I’m looking for some fun and modern sci-fi movies without superheros; lots of dark and incoherent ones for sure. What am I missing?

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    1 year ago

    Eh, I’m more concerned with the Star-Wars-ification of Sci-Fi. As in Sci-Fi movies being about starships going boom with lots of pew-pew.

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    1 year ago

    Dune part 2 is in theaters now. Meanwhile, Marvel is releasing Deadpool 3 and DC plans to release Joker 2 in the fall. It’s a really light year for superhero movies.

    If you’re looking for a recommendation, I have They Cloned Tyrone on my watchlist, but I haven’t seen it yet.

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    Times like that are the best to go back through and find movies you missed or that flew under the radar. For example, the movie Dark City. I’ve watched that film more times than I care to admit, but when I ask people about it a lot have never even heard about it.

    This was all poorly worded because I haven’t be awake for long but I hope my point comes across.

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    1 year ago

    Fifth Element is the last one I could think of.

    For television, hard to beat Firefly.

    For books, I’d suggest the Matador series by Steve Perry. Criminal shame those haven’t been adapted yet.

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    1 year ago

    I think your right. Sure, there are still some great non-superhero sci-fi movies coming out. But I agree, the superhero subgenre has done a bit of a number of the wider genre.

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    1 year ago

    Ad Astra could be interesting to you. I sometimes get the feeling no one knows about it. I liked it very much. It’s kind of Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now in Space.

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      1 year ago

      I enjoyed it for what it was and was sad to see almost everyone disliked it that talked about it.

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        1 year ago

        I really dig that movie. Fuck the plebians. I guarantee that movie will be remembered in 10 years.

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    1 year ago

    More tv shows. Ive recently watched silo and recommend it highly. Also Dune part 2 obviously.