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

[Gianakin_]

That's because TDTESS was indeed a **** movie.

I also found Southland Tales to be unbelievably crappy, but I can totally get how someone would like it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I cannot believe Serenity doesnt have 1 vote, were it not for District 9, Serenity or Sunshine would have gotten my vote. More people need to see those 2 movies.

 

[redhawk23]

Southland Tales and Donnie Darko especially deserve honorable mentions as well.
I'm trying to think of some more I haven't seen anybody mention but the science fiction pickings have been pretty damn slim for years now. With some of the **** movies I've seen some of you guys mention I can't believe nobody has mentioned The Day The Earth Stood Still. It was ok. The Matrix was released in 1999 though so you couldn't consider it 21st century. If you would consider it then I would argue to add Dark City as well

Southland Tales is one of the worst movies made with a straight face. Same goes for the Box.

 

[Zanham]

Southland Tales is one of the worst movies made with a straight face. Same goes for the Box.

You're entitled to dislike them both but to compare 'The Box' to 'Southland Tales' is off. I couldn't even get through 20 minutes of 'The Box' before it was time to click it away.

Speaking of clicking away, did anyone mention 'Click' released in 2006?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Didnt include it because it was awful, plus not really Sci-fi in my eyes.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

To each his own but wasn't that huge of a fan of CoM.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Same here, it was good, not great, and no were near the best Sci-fi movie

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The lack of Artificial Intelligence love is disturbing. It didn't even make the poll. wtf?

 

[Maximus One]

I second that one. Highly under rated film. I get the Southland Tales hate, the movie is a chore to sit through but I still love it. It's just so crazy and weird. I can't help it for real, crazy ass movies like that just do it for me.

2000's The Cell has always been a favorite of mine. I love the symbolism in that movie

 

[redhawk23]

I've always had a soft spot for A.I. Some of the stuff in that movie is absolutely amazing. The Flesh Fair has always been harrowing.

My appreciating for the ending has grown over the years, especially since I realized that the skinny guys are highly evolved mechas returning to earth rather than aliens.

The subtle nods to Kubrick's cinematography that Spielberg snuck into the movie is also interesting.

Spielberg really knocked things out of the park with the one-two punch of AI and Minority Report at the beginning of the last decade.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I did actually mean to include it even though i'm not a fan of the movie personally. Its been years since I watched it though so that could change.

 

[redhawk23]

I can understand being left a bit cold by A.I. but it has enough other things going for it to work for me. I've always been perplexed by it. Most of the effects actually hold up really well too even after 10+ years.

 

[Brother Jack]

I can understand being left a bit cold by A.I. but it has enough other things going for it to work for me. I've always been perplexed by it. Most of the effects actually hold up really well too even after 10+ years.

A.I. has always been a bit of a conundrum to me. I really like it but there's something about it that just holds it back. I'm not sure what it is; it isn't the ending so much because although it is sentimental in the way its presented it is actually quite unnerving if you think about it and not so incongruous with the rest of the film.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Southland Tales and Donnie Darko especially deserve honorable mentions as well.

Not at all, especially Southland Tales. Richard Kelly's movies are all an insult to intelligence.

 

[jaqua99]

Prometheus and district 9 for me

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I forgot Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

One of my favorite movies.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I liked Source Code a lot, but I think I'm alone there.

eXistenz is another great scifi film, but like Matrix it's from 1999.

Honestly, the best scifi anything of the 21st century came in comic-form... Y! The Last Man.

 

[Gianakin_]

I like Source Code, you're not alone. Nothing too amazing or groundbreaking, but I had a lot of fun watching it.

A.I. was the first movie that made me lose my faith in Spielberg. It was a warning sign of things to come (and eventually came, unfortunately).

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Source Code was a great flick, dont see how anyone could claim different. For me, Duncan Jones has produced 2 great sci-fi movies with that and Moon.

 

[redhawk23]

Side note, Looper, which comes out next week, is still sitting on a 100% tomato meter after almost 30 reviews. It will drop of course, but it bodes well.

 

[Zanham]

Not at all, especially Southland Tales. Richard Kelly's movies are all an insult to intelligence.

THAT must be why I like that movie. I'm not intellectually challenged and I take the insult of my intelligence as an intellectual challenge.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I say that about Kelly's movies because he presents them as way more intellectual and intelligent than they actually are, because they're more the opposite.

 

[MrMaooz]

They might not be as smart as the others listed but I really love J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I'd say the hunger games is up there as well. If I could change my vote however I'd probably give to inception or moon.

 

[Heretic]

Some great recent Sci-Fi:
Another Earth
Upstream Color
Antiviral
Note: None of these have explosions, laser blasts or spaceships. They're just really good movies that happen to involve sci-fi concepts.

Worth seeing:
Upside Down (this is a very stupid sci-fi romance movie...but the visuals are awesome and the concept behind the world....while implausible...was great. It could have been better if it had focused on the world itself and the struggles, maybe a trilogy to tell the decades-long story that was crammed into one film)