Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don’t enjoy at all. It’s a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it’s changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
    8•1 year ago

    That goes a little too hard into horror, so also try:

    • The Truman Show
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Looper
    • Source Code
    • Minority Report
    • 12 Monkeys
    • Donnie Darko
    • Vanilla Sky
    • Dark City
    • Being John Malkovich

    Although they are all pretty obvious. Might have to ponder this more.

    edit: also:

    • The Arrival (1996) - instead of Arrival that I’ll assume you’ve seen
    • Resident Alien - TV series and comics
    • How to Talk to Girls at Parties
    • Rupture (2016)
    • The Watch (2012)
    • Alien Raiders (2008)
    • Threshold (2005 TV series)
    • Invasion (2005 TV series)
    • The Forgotten (2004)
    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘English
      3•1 year ago

      This is a great list!

      12 monkeys is also a series. It’s not as good as the movie, but still amazing.

      Edit: more into the light scifi genre, Jennifer Government