I’m looking for some fun and modern sci-fi movies without superheros; lots of dark and incoherent ones for sure. What am I missing?
I feel like SciFi has shifted to tv more for the longer and more complex storytelling.
Fun sci-fi for sure
Dune part 2 is in theaters now. Meanwhile, Marvel is releasing Deadpool 3 and DC plans to release Joker 2 in the fall. It’s a really light year for superhero movies.
If you’re looking for a recommendation, I have They Cloned Tyrone on my watchlist, but I haven’t seen it yet.
They Cloned Tyrone is excellent.
I still haven’t seen it and don’t know anything about it. I should really get going.
Okay good someone else immediately thought this too. If anything making sci-fi more popular has increased the number, and there’s a lot of chaff for sure, but there’s a lot of really good stuff too.
I’m so excited for dune 2. Sadly it’s kinda the only thing i’m excited for.
It’s a really light year for superhero movies.
Sony has already released a superhero movie last month, with two more on the way this year. But we don’t talk about those.
I literally was not counting them.
Eh, I’m more concerned with the Star-Wars-ification of Sci-Fi. As in Sci-Fi movies being about starships going boom with lots of pew-pew.
What are your thoughts on the proposed Barbarella remake starring Sydney Sweeney?
And always multi part
Times like that are the best to go back through and find movies you missed or that flew under the radar. For example, the movie Dark City. I’ve watched that film more times than I care to admit, but when I ask people about it a lot have never even heard about it.
This was all poorly worded because I haven’t be awake for long but I hope my point comes across.
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Not enough people have seen Strange Days… Werid af movie. I need to re-watch it
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Free Guy, Boss Level… maybe Fried Barry if that kind of film speaks to you.
There’s some good series too - Resident Alien and Scavengers Reign come to mind.
Scavengers Reign was such a refreshing reset for me!
FG and FB were fun but BL was filled with bad GCI which I am not as much of a fan of.
Palm springs was hilarious and very fun, although not hard sci fi it was still an interesting take.
I just started to watch the series Resident Alien and I like it a lot. It’s about an alien who stranded on Earth.
Anything Alan Tudyk is in is golden imo.
He’s like a leaf on the wind
I think your right. Sure, there are still some great non-superhero sci-fi movies coming out. But I agree, the superhero subgenre has done a bit of a number of the wider genre.
I really don’t like that of all the things they took away from these Disney movies is the humor. A lot of modern movies have that dumbass Disney humor. It feels like people yelling bazinga at each other.
Fifth Element is the last one I could think of.
For television, hard to beat Firefly.
For books, I’d suggest the Matador series by Steve Perry. Criminal shame those haven’t been adapted yet.
Ad Astra could be interesting to you. I sometimes get the feeling no one knows about it. I liked it very much. It’s kind of Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now in Space.
I enjoyed it for what it was and was sad to see almost everyone disliked it that talked about it.
I really dig that movie. Fuck the plebians. I guarantee that movie will be remembered in 10 years.
I don’t think I’d even heard of it, but most good sci-fi does better looking back than when it releases. I think that’s one of the strengths, but also one of the biggest limitations of sci-fi. The whole point of the genre is to push boundaries, technologically but also, more importantly, culturally. In my opinion, there isn’t any good sci-fi that doesn’t say something about the world today, and that has to offend (or at least push) some people of today. No good sci-fi is ever going to do as well as the slop that doesn’t try to say anything and just entertain.
One of the most recognized pieces of sci-fi is 2001: A Space Odyssey, and if it came out today it’d get some horrible reviews. It’s remembered fondly by many though. (As a huge fan of sci-fi, I think it’s overhyped now though. It’s honestly not a great movie in my opinion, but it is interesting and different.) Sci-fi can often be contemplative, which isn’t as actively entertaining as an action movie or show, which often gains it better reviews. It’s almost like thinking is antithetical to entertainment, but personally I think the opposite is true.
Ready player one wasn’t too bad
That is the first time i ever heard these words
The book? Not horrible, especially having it read by the Wil Wheaton. It’s nostalgia bait for sure, and then adding Wil into that is even more nostalgia bait, but it does what it does alright.
The movie? Skip it. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone enjoy it, except this comment if it’s talking about the movie. Maybe people just enjoy hating it, but I didn’t care for it. It’s not the worst movie in the world or anything, just not particularly good.
I felt is was a bit on the nose, but the nostalgia value they were going for is through the roof. B-
Aporia wasn’t bad.
Yeah super hero movies take up a lot of the oxygen but I think there’s still some good scifi being made. I don’t watch as many movies as I used to, but I’m looking forward to Dune 2. The blade runner a few years ago was good.
More tv shows. Ive recently watched silo and recommend it highly. Also Dune part 2 obviously.
We’re definitely getting less “adult sci-fi” than was the case in past decades. The years between '16-today are similar in many ways to 80s cinema. If it ain’t a franchise or tentpole flick that’s designed for kids consumption, contemporary Tinseltown isn’t putting money down on it
