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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

 

 

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....