We've had quite a few sci-fi movies grace our screens these past ten years, and Avatar will cap off a decade of the genre's efforts this Friday. But which ones were good enough to make it on Sci-Fi Squad's top ten list? Their staff narrowed the winners down to eleven, actually, with two very similar independent films occupying the same entry.
Jacob Hall writes about one of his picks: Minority Report.
They did leave some very good titles off their alphabetical list. I'd have gone ahead and put Avatar on there for how it looks alone.
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Jacob Hall writes about one of his picks: Minority Report.
The film is an engrossing look at a startlingly realistic future where psychics are used to predict murders and "Pre-Crime" units arrest would-be killers in advance. It is also a rousing, muscular action film in the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the only film in recent memory to have a jet-pack chase. A jet-pack chase. It raises fascinating questions about choice and destiny and how even the best intentions can be abused and corrupted. It features oddness not seen from Spielberg since the '80s, including a cackling Peter Stormare and Cruise pursuing his own rogue eyeball down a hallway.
They did leave some very good titles off their alphabetical list. I'd have gone ahead and put Avatar on there for how it looks alone.
Link. (Photo: Dreamworks Entertainment)
The Man From Earth was AWFUL. I mean I liked that all it was was a bunch of people talking. It was different, but the reactions/acting of the people just completely ruined the movie.
Children of Men wasn't very good either.
Did this statement make anyone else laugh?
i hate serenity and firefly tho, can't understand why people like that tripe. not only is it all totally ripped from the anime outlaw star (i'm always talking about this, lookit up, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Staxringold/Firefly) the production values are not low, but just in very poor taste. cinematography is dodgey, acting weak, so much hollywood cliche and lame action nonsense. why do people like these?
Anime isn't for everyone, and even if Whedon ripped it off, he made memorable characters and one beautiful ship, and gave sci-fi a breath of fresh air for a while. At least Serenity is a better watch than either Terminator 3 or Salvation, which didn't make the cut.
Stiff, horribly acted and really fooking irrational.
Star Trek shows a future "full of promise"? They killed off an entire planet for the sake of new scripts, and annihilated the future of the original Star Trek franchise.
And fawning like that over Wall-E? I liked the movie, but it wasn't the Second Coming.