Science fiction cinema has left us with a multitude of films over the years, although, of course, some are much more credible than others. That is not something that really affects its success at the box office, but things change if we want to talk about films of the genre. more realistic of all time, a debate that has even been held within NASA.
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You have to go back to the end of 2011 to find a survey carried out within NASA in which the most realistic science fiction film in the history of cinema was selected. 7 were the chosen filmswith the first released in 1927 and the most recent in 1997, just 70 years later:
- ‘Gattaca’ (1997)
- ‘Contact’ (1997)
- ‘Metropolis’ (1927)
- ‘Ultimatum to Earth’ (1951)
- ‘The woman in the moon’ (1929)
- ‘The Enigma from Another World’ (1951)
- ‘Jurassic Park’ (1993)
At the time they also spoke positively of ‘Blade Runner’ for the convincing futuristic portrait it made of the city of Los Angeles, but the acclaimed film directed by Ridley Scott it was left out of the Top 7. Obviously, there will be those who consider that title more realistic than ‘Jurassic Park’, but the list remained that way and they did not want to go into detail about what exactly motivated these to be the chosen films. What is clear is that they like it a lot. fritz langsince he is the only director with two films on that list.
It is true that many science fiction films have been released since 2011 and that a group of people who are not in possession of the absolute truth participate in each survey, but that does not mean that at least it is curious to have this selection of titles and that maybe there are moviegoers who haven’t seen all of them yet.
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