Top 10 Best Sci-fi Movies that will rock your world

Since science began progressing rapidly (and even a little bit before that), science fiction , or sci-fi , as it’s most commonly abbreviated became a favorite genre for many, and an accepted one for most, since it offered a different point of view , and also a peek at one possible future. The thrill of a possibility of seeing an alternative to our daily lifestyle , and perhaps the way our grandchildren may live has been around for enough time to create some of the best movies, which excite their viewers with a complicated plot and various special effects that were cutting edge for their time.

Here’s a list of the top 10 science fiction movies of all time :

1.      Blade Runner (1982) – one of the masterpieces of renowned director Riddley Scot, Blade Runner, contrary to popular classics which we will concern below, gives us a glimpse of a darker and more frightening future of crime and poverty. As the gap between rich and poor continued to grow,  Los Angeles has become one of the grim cities of the future, where the main character, named Deckard, and played by Harrison Ford, is on a chase to find cloned humanoids called replicants , which were deemed illegal by the authorities.

2.       The first Star Wars trilogy  (1977- 1980) – though not purely science fiction, but mixed with motives from fantasy and westerns , Star Wars is still one of the most popular movies in the genre, with millions of people as its fan base. It concerns the classic battles between good and evil, set in a faraway galaxy ,where the evil Empire dominates in the absence of the former Jedi order, which is an analogy space knights.

3.       Terminator/ Terminator 2 (1984 - 1991) – Though sometimes deemed mindless action by people who are not aware of the story,  Terminator is one of the leading stories concerning machine domination and time travel. The story takes place in contemporary time, where a machine was sent back in time in order to prevent the leader of the human resistance, John Connor , to be born. It gets more and more complicated, but it’s still one of the great sci-fi stories , and also one of the first well-made films by director James Cameron.

4.      Contact (1997) – though with far less special effects, this movie is one of the eternal classics of sci-fi because if its plot. Contact features actress Jodie Foster as dr. Ellie Arroway, the leader of the project which deciphers the first alien information which arrived on Earth,  sent by the aliens after they received the first TV transmissions from earth. A very exciting movie that lets us ponder more on ourselves as human kind.

5.      Gattaca  (1997)- Another sci-fi dystopian marble from the year 1997- Gattaca has lots of famous starts acting in it like Uma Thurman ,Ethan Hawke and Jude Law. Gattaca’s story leads you in a world where genetic modification has become common, and people born the normal way are considered unworthy for anything. Vincent Freeman ,the main character, tries to cheat the system and live a normal life. Once again ,very exciting and mind-blowing movie.

6.      Solaris (1972) – based on the book by Stanislaw Lem, it’s one of the staples of science fiction and also one of the first works to be combined with horror and thriller elements. It leaves you with main character Chris Kelvin , sent on a station near the planet Solaris, only to find out that the entire planet’s ocean is a living organism which replicates dead people from the living’s memories.

7.       The Matrix (1999) – the original Matrix movie was actually worth watching , which can hardly be said for the sequels, but still it’s a very nicely thought off universe, where people actually live in a simulation made by machines, which use humans as a power source. Main character Neo is supposed to be the chosen one , who is one day going to end the reign of the machines. One of the essential anti-utopic movies ever made.

8.      Avatar (2009) – one of the most recent additions, this one is full of amazing special effects, but also has a somewhat decent story – a man who was crippled during the many wars humans have fought in space , has the opportunity to fill the body of a Na’vi – a tribal race on a planet called Pandora. The movie continues further and shows how narrow minded human thinking is.

9.      Starship Troopers (1997) – made by director Paul Verhoeven ,  Starship Troopers takes you to a situation where humans have been invaded by creepy and horrifying space bugs. The entire story revolves around the extermination of the bugs and the efforts human have to make to get rid of them.

10.    Serenity (2005) – made by director Joss Whedon  ,  this is the continuation of the Firefly series, which has a very natural feel, mixed with comic relief and a really dramatic setting – a combination between western and sci-fi. It made many people interested in the series and also more alternative sci-fi settings.

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