My Best Loved Sci-Fi Movies
It would be an excuse if I said that I was tied down with work, although it’s true. But an excuse is an excuse. So today I decided to post, come what may.
I have decided to dedicate my next few posts to the genre of sci-fi movies. My dear friend, Kartik Karanth, is going to love this (I am expecting a few comments from him). I remember the day when he went on a prize winning spree in the open-house sci-fi movie quiz in IIT Mumbai Techfest in 2002. The poor quiz masters were left with no choice but to ban him from answering any more questions… hehehe.
For many people science fiction is synonymous with futuristic technology and aliens trying to anihilate human civilization. While the former is true, the latter is not always so. There are many movies that have friendly aliens, the best example being the 1982 movie E.T.
Though the genre is called science fiction, it’s not entirely fiction. Most of the movies have a firm rooting in theoretical science, something that’s fundamentally possible, but is not achievable with today’s technology. And for those of you who believe that Sci-fi is a new genre in movies, here’s a shocker: One of the first sci-fi movies, A Trip to the Moon, was produced in 1902 (Pic above).
So keep coming back to find out what sci-fi movies I’ve liked best.
