A fairy tale about finding the fountain of youth, this Ron Howard film focuses on a group of Florida retirees who discover their new next-door neighbors are a group of glowing yellow aliens pretending to be human. Cocoon (1986)Ĭocoon (1985) Steve Guttenberg Don Ameche Wilford Brimley Tahnee Welch DIR Ron Howard WARPITERĬocoon is perhaps the nicest sci-film you’ll ever watch. It should’ve won for his groundbreaking visual effects too, but Star Wars came out that year too, and nothing was going to beat Star Wars in any technical category.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards, the film won only for Vilmos Zsigmond’s beautifully textured cinematography. In her contemporary review of the film, Pauline Kael called it “a kid’s film in the best sense,” and she’s absolutely right it’s filled with child-like glee at discovering the unknown. That’s a pity, because the film, about a man who drives away his family to pursue his visions of an approaching extraterrestrial presence, is still a one-of-a-kind experience that realistically depicts humankind’s first experience with the fantastic.Ĭlose Encounters is perhaps the best sci-film to capture the wonder of us contacting an alien life form. I wouldn’t say Close Encounters of The Third Kind is underrated, but it frequently gets forgotten about when discussing the genre of Steven Spielberg’s body of work.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)ĬLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Official Trailerġ977 had another groundbreaking sci-fi film that everyone went gaga for and that you don’t hear too much about today.
Fantastic Voyage is a groundbreaking sci-fi film from when the genre still radiated optimism and good cheer for the future rather than the doom and gloom that came to define the genre in the 1970s and 1980s. But the Oscar-winning special effects (the film also won an Oscar for Best Color Art Direction) have a certain charm and the film seems to recognize that’s it a bit funny and absurd to see white blood cells attack and kill Donald Pleasance. Throw in a ticking timebomb (the scientists only have 60 minutes to save him before they revert to their normal size) and a Cold War saboteur subplot and you have a surprisingly suspenseful thriller. Made in 1966 by journeyman director Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage stars Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch as scientists who decide to shrink down to the molecular level to save the life of a doctor who invented the procedure. One of the first Oscar-winning sci-fi films ever is perhaps the grooviest as well. Fitbit Versa 3įantastic Voyage | #TBT Trailer | 20th Century FOX
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