Ironically, the last three films in that Worst Ever list I happen to like quite a bit (Judge Dredd is n’t particularly good, but due to my dedication to 2000 AD I msut confess to viewing it more than once).
The 40 best sci-fi pictures of the 21st century so far, according to Rolling Stone:
- Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
- Ex_Machina (Garland, 2014)
- Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
- Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016)
- Inception (Nolan, 2010)
- WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)
- Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
- 28 Days Later… (Boyle, 2002)
- The Martian (Scott, 2015)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
- District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)
- Serenity (Whedon, 2005)
- Looper (Johnson, 2012)
- Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)
- A Scanner Darkly (Linklater, 2006)
- Her (Jonze, 2013)
- Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014)
- The Host (Bong, 2006)
- Midnight Special (Nichols, 2016)
- The World’s End (Wright, 2013)
- Moon (Jones, 2009)
- Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
- Primer (Carruth, 2004)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
- Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)
- Attack the Block (Cornish, 2011)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014)
- Reign of Fire (Bowman, 2002)
- Monsters (Edwards, 2010)
- 2046 (Wong, 2004)
- Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)
- Sunshine (Boyle, 2007)
- Pacific Rim (del Toro, 2013)
- The Girl With All the Gifts (McCarthy, 2016)
- Source Code (Jones, 2011)
- Another Earth (Cahill/Marling, 2011)
- The One I Love (McDowell, 2014)
23 out of this 40 I have seen. From the top 10 I haven’t seen only Under the skin.
Nothing particular to add, although I would rather see The Mist, Pandorum or Elysium than Source Code or Pacific Rim and Rogue One than Force Awakens.
This is how I would order my 23:
1 Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)
2 Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
3 District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)
4 Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
5 Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
6 28 Days Later… (Boyle, 2002)
7 Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
8 WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)
9 Moon (Jones, 2009)
10 The Martian (Scott, 2015)
11 Sunshine (Boyle, 2007)
12 Ex_Machina (Garland, 2014)
13 Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)
14 The Host (Bong, 2006)
15 Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
16 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
17 Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016)
18 Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)
19 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015)
20 Inception (Nolan, 2010)
21 Her (Jonze, 2013)
22 Pacific Rim (del Toro, 2013)
23 Source Code (Jones, 2011)
This is the only one I’ve never heard of.
‘Star Wars’ does have a ring to it though. It could gain a cult following someday.
Absolutely. I quite like The Force Awakens but I’m not sure I could’ve found a place for it in a top 40 let alone a top 10. Rogue One is a fantastic picture.
I own 27 of them, I’ve never heard of two of them (2046 and The One I Love). I’ve never seen the much-lauded number one, Children of Men. I suppose I should give it a try at some stage, I’ve just never felt any real urge to do so. I’ve never seen Her either, that gets a lot of love too. I used to own A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but I ditched them both. And I found Arrival fairly disappointing really.
Like Top 5: Ex_Machina, Source Code, The Martian, Moon and (surprise) Reign of Fire
Don’t like Bottom 5: Inception, Looper, Snowpiercer, District 9, Children of Men
I’ve just noticed that there is no Interstellar on this Rolling Stone list. Not that I am that crazy about it, but it is surprising for a mainstream magazine like RS to ignore it.
I liked Interstellar far more the second time around, just as I did with Inception and The Dark Knight. Must be something to do with the way Nolan structures his films.
How can anybody place these two movies side by side is beyond me.
You gotta be kidding. They had probably run out of sf movies.
Didn’t read this thread till now. Think that Outland (1981) is a better film than many films mentioned here.
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No, I was in the right state of mind, the thing is, the movie is just mediocre, that’s all. But alien spaceship is great looking, I’ll give the movie that.
And no, it doesn’t. Even dumb movies like Star Wars Episode I with all Jar jar binks nonsense are more endurable.
The Day of the Triffids (1963) should also easily be inside a top 100 I think, in spite of a weak ending.
When it comes to scifi, I’ve seen a lot. From this particular list, I havent seen Invasion of Body Snatchers, Her, Under the Skin, Je taime, The Thing from another world, Seconds, World on a wire, Things to come, The Damned and Frankenstein.