Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies? |
Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies? |
Primer
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- Minority Report (The TV show isn't bad either)
- Ex Machina
- District 9
- Elysium
- Oblivion
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Looper
- I am Legend
- Her
- The Martian
- The Matrix (Only 2 & 3 if you're super bored)
- Basically any of the Mad Max series
- Firefly (TV show, movies are OK)
- Dark Matter (TV show)
- Snow Piercer
- American Ultra
- Last Witch Hunter (more fantasy than SciFi)
- Riddick
- Dredd
- X Files (I mean, it's not NOT scifi...)
- Treasure Planet (Yes, the animated one)
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Gets a bad rap for being animated, but it has it's own language and everything)
- Serial Lain Experiments (anime)
- Watchmen
- The Dark Knight
- Inception
- The Prestige (technically SciFi)
I can go on for hours
Great choices though...for like the last 10 years maybe, I'll give you Matrix and X Files beyond that and that is it.
Would anyone like a real list from a 40 year old?
- Alien (talk about classic Sci-Fi Horror)
- Westworld (watch the movie before the show. Trust me)
- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- The Thing (I've only seen the old one)
- Moon
- Children of Men
- 12 Monkeys
- Gattaca
- Blade Runner
- Dark City
- Akira (anime)
- Primer (my favourite time travel film)
- Interstellar
- Black Mirror
- Psycho-Pass (anime)
And of course everyone needs to watch - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
If it's to angsty for you, go watch Rebuilt, but the angst is part of the charm/insanity IMHO.
Monsters...Monsters from the ID!
I am fascinated with the concept of evil existing outside of the context of humanity and this movie is what planted that seed.
Primer is on here a bunch, but really worth watching if you like time travel conundrums.
2. Blade Runner
3. Starship Troopers
4. Superman 2
5. Aliens
6. Predator
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Return of the Jedi
9. Star Wars
10. Empire Strikes Back
11. Dark City
12. Matrix Revolutions
13. Matrix
14. Matrix Reloaded
15. The Fifth Element
16. Robocop
17. Gravity
18. Godzilla (2014)
19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
20. Jurassic Park
21. The Thing
22. Europa Report
23. THX-1138
24. Repo! The Genetic Opera
25. Santa Sangre
(.. ok this list could go on forever)
Yes, the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, especially the ones with Arnold, were so god-damned entertaining. There are obivously lots of smaller sci-fi that's cool & entertaining as well, but with the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, you get your money's worth.
=^D
Sunshine
Blade Runner, gattaca, the matrix, alien etc.etc. basically just google "best sci fi movies of all time"
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Back to the Future series
- Men in Black
- Groundhog Day
- Elysium
- Planet of the Apes (old & new)
- Ender's Game
- Independence Day
- The Island
- John Carter
- I Robot
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (old & new)
Edit: The Man From Earth if you can dig independent cinema.
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Yeesh, we are clearly going to have to agree to disagree.