talk about a brain melter welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10
mind-bending moments in sci-fi movies
for this list we’re picking big screen
twists and turns that left our minds
blown and our eyes doubting what they
just see in other words shocking and
memorable revelations for moments that
kept us thinking and thinking and
thinking you send someone in the room
with us
warning this list contains spoilers
number ten Soylent Green is people
Soylent Green detective thorn 14th
precinct see what we said about spoilers
in a world where industrialization has
turned everything into an overpopulated
wasteland with a steadily declining food
supply the Soylent corporation creates
Soylent Green your young people were
better no not people were always rotten
when the world was beautiful this
water-based green stuff is advertised as
a great source of nutrition because of
its enormous popularity Soylent Green is
in short supply remember Tuesday is
Soylent Green Day so on the surface it
appears to be the answer to human
starvation but unfortunately it is later
revealed to be made out of the actual
remains of human corpses
the phrase you are what you eat has
never been more true or more disturbing
its people Soylent Green is made out of
people number nine
ash is a robot alien ash can you see
this yes I can
I’ve never seen anything like it as if
dealing with a deadly chest bursting
alien wasn’t enough the crew of the
Nostromo is in for one heck of a twist
when it’s revealed that their science
officer Ashe is really an Android
unbeknownst to the crew his first
priority was to bring the
extraterrestrial life-form back alive
for research purposes making the human
crew expendable assets
luckily for Ripley she saved at the last
possible moment by Parker
which leaves Ashe headless and our minds
below
number eight dream or reality Total
Recall you’re dreaming sit vampires in
the world of Total Recall customers can
purchase memories and live out their
wildest dreams without ever having to
leave the building Arnold Schwarzenegger
plays Douglas Quaid a man who freaks out
while getting his Mars vacation implant
dreaming and all this is part of the
delightful vacation your company has
sold me
not exactly what your experience it is a
free-form delusion based on our memory
tapes but you’re inventing it yourself
as you go along if it is my delusion who
the hell invited you we made her
discover that Quaid is actually a man
named Houser who’s had his memory
switched out so that Quaid would
unknowingly lead the bad guys straight
to their rebel leader you paid to be a
secret agent bullshit coins defense but
wait is his adventure on Mars even real
or a Schwarzenegger actually in the
simulation he signed up for talking
about a mind bender that keeps on
bending I just had a terrible thought
what if this is a dream number seven
intersecting timelines driver and
shoving an odd number of Lord and
backward trips if we’ve learned anything
over the years it’s that time travel
isn’t all fun and games all right we
start the machine with weeble at the
a.m. it travels 14 oh we got to write
this down and there’s nothing to write
down well then I’m writing okay fine
look sure you might be able to travel to
the past and fix a crucial mistake or
journey to the future to benefit from
knowing what’s to come but there’s no
denying the dangerous risks you’re
taking
come here for
you’re bleeding this blood turn around
soon where’s I coming from in one of the
most complex sci-fi films ever made the
characters of primer learned the
repercussions of time travel with each
decision they make encountering doubles
of themselves experiencing health
problems and much much more
making us think twice about tampering
with time no no so it would have
happened if he hadn’t been there number
six
fantasy ending Brazil now this is what
we call a brain tease the ending of
Terry Gilliam’s 1985 science fiction
classic is a head-spinner okay chuckles
call me Harry what was thought to be a
happy ending for Sam Laurie is quickly
revealed to be the product of his own
delusions
in reality Sam is still strapped to the
chair in which he was being tortured
following treason charges Jacqueline and
mr. Helpmann declare him to be a lost
cause and leave Sam alone to smile and
sing Brazil all to himself the rewind
function on your VCR has never been more
appreciated number 5 neo wakes up in the
real world the matrix you take the blue
pill the story ends you wake up in your
bed and believe whatever you want now
that’s what you call sugarcoating you
take the red pill you stay in Wonderland
and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole
goes
after deciding to take the red pill to
go down the rabbit hole neo wakes up to
a startling reality the real world is a
cold wasteland run by machines welcome
to the real world
humans are no longer born but grown that
my good far from it everyone is
connected to the matrix which is a world
that’s been created to hide them from
the truth and prevent them from rising
up to take back what’s theirs this can
be what
be real certainly makes you think twice
about the future of video games now
doesn’t it
world as it was at the end of the
twentieth century it exists now only as
part of a neural interactive simulation
that we call the matrix number four the
truth about the planet Planet of the
Apes to suggest that we can’t learn
anything about the simian native of a
study of man your notches in this sci-fi
flick the main characters crash land on
a planet in which highly evolved apes
are the dominant species that the a
evolved from a lower order primate
possibly man possessing the ability to
speak and having vast human-like
intelligence these Apes easily capture
the humans and prove to be formidable
folks did your stinking paws off me you
damn dirty ape
however when Taylor manages to free
himself from captivity he learns the
terrifying truth this alien planet isn’t
actually an alien planet at all but
earth which has been devastated from a
nuclear war that has long since passed
truly a shocker to end all shockers
finally really did it yo you blew it up
damn you number three the spinning top
inception this is your first lesson in
shared namely stay calm in the world of
dreams
each extractor must have a personal
totem for which only he or she knows
it’s distinct characteristics in the
real world such as its weight you need a
small object potentially heavy something
you can have on you all the time that no
one else may explain no needs to be more
unique than that knowing this allows the
extractor to determine if there in
someone else’s dream that way when you
look at your totem you know beyond a
doubt that you’re not in someone else’s
dream Cobbs totem is a spinning top that
will only topple over if he’s in the
real world
smalls actually this
this one was hers she’s spinning the
dream it would never talk just spin and
spin
however the sci-fi heist thriller ends
with Cobbs tops still spinning leaving
us to question whether or not he’s still
in a dream or conscious which makes
repeat viewings of the film’s a must by
the way do you see that wobble at the
end number 2 extra dimensional tesseract
interstellar we must confront the
reality of interstellar travel we must
reach far beyond our lash paths director
Christopher Nolan gives us yet another
thinker with this 2014 science fiction
epic interstellar the story follows a
group of astronauts traveling through a
wormhole in an attempt to find another
planet that can sustain human life I
think prospects are at the edge of what
might sustain human life after Cooper
sacrifices himself to ensure brand
survival he’s pulled back in time by an
extra dimensional tesseract which allows
him to communicate with his daughter and
give her the solution to brans equation
I know because the book babies are
closing a tesseract
even though explaining all this is quite
the mouthful this barely scratches the
surface of Nolan’s complex film don’t
you get it yet – and that beings
nuts
I’ve been good for math account for me
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions so what do I call
you anyway I am a try Maxine dropship
prime axiom affirmative okay I’ll call
you max it’s easier
you had me cloned yes where you cloned
the wrong man once in a while one of us
wakes up while they’re changing things
it’s not supposed to happen but it does
it happened to me that come looking for
you Murdoch hey tell the truth
always doing again
number one star child 2001 a Space
Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece is a film
that still leaves viewer stunned
regardless of how many times they’ve
watched it
though many scenes will leave you with
thought-provoking questions the ending
leaves your mind forever bent hey
my mind is calling I can feel it as
moment approaches the monolith near
Jupiter he’s pulled into a vortex
transporting him across space at
tremendous speeds as his journey ends
he’s transformed into a fetus inside a
glowing orb hovering near the earth the
mind can only absorb so much information
at a given time and this most certainly
is a brain full
do you agree with our list I am
impressed what’s your favorite
mind-bending sci fi moment something for
more brain twisting top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so what do you say alright
smart move
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10
mind-bending moments in sci-fi movies
for this list we’re picking big screen
twists and turns that left our minds
blown and our eyes doubting what they
just see in other words shocking and
memorable revelations for moments that
kept us thinking and thinking and
thinking you send someone in the room
with us
warning this list contains spoilers
number ten Soylent Green is people
Soylent Green detective thorn 14th
precinct see what we said about spoilers
in a world where industrialization has
turned everything into an overpopulated
wasteland with a steadily declining food
supply the Soylent corporation creates
Soylent Green your young people were
better no not people were always rotten
when the world was beautiful this
water-based green stuff is advertised as
a great source of nutrition because of
its enormous popularity Soylent Green is
in short supply remember Tuesday is
Soylent Green Day so on the surface it
appears to be the answer to human
starvation but unfortunately it is later
revealed to be made out of the actual
remains of human corpses
the phrase you are what you eat has
never been more true or more disturbing
its people Soylent Green is made out of
people number nine
ash is a robot alien ash can you see
this yes I can
I’ve never seen anything like it as if
dealing with a deadly chest bursting
alien wasn’t enough the crew of the
Nostromo is in for one heck of a twist
when it’s revealed that their science
officer Ashe is really an Android
unbeknownst to the crew his first
priority was to bring the
extraterrestrial life-form back alive
for research purposes making the human
crew expendable assets
luckily for Ripley she saved at the last
possible moment by Parker
which leaves Ashe headless and our minds
below
number eight dream or reality Total
Recall you’re dreaming sit vampires in
the world of Total Recall customers can
purchase memories and live out their
wildest dreams without ever having to
leave the building Arnold Schwarzenegger
plays Douglas Quaid a man who freaks out
while getting his Mars vacation implant
dreaming and all this is part of the
delightful vacation your company has
sold me
not exactly what your experience it is a
free-form delusion based on our memory
tapes but you’re inventing it yourself
as you go along if it is my delusion who
the hell invited you we made her
discover that Quaid is actually a man
named Houser who’s had his memory
switched out so that Quaid would
unknowingly lead the bad guys straight
to their rebel leader you paid to be a
secret agent bullshit coins defense but
wait is his adventure on Mars even real
or a Schwarzenegger actually in the
simulation he signed up for talking
about a mind bender that keeps on
bending I just had a terrible thought
what if this is a dream number seven
intersecting timelines driver and
shoving an odd number of Lord and
backward trips if we’ve learned anything
over the years it’s that time travel
isn’t all fun and games all right we
start the machine with weeble at the
a.m. it travels 14 oh we got to write
this down and there’s nothing to write
down well then I’m writing okay fine
look sure you might be able to travel to
the past and fix a crucial mistake or
journey to the future to benefit from
knowing what’s to come but there’s no
denying the dangerous risks you’re
taking
come here for
you’re bleeding this blood turn around
soon where’s I coming from in one of the
most complex sci-fi films ever made the
characters of primer learned the
repercussions of time travel with each
decision they make encountering doubles
of themselves experiencing health
problems and much much more
making us think twice about tampering
with time no no so it would have
happened if he hadn’t been there number
six
fantasy ending Brazil now this is what
we call a brain tease the ending of
Terry Gilliam’s 1985 science fiction
classic is a head-spinner okay chuckles
call me Harry what was thought to be a
happy ending for Sam Laurie is quickly
revealed to be the product of his own
delusions
in reality Sam is still strapped to the
chair in which he was being tortured
following treason charges Jacqueline and
mr. Helpmann declare him to be a lost
cause and leave Sam alone to smile and
sing Brazil all to himself the rewind
function on your VCR has never been more
appreciated number 5 neo wakes up in the
real world the matrix you take the blue
pill the story ends you wake up in your
bed and believe whatever you want now
that’s what you call sugarcoating you
take the red pill you stay in Wonderland
and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole
goes
after deciding to take the red pill to
go down the rabbit hole neo wakes up to
a startling reality the real world is a
cold wasteland run by machines welcome
to the real world
humans are no longer born but grown that
my good far from it everyone is
connected to the matrix which is a world
that’s been created to hide them from
the truth and prevent them from rising
up to take back what’s theirs this can
be what
be real certainly makes you think twice
about the future of video games now
doesn’t it
world as it was at the end of the
twentieth century it exists now only as
part of a neural interactive simulation
that we call the matrix number four the
truth about the planet Planet of the
Apes to suggest that we can’t learn
anything about the simian native of a
study of man your notches in this sci-fi
flick the main characters crash land on
a planet in which highly evolved apes
are the dominant species that the a
evolved from a lower order primate
possibly man possessing the ability to
speak and having vast human-like
intelligence these Apes easily capture
the humans and prove to be formidable
folks did your stinking paws off me you
damn dirty ape
however when Taylor manages to free
himself from captivity he learns the
terrifying truth this alien planet isn’t
actually an alien planet at all but
earth which has been devastated from a
nuclear war that has long since passed
truly a shocker to end all shockers
finally really did it yo you blew it up
damn you number three the spinning top
inception this is your first lesson in
shared namely stay calm in the world of
dreams
each extractor must have a personal
totem for which only he or she knows
it’s distinct characteristics in the
real world such as its weight you need a
small object potentially heavy something
you can have on you all the time that no
one else may explain no needs to be more
unique than that knowing this allows the
extractor to determine if there in
someone else’s dream that way when you
look at your totem you know beyond a
doubt that you’re not in someone else’s
dream Cobbs totem is a spinning top that
will only topple over if he’s in the
real world
smalls actually this
this one was hers she’s spinning the
dream it would never talk just spin and
spin
however the sci-fi heist thriller ends
with Cobbs tops still spinning leaving
us to question whether or not he’s still
in a dream or conscious which makes
repeat viewings of the film’s a must by
the way do you see that wobble at the
end number 2 extra dimensional tesseract
interstellar we must confront the
reality of interstellar travel we must
reach far beyond our lash paths director
Christopher Nolan gives us yet another
thinker with this 2014 science fiction
epic interstellar the story follows a
group of astronauts traveling through a
wormhole in an attempt to find another
planet that can sustain human life I
think prospects are at the edge of what
might sustain human life after Cooper
sacrifices himself to ensure brand
survival he’s pulled back in time by an
extra dimensional tesseract which allows
him to communicate with his daughter and
give her the solution to brans equation
I know because the book babies are
closing a tesseract
even though explaining all this is quite
the mouthful this barely scratches the
surface of Nolan’s complex film don’t
you get it yet – and that beings
nuts
I’ve been good for math account for me
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions so what do I call
you anyway I am a try Maxine dropship
prime axiom affirmative okay I’ll call
you max it’s easier
you had me cloned yes where you cloned
the wrong man once in a while one of us
wakes up while they’re changing things
it’s not supposed to happen but it does
it happened to me that come looking for
you Murdoch hey tell the truth
always doing again
number one star child 2001 a Space
Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece is a film
that still leaves viewer stunned
regardless of how many times they’ve
watched it
though many scenes will leave you with
thought-provoking questions the ending
leaves your mind forever bent hey
my mind is calling I can feel it as
moment approaches the monolith near
Jupiter he’s pulled into a vortex
transporting him across space at
tremendous speeds as his journey ends
he’s transformed into a fetus inside a
glowing orb hovering near the earth the
mind can only absorb so much information
at a given time and this most certainly
is a brain full
do you agree with our list I am
impressed what’s your favorite
mind-bending sci fi moment something for
more brain twisting top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so what do you say alright
smart move
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