[We’re all anticipating for Dune 2, on March 1, 2024.]

In the tech room at a writing conference many years ago, we created a TOP TEN TECH/SCIFI movies of all time. All staff and customers were given three votes once the list was established. The top Sci-fi SHOWS post is coming. Let’s start with Westworld and Altered Carbon season 1.

TOP SCI-FI MOVIES (List made in 2014 | V = votes received)

1. Lord of the Rings (all) V: 5
2. The Matrix (all) V:9
3. The Fifth Element V:7
4. Star Wars (original 3) V: 14
5. 2001: A Space Odessey V: 7
6. Aliens V: 5
7. Bladerunner V: 6
8. Serenity V: 3
9. Guardians of the Galaxy V: 4
10. Inception V: 3

UPDATES FOR 2024
(a few additions to the list, in no official order)

1. Dune
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. The Creator
4. Interstellar
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Arrival
7. District 9
8. The Martian
9. Ex Machina
10. Alita: Battle Angel
11. Edge of Tomorrow
12. Looper
13. Prometheus
14. Don’t Look Up

Honored but voted off the top-10 list (ALT titles were in the top-10 for a while)

• ALT: Harry Potter (“cause it’s not sci-fi)
• ALT: Star Trek: Reboot
• ALT: Avengers
• Avatar (“Pocahontas in space”)
• Mission Impossible (“Tom Cruise, Scientology, meh”)
• Terminator
• Men in Black
• ID-4
• Ender’s Game
• Back to the Future
• Terminator
• Total Recall
• TRON
• Dark City
• Adjustment Bureau
• Heavy Metal
• Mad Max
• Jurassic Park
• Pixar – all
• Minority Report
• X-Men
• Dune (David Lynch)
• Brazil
• Time Bandits
• ID-4
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Planet of the Apes (Original and Reboot)
• Watchmen
• 300
• Spaceballs
• Oblivion
• E.T.
• Men in Black
• The Abyss (director’s cut)
• Galaxy Quest

See Also:

• UBER.LA: TOP BINGE TV SHOWS (Nerd Bias)
• UBER.LA: TOP SCI-FI BOOKS

image: dall-e prompt “a neon cyberpunk poster on a crowded rainy street in new york in the rain, an alien silhouette is on the poster in red and black”

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