Top Ten Essential Science Fiction Movies
10. Avatar (2009) The highest grossing film of all time features ground breaking special effects and looks spectacular in 3-D.
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick’s classic film is a thinking person’s science fiction film.
8. Planet of the Apes (1968) The first science fiction film to spawn a series of sequels and remakes.
7. The Terminator films, starting with The Terminator in 1984 To date, there have been four films and a TV series detailing mankind’s war against machines in present day and in the future.
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The Best Evil Robots in Science Fiction
Karel Capek wrote a play in 1920 called R.U.R which stands for “Rossum-s Universal Robots’. Thirty years later, Isaac Asimov wrote his laws for robots. One of these laws said that robots shall not harm humans. Sometimes things go wrong though and robots turn evil. Sometimes they-re just made that way.
There have been some classic evil robots through the years. Ideas of the “Best Evil Robot’ can vary. There are many candidates for that list.Didn-t catch that? Yul Brenner-s Gunslinger in Read more
How Some Sci-fi Movies Differ From the Books
Movies based on books have a reputation for being different from the book. Ranging from wildly skewed to slightly off. Some Sci-Fi novels are more difficult to translate to cinema than others. Sci-Fi is about more than the tech and the spaceships, it is also about social and moral issues. The discussion of these issues between characters which can go on for pages in a book can turn into boring talking heads on the screen. On the same coin everyone loves a great space battle.
As to exactly how a Sci-Fi movie can differ from Read more
Top Five Best Science Fiction Weapons
5. Kryptonite. This radioactive mineral from Superman’s home planet can render the Man of Steel powerless, and with prolonged exposure, dead. An ingenious way for writers to weaken the strongest superhero when the story demands.
4. Genesis Device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Meant to harness the power to create life by reforming dead planets, this was instead used by the genetically altered madman Khan in an attempt to destroy the crew of the Enterprise after he was mortally wounded. The crew was Read more