THĬast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie Oh, and Jeff Goldblum’s final walk across the flaming desert might actually be the coolest thing ever. Lest we forget, this is the first major summer blockbuster to feature a central black character who’s neither a sidekick, a comic aside or simply dead meat. Who else had the balls to blow up the White House, full frame, just for kicks? Who else depicted an American administration all too willing to use nuclear weapons – only to find they have no effect whatsoever? But look again, and this is a sly little slice of myth-busting entertainment. Emmerich may not be as bold or as crafty a sci-fi satirist as his fellow Euro-export Paul Verhoeven, and on first release there were many who took all the flag-waving and Presidential speechifying in ‘Independence Day’ at face value. Yes, it’s about as subtle as a starship in the face. Want more brilliant film recommendations? Check out our lists for the best horror movies and the best thrillers ever made.Ĭast: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman Written by Alex Plim, Tom Huddleston, Geoff Andrew, Catherine Bray, Dave Calhoun, Cath Clarke, Alex Dudok de Wit, Eddy Frankel, Trevor Johnston, Alim Kheraj, Joshua Rothkopf, Phil de Semlyen, Anna Smith & Keith Uhlich It’s such a good list, you’ll want to clone it. The result is a list as expansive as the universe a definitive selection housing all-time classics like Blade Runner to leftfield entries such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. We then threw in a few Time Out writers just for good measure.
In order to choose the 100 best sci-fi movies, then, we decided that it was only right to enlist the assistance of a team of turbocharged experts, including Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, film director Guillermo del Toro, and the mind behind Game of Thrones, George RR Martin.
How about an algorithm that can predict murders? Perhaps not as far-fetched as it initially seemed. Want killer space robots hellbent on destroying the galaxy? Go for it. Of course, the genre gives filmmakers a chance to get creative, too, providing them with a long leash to be as inventive and innovative as they like. Films like Ex-Machina and WALL-E interrogate our humanity’s ethics and our propensity for destruction, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey provide poetic meditations on grief, ambition and evolution. Those things are cool, don’t get us wrong, but some of the best sci-fi also acts as an opportunity to teach us about foibles, flaws, heart and resilience of humanity. Science-fiction movies aren’t just an opportunity to show off the vibrating hum and power of laser swords, the mammoth size of spaceships or incredible alien civilisations.
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