The Best SciFi Movie From Every Year in the 1980s
News Source : Mental Floss
News Summary
- Sci-fi in the 1980s was something of an "Auteur Blockbuster" era.
- James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and Paul Verhoeven often used big studio budgets to explore cynical and anti-authoritarian themes.
- This was also the golden age of practical effects, before CGI became the go-to for most movies.
- From the reaches of a galaxy far, far away to the dystopian streets of Detroit, these are the best the science fiction genre had to offer in the 80s.
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