![]() Mike Judge’s addition to the genre imagines a slightly different world that awaits us: A world in which most people - well, ok, most Americans - have devolved to the point of being dumber than fuck. Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Everett Collection.įor years, many sci-fi stories took place in distant futures in which mankind’s intelligence had reached previously unimaginable heights, technology made lives vastly easier, and many of the problems that have plagued us had been solved. He watches the hippies dance, reciting the dialogue word-for-word as a flower child gushes, “If we all can’t live together and be happy… what kind of way is that to go through life?” Heston just snickers, “They sure don’t make pictures like that any more.” In the 2020s, we’ve all been there. At one point, Heston hides out in an empty theater showing the Woodstock documentary. Director Boris Sagal gives it an authentically scuzzy vibe, where Seventies L.A. This extremely Me Decade adaptation of Richard Matheson’s landmark 1954 novel I Am Legend is a paranoid pandemic nightmare that turned out to be way too prophetic - for some of us, it was the movie we couldn’t stop watching in lockdown. Charlton Heston is the lone survivor from the plague, fighting off a cult of killer mutants in the deserted streets of Southern California. Los Angeles, 1975: Biological warfare has wiped out the human race, leaving one man standing. (It was also decided early on that superhero movies as a whole usually fall out the parameters of science fiction, so you won’t the MCU, et al., canon on this list - with one very notable exception.) Here are our picks for the best the genre has to offer. There were more than a few arguments when it came to the picks. Instead, we went bigger and bulked it up with an extra 50 entries, all the better to pay lip service to more of the pulpy, the poppy and the perverse entries - not to mention some of our personal favorites - that don’t normally get shout-outs in these kinds of lists. So when it came time to rank the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, we couldn’t stop at 100. Now it’s a genre wide enough to encompass everything from Ad Astra to Zardoz. Once upon a time, sci-fi was considered nothing more than a niche for nerds. These films have given us visions of utopias and dystopias, asked deep questions about the human experience and the pros and cons of artificial intelligence, thrilled us and made us think. Ever since that bullet-like rocket gave the Moon a black eye in 1902 and added an element of fantasy into a very young art form, those speculative and imaginative stories set in the far reaches of space and/or on our own scorched earth have been an integral part of a well-balanced cinematic diet. How boring the movies would be - and how robbed we audiences would be - if science fiction never existed, or never made it past the that’s-just-for-academics stage of evolution. Thomas “Neo” Anderson is just another computer programmer. never makes it to Earth, so he never has to go home. Giant prehistoric monsters aren’t awakened from centuries-long slumbers and don’t wreck a single metropolis. The name Luke Skywalker means nothing to anyone neither does Marty McFly, “Mad” Max Rockatansky, or Godzilla. The adventures of space explorers and time travelers, androids and alien races don’t thrill a generation of kids chomping popcorn at Saturday matinees. ![]() Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, Georges Méliès never sends a bunch of folks on a trip to the moon.
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