What are your underrated science fiction movies? - eviltoast

You’ve seen the famous aliens, planets and scientists, but now it’s time to venture even farther into the depths of space.

  • neuracnu@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Saving you a click, here’s the list:

    Asteroid City (2023)
    The Andromeda Strain (1971)
    The Prestige (2006)
    Paprika (2006)
    Under the Skin (2013)
    Stalker (1979)
    Westworld (1973)
    Dark City (1998)
    Ad Astra (2019)
    Annihilation (2018)
    Attack the Block (2011)
    Solaris (1972)
    Life (2017)
    Silent Running (1972)
    Soylent Green (1973)
    The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
    The Iron Giant (1999)
    Repo Man (1984)
    La Jetée (1962)
    They Live (1988)
    Them! (1954)
    The Thing From Another World (1951)
    Ghost in the Shell (1995)
    Donnie Darko (2001)
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
    

    With the exception of Them! or Life, I’d argue that none of these are particularly “underrated”. To reach that category, I’d say that a movie would need to have a less-than 60 rating on Rotten Tomatoes or other similar review aggregation site to demonstrate some degree of negative or “meh” critical consensus.

    Case in point: Enemy Mine (1985).

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      1 year ago

      Enemy Mine is totally underrated. the “Best #x movies of Sci-fi” always turns its back on Enemy Mine. That movie has heart.

    • yiliu@informis.land
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      1 year ago

      Substitute “underviewed” for “underrated”. Most people who aren’t film nerds have never heard of most of these, so this list is useful.