Which is the best active scifi blockbuster franchise?

[MessiahDecoy123]

DOFP and Cap 2 both had social commentary.

They weren't mindless popcorn movies.

 

[DA_Champion]

DOFP and Cap 2 both had social commentary.

Shallow social commentary.

 

[kedrell]

Well this is an easy one. MCU, no question. Not a bad film yet and some have reached a level of greatness(IM1, TA, both Cap films). Then comes Bond(I'm only looking at the rebooted last 3 Craig films) and Apes in 3rd place. IMO those are the only ones that contain at least one great film in them and no true stinkers. CR & Skyfall were great and QoS was ok. Rise was decent and Dawn was great.

And on a side note I'd put the MCU at the very top of ANY franchise currently running(not just sci-fi) with Jackon's Middle Earth adaptions as a close 2nd but that's not sci-fi.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Shallow social commentary.

I disagree.

Cap 2 challenges the audience to question the definition of patriotism, abuse of domestic spying programs, and how vulnerable our government is to infiltration from nefarious forces.

There's nothing shallow about it. It's just about as relevent and poignant as any other recent sci-fi movie.

DOFP had terrorist activity causing security measures that doom us all.

Again, I wouldn't call those efforts shallow. Most sci-fi movies have a straight forward message. If the message is persistent and important I don't think it's fair to label it shallow.

 

[The Endless]

Shallow social commentary.

I don't see how TWS's social commentary is anymore shallow than something like TDK tbh. They both dig about as deep as each other whilst tackling similar themes in different ways. TDK just does it in a more grounded, less bombastic way so it comes off as more serious.

And anyway, what has social commentary got to do with it? Are you gonna tell me Raiders of the Lost Ark or Back to the Future aren't brilliant examples of blockbuster film making?

A film doesn't need social commentary or allegories to the real world to be great. It kinda annoys me that some people seem to think it does.

 

[The Endless]

how about scifi movies that forces us to think?

today the majority of scifi movies are just blockbusters with scifi weapons,scifi ships and destroyed major city shots. hey i like them ....a lot.

but this thread is about the best right? i refuse to belive that fanboys on a superhero hype forum think that the best scifi movies are the one who have lots of action and humor and charismatic actors. NO.

We're talking franchises. If we were just talking standalone movies then i'd be talking about films like Children of Men or Moon.

But we aren't.

 

[Quasimod0]

Marvel for sure.
Then Star Trek, Star Wars, and surprisingly PotA has had a couple of fantastic movies recently

 

[Drz]

I disagree.

Cap 2 challenges the audience to question the definition of patriotism, abuse of domestic spying programs, and how vulnerable our government is to infiltration from nefarious forces.

And it answers those questions that everything is okay as long as Captain America, Nick Fury and Agent Romanoff are in charge, because you trust those characters so everything is okay.

Also i wish you had said "internal forces", but i guess everyone considers Hydra an external foe. I know you said nefarious, but the American government is the villain in Cap 2. I guess the movie truly would had been better if you hadn't called the villains Hydra agents.

 

[The Endless]

Alexander Pierce and Senator Stern are born and bred Americans though. They think themselves as Patriots. They aren't evil secret Nazi's who snuck in the back door like i've seen some suggest. They're ideals just match up with Hydra's so they joined them.

 

[rayc1971]

bond shouldn't be in scifi just because of moonraker come on! spy/thriller series

 

[MrMaooz]

I love James Bond but why is he under sci-fi? I get that some gadgets delve into that territory, but there's only 2 films that were heavily sc-fi.

 

[Victarion]

I don't really like any of those in the poll, but I picked Marvel because I really loved Iron Man 3.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Bond technically isn't Sci-Fi, though thinking about the only ones that would technically count as Sci-Fi are The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

Still it shouldn't be on this list because the recent Craig movies are nowhere close to Sci-Fi.

 

[MrMaooz]

Bond technically isn't Sci-Fi, though thinking about the only ones that would technically count as Sci-Fi are The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

Still it shouldn't be on this list because the recent Craig movies are nowhere close to Sci-Fi.

What about Die Another Day?

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Hmm... Yeah I guess that one would count too.

Still, that's make one technically Sci-Fi movie.

3 "Sci-Fi" movies out of 23 doesn't make Bond a Sci-Fi franchise.

 

[TX85]

My top three are MCU/POTA and X-Men,On the poll I voted for POTA though

 

[Airwings]

YOLT is also some sort of Bond sci fi. But there are too few movies to label the whole franchise as sci fi

 

[TX85]

I love both recent ST films but they aren't on my top list,Bond would be but I don't consider the franchise scifi either even with the fantastical gadgets,ASM was alright but haven't seen the second one,Transformers...I don't give a damn about that franchise

 

[Drz]

Alexander Pierce and Senator Stern are born and bred Americans though. They think themselves as Patriots. They aren't evil secret Nazi's who snuck in the back door like i've seen some suggest. They're ideals just match up with Hydra's so they joined them.

Yeah i know, i don't know Messiah's post just made me assume the worst.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

A few on this poll I probably wouldn't classify as Sci-Fi

 

[SuperFerret]

A few on this poll I probably wouldn't classify as Sci-Fi

I see one that's questionable, and that's Bond. His movies are very much spy movies, but most of them have a tiny bit of sci-fi in them.

 

[DA_Champion]

I don't see how TWS's social commentary is anymore shallow than something like TDK tbh. They both dig about as deep as each other whilst tackling similar themes in different ways. TDK just does it in a more grounded, less bombastic way so it comes off as more serious.

And anyway, what has social commentary got to do with it? Are you gonna tell me Raiders of the Lost Ark or Back to the Future aren't brilliant examples of blockbuster film making?

A film doesn't need social commentary or allegories to the real world to be great. It kinda annoys me that some people seem to think it does.

There was that Washington post article I posted a few months back. It explains why the politics of TWS are shallow.

 

[Flint Marko]

Probably planet of the Apes.

(MCU shouldn't be listed as one franchise as it's a collection of several franchises.)

The MCU is a franchise and is regarded as such by pretty much everyone. So it definitely fits the bill.

 

[:eek:]

At the moment I'd say Planet of the Apes. James Bond certainly isn't sci-fi. Just because one movie have partly been set in space doesn't make James Bond a sci-fi franchise. And superheroes are more fantasy than sci-fi for me. Same goes for stuff like Star Wars.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I've always considered superhero movies Sci-Fi, especially considering that most superpowered and elements of these movies have some extensive explanations for why these things are happening.