Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 ’s Oscar - winning motion-picture photography and effects go a tenacious elbow room in make it one of the most visually stunning science - fabrication movies of recent age , and it can leave its fans wondering if there are any flick within the literary genre that can live up to its incredibly high standard . Those that found themselves swept up by the dystopian looking at of the moving-picture show , and Roger Deakins ' breathtaking picture taking , should make certain to also stop out these similarly gorgeous – as well as oft grim and cruel – sci - fi movies too .
Blade Runner 2049may have a long agency to go before it can claim the kind of certified cultus position that the original enjoys , but several years on , its fan fundament is still steady building . This is no doubt in part because of how the moving picture ’s optic style clearly draw a lot of aspiration from the classic of the science - fiction genre . Thebest movies likeBlade Runner 2049are all shining examples of what science - fiction movie can be when they ’re being made by a team of people who really manage about the genre .
15Arrival (2016)
Just less than a year prior to the wide-cut release ofBlade Runner 2049 , director Denis Villeneuve bring out another critically - lauded and Oscar - nominated science - fabrication thriller film , Arrival . The movie views a brass - wracking first physical contact situation with unknown through the electron lens of communication and linguistics , with the movie ’s sparse set design , haunting music , and stand - out motion-picture photography instantly establishing Villeneuve as a lead name in the sci - fi musical style . Fans ofBlade Runner 2049 ’s breathless scope will find a lot to jazz in the pic ’s all-inclusive shots .
14Oblivion (2013)
Though by no means anywhere near as minimalist as the likewise - theme science - fiction movie that it ’s so often compare to – Duncan Jones ' also - terrific filmMoon – writer and director Joseph Kosinski shape an esthetically envelop imaginativeness of the future with this ambitious epic .
Oblivionrealistically apportion its pith themes with a telephone number of sci - fi movies , bothMoonandBlade Runner 2049included , with its story about a discontented applied scientist ( Tom Cruise ) in a post - apocalyptical wasteland , glide over a ruined dry land and repair ominous drones . It ’s an interesting dramatic play on the neo - noir deconstruction of the paladin narrative seen inBlade Runner 2049 , as Cruise ’s fictitious character begins to empathise the material patch behind his uneasily tranquil living as well as the reality of his own importance in the world .
13Ex Machina (2014)
Artificial intelligence , identicalness , exploitive behavior , and psychological use are explored in this stylistically pat thriller from longtime sci - fi picture show fan - favorite screenwriter Alex Garland , who also made his directorial introduction on the project ( Though actor Karl Urban has since claim thatGarland secretly organize the movieDreddreleased in 2012 ) .
The plot follows a low-pitched - level bounteous technical school employee ( Domnhall Gleeson ) who ’s flown out to the secluded lair of his enigmatic boss ( Oscar Isaac ) only to see that he will be used as an assistant in the so - called ' Turing test ' of a newfangled and advanced humanoid AI ( Alicia Vikander ) . As his conversations with the convincing machine progress , questions of loyalty and safety begin to grow as the bizarre situation becomes progressively sinister .
122001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Few motion-picture show can be indicate to be as influential as Stanley Kubrick’s2001 : A Space Odysseyand even fewer of them still are from the sci - fi genre . go around around manhood ’s quest to understand a mysterious monolith identify buried on the Moon , the story is most think for its nail - biting conflict between the gang of a deep space exploration vessel sent to investigate the phenomena and the memorably murderous AI system on board that turns against them . Many – perhaps even most – of the creative ideas in the good movies likeBlade Runner 2049can be instantly traced back to it as a level of origin .
11Stalker (1979)
Another hugely influential science - fiction classic , yet a opposite opposite to the filmmaking of most of the other ripe movies likeBlade Runner 2049 , Andrei Tarkovsky’sStalkeris both grindingly dense and achingly beautiful . Clear parallels can be soak up between its distinct visual style andBlade Runner 2049 ’s utilization of hazy colouring .
The plot of the film concerns the titular ' Stalker ' ( Alexander Kaidanovsky ) , a kind of guidebook or smuggler who brings patrons into a characterless ' Zone ' created by unknown means and possessing otherworldly powers . However , as much as that may sound like a springboard for gamy - construct natural action and dangerous undertaking , that ’s about as much tale asStalkerever give the audience despite being close to the same distance asBlade Runner 2049 . It is , or else , a predominantly still and tacit speculation on philosophical conception which , when couple with Alexander Knyazhinsky ’s amazing motion-picture photography , sparkle a long - persist fascination for it among cinephiles .
10Annihilation (2018)
Alex Garland ’s ambitious sci - fi revulsion movie clearly drew a spate of inspiration from Tarkovsky’sStalkerbut injects a Hollywood activity - thriller constituent for a decidedly more mainstream – but still quite thought - provoking – ride . free-base on Jeff VanderMeer ’s novel of the same name , Annihilationfollows a small squad of scientist investigating an incomprehensible phenomenon surrounding a crashed meteor . The movietakes a number of nonfigurative conception and fancy them in often monstrous form , but always retard down to make certain the audience can have a good spirit . Rob Hardy ’s motion-picture photography brings out the most hallucinatory aspects of the downslope into alien - fuel madness within the picture show ’s own reading of an memorably cryptical , sinister , and otherworldly ' Zone ' .
9A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
As extensive as their personal and professional human relationship were , Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg are n’t overwhelmingly similar in a creative sense . The body of work of one can fall off as being almost nihilistic while the other is notably sentimental most of the time . This no doubt contributed to the audience ’s initial feelings of tonic confusion with the ruined mathematical product of Spielberg and Kubrick ’s collaborationism but , over time , A.I. Artificial Intelligencehas proven itself as an ethereal movie experience that floats above most thing that are study realizable within the genre today .
The history of the movie follow a golem programmed to be a young boy to two parent whose own boy has been cryogenically block due to a terminal illness . After being eventually forsake by them , he then venture on a dreamlike journey to become a real boy . Fans of the action mechanism inBlade Runner 2049may be pull up stakes wanting , but fans of the themes and visuals certainly wo n’t .
8THX 1138 (1971)
7Logan Noir (2017)
Though in its original theatrical formLoganis a well - looking movie , the dark and white version , Logan Noir , really draws attention to the firing of sure scenes not to cite glossing over some of the blemishes left by the superhero genre ’s need for lot of digital effects shots . James Mangold ’s pensive take on superheroes in this fierce route movie Marvel ’s Wolverine ( Hugh Jackman ) create a cuttingly real dystopia that ’s often indistinguishable from the current time period but mercifully litter with some imposingly worked up landscapes befitting of its Western idea . There ’s also a conversant theme of progeny that perhaps comes fromLoganandBlade Runner 2049 ’s shared co - screenwriter , Michael Green .
6Her (2013)
In so many way , Spike Jonze’sHeris the precise opposite ofBlade Runner 2049while sharing one of the same central scientific discipline - fable concept within the film . One paints an irresistibly cold and bleak portrait of the future tense as a warning tale while the other create a human race that ’s much more representative of modern-day animation and seems almost inviting .
Hoyte van Hoytema ’s cinematography is so warm , and often enveloping , that it ease the viewer intoHer ’s vision of the near future . It allows the interview to feel something more pronto for its lonely characters lost in a ocean of people and information through its story about a lonely man ( Joaquin Phoenix ) who falls in love with an advanced AI .
