![]() Some of these were spotted at the time by sharp-eyed fans and critics but many could stand to use a re-introduction today. With the blockbuster/franchise mentality in full effect at the studios, and the gap between smaller and more expensive productions widening all the time, it was easier than ever for a few films to fall between the cracks. Night Shyamalan’s Signs (2002) and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), not to mention the 2009 one-two punch of Neill Blomkamp’s brilliant District 9 and, of course, James Cameron’s towering Avatar, both of which landed in the running for Best Picture that year-a first for the genre to have two films in contention. Other remakes or adaptations, however, like ill-advised reboots of Rollerball and The Time Machine, flopped miserably.Īnd then there were the acclaimed original hits like M. Dick (there might have been no sci-fi filmmaker more consistent at the time than The Beard). Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) was a flawed yet powerful expansion of a Brian Aldiss story while his War of the Worlds (2005) and Minority Report (2002) were outstanding takes on classic tales from H.G. Then there were superhero films, always sort of a cousin to sci-fi, with the X-Men and Spider-Man series both exploding and the Marvel Cinematic Universe making its debut with Iron Man (2008) just as the decade came to a close.īut there were some top-shelf literary adaptations as well. While sci-fi cinema was in theory thriving, that was mainly thanks to the presence of franchises that were, in fact, their own mini-genres (like Star Wars and Star Trek). The 2000s was a strange time for genre filmmaking and especially science fiction. ![]()
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