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Science fiction movies often use extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft, robots, or other technologies to build the plot around.
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The Matrix popular
The film describes a future where the world is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines.
The humans function as an energy source for the machines, much like batteries.
Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life - in what he thinks is the year 1999 - until he is contacted by Morpheus who leads him into the real world.
Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a untypical disaster movie. It's filmed from one of the actors point of view just like in The Blair Witch Project, and the movie also used a viral marketing campaign that had the movie covered in mystery. Web sites would be built around characters, and a fictional soda was created. The movie centers around Manhatten where a mysterious monster wrecks havoc, and a bunch of people are at a party celebrating Rob's promotion that will send him to Japan. Hud has been giv...
Event Horizon
The year is 2047. Several years earlier, the groundbreaking science vessel Event Horizon disappears without a trace. Now, all of the sudden, an emergency distress signal has been recieved from it and the American space command sends a team to investigate. The elite team finds the ship, and with it, they find a modern interstellar terror. Now they have to do what they can to survive whatever keeps them prisoners in a new dimension of undescribable fear.
Serenity
Based on the TV series from 2002, Firefly, this movie picks up where it left off. Captain Malcolm Reynolds travels around the galaxy with his crew doing odd jobs, and one day picks up some new passengers who will change their life forever.
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
The Jedi Knights are extinguished and the Empire rules the galaxy with an iron fist. A small group of Rebels have stolen the Emperor's secret Death Star plans and Darth Vader is doing what he can to get them back. Princess Leia who is one of the Rebellions leaders send out a distress signal just before she is captured by Vader, and this is discovered by Luke Skywalker, who is a farmboy on the planet Tatooine. This is the start of a exciting journey into the Star Wars galaxy.
Star Wars Episode V - Empire strikes back
It's a dark time for the rebels. After the Empire's assault on Hoth, the Rebellion is now scattered and struggling in the fight against the Emperor Palpatine. Luke Skywalker seeks out Yoda, a powerful Jedi Master hidden on a swamp planet called Dagobah. Han Solo and Princess Leia seek refuge on Bespin, a city in the sky, run by Lando Calrissian who is an old associate of Han Solo.
Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are on Tatooine to try and rescue Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt. An unlikely alliance with the Ewoks of Endor gives the Rebels an ace up their sleeve in the fight against the Empire and Luke Skywalker face Darth Vader and the Emperor in this epic conclusion to the Star Wars saga.
Sunshine Review (2007)
In near future the sun begins to die, and a team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun, they fail the mission.
Seven years later a new team are sendt and they are Earth's last hope.
Directed by:
Danny Boyle
Cast:
Chris Evans as Mace
Cillian Murphy as Capa
Rose Byrne as Cassie
Michelle Yeoh as Corazon
Mark Strong as Pinbacker
Troy Garity as Harvey
Cliff Curtis as Searle
Transformers
Based on the very popular cartoon and comic, the Transformers finally hits the big time movies where the alien robot races fight it out with the fate of the universe at stake. The Autobots and the Decepticons take the battle to earth, where all that stands between the Decepticons and the ultimate power is a clue held by the young Sam Witwicky. Sam is your average teenag boy who suddenly finds himself fighting for survival together with his friend Mikaela.
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