Starship Troopers (1997)
Starship Troopers is one of the most misunderstood films of the 1990s and one of the most accomplished political satires in mainstream science fiction. The adaptation is loose in ways that have generated decades of argument.
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1980sThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…
1950sWhen Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
1990sMen in Black (1997)
Ed Solomon wrote, loosely adapted from Lowell Cunningham's Aircel/Malibu comic. The film made approximately five hundred and ninety million dollars worldwide on a ninety million dollar budget.
1990sIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
1960sBarbarella (1968)
Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, an astronaut in the year 40,000 sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose…
1950sThem! (1954)
Ted Sherdeman wrote, from a story by George Worthing Yates. The film made approximately two million dollars at initial release on a two hundred thousand dollar budget.
1980sEscape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.
1960sFantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Voyage is the mid-1960s science fiction film about a submarine and crew miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist. The film made approximately twelve million dollars on a budget of roughly five to…
1980sTron (1982)
Tron is the foundational computer graphics film and one of the earliest mainstream features to use computer-generated imagery as a significant production. Bonnie MacBird co-wrote with Lisberger.
2000sLara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Patrick Massett and John Zinman wrote. The film made approximately two hundred and seventy-five million dollars worldwide on a one hundred and fifteen million dollar budget.
1990sMortal Kombat (1995)
Anderson directed in what amounted to a launching pad for his subsequent career in genre cinema. The film made approximately one hundred and twenty-three million dollars worldwide on a twenty million dollar budget.