What's the Best Sci-Fi Movie of All Time?

You got that one right! Orwell was only off by a few years. You are the only one who chose this prophetic work.

(Sorry to chew your mind off with the following, but I am an avid sci-fi reader. None of it is cut-&-paste.)

However, there is much more to science fiction becoming reality than just the dark side. Jules Vern's schematics of the power plant in his Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" were used (without too much modification, I might add) to produce our first atomic generators of electricity....hence the first atomic powered submarine to be launched in 1953 was named the Nautilus.

Some kids, who watched the 1960's TV series of "Star Trek," grew up to become electronic and computer engineers. Because of that show's influence, we now have cell phones, flat-screen TV's, CAT scans, MRI's, CD's, DVR's, etc., etc, etc. .... and doors that automatically slide open at the grocery store.... and our first space shuttle was named Enterprise in commemoration.

There's so much more. Great science fiction writers have visions of the future that many of us shirk off as impossible...e.g. Jules Vern predicted that by the turn of the 20th century that the streets of Paris would be lit by electric lights. He was ridiculed. H.G. Wells predicted in the early 1930's that atomic fission would first be developed by the military in the form of a destructive explosive device; so he referred to that development and coined the epithet, "Atom Bomb." Space scientists have discovered that if we spend even a short time in less gravity than Earth or the zero gravity of free falling in outer space, all the muscles in our body, including our heart, rapidly deteriorate to the point that we could never return to Earth. (In fact, one Russian astronaut did die upon returning to Earth for this reason.) The science fiction book and movie, "2001 a Space Odyssey," (others, as well) describes in detail how to produce artificial gravity in space.