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some of my fave sci fi movies
blade runner
5th element
Solaris (original russian one)
Contact
Gattacca
Wrath of Khan
Soylent Green
Hardware
the thing with sci fi, or speculative fiction as people like to call it now, is that the movies become dated very quickly. It is hard to understand the immense power to awe and to enlighten and to inspire that a great sci fi movie can have when it is viewed decades later through a prism that includes all new science deevelopments and all the sci fi movies and books influenced by said movie, like blade runner.
blade runner was like Soylent Green in that it showed a dystopia, but it was the first movie to show a cyberpunk dystopia, one that takes account f the massive poverty as well as the massive technology, and of all cultures brewing together and cities becoming extended mixed slums where a combination of chinese, spanish, english and indian is spoken.. stuff like that made blade runner an amazing amazing piece of ART, and it still stands up today in my book.
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