History’s most important sci-fi films can achieve that title through multiple means.
However, his tragic past puts a key missionand his teamin jeopardy.
But on every level it operates,Inceptionis especially unique and important as a sci-fi movie.
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However, humans' ambition threatens this peaceful and lush world.
6’Godzilla' (1954)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
The year is 1954.
1954’sGodzillais all of these things and more.
After a power failure, the creatures are let loose, putting everyone on the island in danger.
Its game-changing special effects and its sense of immersion and spectacle meant thatblockbusters would never be the same again.
At nearly a century old,Metropolisis still far and away one ofthe best sci-fi films of all time.
Its influence can still be seen in the entire sci-fi genre today.
Star Warshad an indelible impact on every single genre and subgenre it falls into.
It outright defined those in a cinematic medium.
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Fantasy epics?Most revolutionized defined them.
Sci-fi films as a whole?
They wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for Lucas’s brilliant creation.
Wells, about a group of astronomers who go on an adventurous expedition to the Moon.
It’sa groundbreaking piece of work displaying the most impressive tricks in Melies’s arsenal.
It’s by far the most important sci-fi movie ever made.
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