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The 15 Best Hard Sci-Fi Movies That Define the Genre (movieweb.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We took a trip through decades of the genre and came up with a list of the most important and best hard science fiction movies of all time. They are the essence and the foundations of the book of sci-fi rules that's still being written as we, the audience, become much more self-aware of our relationship with technology, the future, and whatever those two will bring.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is just a SciFi Movie list rather than a hard SciFi one.

I agree that The Martian is hard SciFi tho.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Solid first few, then it went to kid’s films? Really not impressed by the list at all, like the furthest they reached back was Blade Runner and only mentioned it because it’s popular, not because it was a genre defining film.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blade Runner absolutely brought cyberpunk to the big screen, it was absolutely genre defining for a lot of people. Prior it was just Neuromancer that imagined it.

Plus they had "Metropolis" from 1927, did you read the whole list? Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To clarify: Yes, you're absolutely correct that Blade Runner was genre defining. However, my reference was regarding the list itself...referencing the other films it's like it was chosen because "of course" it has to be chosen, not because the list creator actually tried to define the quality of the rest of the list to match the impact had on filmmaking or the genre like Blade Runner did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You're not wrong there, plenty of the choices seem like what a casual person who doesn't even really seek out Sci Fi would think of as "genre defining."

I mean really, arrival? It's basically just Slaughterhouse 5's Tralfamadorians but without the existential non-meaning attached. It wasn't a bad movie, but it's just another good enough film from the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, very disappointing, was looking for more hard sci-fi stuff.

Edit: Because nobody listed it, Stowaway was good and reasonably hard sci-fi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hard to find a general public that'll justify the expenditure. Books on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't think the author of this article or 99% of the people in this thread understand what hard sci Fi is.