Best Sci-fi movie of the 21st century (so far)

[Loki882]

I would say either Children of Men, Moon, or District 9, though they're all so great that I'm not sure which one is the best.

 

[Gianakin_]

Children of Men for me.

 

[flickchick85]

Children of Men for me as well.

EDIT: Aaand I now realize this is a pretty old thread and I already posted my thoughts a long time ago. But I will add that I think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind should've been on here.

 

[Human Torch]

No Revenge of the Sith?I'm insulted.

 

[Persona]

District 9 or Inception and for me it's not particularly close between those two and the rest of the lot.

if you were to include Upstream Color in the discussion i'd place it at third. Elysium would be somewhere in my top ten, for sure. sorry, haters.

i will give major props to Children of Men for its production and direction, just not the biggest fan of its story/characters/etc. which all felt like tools of some little too blatantly obvious humanistic agitprop. still, it'd be a top ten entry, too.

if eXistenZ didn't narrowly miss the cut-off it'd be my #1 with a bullet. i love that movie deeply.

hopeful for Under the Skin.

 

[Persona]

like, here's my stab at 10:

1. Inception
2. District 9
3. Upstream Color
4. Children of Men
5. Looper
6. Pitch Black
7. Elysium
8. Attack the Block
9. Moon
10. Dredd

 

[Heretic]

What a shame that Primer is not on this list...

 

[Quasimod0]

Minority Report is my favorite on that list. Tron legacy is probably my favorite sci-fi movie. Oblivion and Star Trek 2 were also awesome.

 

[OcStat]

I remember Primer. That is to say I remember watching it, couldn't tell you what I actually saw, haha.

Moon was phenomenonal.

I enjoyed Prometheus, I know a lot of people didn't.

District 9 of course. Have yet to see Elysium.

Minority Report was a great sci-fi film, remember it fondly. I have actually been wanting to watch it lately.

Sunshine, Avatar and Tron: Legacy I also enjoyed. Not equally, despite them all being in the same sentence... don't get me wrong.

Inception I can see being considered sci-fi though that isn't quite what I considered it. Actually that's a pretty tough movie to categorize, sci-fi is probably most adequete.

 

[chelo248]

The Man from Earth (2007). !

 

[66 Face]

Gravity might be in the top 5 already.

 

[redmarvel]

Wall-e

Here's a list of 100 movies (a lot of Comic Book movies also are SF)

http://www.imdb.com/list/bkaijxpGjWg/

My personal pick is Thor

 

[Brain Damage]

Out of the ones in the poll, Children of Men easily.

Next up would be Minority Report, and then Inception - though to be honest I don't really consider that sci-fi.

 

[MrMaooz]

My favorites.

Inception
Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness
Minority Report
War of the Worlds

 

[redhawk23]

Out of the ones in the poll, Children of Men easily.

Next up would be Minority Report, and then Inception - though to be honest I don't really consider that sci-fi.

Why not? Its a heist film but squarely built around sci-fi technology.


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is easily one of the best movies of the past 13 years, full stop, regardless of genre.

 

[redhawk23]

Gravity might be in the top 5 already.

Is Gravity really sci fi though? It takes place entirely in a real setting. All of the technology presented exists or did so until very recently. Its no more sci fi then a mountaineering disaster film would be.

 

[redhawk23]

I have a definite soft spot for AI: Artificial Intelligence. It baffles me that so many people write off the ending as "Typical Spielberg" as it is not particularly happy at all.

 

[jmc]

I have a definite soft spot for AI: Artificial Intelligence. It baffles me that so many people write off the ending as ''Typical Spielberg'' as it is not particularly happy at all.

It wasn't even Spielberg's ending, it was Kubrick's attempt at a Spielberg ending. What most people don't understand with A.I is that it was a film that was in a no-win situation, Kubrick wanted to do a Spielberg type of movie but didn't have the confidence within himself to do it, I think at one stage he even tried to get Spielberg to do it years before. After Kubrick died Spielberg took it upon himself to try and do a Kubrick version of his own style of movie, trying to emulate shots and editing in a way that invoked Kubrick's film making hallmarks. What's left is this weird film which is a Stanley Kubrick film trying to be a Spielberg movie, directed by Steven Spielberg trying to look and feel as if it was made by Kubrick. In all honesty it's possibly one of the hardest films to give a fair criticism to, it's essentially two directors trying to honor one and others work.

 

[Victarion]

The Road
Inception
The Riddick films

 

[CGHulk]

Does anyone else besides me thinks that the best sci-fi is based in social commentary and is inspirational and is designed to make you think more clearly? If we are not careful this will happen, or are we evolved enough for this, or should we not be doing that? Should we be holding off doing this until were are more civilized or more evolved, are we ready? I think the best sci-fi makes us question who we are and what we are doing as a species, and what do we want our future to be like! To dream of a more hopeful future, based on a wiser more evolved way of thinking. Sci-fi can be used to inspire us to dream for a better future, "Yes that's the future I want!" To much sic-fi today is cynical and negative. This medium can be used to inspire others, as a grand motivator of what we want our future to be!! That's fun for me! So much of what sci-fi today is cynicism and what is being depicted is a hopeless future that is worse than it is today without a solution. I preferably don't want to waist my time on such hopeless thinking. It doesn't entertain me, if it did I'd be in trouble. So many confuse cynicism with wisdom when it's hopelessness and an attitude of giving up.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

There's still 87 years worth of films ahead of us, I will wait a bit before voting.

 

[CGHulk]

There's still 87 years worth of films ahead of us, I will wait a bit before voting.

87 years, why the limit?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Because a century is 100 years and we are only 13 year into the 21st.
I should have been more clear in my previous post, I agree.

 

[smashmode]

Children of Men

 

[Persona]

Inception

eXistenZ narrowly misses the cut.

oh, whoops, i already responded to this with a Top 10.