🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time 👽 The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix As a result, it’s a list that crisscrosses the universe, from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019. Their reach is reflected in the wide-ranging panel of experts we polled to come up with list of the greatest sci-fi films ever made: from Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, to Oscar-winning film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Throne s creator George RR Martin – along with frequent Time Out writers. Even if it contains fantastical creatures and alien technology and complex mythologies, the sci-fis that stick out most in the popular consciousness deal with themes and ideas everyone can relate to. It’s a remarkably broad and varied genre: one that speaks to the issues concerning the people of this planet as often as it goes off and creates entirely new worlds.

At its best, sci-fi has always spoken to a broad audience. Over the last two decades, the nerds have taken over the entertainment industry, and an argument can be made that – considering the rise of Marvel, the omnipresence of the aforementioned space opera and the simple fact that the concept of a ‘multiverse’ is now in the common lexicon – sci-fi has become the dominant genre, not just in film but all of popular culture.īut science fiction was never just for geeks. It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t that long ago when science fiction was considered niche – even being really into Star Wars was thought of as high-order nerdery.

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