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The 15 Best Hard Sci-Fi Movies That Define the Genre (movieweb.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Really excited to see Coherence on a list with so many other greats. It’s a great thriller movie and one of my favorites to watch with others. Provokes fun conversation about “what would you do in that situation?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I liked its portrayal of “how would I outsmart myself, an identical me that’s also trying to outsmart me back?”

Watching 7 people all try to do that together makes for a lot of interesting drama, and shakes out much that they’d hoped to hide about themselves. In fact that’s exactly how some of the characters try to outsmart themselves: by going for that jugular vein of deep dark secrets no one knows. Fucking brutal.

And all that would be impossible to portray without sci-fi. This movie’s vehicle for the sci-fi elements is dumb as rocks: a comet passes overhead and fractures quantum spacetime. Wut? It’s not an important point but damn, at least make it sound like you tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Great movie but REALLY not hard scifi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Finding this on the list was nice because I'd watched Coherence on some pirate streaming site and then forgot the name of the movie. Such a great movie.