io9: 20 Greatest SF Movies Of The Past Decade

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The past decade has seen a lot of bloated special-effects brain-sucks… but it’s also seen some of the best science-fiction films ever. Superhero films came of age, apocalypses ruled, and interstellar adventures came back. Here are the decade’s 20 greatest.

This is, of course, just our opinion, and feel free to disagree in comments. We went back and forth about several of these films, and there were a few others that we almost included instead, so we’re not claiming infallibility here. If you want to view this in non-gallery format, click here, and I promise it’ll work.

1. Pitch Black: This is nearly the perfect movie — a gritty anti-hero with weird eyes that can see in the dark is on a prison ship, which crashes on an alien planet. The lurking monsters are ominous and alarming, but the film’s real mystery is Riddick himself — the Furyan inspires loathing, hero-worship and a desperate longing for the anti-hero to become a hero by the movie’s end. Like Riddick’s own eyes, our view of him only really works when we see him through total darkness.

the rest below the jump:

2.Avatar
3.Slither
4.Star Trek
5.Donnie Darko
6.Robot Stories
7.Spider-Man 2
8.Sleep Dealer
9.The Incredibles
10.The Host
11.28 Days Later
12.Paprika
13.Primer
14.Moon
15.Iron Man
16.The Dark Knight
17.District 9
18.Wall-E
19.Serenity
20.Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind