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The best science fiction movies from every decade.

Proximity (2020)
Paging ET, please phone home. “Proximity” had potential. The film partially redeemed this but then blatantly fails on a completely different level. With a film about alien abduction, there’s one particular expectation wherewith the film stands or falls. And that’s the look of the spacecraft with which those green men fly around. In many SF movies with the same subject, this is either shown only briefly. Or the design and special effects are so pitifully bad that you wished those alien tourists instantly have an engine problem and crash down with their ugly flying saucer. But when Isaac (Ryan Mason) early in the movie sees the spinning vehicle fly above him, I noticed his approving look. Not because he liked the design, but because his conviction was confirmed in this way. Me on the other hand, probably had an approving look because the spaceship looked really good. Unfortunately, this fact alone could not save the film.
By Peter P6 years ago in Futurism
My Review of "Tremors"
Tremors came out back in 1990. I remember the big hype about this movie back when it first came out but I was a little kid and was afraid of horror movies. I never gave it the time of day. Much later in my life I still avoided it not because it was a horror movie but because it looked really cheesy compared to today's movies. Still there's still some people that say Tremors is worth watching. Since it's freely streaming on Netflix why not check it out? This is what I thought of it.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Futurism
My Review of "Attack The Block"
Attack The Block had come out back in 2011 and I remember watching it in the theaters when it first came out. It aired in a local independent theater that specialized in small independent movies. What I remembered was a really entertaining movie about young British kids fighting an alien invasion.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Futurism
2036: Origin Unknown | Movie Review
So, I may have spent one day just watching ridiculous sci-fi movies where world threatening disaster that couldn’t possibly happen, happen. From this fun day long venture I was brought to the latest sci-fi movie added to Netflix, 2036: Origin Unknown.
By Joe Harris6 years ago in Futurism
Geostorm | Movie Review
During a time of crisis you would think that disaster movies would be the last thing anyone wants to watch right now. For some, this may be true, for me I find too much pleasure in watching entirely unrealistic scenarios threaten the safety of the world. It’s weirdly thrilling!
By Joe Harris6 years ago in Futurism
A Father, A Son, Identity and Back to the Future 3
Back to the Future 3 places me into an odd mindset 30 years later. In its innate nostalgia for the western, Back to the Future 3 took me to a place of examining the things that my father embraced as a young man, the kinds of things I thought that I had rejected in creating a personality separate from my father. In this review/essay, Back to the Future 3 will be the vehicle with which I will examine maturity, childhood, identity and my relationship with my father, abstractly of course, I would need a therapist to tackle the subject directly.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Futurism
I Made a Sci-Fi Short Film With a $46 Budget
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.
By Jonathan Sim6 years ago in Futurism
The Yellow Flick Road
What we predicted has come true: Disney, with its unlimited resources, has created the Callback Masterpiece in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. This film’s callback game is so deep, it calls back other franchises. It is like Scary Movie, only with Star Wars. There is a callback to Avengers that makes me cringe. This being the last film in a trilogy of trilogies, Rise calls back to every film in the series, bringing together eight movies into one. It could come off as the Remember When? Reel if not so brilliantly realized by JJ Abrams. The trick here is to refer to the callbacks without spoiling any details from Rise. That’s easy, as long as we avoid any mention of new material, of which there is a considerable amount. I will attempt to mention any callback that occurs in chronological order, starting from New Hope, Empire and Return, then Menace, Clones and Revenge, and finally Awakens and Last Jedi. Let us use the Episode numbers to keep track. And in case you are wondering, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker follows the Yellow Flick Road like a zealot.
By Antonio Jacobs6 years ago in Futurism
The Yellow Flick Road
Dark Fate: Dorothy saves the World With Tim Miller at the helm as director, and James Cameron as Executive Producer, The Terminator franchise reboots to directly after the second film in the series. Spoiler alert if you have never seen T2: A robot from the future is sent back in time by an Artificial Intelligence called SkyNet to kill 12 year old John Connor in order to preserve a dystopian machine-controlled society. His death as a child would eliminate his development as a leader of a human resistance that eventually defeats the machines. The Resistance sends back an older model robot reprogrammed to protect John. This model appears identical to the robot (known as T-100) originally sent twelve years prior to kill John’s mother, Sarah. That first unit was destroyed by Sarah and a resistance fighter named Kyle Reese, sent back in time by John to protect his mother from the T-100. Kyle dies in the effort to stop the T-100, but not before a sexual encounter with Sarah which leads to the birth of John. Twelve years later, Sarah, John and the second T-100 are able to destroy this new robot, called a T-1000, through serious hard work and effort, but the T-100 insists on being completely destroyed by fire to avoid his advanced technology to be discovered during this time. Apparently, some of the original T-100’s parts were found by a company called Cyberdyne, which leads to the development of Skynet. What this actually means is that these future actors arriving in the past changed the future, but not significantly enough to avoid Armageddon, as it were.
By Antonio Jacobs6 years ago in Futurism
My Review of "Captive State"
Captive State is an alien invasion movie that barely has any aliens in it. Don't be expecting a ton of action in this alien invasion caper movie. There's a ton of intrigue as the many players don't know who to trust. It's definitely a very different change of pace for an alien invasion movie. Unfortunately, despite the intrigue of most of the movie the ending is rather predictable through the not so subtle foreshadowing throughout the movie.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Futurism
My Review of "Beyond Skyline"
Beyond Skyline has showed up on my Netflix suggestions for quite some time. I didn't quite know if I wanted to see it or not. The premise of the movie was right up my alley but I usually like watching higher budget science fiction movies. My mind has been changed recently because I've seen a bunch of low budget science fiction movies on Netflix and they've impressed me. So I decided to take the dive and see what it was all about.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Futurism
Dark Light - review
Brief synopsis: After her divorce, a woman takes her young daughter and moves into her old vacant family home in rural Mississippi. When strange things start happening and her daughter disappears, she is the local sheriff’s number one suspect. The woman fights to not only clear her name but also to find her daughter.
By Q-ell Betton6 years ago in Futurism