The 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century, from ‘Nope’ to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

IndieWire ^ | July 28, 2022 | Kate Erbland, Chris O'Falt, Alison Foreman

[sevlex]

See post #8.

For me the best scifi seems to be multi-part shows on Netflix and Amazon. To wit: The Expanse, The Peripheral, Manifest.

Can we include animated movies like Meet the Robinsons?

[BipolarBob]

The original version of Dune ‘blowed’.

It blows less that this second rate knock off an abomination.

[BipolarBob]

A. I. is fine. It’s just a bleak depressing movie. But it was well written and played.

[BipolarBob]

We all love the oldies. I have Forbidden Planet and the original WOTW on DVD . . . somewhere.

[BradyLS]

District 9, was good.

Idiocracy, is sci-fi in its premise. It’s a comedy that is rapidly becoming a documentary. Elysium, is what I jokingky call its prequel.

Scanner Darkly, was good if you enjoyed the book.

Serenity, was Han Solo: The Movie before Disney made Solo.

Looper, was fine.

Cloud Atlas, was abysmal.

[hattend]

Thankfully, have seen none of these turkeys. Read Dune; everyone says the movie(s) is/are awful.

There is a DVD set of the SciFi channel version of Dune and Children of Dune. They follow the two books pretty closely. They are good movies.

[DesertRhino]

Boring and the sound was horrible. It was like mumbling, hard to hear.

[Kartographer]

Worse list I have ever seen! What about classics like ‘Forbidden Planet’, ‘The Day the World Stood Still’, War of Worldsthe Worlds’ (1953, and so many more and BETTER movies!!

[redshawk]

Ricardo Montalban..........great actor.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Wrath of Kahn

21st century, though. And it's "Khan".

[A Navy Vet]

"The remake of “The Time Machine” .

The reboot of the Time Machine was just slightly more interesting because of CGI, but still relied on the Morlock/Eloi conflict.

also missing, and “Hunger Games”.

Hunger Games was strong, but I don't include it in sci-fi genre. More like future fantasy of competing societies.

[BradyLS]

I agree about the Sci-Fi Channel Dune and Children of Dune TV serials. The production is spotty: closer to well-produced Doctor Who episodes. But the story is right out of the books. The cast takes it seriously and for the most part worthy of a film with a larger budget. It is ambitious and has a lot of heart. Overall I was very entertained and enjoyed it a great deal.

[sphinx]

The list was restricted to movies since 2000. The Golden Oldies are off-limits.

You call it the worst list you have ever seen. How many of these films have you actually seen?

When I scan a list like this, or a list of selections for a major film festival, I figure that if I find five excellent movies out of 50 — “excellent” being movies that I like a lot — it’s a decent list. Ten solid films is outstanding.

I don’t have any difficulty finding ten films on this list that are worth a watch. Lists like this are a lead generation service. That’s all.

[sevlex]

Reading comprehension, Grasshopper.

This is about movies since 2000.

[Revel]

Blah... Never heard of most of them. Lots of good ones that are not in the list.

[SkyDancer]

I saw the movie as a kid on VHS or something and it scared the beegeezus out of me when that creature hit the electric fence. I was scared for weeks after that.

[jdt1138]

[Retrofitted]

Out of the 50, I've started watching them all (I say "started" because most I didn't make it to the 45-minute mark; "Snowpiercer" I didn't make through the intro since I saw it was an uncredited rip-off of one of my favorite Amiga games). Having said that...

No "V for Vendetta"? Shame!

There should also be "The Prestige (come on now: David Bowie as Tesla? Yes, please!) and "Monsters". Special mention really should go to "Sputnik", the Russian alien movie from 2020.

Stopping now before I hit "wall of text" syndrome. :)

[TLI]

You have to go waaaaay back for this one.

Wizards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vOLSBI9So

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I would say the movie on that list that gave me the most to think about was "Children of Men"

What do we become when there is no hope left for a future?

And when that hope suddenly comes back what changes will you make to keep it?