I watched a 5 hour sci-fi doc called #InSearchOfTomorrow (2022). It covers some of the roots of the genre, but focuses mostly on the 80s.

I like a lot of sci-fi, but this era is peak. My favorites lean into the more dark and dystopian. I've always really loved Alien, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Predator, RoboCop, and of course... Terminator. Robotics and tech have always fascinated me, and space stuff is really cool, too. Escape from NY and Mad Max 1 tend to get the sci-fi label, and they're great, but they're not very sci-fi other than that label of "Speculative Sci-Fi", but somehow, they fit right in.

Time-Travel is another great genre, though usually more fantastic in terms of not being feasible. Traveling faster than the speed of light? There's no sign of that happening any time soon, but it doesn't make movies like Back to the Future and Terminator any less fun.

I've never been on board with the Star Wars hype, but I will admit the first 3 movies are fun enough. They paved the way for space travel, aliens galore, robots, and planetary stuff to become common place in anything and everything after them, and it's literally about world-building, but they became pretty underwhelming after saturating the marketplace, especially recently.

Enough rambling on my end. What are your favorite sci-fi things? Movies or shows, specific eras, whatever. Lay it on me.