The best sci-fi movies of the decade
1.'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2014)
There isn't a list of the best of the decade that 'Mad Max: Fury Road' isn't on. In the great pages of culture and entertainment you can find the fourth part of the saga that changed post-apocalyptic cinema in the first place in many of them. There is so much conviction and coincidences that there is no doubt. George Miller's film messed us up on the movie screen and we haven't recovered from that one. The feeling that he left was that after that, no action movie was going to be up to the task.
The cinema had to be closed. The passing of the years has left many good fantastic films, many closures of trilogies and shared universes. But no, nothing has hit us like the two-hour roundtrip race with tuned cars and kamikazes with spray in their mouths looking for Valhalla. We left the cinema full of adrenaline, thinking "What a day! What a beautiful day!" and since then, none have come to surpass it.
2.'Avengers: Infinity War' (2018)
It can be debated in an open and healthy way if 'Infinity War' is the best movie of the UCM, or not, but it is beyond doubt that the masterpiece of Marvel Studios is also the maximum standard-bearer of Science Fiction on the big screen of the decade. What's more, it has been praised as 'The Empire Strikes Back' of our generation. Big words.
Not all the merit lies in its 149 minutes - which fly by - but in the way ten years of individual and intertwined stories converge in an authentic carousel of emotions, special effects, technology that borders on fantasy and battles that take place. on different planets. With Tony Stark at the helm, no less. Pure Sci Fi, yes, but also pure spectacle.
The Russo Brothers knew how to pick up the baton from the Marvel studios and elevate the whole to all levels, blowing the minds of millions of viewers worldwide and turning Thanos and his infamous cosmic snap into a timeless icon that is no longer known. often see in modern feature films. Of those that happen once a year and with luck. But, above all, it is a production that manages to expand the very limits of science fiction in such a natural way -and without giving up explosiveness- that it becomes enjoyable for all audiences. Taking with itself the impact and depth reserved for other space operas and ambitious plots with artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopias or robotics of a whole decade. Even that of 'Avengers: Endgame', its own sequel.
3.'Star Wars - The Force Awakens' (2015)
Regardless of whether you are a fan of the 'Star Wars' saga or not, you will not be able to deny that the first of the latest trilogy of the most famous film saga in cinema history is one of the premieres / events of the decade. Also, J.J. Abrams, a declared admirer of the adventures of Luke, Leia, Han and company, made the film that he (and the millions of fans around the world) wanted to see: telling practically the same story, but in another time, with new characters. and returning to the usual ones (and who are almost like family).
But with 'The Force Awakens', Abrams gave us much more, something that I corroborated when I went to see 'The Rise of Skywalker' and met a 12-year-old girl dressed as Rey, the new heroine of 'Star Wars': a female character totally removed from stereotypes and at the height of becoming a reference for many girls and boys.
