambs.
The new Dune I think is excellent. Looking forward to Part 2.
At least District9 made the list. And Avatar didn’t. That’s good.
“The Frame” has an interesting concept. Your tv show stars a guy who is watching you in a tv show.
“Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_q_frame
It was slow and boring and made little sense.
"Surely Gravity ought to be on the list."
As much as I loved Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side and other movies, it was just another "escape from where ever". Lots of good CGI, but her talking to herself and whining got old. The ending was so pat, you could see it coming a mile away. You think the director/producers were gonna kill Sandra Bullock in blazing fireball?
- “like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man’s conception, not nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I STILL EXIST!”
— Scott Carey. The Incredible Shrinking Man
The only good “multiverse” movie was Jet Li’s The One. Everything Everywhere at Once was 45 minutes too long.
The Martian was ok except for the ending. Would never have happened.
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