Guilty-pleasure Sci-fi Movies
Guilty-pleasure Sci-fi Movies
I was reading this list of the 50 greatest sci-fi movies of the last 50 years, and it was all fairly predictable. There’s only a couple that I’d disagree with, but there were a few that would have made the list in place of them if I were compiling it myself, and I realised my additions were less mainstream or less critically acclaimed than were on there.
What guilty-pleasure sci-fi movies would you recommend?
For starters, ones I’ve watched a bunch of times would be:
Dredd (2012)
Pandorum (2009)
Lockout (2012)
Monsters (2010)
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Guilty:
- Ready Player One
- Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
- Godzilla vs Kong
- Resident Evil
- Transformers (first Michael Bay one)
- Ghostbusters Afterlife
- Dune 1984
- Armageddon
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Equilibrium
Not That Guilty:
- Ghostbusters 2016
- Pacific Rim
- Bumblebee
- Tron: Legacy
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Robocop
- Alien Romulus
- The Terminator
- Terminator Dark Fate
- Star Trek 2009
- Star Wars Rogue One
- Solo: a Star Wars Story
- Minority Report
- Upgrade
- Short Circuit
- V for Vendetta
- Dredd
- Hot Tub Time Machine
I Will Defend These To My Grave As Masterpieces
- Interstellar
- Independence Day
- Tron
- Back to the Future trilogy
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Matrix
- The Fifth Element
- Terminator 2
- The Abyss
- Arrival
- Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
- Ghostbusters OG
- Inception
- The Martian
- Mad Max Fury Road
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Dune 2021
- Alien and Aliens
- Star Wars original trilogy
- Total Recall
- Event Horizon
- Wall-E
- The Rocketeer
Great list, for Equilibrium alone, which I loved. Event Horizon also, that’s an unquestionable masterpiece.
The extreme horror of Event Horizon limits its appeal but I think it’s brilliant.
I read a while back that there was a much longer, far more gruesome version of the blood orgy scene that had to be cut because of how disturbing it was. I hate that sort of thing generally - I usually can’t watch horror without shitting myself - but the fact that it’s part of a film I loved makes me disappointed I won’t see it.
I’ve heard of that too, that the original film decayed in a vault or something. Pity. I’m not a torture porn fan or total gorehound myself, but I’d pay to see that footage just out of curiosity.
Where would the movie The Cell end up on this list?
Honestly I only saw it once. Might watch it again as a guilty pleasure though.
Rocketeer was so good. I’m amazed Disney hasn’t rebooted it as a TV series.
It’s one of the most underrated movies of all time in my opinion. It’s just a gem and it’s incredible fun for all ages.