{"id":92,"date":"2024-02-14T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2024-02-14T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:02:01","slug":"my-ten-favorite-sci-fi-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/my-ten-favorite-sci-fi-films\/","title":{"rendered":"my ten favorite sci-fi films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as pulled from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-lists\/best-sci-fi-movies-1234893930\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-lists\/best-sci-fi-movies-1234893930\/\">Rolling Stone Top 150 Science Fiction films<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Under the Skin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alien<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Thing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Galaxy Quest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annihilation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inception<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children of Men<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contact<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With honorable mentions to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Serenity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fifth Element<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blade Runner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dark City<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunshine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total Recall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La Jet\u00e9e<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stalker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was tougher than I thought to make! Every movie in my top 10 is my favorite example of that particular kind of movie, although notably I clearly have a soft spot for sci-fi horror considering my top 3. The only exceptions to that are <em>Contact<\/em> and <em>Tron<\/em>&#8230; I&#8217;m not certain these are the best movies but they are the ones that I have and will continue to re-watch over and over for my whole life. A movie like <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> which I recognize as an all-time great movie, conversely, isn&#8217;t one I&#8217;d necessarily consider a personal top 10 or one that I would seek out to watch these days, despite its clear greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as pulled from the Rolling Stone Top 150 Science Fiction films: With honorable mentions to This was tougher than I thought to make! Every movie in my top 10 is my favorite example of that particular kind of movie, although notably I clearly have a soft spot for sci-fi horror considering my top 3. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}