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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So anyway, that's a list. A better one might include:

  • Brazil
  • Lifeforce
  • Forbidden Planet
  • Dark Star
  • Alphaville
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • Flash Gordon (1980)
  • Barbarella
  • Ghost in the Shell (1995)
  • Silent Running
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. "Inception"
  2. "The Matrix"
  3. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
  4. "Donnie Darko"
  5. "Primer"
  6. "Interstellar"
  7. "Blade Runner"
  8. "The Truman Show"
  9. "The Prestige"
  10. "Annihilation"
  11. "Predestination"
  12. "Coherence"
  13. "Source Code"
  14. "Triangle"
  15. "Ex Machina"
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Primer is one the better mind-fucking sci-fi movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another vote for Predestination. That's really a WTF film!

How about Dark City but I can't stress enough the importance of the directors cut. The theatrical release had a studio imposed opening narrative that spoils most of the movies surprises!

[–] bramkaandorp 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First one on the list is Black Swan. I haven't seen it, but I have never seen it associated with science fiction.

[–] PineapplePartisan 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people use the term Science Fiction in a colloquial manner that means anything that has fantastical elements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on these criteria every non-documentary movie is a science-fiction. Also, Black Swan is not a science-fiction movie, just a speculative fiction.

[–] PineapplePartisan 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know what to tell you. You can argue taxonomy all you want and it won’t change how people use the term. Just look at the lists people are posting in this thread. None of them are science fiction to me, they are fantasy, political satire, and speculative fiction.

[–] bramkaandorp 2 points 1 year ago

It's a spectrum. It can be argued that Star Trek is not science fiction because it contains time travel, which is, as far as current scientific knowledge tells us, impossible.

But most people will agree that it is science fiction, albeit a space opera, or soft science fiction if you will, in both senses of the term.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cloud Atlas (2012)
Cube (1997)
The Fountain (2006)

[–] PineapplePartisan 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since we are making lists:

Blade Runner Moon Ex Machina Robocop The Martian

Honorable mention for Primer, the best time travel movie ever made.

[–] solstice 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PineapplePartisan 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The ten films on the list:

Black Swan (2010)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Pi (1998)

Annihilation (2018)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Primer (2004)

The Matrix (1999)

Inception (2010)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Couple good ones on that list, but over all not what I would choose to highlight. Other comments are mentioning some of them.. one I haven't seen mentioned...Event Horizon anyone? Maybe too horror for some but it is definitely sci-fi and so damn good.