Rate These Beloved Sci-Fi Movies To Reveal Your Famous Robot Twin
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Not about to allow itself to be restricted by anything as silly as reality, the beloved genre that is science fiction has been bewitching the hearts and minds of its millions of fans ever since Mary Shelley invented it way back in the 1800's. Speculative, imaginative and completely fantastical, science fiction is more than just monsters and aliens—although there's definitely plenty of that kind of stuff, too.
Unlike traditional fiction (which has its pros, too, don't misunderstand us, here), science fiction gives readers and viewers a chance to explore complex themes—like the moral complications of a high-tech society, or the long-term repercussions of time travel—all in a fun, completely unreal way. So while the various storylines, subplots and marvelous worlds of science fiction might be completely made up, we can still relate to the complex characters and (hopefully) expand our understanding by imagining being in their shoes.
With well-loved shows like Doctor Who, Supernatural and Westworld circulating the airwaves, science fiction is just as popular now as it has ever been. But science fiction isn't just for books and TV shows. There are hundreds of well-loved sci-fi movies out there! Take a minute to rate them from one to four stars, and get a famous robot twin in return.
The Matrix
Much like the viewers of this film, lead character Neo would like to know just what the heck "the matrix" really is. The only person he thinks can answer this question also happens to be the most dangerous man in the world, Laurence Fishburne—uh, we mean, Morpheus. With the help of a woman named Trinity, Neo meets Morpheus and the three do battle against a group of vicious secret agents.
2001: A Space Odyssey
It's a classic battle of man versus machine in this '60s film, based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke called "The Sentinel". After a group of astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission to investigate a black monolith discovered in a crater, their ship's main computer, HAL, seems to develop a mind of its own.
Inception
Dom Cobb has the rare ability to enter any person's subconscious mind through their dreams in order to find their deepest, darkest secrets. After spending his career exposing peoples' secrets for cash, he gets a chance at redemption, but in the world of espionage, he's got more than one enemy determined to stop him.
Guardians of the Galaxy
After stealing a powerful orb from the equally powerful villain Ronan, Peter Quill, space adventurer, goes on the run. With the help of four misfits, including a raccoon, a tree/humanoid creature, an alien and, uh...another alien, Quill must prevent the orb from falling into the wrong hands and, which could lead to the destruction of the universe.
Planet of the Apes
In the original version of this film, released in 1968, three astronauts find themselves marooned on a futuristic planet, and are shocked to find that this strange earth is governed by talking, apparently intelligent apes—especially after a soil test proves that the planet is incapable of sustaining life. The crew are quickly enslaved by the apes, and must adjust to their new, monkey-ruled lives.
Avatar
It's 2154. The Earth has been depleted of its natural resources. In the midst of an energy crisis, humans look to another planet called Pandora to survive. However, relations with the planet's native species, the Na'vi, as well as human-Na'vi hybrids, the Avatars, are strained, to say the least. A former marine, once paralyzed but healed by an Avatar, falls in love with a Na'vi woman and together, they strive to protect her world.
Back to the Future
After meeting his best friend, mad scientist Doc Brown, in a parking lot, super cool, super suave teen Marty McFly learns that his crazy friend has turned a DeLorean into a time machine. When the pair are set upon by an angry group, Marty is hurled back in time and must find his way back...to the future.
This Island Earth
After solving a complicated puzzle, scientist Cal Meachem is invited to join a highly secretive forum of other scientists. Once there, Meachem and fellow scientist, Dr. Ruth Adams speculate the strange people who invited them to the summit are actually aliens. Their suspicions prove correct, and the two are abducted and taken to the aliens' now destroyed planet, Metaluna.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After a UFO flies over his truck, so close that its bright lights burn the side of his face, Roy Neary becomes obsessed with aliens and is determined to track these creatures down. Eventually, his erratic behavior causes his wife to leave him, but things come to a head when he realizes his visions of Devils Tower really do have meaning, and once there, he meets others with similar experiences.
The Iron Giant
In 1957, still in the throes of the Cold War, a humongous alien robot makes a crash landing just outside the town of Rockwell in Maine. The title Iron Giant is discovered by a young boy named Hogarth, who quickly befriends him and is determined to protect him from a paranoid government agent who wants the robot destroyed.
Wall-E
The last robot left on Earth, Wall-E leads a lonely life of sorting through garbage one piece at a time in an effort to clean things up a bit. After hundreds of years on his own, Wall-E finds love when another robot, EVE, is sent back to Earth on a scanning mission.
Jurassic Park
Who could ever have predicted that bringing dinosaurs back from extinction would backfire so ingloriously?! A select group of people, including paleontologists and a mathematician, are invited to a mogul's island to get up close and personal with the guy's herd of dinosaurs. Predictably, things get hairy when the dinosaurs do what we can only assume dinosaurs do best—wreak havoc.
Signs
After the loss of his wife, former reverend Graham Hess's life is turned even more upside down when he discovers mysterious crop circles made in his corn field. This marks the beginning of a series of strange events, which makes Graham determined to figure out what's going on, but his quest eventually brings him face to face with an aggressive alien race.
Star Trek
The movie that inspired a series of sequels and inspired by the classic TV show of the same name, the 2009 Star Trek film follows the maiden voyage of the SS Enterprise. Under the leadership of Captain James T. Kirk, the ship's crew must make their way through space and stop a vengeful Romulan commander named Nero before it's too late.
Star Wars
Another film that inspired a series of sequels, but this time one that was *not* based on a classic TV show, the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV, A New hope) tells the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and their friends as they journey through space to try and save Princess Leia, stop the Imperial Forces and restore peace to the universe.
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Two middle-aged B-movie actors in satin blouses pretending to be aliens attempt to take over the world by reanimating corpses from a cemetery. The plan, while completely ineffectual, also makes no sense whatsoever, so at least there's that. Notoriously bad, Plan 9 From Outer Space is still well-loved regardless of—or perhaps because of—its cheap sets and bad acting.
E.T.
After exploring a forest at night, a group of alien botanists are forced to make a quick getaway to avoid being caught by the police, but in their haste to escape, they leave one of their own behind. E.T. as the creature comes to be known is found and befriended by a young boy named Elliot, who is determined to help the alien find his way home again.
Independence Day
A group of entirely unfriendly, not-nearly-as-adorable-as-E.T. aliens are bent on destroying planet Earth and enslaving the human race and, wouldn't you know it? All this happens over the Fourth of July weekend! Terrible timing, really. Anyway, a group of unlikely heroes team up to send defeat the aliens and protect the planet from invasion.
Men in Black
Ever wonder who polices the alien world and keeps everything in check so we everyday peeps can go about our business and not worry with it? Well, wonder no more! Working for an unofficial but well-funded government agency, the title men in black work day and night to protect the Earth and everyone on it from the more unsavory aliens that the galaxy has to offer.
Alien
On their trip back to Earth, the crew members aboard the spaceship Nostromo are awakened from their cryo-sleep to the distress calls of an alien ship. Once aboard the ship, the crew finds they've landed in some hot water when a egg within the ship hatches, and the icky thing inside attaches itself to one of its members.
The Martian
Believing he'd been a victim of an intense storm, Mark Watney's fellow astronauts accidentally leave him behind on the surface of Mars and begin their journey back to Earth. With only a few supplies left, Mark must figure out how to survive while a team and NASA, and his fellow astronauts, hatch their respective plans to get him back safe.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
After uncovering the remains of a strange species, a group of scientists trek to the Amazon to determine if the remains were just a fluke, or proof of a previously undiscovered species. The scientists soon run into a lot more than they bargained for when they meet a guy in a really bad B-movie costume—uh, we mean, when they run into the creature of the black lagoon! OooOOOoooOOh!
The Terminator
Disguised as Arnold Schwarzenegger, a cyborg assassin is tasked with going back in time to the year 1984, to take out a woman named Sarah Connor, who would eventually give birth to a son who would eventually lead a fight against the people who sent cyborg Arnold in the first place. Anyway, with the help of a guy named Kyle, Sarah tries to escape. Look, the movie explains it a lot better than we do.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In the middle of trying to prevent his home from being demolish, Arthur Dent is swept away into outer space by his friend, Ford Prefect. Turns out, Ford Prefect? Not human at all. He's an alien and he just saved humanity from certain doom. After explaining all this to Arthur, Ford introduces him to his gang of friends, and together, they gad about time and space while Arthur low-key tries to figure out the meaning of life.
Frankenstein
Here it is, folks! The story that started sci-fi as we know it. Frankenstein (the film from 1931, not the book) follows obsessed mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein as he and his assistant Fritz attempt to animate a monster he built himself by sewing together parts of hanged criminals. Frankenstein's experiment is a success, but his monster soon proves to be a problem.
