From the development of digital technology, films in the genre of science fiction probably won the most. The visualization of the most unusual ideas is becoming more sophisticated, however, it is not always the films that make it more interesting. According to some experts, soon all the paintings will be with fantastic stories and unusually beautiful heroes with superhuman abilities. So the most interesting fantasy awaits us yet to come.
This is also fantastic.
Surprisingly, "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes the Profession" also fits perfectly into the fantasy genre. The most interesting family films are always old films that we loved as a child. In "Ivan Vasilievich ..." there are all the attributes of the genre that is popular today - the time machine, "popadants". Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai in 1973. The main script was the play by Mikhail Bulgakov "Ivan Vasilievich". The film became the highest grossing country in the country in the year of the premiere and received good praise from critics and excellent reviews from the audience.
The young enthusiastic engineer Timofeev, played by Alexander Demyanenko, known to all Soviet people as Shurik, invents a time machine. As a result of a short circuit, he loses consciousness, and a fantastic plot begins. The colorful manager Ivan Bunsha (actor Yuri Yakovlev), together with apartment thief Georges Miloslavsky (Leonid Kuravlev), fall into the chambers of Ivan the Terrible, and the tsar himself - in Soviet times. Only at the end of the film do we learn that the inventor dreamed about all this. Even the supporting roles in the film starred the most popular performers. For many, "Ivan Vasilievich ..." is still the most interesting science fiction film.
Sinister game
In 2017, Jumanji: Call of the Jungle was released, the sequel to the movie Jumanji based on the children's book of the same name by Chris van Olsbruck. The picture was a resounding success with the audience, although some of them noted that it lacked the fabulousness and subtle humor inherent in the first part. The sequel, with a budget of 90 million, has collected more than 960 million at the box office. The film has long settled in the list of the most interesting fiction.
Four teenagers get inside a computer game, where they transform into their avatars. The main character, Dr. Smulder Bravestone, played by one of the highest paid American actors, Dwayne Johnson, must complete the quest with his friends. The objective of the game is to return the gem to the rock with which it was stolen. Dr. Smolder is assisted by Professor Sheldon (Jack Black), martial artist Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan) and zoologist Franklin Finbar (Kevin Hart). After many adventures that fully meet the standards of the most interesting fiction, the heroes manage to escape from the game.
Almost Alien
"Prometheus" was conceived as a prequel to the classic painting "Alien" in 1979, but became an independent picture in the genre of fiction. The most interesting film about space and alien civilizations of 2012 - this is how its viewers described it. Although the picture did not become a prequel, the nave has many easily recognizable elements and motifs from films about Aliens.
The main character, the archaeologist Elizabeth M. Shaw (Numi Rapas), arrives with an expedition led by Meridit Vicker (Charlize Theron) to a planet near the star of the Zeta grid. The goal is to find traces of the race of the Creators, thanks to which life appeared on Earth. The expedition is funded by Weilad (Guy Pearce), who secretly flies with them, hoping to gain immortality. Landing, they discover ancient artificial structures in which they find equipment and the Creator sleeping in a cryochamber. When he is awakened, he kills the people of Wayland. It turned out that the Creators flew to Earth to destroy the life that they gave rise to. The show with the help of android David (Michael Fassbender) manages to stop the revived forefather of mankind. She decides to fly to the planet of the Creators in order to find out the reasons for this decision. During the film, astronauts are attacked by serpentine creatures from strangers' eggs.
Fantastic Groundhog Day
Among the most interesting fiction, it is necessary to note the 2014 film "The Edge of the Future." The film was very well received by critics who called the film a dynamic popular science-thriller.
The film is often called a mixture of Groundhog Day and Star Troopers. The main character, William Cage (Tom Cruise), dies in a battle with aliens. Waking up, he realizes that he returned that day, and this happens again and again. With the help of Sergeant Rita Rose Vrataski (Emily Blunt), who also visited the time loop, Dr. Carter (Noah Taylor) and platoon comrades, they defeat the aliens.
How to survive on Mars?
Prestigious cinematic awards picture "Martian" received as a comedy, and not as a fantasy. The most interesting film about space in 2015 is the opinion of many viewers who particularly noted Matt Damon's acting and special effects. Despite the fact that the picture is overloaded with scientific details, the director managed to present the material in an entertaining and comedic style. True, particularly picky experts noted the incomplete scientific credibility of some scenes of the film.
The expedition to Mars in the near future falls into a sandstorm. Having flown up urgently, they leave the planet botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) on the planet, believing him dead. The wounded astronaut remains alone without communication in the residential module with resources calculated for a month for six people. At the flight control center, Martian Program Manager Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), based on satellite imagery analysis, finds out that Mark survived. The main character himself shows miracles of ingenuity. He needs to live to see the arrival of the next expedition, which will arrive in three years. The crew under the command of Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) returns, takes the hero and safely reaches the Earth.
Almost like in Biryulev
The most interesting science fiction can undoubtedly include the Russian film of 2017, “Attraction”. A fairly banal plot tells about contact with an alien civilization. As the scriptwriters wrote, the impetus for the creation of the picture was the riots in Biryulyovo in 2013. The film paid for a large budget by Russian standards and received good reviews from the audience. In 2019, the release of the second part of the film is planned.
Alien explorer Hakon (Rinal Mukhametov) is exposed to meteor shower over Moscow. The Flying Saucer loses its disguise, and it is shot down by air defense planes. Falling, an alien ship destroys several houses. Army units led by Colonel Lebedev (Oleg Menshov) cordon off the crash site. A group of aggressive youth led by Artem (Alexander Petrov) decides to avenge this. They attack Hakon, then the ship. The main character, schoolgirl Julia Lebedeva (Irina Starshenbaum), a friend of Artem, saves an alien, and then helps him get on the ship. At the end of the film, Hakon gives up his biological immortality, saving Julia's life. Artificial intelligence explains to Colonel Lebedev that they flew in for research purposes.
Dinosaur world
Jurassic World 2 is already the fifth of a series of films about genetic engineering dinosaurs. The film received a good rating from the audience as the most interesting science fiction in the first half of 2018. Everyone was impressed by the spectacle and colorfulness, but the picture was criticized for the weakness of the script. Critics wrote that this is the most serious franchise film with a large animal protection accent.
Nublar Island, where the ruined Jurassic park is located, is threatened with destruction due to the eruption of the volcano. Former Park Manager Claire Deering (Bryce Dallas Howard), Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), one of the authors of cloning technology and his assistant Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) are gathering a group to save the dinosaurs. Former raptors trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) is invited as an expert. As a result of the expedition, former fossil animals are saved, but now people will share the world with dinosaurs.
Talk to Aliens
The 2016 film “Arrival” received many praise from viewers and critics who called it a masterpiece of fiction and the most interesting film of the year.
The heroine Amy Adams, linguist Dr. Louise Banks, and astrophysicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are mobilized by US intelligence agencies to contact aliens whose ships appeared in different countries and are located in twelve places. Gradually, they begin to understand the aliens who simultaneously live in the past and in the future. Louise prevents the Chinese attack on one of the ships by decrypting one of the aliens' messages. It turned out that they flew to help earthlings unite, because then, after 3000 years, earthlings would save them.
World of robots
The series "World of the Wild West" became the most watched in the history of the American channel IEE and earned the highest rating among viewers in 2016. He received mostly positive reviews from critics as the most interesting science fiction series. Everyone praised the visual effects, story and acting. In 2018, the second season began.
All adventures take place in the futuristic Wild West World park, which is inhabited by androids. The attraction serves rich and high-ranking customers who can do everything that is paid for in the park. In the interiors of the Wild West, tourists rob, kill androids. But robots are gradually gaining consciousness, becoming a "new people." Among the main characters:
- the farmer’s daughter Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), who gradually learns that she is actually a robot;
- mistress of the brothel Maeve Milli (Thandie Newton), also a robot;
- Program Manager Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright).