The 101 Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of All Time: 1. Interstellar (6 Viewers)

[Andy Dufresne]

I didn't really give the Matrix a full chance. I bailed really early as I just thought it was dumb. But I should have seen it in the theater and given it a chance.

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

You obviously don't understand that if you soak the human body and keep it alive in a jelly like substance you can draw energy from it or you'd like the Matrix

Ahem... It's combined with a form of fusion.

 

[foxco]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

 

[dgreen]

I watched Alien the other night for the first time in a really long time. I thought it held up really well. I started Aliens last night. I remembered loving that movie when I was younger. I turned it off because my daughter wanted to talk. Maybe I'll restart it again one night this week, but the first 20ish minutes just didn't seem to hold up nearly as well as the first one. It was pretty cheesy. I'll probably continue just to get to "Game over, man".

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Well yeah, nothing happens in the first 20 minutes of Aliens. It's the company gaslighting Ripley.

The extended version is better if only because it makes more out of Ripley's material instinct later on.

 

[General Malaise]

Rewatched Interstellar because of this thread.

Better than I remembered, but also more reliant on the M Knight Shamalang moment too. Wouldn't ever put it 1st or even top 10, but a very worthy inclusion.

I think I'm broken or just allergic to Nolan movies. I thought this thing was a steaming pile of crap. Just so ridiculous that my suspension of disbelief my never recover. Like, permanently broken after this thing.

If you didn't like the Matrix there was zero chance you'd like Interstellar.

I didn't really give the Matrix a full chance. I bailed really early as I just thought it was dumb. But I should have seen it in the theater and given it a chance.

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

You're not entirely wrong. Interstellar doesn't deserve the plaudits it gets.

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me. I've said it before and it's pretty silly but 10% of the population can't stomach cilantro. For them, it tastes like soap. It's not their fault.

That's me and Nolan movies - well, the ones I've seen. Dunkirk was a visually amazing war film that was expertly shot. I have zero idea what it's about. I had trouble following the characters.

Oppenheimer - tremendous in so many ways but also bored me to tears and I have no desire to ever see it again.

I quit watching bat mans 30 years ago. Zero interest. Less than zero.

 

[General Malaise]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Lol.....I do fully recognize it's probably me. I'm the problem.

I'm also not very smart. I never took physics nor a math class above college algebra.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Rewatched Interstellar because of this thread.

Better than I remembered, but also more reliant on the M Knight Shamalang moment too. Wouldn't ever put it 1st or even top 10, but a very worthy inclusion.

I think I'm broken or just allergic to Nolan movies. I thought this thing was a steaming pile of crap. Just so ridiculous that my suspension of disbelief my never recover. Like, permanently broken after this thing.

If you didn't like the Matrix there was zero chance you'd like Interstellar.

I didn't really give the Matrix a full chance. I bailed really early as I just thought it was dumb. But I should have seen it in the theater and given it a chance.

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

You're not entirely wrong. Interstellar doesn't deserve the plaudits it gets.

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me. I've said it before and it's pretty silly but 10% of the population can't stomach cilantro. For them, it tastes like soap. It's not their fault.

That's me and Nolan movies - well, the ones I've seen. Dunkirk was a visually amazing war film that was expertly shot. I have zero idea what it's about. I had trouble following the characters.

Oppenheimer - tremendous in so many ways but also bored me to tears and I have no desire to ever see it again.

I quit watching bat mans 30 years ago. Zero interest. Less than zero.

Hard for me to argue since that's about how I feel about Scorsese.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me

not even the batman movies or memento?

 

[General Malaise]

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me

not even the batman movies or memento?

I need to watch Momento.

Ill never ever watch another bat man anything as long as I live. Enough. Enough 30 years ago. Find a new story.

 

[Scoresman]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

 

[General Malaise]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

Oh COME ON! He just drives through some cornfields or whatever they are and finds a hidden space station? Yeah, okay. The final act with him and Damon playing rock 'em sock 'em rocket ship race to base was just stupid.

You've obviously seen it more than I have so maybe I'm misguided but I found this thing head-spinningly stupid.

 

[Scoresman]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

Oh COME ON! He just drives through some cornfields or whatever they are and finds a hidden space station? Yeah, okay. The final act with him and Damon playing rock 'em sock 'em rocket ship race to base was just stupid.

You've obviously seen it more than I have so maybe I'm misguided but I found this thing head-spinningly stupid.

You may need to watch again. He had the coordinates for the NASA headquarters. The cornfield scene was before this, when they were chasing the drone.

 

[General Malaise]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

Oh COME ON! He just drives through some cornfields or whatever they are and finds a hidden space station? Yeah, okay. The final act with him and Damon playing rock 'em sock 'em rocket ship race to base was just stupid.

You've obviously seen it more than I have so maybe I'm misguided but I found this thing head-spinningly stupid.

You may need to watch again. He had the coordinates for the NASA headquarters. The cornfield scene was before this, when they were chasing the drone.

I can't watch it again. I'll take your word for it.

 

[KarmaPolice]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

Oh COME ON! He just drives through some cornfields or whatever they are and finds a hidden space station? Yeah, okay. The final act with him and Damon playing rock 'em sock 'em rocket ship race to base was just stupid.

You've obviously seen it more than I have so maybe I'm misguided but I found this thing head-spinningly stupid.

You may need to watch again. He had the coordinates for the NASA headquarters. The cornfield scene was before this, when they were chasing the drone.

I can't watch it again. I'll take your word for it.

You are getting the scenes blended. They are racing through the field and off a cliff to control the drone on their laptop. They get the lab coordinates from the ghosts in the bookshelf.

 

[General Malaise]

It took me three nights to get through this slog of a movie. But I did it. The ending was preposterous. The whole thing was absurd. I did like the visuals and some of the space scenes were cool, but here you have all the money in the world for special effects; why not break some of that money off for a better script with a more sensible plot? I rolled my eyes so hard they were strained for a month.

Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant on Interstellar and it's widely regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate films ever made. Take that, hater!!!

Yeah I can understand some elements not appealing to everyone, but saying you have to suspend belief just does not compute. It's one of the more scientifically accurate sci fi films ever.

Oh COME ON! He just drives through some cornfields or whatever they are and finds a hidden space station? Yeah, okay. The final act with him and Damon playing rock 'em sock 'em rocket ship race to base was just stupid.

You've obviously seen it more than I have so maybe I'm misguided but I found this thing head-spinningly stupid.

You may need to watch again. He had the coordinates for the NASA headquarters. The cornfield scene was before this, when they were chasing the drone.

I can't watch it again. I'll take your word for it.

You are getting the scenes blended. They are racing through the field and off a cliff to control the drone on their laptop. They get the lab coordinates from the ghosts in the bookshelf.

lol....right.

 

[urbanhack]

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me

not even the batman movies or memento?

I need to watch Momento.

Ill never ever watch another bat man anything as long as I live. Enough. Enough 30 years ago. Find a new story.

You should come over some night and we'll watch Inception.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Interstellar? How????

 

[Scoresman]

Interstellar? How????

I did a whole writeup here.

The short version is:

1) It does a really good job combining the best aspects of hard and soft sci-fi
2) Probably the most scientifically sound sci-fi film ever.
3) The soundtrack is great.

Also, what I didn't mention is that I'm a sucker for emotional parent/child dynamics in movies, and they use time dilation to really emphasize this.

I know it's a unique choice for number one, but at least its not a Woody Allen movie.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Interstellar? How????

I did a whole writeup here.

The short version is:

1) It does a really good job combining the best aspects of hard and soft sci-fi
2) Probably the most scientifically sound sci-fi film ever.
3) The soundtrack is great.

Also, what I didn't mention is that I'm a sucker for emotional parent/child dynamics in movies, and they use time dilation to really emphasize this.

I know it's a unique choice for number one, but at least its not a Woody Allen movie.

Lol, for sure. Not Woody.

I really liked the movie. A lot. Gotta watch it again to assess where it ranks. But definitely a really really quality movie (for me).

 

[BlackCrowes]

Interstellar? How????

I did a whole writeup here.

The short version is:

1) It does a really good job combining the best aspects of hard and soft sci-fi
2) Probably the most scientifically sound sci-fi film ever.
3) The soundtrack is great.

Also, what I didn't mention is that I'm a sucker for emotional parent/child dynamics in movies, and they use time dilation to really emphasize this.

I know it's a unique choice for number one, but at least its not a Woody Allen movie.

It’s a great movie

 

[Scoresman]

And the thing is you can summarize pretty much any sci-fi movie to make it sound silly.

2001 A Space Odyssey?

A bunch of phallic shaped metal things are found and it leads them to Jupiter, but not before an AI robot tries to kill the crew. Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

 

[KarmaPolice]

And the thing is you can summarize pretty much any sci-fi movie to make it sound silly.

2001 A Space Odyssey?

A bunch of phallic shaped metal things are found and it leads them to Jupiter, but not before an AI robot tries to kill the crew. Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

It's the first word that gets the s out. "science"fiction or "historical" fiction will always take the most heat. Also, it's natural reaction if you aren't enjoying the ride as a whole to cross your arms a little bit and start nit picking.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I'm watching my 4k disc of The Abyss on my new OLED. After waiting to have it in even HD for 35 years...good heavens it looks amazing!

 

[Ilov80s]

And the thing is you can summarize pretty much any sci-fi movie to make it sound silly.

2001 A Space Odyssey?

A bunch of phallic shaped metal things are found and it leads them to Jupiter, but not before an AI robot tries to kill the crew. Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

A guy or well maybe he’s a guy, nobody knows for sure, has an intimate relationship with a robot while he’s trying to kill these other robots who are programmed to die anyway.

A guy and his friends rape and kill people so a politician decides to show him a bunch of movies so he stops committing violent acts but it ruins Beethoven for him.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

And the thing is you can summarize pretty much any sci-fi movie to make it sound silly.

2001 A Space Odyssey?

A bunch of phallic shaped metal things are found and it leads them to Jupiter, but not before an AI robot tries to kill the crew. Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

A guy or well maybe he’s a guy, nobody knows for sure, has an intimate relationship with a robot while he’s trying to kill these other robots who are programmed to die anyway.

A guy and his friends rape and kill people so a politician decides to show him a bunch of movies so he stops committing violent acts but it ruins Beethoven for him.

I fed your descriptions into Perplexity to see if it could figure out what movies you were taking 5 about. It figured it out immediately.

 

[rockaction]

Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

He does? When does that happen?

I got your Beethoven one, by the way, but couldn't come up with the other. I think I'd remember that plot line. Sounds ironic.

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

beethoven was a giveaway, but I had to Copilot the other one. well done, forehead moment.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

He does? When does that happen?

I got your Beethoven one, by the way, but couldn't come up with the other. I think I'd remember that plot line. Sounds ironic.

At his next evolutionary step.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

He does? When does that happen?

I got your Beethoven one, by the way, but couldn't come up with the other. I think I'd remember that plot line. Sounds ironic.

At his next evolutionary step.

It really us bizarre, and your description above was geat.

I love the movie, but there is some wacky **** at the end.

 

[Zow]

Lol at Blade Runner being only 19. GTFO.

 

[rockaction]

Then the captain is transformed into a giant fetus that orbits earth.

He does? When does that happen?

I got your Beethoven one, by the way, but couldn't come up with the other. I think I'd remember that plot line. Sounds ironic.

At his next evolutionary step.

I was honestly so young when I saw it on videocassette that I could barely make appropriate logical leaps with anything too abstract. I think I was nine-eleven. Somewhere in there. What a bore of a movie it seemed like to me. I don't even remember any fetus, and if there really wasn't one, you just fooled me. I was done with that flick by the end.

eta* I figured the other movie might be Bladerunner. Never saw it. I am not the guy to be wandering into sci-fi threads, which is where I now find myself. I'll exit stage left. . LOL

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Do you not like sci-fi or something @rockaction?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I really think it's a Christopher Nolan problem for me

not even the batman movies or memento?

I need to watch Momento.

Ill never ever watch another bat man anything as long as I live. Enough. Enough 30 years ago. Find a new story.

You should come over some night and we'll watch Inception.

Memento and inception would both be like top 50 all time for me not sure exactly where

I’m also one of the few people that liked TENET though

Need to watch the Prestige again

Insomnia good too

 

[Dan Lambskin]

And those Batman movies are great

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I knew I liked you, Danny

 

[rockaction]

Do you not like sci-fi or something @rockaction?

Wow, I had an answer and was writing it out, but I realized that if you count 1984 by Orwell; Brave New World by Huxley; Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury; We by Zamyatin; and Anthem by Ayn Rand you could have an argument that five of my most formative books about life and my outlook on life are indeed sci-fi (to the degree they're futuristic and tell a story about human nature and an indifferent social world through social and political allegory).

I don't know. Space exploration, I should say, has always bored me to tears. Anything in space. Set it on earth or something like earth with an earth society as the main location, and you might have me. Put it a few thousand miles in the air and I lose all interest.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Do you not like sci-fi or something @rockaction?

Wow, I had an answer and was writing it out, but I realized that if you count 1984 by Orwell; Brave New World by Huxley; Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury; We by Zamyatin; and Anthem by Ayn Rand you could have an argument that five of my most formative books about life and my outlook on life are indeed sci-fi (to the degree they're futuristic and tell a story about human nature and an indifferent social world through social and political allegory).

I don't know. Space exploration, I should say, has always bored me to tears. Anything in space. Set it on earth or something like earth with an earth society as the main location, and you might have me. Put it a few thousand miles in the air and I lose all interest.

you lean dystopian

 

[rockaction]

Do you not like sci-fi or something @rockaction?

Wow, I had an answer and was writing it out, but I realized that if you count 1984 by Orwell; Brave New World by Huxley; Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury; We by Zamyatin; and Anthem by Ayn Rand you could have an argument that five of my most formative books about life and my outlook on life are indeed sci-fi (to the degree they're futuristic and tell a story about human nature and an indifferent social world through social and political allegory).

I don't know. Space exploration, I should say, has always bored me to tears. Anything in space. Set it on earth or something like earth with an earth society as the main location, and you might have me. Put it a few thousand miles in the air and I lose all interest.

you lean dystopian

I do. I will note that all of those books have a complete absence of anything but reason vs. primal instinct (there is no possibility of God or religious elevation) and it is assumed that personal barriers never preclude or win out over the social need for restraint of the individual, so I haven't lost all hope in real life yet!

And thanks for your comment! I just came away with a lot more hope as I had to drill down and think about what those books lack or don't address appropriately to make their musings a full human experience.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

So do you like any dystopian shows/movies or just books?

 

[rockaction]

So do you like any dystopian shows/movies or just books?

I don't really love surrounding myself with dystopias anymore regardless of form. I think the ground has been covered for the most part. Black Mirror sounds like something I would have liked, but its time has come and gone and I'm not sure I have a need to lose sleep over something I can't really control.

Perhaps it's a function of age. When it comes to diversions, I have a hard time caring about anything except for utterly enrapturing masterworks and I don't think we have the intellectual or moral capability to create those anymore. We don't aspire to anything grand, really, in my opinion. Space is the final frontier, but anywhere that cold and inhospitable to our organic selves doesn't interest me so much. It's like the Arctic or the South Pole. I'm not so interested in that stuff either.

I don't watch a ton of movies or even television at this point. I read quite a bit on the internet, and I post a bit and try to clarify my thoughts, but nothing grand or exceptional on that front, either. I still will watch sports, especially football, hockey, and some baseball but that's about where it ends for me in my frivolities. I dunno. I guess I'd better start watching some stuff so I have things to talk about when I'm sixty. Heh. Used to be my limited expertise was certain elements of politics, but that drives everybody freaking loony these days, so it's hardly an icebreaker anymore (narrator: it never was, dummy) or something even to casually converse about.

Hmmm . . . I don't know what to make of all that, but there's your stream-of-consciousness answer, BP.