Wow, thank you for this!
That is an awesome summary. One nitpick: you have The Shape of Water getting one vote, twice. It should be on the “two votes” list.
I am going to leave any Marvel/superhero movies off my list because I am a big fan and my list would probably be just them.
District 9
Interstellar
Limitless
Mad Max: Fury Road
Pitch Black
Star Trek(2009)
Terminator Genysis
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Wall-E
War of The Worlds (2005)
If I did NOT mention a movie it probably because I have NOT seen it yet. (And this thread reminds me of about a dozen movies I should probably check out.)
Updated list
The top ten
Arrival - 13 votes
Edge of Tomorrow - 10 votes
The Martian - 8 votes
Children of Men - 7 votes
Dune - 7 votes
Everything Everywhere All At Once - 6 votes
Inception - 6 votes
Mad Max: Fury Road - 6 votes
Ex Machina - 5 votes
Gravity - 5 votes
Four votes each
Blade Runner 2049
District 9
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Her
Interstellar
Looper
Moon
The Prestige
Three votes each
Avatar
Get Out
The Incredibles
Minority Report
Predestination
Primer
Rogue One
Serenity
WALL-E
War of the Worlds
Two votes each
Cloverfield
Dredd
Hellboy
Knowing
A Quiet Place
A Scanner Darkly
The Shape of Water
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Under the Skin
Terminator Genysis
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
One vote each
The Adjustment Bureau
Alienoid
Appleseed
After Yang
Asteroid City
Attack The Block
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
Battle: Los Angeles
Big Hero 6
Bird Box
Border
Chronicle
Coherence
Computer Chess
The Congress
Day Watch
Europa Report
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Immortel
Iron Man
Let the Right One in
Limitless
Logan
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Matrix Reloaded
Midnight Special
The Mist
Nope
Outlander
Paul
Pitch Black
Possessor
Prey
Ready Player One
Real Steel
Returner
Safety Not Guaranteed
Sean of the Dead
Settlers
Shin Godzilla
Star Trek
Sunshine
Super-8
Surrogates
10 Cloverfield Lane
Tron Legacy
Upgrade
V for Vendetta
Vanilla Sky
Watchmen
The World’s End
Good picks except Let the Right One in (2008) which is a horror film, not SF.
I feel the OP made it clear we were using a loose definition of what constitutes science fiction.
In no order at all:
Gravity
Interstellar
District 9
Moon
The Martian
Primer
Looper
Children of Men
Edge of Tomorrow
Mad Max: Fury Road
What the heck, I’ll add the Ghostbusters remake (the one with the female cast) to my list, since I have room. No, it wasn’t as funny as the original, and no, it certainly wasn’t the same. But I thought that, overall, it was a better movie (better characterization, better plot, etc.).
Dune
Prey
The Creator - (just saw this so it may be recency bias but I really enjoyed it)
the Planet of the Apes trilogy (Rise, Dawn, War)
Edge of Tomorrow
The Martian
Arrival
Pitch Black
Alita: Battle Angel
Mad Max: Fury Road
Gravity
Blade Runner 2049
Serenity
Moon
The Martian
Guardians of the Galaxy
PREY
Iron Man
Edge of Tomorrow
Mad Max: Fury Road
What in The Prestige is science fictiony?
Hey, I’ll watch any movie where I get to see Tom Cruise killed 26 times.
The Tesla device used by Angier.
Thanks for the info. Haven’t watched this movie since it first came out.
In no particular order…
Minority Report
Wall-E
Ex Machina
Edge of Tomorrow
Blade Runner 2049
Moon
Inception
The Prestige (does this count?)
Arrival
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (also not sure if counts)
The Martian
Oops that’s 11!
Since I’ve included a couple of films that are debatable as far their ‘science-fictionish’ is concerned, I thought I would add a couple more here that I personally wouldn’t include as sci fi but have seen mentioned above. The Incredibles, which is one of my favourites full stop, and Spiderman into the Spiderverse (I haven’t seen the sequel).