100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès an innovative genius of many talents unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: Le voyage dans la lune, better known to American audiences as A Trip to the Moon. Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical jabs toward the scientific community, the surrealist short follows a group of astronomers as they embark on a trip to the moon. While not scientifically accurate by any means the astronomers do travel by way of cannon shot, after all the film did kick off a cinematic trend of depicting hypothetical ideas in anticipation of future realities.
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Round 2 is all about famous film fugitives; some of them innocent, some of them not so much…
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Round 3 tests your knowledge of boats on the big screen. It s all to celebrate this news that the Ever Given was finally freed from the Suez Canal and now we all have to go back to living our goddamn boatless lives again.
And don t forget to check out this latest spoiler-filled review of the brand new show, The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. It s not quite a big stuck boat, but it s still pretty class all the same.
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The launch of Paramount Plus arrives with a strong emphasis on television, with the new service combining the archives of CBS, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, and Smithsonian Channel. But the service is also built on the foundation of Paramount Pictures, a Hollywood mainstay. Unlike a Netflix or an Amazon, Paramount Plus won’t have to rely as much on licensing great movies to fill out the service the studio’s been making them since 1912.
But what good movies are on Paramount Plus at launch? Like everything in the streaming wars, it’s never as easy as “every film Paramount has ever made.” Users get the studio’s franchise staples like