There are no limits when it comes to hard sci-fi. The following movies are proof of the essence of the genre, which allows us to see the inexplicable.

We took a trip through decades of the genre and came up with a list of the most important and best hard science fiction movies of all time. They are the essence and the foundations of the book of sci-fi rules that’s still being written as we, the audience, become much more self-aware of our relationship with technology, the future, and whatever those two will bring.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Hard to define ‘hard’, a few more I liked: (no ranking)

    • The Time Machine (both the Pal and the Wells films; quite different)

    • Dark City (1998, Pryas)

    • Forbidden Planet (1956, Wilcox)

    • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Wise)

    • Fifth Element (hilarious, Besson, 1997)

    • Alien (Scott, 1979)

    • 13th Floor (Rusnak, 1999)

    • Stargate (1994, Emerich)

    • Steamboy (2004, Otomo)

    Movies made from famed series I’d REALLY LIKE to see:

    • Ringworld (Niven, a crime noone’s DARED to try).

    • Some setting of Riverworld. (Farmer)

    • ANY of Neal Stephenson’s SF books, esp. Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Anathem.

    (Not even the BBC? I mean, who expected Doctor Who to get THIS far?!)