| Sci-Fi Movies
A. I.:
Artificial Intelligence
Alien
Aliens
The Andromeda Strain
The Angry Red Planet
Another Earth
Ant-Man
Antiviral
Armageddon
The Arrival
At the Earth's Core
Avatar
The Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Brain Eaters
Cloud Atlas
The Colony
Creature
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dark City
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Destination Moon
District 9
Dredd
Dune (1984)
Edge of Tomorrow
Escape
from L.A.
(Revisited)
Europa Report
Event Horizon
Ex Machina
Fantastic Four (2015)
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Fly (1986)
Forbidden
Planet
The Ghosts of Mars
Godzilla
(1998)
Godzilla (2014)
Grabbers
Gravity
Green Lantern
Guardians of the Galaxy
Her
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Hunter Prey
The Ice Pirates
Interstellar
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
The
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Island (2005)
It Came From Outer Space
(revised thoughts from 2011)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
John Carter
Jupiter Ascending
Jurassic
Park 3
Jurassic World
King Kong (1933)
Leviathan
Limitless
Lockout
Looper
Lucy
Mad Max: Fury Road
Man of Steel
Mars
Attacks
Men in Black III
Metropolis
Millennium
Minority Report
Mission
to Mars
Moon
Outerworld
Pacific Rim
Pitch
Black
Planet
of the Apes (2001)
Predestination
Project: Moonbase
Prometheus
The Puppet Masters
Red Planet
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The
Road Warrior
RoboCop 3
The Rover
Safety Not Guaranteed
The Sixth
Day
Slither
Small
Soldiers
Snowpiercer
Source Code
Space
Cowboys
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star
Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Super 8
Supernova
Surrogates
Synedoche, New York
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Terminator Genisys
They Live
The
Thing (1982)
The Thing (2011)
Total Recall (2012)
Tron: Legacy
Twelve
Monkeys
Under the Skin
Vanilla Sky
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The
War of the Worlds (1953)
The World's End
Zardoz
Fantasy Movies
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Big
Trouble in Little China
Blancanieves
Chicken with Plums
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (2011)
Conan the Destroyer
Dragonslayer
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Green Snake
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Hugo
Immortals
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring
A Matter of Life and Death
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Rare Exports: A Christmas Story
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Snow White and the Huntsman
Sucker Punch
The Tempest (2011)
Young Sherlock Holmes |
Somewhere along the
line, Sci Fi movies went horribly wrong. Science Fiction (or speculative
fiction or SF if you are being anal retentive) is the literature of ideas.
It is a literature that asks "What if?" And yet, ideas are something
that Sci Fi movies are particularly short on. Don't get me wrong, I love
'em to death and have since I was very young, but Sci Fi movies are almost
always more interested in drugging the eye than in feeding the mind.
As a small caveat: I have lumped fantasy movies here,
too. Ideally I would lump all genres together, but no one likes that
idea but me, so here they are....
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