prepare to make the jump to light speed
again and again try and hold him off
angle the deflector shield probably make
the calculator with a jump to light
speed
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
sci-fi movie cliches she’s fully
integrated into the building we need to
open that dome to inject an annex that
will infect our entire system for this
list we’re looking at cliches tropes
gimmicks plot points narrative devices
MacGuffins or anything else you can name
that frequently is used throughout
movies in the science fiction genre for
the record we’re not bad-mouthing any of
these as their presence has created some
truly compelling works of science
fiction he’s got a history dr. violence
antisocial six instead ranking them
based on their abundant presence and
their role in science fiction stories
well I’m sorry I I didn’t know how this
machine worked number 10 homogeneous
alien species planets Jobeth Hey yeah
it’s first mate on a ship the knight
suitors you guys know better than most
that science fiction universes can be
pretty big so sometimes a little
simplifying is required in an effort to
do this alien species are often painted
with broad strokes where every member of
a particular race has similar
personalities clothes or lack thereof
attitudes etc Navi say that every person
is born twice the same can be said of
other planets which are often
represented with one defining
characteristic no oh man is peaceful we
have no weapons you can talk about
another target a visit or a target one’s
a giant desert another’s nothing but a
swamp another only looks like the South
Pole well I finished my circle I don’t
think of any life readings is hot cold
this time of year it’s a giant cube of
ice what do you expect
number nine aliens understand English
and vice-versa without any translation
you said it Chewie it seems that
everyone in the galaxy has conveniently
taken the time to learn English or at
least facilitate other speaking it how
hard sure a lot of movies use the whole
universal translator thing to get around
this but shouldn’t every alien speaking
look like a badly dubbed kung fu movie
in that case the judicial name at the
top case of a Johnson there you gonna
put your name at the bottom step two is
as far as we’re concerned though a
little suspension of disbelief goes a
long way as we all like knowing what
characters are saying what’s going on
mm-hmm
whoa looks great number eight time
manipulation he’s saying it’s from the
future when you hit number eight on this
list you’re gonna see some serious shit
when this baby hits 88 miles per hour
you’re gonna see some serious shit where
would sci-fi be without the ability to
travel to another era
speed up time or change the future
what’s great about this cliche is that
although it gets frequent use we’re
still seeing new stories come out of it
we must confront the reality of
interstellar travel whether it’s
time-traveling robot assassins
astronauts getting too close to a black
hole or souped-up DeLoreans we can never
really say we saw it coming are you
telling me you built a time machine out
of a DeLorean number seven post
apocalypse it’s been half a century
since the scavengers destroyed our moon
what will the world be like in the near
future well it might not be there at all
wiping out the world as we know it
provides a blank canvas for sci-fi
filmmakers to apply their special
effects heavy brushes earthquakes topple
cities within hours
tsunamis wiped out world remained random
virus nuclear holocaust rise of the
machines aliens who cares we love them
all there are literally endless amounts
of stories to come out of the world
ending and they never really seem to get
old I’m a survivor living in New York
City
I am broadcasting on all am frequencies
number six dystopia shall we continue
yes it’s different from post apocalypse
I’m gonna lie
wait
in a dystopia the world hasn’t
necessarily been wiped out it’s just
kind of grim because of its enormous
popularity Soylent Green is in short
supply this also includes societies that
seem perfect but actually hide dark
secrets life is hard for the people of
the future who have to struggle to find
food fight off replicants at a crime ELA
I need you – this is a bad or prevent
murders before they happen in a
futuristic DC sucks for them but it
makes the movies featuring such settings
so much better we are arresting
individuals who have broken the law but
they will if a hero can survive there
they can survive anywhere he’s a god
damn one-man slaughterhouse that’s what
he is number five thinly veiled
political messages morals he knows if we
even go near Klingon space if he all-out
war Starfleet can’t go after him but I
can we’re all for allegories and film
even if it means occasionally getting
beaten over the head with a giant
metaphor the last people to starve will
be the first to suffocate seriously
though sci-fi loves making its art
reflective of the world we live in today
tackling a variety of subjects from
calls for humans to make peace not war
– commentary on drone warfare sometimes
it goes far enough to say that humans
are to blame for everything I was a
warrior between tea to bring peace if
you’re ever feeling thirsty for a morale
kick in the ass science fiction has got
you covered
they’re just goddamn trees you need to
wake up Park no you need to wake up
number four alien invasions
welcome to earth aliens play no small
part in science fiction but never is
their presence more evident or so
driving to the plot than when they
invade our home planet violent visits
from our intergalactic foes have been
vital to science fiction ever since the
genres early days it’s happened in a
thousand different ways sometimes they
steal our bodies and invade our
governments sometimes they just blow
shit up
either way we’d be lost without number
three
artificial intelligence I’m sorry Dave I
don’t have enough information never is
sci-fi more potently important as a
genre that when it makes us question our
own consciousness by asking questions
like what does it mean to be alive I’ve
seen things you people wouldn’t believe
it accomplishes this by portraying
computers and robots that have become
capable of thought our mind is growing
it’s true we could have limited
ourselves to just evil robots for this
entry but that would ignore many
different aspects of artificial
intelligence across massive spectrum
films we’ve been afraid of them we’ve
laughed with them
we’ve even fallen in love with them I
know know why you cry
but it’s something I can never do number
two technobabble using an SSL to
encryption 128 family to technobabble
please let’s face it people it’s called
science fiction for a reason we can’t
count how many times we’ve heard our
favorite characters talking about
dilithium crystals Scotty you promised
me an estimate on the dilithium crystals
or flux capacitors this is what makes
time travel possible flux capacitor or
AI cores or hyperspace drives this is
often done to show how fancy some
futuristic technology is or to explain
why the impossible in reality is
possible in the movie it exists now only
as part of a neural interactive
simulation that we call the matrix
whether the mystical technology is real
or not we don’t really care because the
movies couldn’t be possible without it
whatever it is to plan a half major an
evolving philosophy what is the
molecular formula human and stuff like
crystals before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions Wow
what is happening you are just beating
his calm down
my daughter will teach you our ways
learn well Jake su Lee
instead early try to realize the truth
what truth there is no spoon
number one human existence is threatened
as long as the matrix exists the human
race will never be free before we can
worry about anything else we have to
worry about the very survival of the
human race
maybe the human race deserves to be
wiped out this is a theme that is
dominated a huge array of science
fiction mostly because the human race
could be threatened by anything from
aliens to a mysterious virus to even
killer robots not a man
mushy terminator the genre allows for
this idea to be realized in a marvelous
fashion and has become nearly synonymous
with the jar of science fiction in
general which is why it’s at the top of
our list a human race is going to be
adrift do you agree with our list yes
sure which sci-fi movie cliches did we
miss it wasn’t the right time for us to
meet but there’ll be other nights are
there stars for us to watch
that will be back for more intergalactic
top 10s published every day please
subscribe to watchmojo.com it’s better
for me better for you it’s better for
them
again and again try and hold him off
angle the deflector shield probably make
the calculator with a jump to light
speed
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
sci-fi movie cliches she’s fully
integrated into the building we need to
open that dome to inject an annex that
will infect our entire system for this
list we’re looking at cliches tropes
gimmicks plot points narrative devices
MacGuffins or anything else you can name
that frequently is used throughout
movies in the science fiction genre for
the record we’re not bad-mouthing any of
these as their presence has created some
truly compelling works of science
fiction he’s got a history dr. violence
antisocial six instead ranking them
based on their abundant presence and
their role in science fiction stories
well I’m sorry I I didn’t know how this
machine worked number 10 homogeneous
alien species planets Jobeth Hey yeah
it’s first mate on a ship the knight
suitors you guys know better than most
that science fiction universes can be
pretty big so sometimes a little
simplifying is required in an effort to
do this alien species are often painted
with broad strokes where every member of
a particular race has similar
personalities clothes or lack thereof
attitudes etc Navi say that every person
is born twice the same can be said of
other planets which are often
represented with one defining
characteristic no oh man is peaceful we
have no weapons you can talk about
another target a visit or a target one’s
a giant desert another’s nothing but a
swamp another only looks like the South
Pole well I finished my circle I don’t
think of any life readings is hot cold
this time of year it’s a giant cube of
ice what do you expect
number nine aliens understand English
and vice-versa without any translation
you said it Chewie it seems that
everyone in the galaxy has conveniently
taken the time to learn English or at
least facilitate other speaking it how
hard sure a lot of movies use the whole
universal translator thing to get around
this but shouldn’t every alien speaking
look like a badly dubbed kung fu movie
in that case the judicial name at the
top case of a Johnson there you gonna
put your name at the bottom step two is
as far as we’re concerned though a
little suspension of disbelief goes a
long way as we all like knowing what
characters are saying what’s going on
mm-hmm
whoa looks great number eight time
manipulation he’s saying it’s from the
future when you hit number eight on this
list you’re gonna see some serious shit
when this baby hits 88 miles per hour
you’re gonna see some serious shit where
would sci-fi be without the ability to
travel to another era
speed up time or change the future
what’s great about this cliche is that
although it gets frequent use we’re
still seeing new stories come out of it
we must confront the reality of
interstellar travel whether it’s
time-traveling robot assassins
astronauts getting too close to a black
hole or souped-up DeLoreans we can never
really say we saw it coming are you
telling me you built a time machine out
of a DeLorean number seven post
apocalypse it’s been half a century
since the scavengers destroyed our moon
what will the world be like in the near
future well it might not be there at all
wiping out the world as we know it
provides a blank canvas for sci-fi
filmmakers to apply their special
effects heavy brushes earthquakes topple
cities within hours
tsunamis wiped out world remained random
virus nuclear holocaust rise of the
machines aliens who cares we love them
all there are literally endless amounts
of stories to come out of the world
ending and they never really seem to get
old I’m a survivor living in New York
City
I am broadcasting on all am frequencies
number six dystopia shall we continue
yes it’s different from post apocalypse
I’m gonna lie
wait
in a dystopia the world hasn’t
necessarily been wiped out it’s just
kind of grim because of its enormous
popularity Soylent Green is in short
supply this also includes societies that
seem perfect but actually hide dark
secrets life is hard for the people of
the future who have to struggle to find
food fight off replicants at a crime ELA
I need you – this is a bad or prevent
murders before they happen in a
futuristic DC sucks for them but it
makes the movies featuring such settings
so much better we are arresting
individuals who have broken the law but
they will if a hero can survive there
they can survive anywhere he’s a god
damn one-man slaughterhouse that’s what
he is number five thinly veiled
political messages morals he knows if we
even go near Klingon space if he all-out
war Starfleet can’t go after him but I
can we’re all for allegories and film
even if it means occasionally getting
beaten over the head with a giant
metaphor the last people to starve will
be the first to suffocate seriously
though sci-fi loves making its art
reflective of the world we live in today
tackling a variety of subjects from
calls for humans to make peace not war
– commentary on drone warfare sometimes
it goes far enough to say that humans
are to blame for everything I was a
warrior between tea to bring peace if
you’re ever feeling thirsty for a morale
kick in the ass science fiction has got
you covered
they’re just goddamn trees you need to
wake up Park no you need to wake up
number four alien invasions
welcome to earth aliens play no small
part in science fiction but never is
their presence more evident or so
driving to the plot than when they
invade our home planet violent visits
from our intergalactic foes have been
vital to science fiction ever since the
genres early days it’s happened in a
thousand different ways sometimes they
steal our bodies and invade our
governments sometimes they just blow
shit up
either way we’d be lost without number
three
artificial intelligence I’m sorry Dave I
don’t have enough information never is
sci-fi more potently important as a
genre that when it makes us question our
own consciousness by asking questions
like what does it mean to be alive I’ve
seen things you people wouldn’t believe
it accomplishes this by portraying
computers and robots that have become
capable of thought our mind is growing
it’s true we could have limited
ourselves to just evil robots for this
entry but that would ignore many
different aspects of artificial
intelligence across massive spectrum
films we’ve been afraid of them we’ve
laughed with them
we’ve even fallen in love with them I
know know why you cry
but it’s something I can never do number
two technobabble using an SSL to
encryption 128 family to technobabble
please let’s face it people it’s called
science fiction for a reason we can’t
count how many times we’ve heard our
favorite characters talking about
dilithium crystals Scotty you promised
me an estimate on the dilithium crystals
or flux capacitors this is what makes
time travel possible flux capacitor or
AI cores or hyperspace drives this is
often done to show how fancy some
futuristic technology is or to explain
why the impossible in reality is
possible in the movie it exists now only
as part of a neural interactive
simulation that we call the matrix
whether the mystical technology is real
or not we don’t really care because the
movies couldn’t be possible without it
whatever it is to plan a half major an
evolving philosophy what is the
molecular formula human and stuff like
crystals before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions Wow
what is happening you are just beating
his calm down
my daughter will teach you our ways
learn well Jake su Lee
instead early try to realize the truth
what truth there is no spoon
number one human existence is threatened
as long as the matrix exists the human
race will never be free before we can
worry about anything else we have to
worry about the very survival of the
human race
maybe the human race deserves to be
wiped out this is a theme that is
dominated a huge array of science
fiction mostly because the human race
could be threatened by anything from
aliens to a mysterious virus to even
killer robots not a man
mushy terminator the genre allows for
this idea to be realized in a marvelous
fashion and has become nearly synonymous
with the jar of science fiction in
general which is why it’s at the top of
our list a human race is going to be
adrift do you agree with our list yes
sure which sci-fi movie cliches did we
miss it wasn’t the right time for us to
meet but there’ll be other nights are
there stars for us to watch
that will be back for more intergalactic
top 10s published every day please
subscribe to watchmojo.com it’s better
for me better for you it’s better for
them
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