The 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies
By Matt Barone | Jun 8, 2011 | 12:10 pm | Permalink
It’s not easy being a hardcore sci-fi head over the age of 18. People hurl insults at you like "nerd," "geek," and "virgin," and clown you for attending Star Trek conventions in your “Live Long And Prosper” T-shirt or for reading Star Wars fan fiction. It can be pretty hurtful—and also prevent you from ever seeing a vagina in person.
We feel your pain, nerrr—whoops, scratch that. We feel your pain, fellow genre lovers. Around here, we’re not afraid to flaunt our appreciation for niche movies, alternative comics, and other forms of entertainment that could give Billy Zabka-like bullies fodder for jokes.
For example, we recently pegged Hollywood geek extraordinaire J.J. Abrams’s new creature feature Super 8 (in theaters this Friday) as our most anticipated movie of the summer. A love letter to executive producer Steven Spielberg’s ’80s sci-fi classics Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Super 8 follows a group of teens that uncover an enigmatic monster attack while shooting a homemade zombie movie with their janky super-8 camera.
Abrams made the flick with one clear mission in mind: to bring back that old feeling of watching science fiction cinema in a theater and getting lost within fantastical wonderment. Kind of like the sentiment we felt when we first saw the films on our list of The 50 Best Sci-Movies, which we’re more than glad to revisit for your debating needs/pleasure. And, we promise, the word “virgin” isn’t used once. The coast is clear.
Vog Vee June 9th, 2011 at 05:41 PM
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Jenn June 10th, 2011 at 04:27 PM
The person writing this list, Matt Barone, must be dense in some ways. To describe Starship Toopers as pro-war when it's actually a statement against a war like say Vietnam is just bad observation. And to inaccurately describe Gattaca which is a story about caste systems more so than just genetically superior people, this guy must not pay much attention to the movies he's recommending. He's right that they're great but for different reasons than he says.
Matt June 10th, 2011 at 07:15 PM
What did you do, simply put a movie title on 50 cards, dump them, then pick them up? It certainly looks that way with this list.
Cris Graddy June 13th, 2011 at 03:39 PM
Matt Barone?? Are you dense? There is no way that that is even remotely accurate! Tom Criuse should be in the top 20 at the very least, if not the top ten. Half of those I wouldnt even consider! Redo your your homework! lol! Jus' sayn'!
Jay June 14th, 2011 at 10:39 PM
Where is the original "Terminator"? Where is "Moon". Why is even '28 Days' on this list, that is horror, not even sci-fi unless you forgot "Sunshine". Minority Report on the bottom of this says a lot about the credibility of this article.
Jebus September 28th, 2011 at 11:20 AM
"28 Days Later" and "A Clockwork Orange" aren't sci-fi!
gary November 7th, 2011 at 04:59 AM
I am looking for a space movie, where the ship is propelled by an NPU (Nuclear Propulsion Unit). I remember one character was loading an atomic charge into a launching tube, where it was fired behind the ship, and detonated a few hundred yards behind, thus creating thrust. Can anyone help me remember this flic?
Birdhouse November 25th, 2011 at 10:02 PM
Not to repeat what's already been said, but aside from all the other errors in this list, Starship Troopers in particular is, just like the Heinlein book of the same title, a staunchly (and obviously) anti-war movie. For this Matt Barone to act like he's deciphered the movie on a deep level is silly, because the opposite is true.
mailer December 22nd, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Heinliens novel was not anti-war, it dealt with his stong conviction that if you did not serve in government service, you had no voting rights. A ot of his books had the use of violence in defense of self and/or community as a theme or plotline. I have been readingg his work since the early 60's and never got the impression that he was antiwar.
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azooz January 3rd, 2012 at 06:52 AM
I am an Arab who lived for 6 years in the USA, I just can't believe he placed one of the best Sci-Fi Movies of all times, I mean Independence Day as the 42nd in sequence, he is ether stupid or hates Germans ( you know what I mean) or simply jealous of one of the best directors of all times, I can’t believe it Star Wars, the movie that had changed the whole world even politically, you put in the sequence of 18th! Wow, are you out of your mind? What happened to Abyss, fire in the sky, the new king Kong and Avatar etc……..? Akira 28 days and Brazil, what a juke.