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What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by Curtis Owen on Wednesday, 17th February 2010, 21:16

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It seems like a genre that has completely died.

I'll start the ball rolling and say...

Pitch Black
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The Cronicles of Riddick
Serenity
A Scanner Darkly
Wall-E
The Road

RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by whoot on Wednesday, 17th February 2010, 23:04

Elite

Moon is good.
and I recently saw a french - i think - film about a man who keeps going back in time and f***ing his own s*** up. Damn it was good and it is now driving me mad trying to think what it was called..
Pretty sure it had a one word title.

RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by Pete-MK on Wednesday, 17th February 2010, 23:29

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Merde?

I'd have to agree with Pitch Black (one of Vin's finest) but not Chronicles. Wall-E certainly. The SW prequels are disqualified by default.

District 9
Moon
The recent Hitch-hikers reboot deserves an honourable mention
I was going to add Galaxy Quest for a Rockwell hat-trick but that's a year out. shame

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RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by badboybez on Thursday, 18th February 2010, 01:29

Elite

Pitch Black
Serenity
Was going to also say Event Horizon but that was 1997

In Madness You Dwell

RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by chewie on Thursday, 18th February 2010, 13:52

Elite

Would add Primer and The Prestige to the list too.

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RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by Pete-MK on Thursday, 18th February 2010, 18:19

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I liked the Prestige, but I wouldn't have classed it as Sci-Fi. It certainly wasn't the major plot of the movie.

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RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by chewie on Thursday, 18th February 2010, 22:36

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On The Prestige, I'd definitely class it as sci-fi, but it depends how you classify sci-fi. To me sci-fi is at its best when exploring ideas and that's what The Prestige does. Its a complex twist on obsession and technology, and by putting it into a period setting it somewhat disguises the rather absurd revelation in favour of depicting the human values at play (which is what sci-fi really started as, in both literature and movies). But as you point out you can also look at it on the flipside where the illusion is done without any 'magic', and the storyline is so tightly wound around the journals that its a bit of a puzzle from a writing/filmmaking narrative.

But just because its subtle doesn't mean its not sci-fi.

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RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by xfg on Thursday, 18th February 2010, 22:51

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RE: What are the best Sci-Fi movies from the 2000s?

posted by floyd_dylan on Monday, 22nd February 2010, 08:31

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Serenity
District 9
Moon
Butterfly Effect
The Incredibles
X Men/X2
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (it was a fun movie)
A Scanner Darkly
The Host
Sunshine (ending was a bit of a let down)
Cloverfield
Outlander (silly but fun)
The Road
Monsters Vs Aliens
Star Trek

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