| Sci-Fi Movies
A. I.:
Artificial Intelligence
Alien
Aliens
The Andromeda Strain
The Angry Red Planet
Another Earth
Armageddon
The Arrival
At the Earth's Core
Avatar
Creature
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dark City
District 9
Dune (1984)
Escape
from L.A.
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Fly (1986)
Forbidden
Planet
Godzilla
(1998)
Green Lantern
Hunter Prey
Iron Man
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
Jurassic
Park 3
Leviathan
Limitless
Mars
Attacks
Metropolis
Millennium
Minority Report
Mission
to Mars
Moon
Outerworld
Pitch
Black
Planet
of the Apes (2001)
Red Planet
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The
Road Warrior
RoboCop 3
Slither
Small
Soldiers
The Sixth
Day
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: Nemesis
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Star
Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Super 8
Supernova
Surrogates
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The
Thing (1982)
Tron: Legacy
Twelve
Monkeys
Vanilla Sky
The
War of the Worlds (1953)
Zardoz
Fantasy Movies
Big
Trouble in Little China
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Conan the Destroyer
Dragonslayer
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
Hugo
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
Sucker Punch
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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