Best Sci-Fi Films of the Century

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Ruth wrote: i'm not gonna be petty and insult him, is all i'm saying lol.
Because it wouldn’t make sense for you to. You butted in and put words in my mouth because apparently you lack basic reading comprehension skills. Learn to read or fuck off.
I'll just assume you're going through a rough time boo. Otherwise, (in your own words) fuck off lol.

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I have a weird thing about sci fi and what I consider a "Science Fiction" film. Like Interstellar / Sunshine that's unarguably sci fi to me, hands down. But even Mad Max I kinda want to put into a fantasy category sometimes. Eternal Sunshine is also more fantasy-ish to me. And when I think of Inception, as outlandish as going into dream space is, I still struggle to categorize it as "Sci Fi." I realize this is totally personal and not factual at all but that's just my feeling on it. I think I'm just brainwashed into thinking Science Fiction mostly deals with some form of outer space or time travel. And yet I easily see Ex Machina as Sci Fi when I struggle to put the label on Inception. I think it's also approach. Nolan approaches Inception so seriously, the sci fi elements just melt into a very real world setting. I believe in it so much that the "Science" of the world no longer seems "Fictional" if that makes any sense at all.

In no particular order...

2049
MAD MAX
Interstellar
Sunshine
Arrival
Children of Men
Ex Machina
Minority Report
Serenity
WALL E
Moon
Looper

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idk Nolan’s two are probably my favs followed immediately by Spielberg’s two

other than that Children of Men is great as is Mad Max (if those count)

oh and yea, WALL-E

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tbh I'm actually waiting for MyCocaine to say 'IT'

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Alita: Battle Angel
Annihilation
Arrival
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Blade Runner 2049
Children of Men
District 9
Donnie Darko
Dredd
Edge Of Tomorrow
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Ex Machina
Gravity
Inception
Interstellar
Looper
Minority Report
Moon
Ready Player One
Sunshine
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Martian
The Mist
The Prestige
Timecrimes

Mad Max Fury Road and Dawn of The Planet of the Apes would probably considered to be under "Post Apocalypse" rather then "Sci Fi". Rise of the Planet of the Apes could be considered to be sci-fi since there were science heavily involved in that first film.

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Non Comic Book Sci-Fi Films


1. Inception (2010) .... (9.5/10)
2. The Prestige (2006) .... (9.4/10)
3. Children of Men (2006) .... (9.3/10)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .... (9.3/10)
5. Gravity (2013) .... (9.3/10)
6. Interstellar (2014) .... (9.2/10)
7. Looper (2012) .... (9.1/10)
8. A.I. (2001) .... (9.1/10)
9. Wall-E (2008) .... (9/10)
10. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) .... (9/10)
11. Cloud Atlas (2012) .... (8.9/10)
12. Arrival (2016) .... (8.9/10)
13. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) .... (8.9/10)
14. Her (2013) .... (8.8/10)
15. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) .... (8.8/10)
16. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) .... (8.7/10)
17. Minority Report (2002) .... (8.7/10)
18. Prometheus (2012) .... (8.7/10)
19. District 9 (2009) .... (8.7/10)
20. Annihilation (2018) .... (8.7/10)
21. Never Let Me Go (2010) .... (8.6/10)
22. The Martian (2015) .... (8.5/10)
23. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) .... (8.3/10)
24. Ex Machina (2015) .... (8.3/10)
25. Rogue One (2016) .... (8.3/10)
26. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) .... (8.3/10)
27. Star Trek (2009) .... (8.3/10)
28. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) .... (8.3/10)
29. A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... (8.3/10)
30. Ready Player One (2018) .... (8.3/10)




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Oooooh that's a nice list and a solid idea. Comic book movies can really be problematic in ranking these films. The movie website I use also lists The Dark Knight as Sci-fi so I'd have to put the one number one. But skipping all the superhero and comic book films (which would unfortunately include films like Snowpiercer, V for Vendetta and Dredd), I think we had a lot of great Sci-fi entries in this century:
1. Interstellar 10/10

These are all 9s:
2. Wall-E
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Gravity
5. The Prestige
6. Star Trek
7. Prometheus

And these are the 8s:
8. A Quiet Place
9. Los Cronocrimenes
10. Sunshine
11. TRON: Legacy
12. Cloverfield
13. Revenge of the Sith
14. The Force Awakens
15. Primer
16. The Apes trilogy
17. Children of Men
18. 10 Cloverfield Lane
19. Inception
20. The Martian
21. Arrival
22. Idiocracy
23. Blade Runner 2049
24. Looper
25. Vanilla Sky
26. Source Code
27. Oblivion
28. Moon
29. Super 8
30. Edge of Tomorrow

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