The question of the greatest and best technology movies ever will bring a lot of controversies. Nevertheless, there are some movies that one cannot have them off any good list. Let’s face it, Movies such as I Robot, Gravity, Transformers, and Avengers are movies we can’t forget in a hurry. More than these, however, there are other movies that are simple and extremely great.
Importantly, while the budget and what it has earned at the box office as well as awards won will be considered, they are not the only reasons why these movies are selected as the very best. They are movies that have created scientific challenges and have solved them, while still entertaining us.
Here are our best technology movies ever made:
1. Avatar (2009)
Interestingly enough, this is not only one of the movies that have had a lot of money thrown on it during the production, which was put at $237 million, it is one of the best technology movies ever made. That is not only because it has generated 2.788 billion USD at the box office, but also because everything about it was completely out of the box. I mean literally! With that income, it has been said to be the first movie ever to go above 2 billion dollars.
This movie has been praised and would be praised for a very long time as one of the very best technology movies to have been produced. The epic movie revolves around an attempt by humans after the resources of the earth had finished by 2154, to invade aliens and find a way of getting natural resources from there.
In terms of awards and recognition, it was named by the Time’s as one of its best 10 movies of the Millennium (Thus Far) More so, it has won 3 Academy Awards of the 9 that it was nominated for, 2 Golden Globes after it was nominated for 4, and many others including a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
2. Matrix (1999)
The virtual reality is a prison which locks you and the programs or machines feed on your body’s heat and electrochemical energy. That is the story Matrix tells. It goes on to tell about a computer hacker portrayed by Keanu Reeves finds himself at the center of this virtual reality, matrix, which is ready to destroy any human rebellion.
This movie brought something completely different to sci-fi, something that was completely unimaginable. It had a budget of $63 million and it has turned in $463.5 million at the box office. It has won many awards including four Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Saturn Awards.
3. Iron Man (2008)
A young man who inherits a large fortune from his parents who were killed in a car crash, found himself on the wrong side of the Afgan war, which left him almost killed. He survives and decides to develop the Iron Man suit to help him. One of his workers, however, has his eyes on the suit for his own reasons.
With an earning of 585.2 million USD, this movie had 140 million USD thrown in as budget. The superhero movie has 2 Saturn Awards, an MTV Movie Awards, and many other nominations.
4. Inception (2010)
10 is the number of years Christopher Nolan spent in writing the Inception. The idea behind this movie that is top among my personal best technology movies is that through a technology, people could get into the subconsciousness of others and influence their decisions. The problem is one, however; you could get lost there.
With sheer intelligence and great acting, this neo-noir science fiction movie requires you to pay great attention to details and that may be the singular downside about it. it has recorded 4 Academy Awards on its shelf and 3 British Academy Film Awards. It also went home with a Bradbury Award as well as a HUGO awards.
From a $160 million budget, it brought in $828.3 million at the box office.
5. The Social Network (2010)
Social network fictionalizes the story of the biggest social networking site, Facebook. The movie has it that a young Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, starts Facebook, however, he gets embroiled in a legal battle against two brothers who would claim the idea for the site was theirs.
From the 8 nominations it got at the Academy Awards, it won 3, as well as 4 awards during the 68th Golden Globe Awards. A movie on $40 million budget, it recorded a $224.9 million at the Box office.
6. TRON (1982)
A computer engineer finds himself in the digital work after trying to hack into the system following a discovery that his work has been stolen. This movie is considered a pioneer in computer animation.
Inasmuch as this is a very old movie, it has achieved a lot considering the fact that it made use of some advanced technology beyond its time. There is now another movie, Tron Legacy, which ended up as a flop.
The movie had a 17 million budget and it came out with $33 million at the Box office. It holds the Guinness Record for being the first movie to Use of Computer-Generated Animation. Also, it won an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films awards while recording Acadamy and Oscars awards nominations.
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7. Minority Report (2002)
By 2054, the precrime department of the police would be able to arrest people even before they have the opportunity to commit the crimes they would be arrested for. This would be through the prediction of three psychics who are never wrong. They would predict that a member of the department would kill a man. This would turn him into a fugitive as he would seek to uncover what exactly was happening.
This Sci-Fi movie had a budget of $102 million and a box office performance of $358.4 million. With eleven Saturn Award nominations, it won 3, among other awards.
8. District 9 (2009)
It was in 1982 that aliens called The Prawns were found in a massive starship in Johannesburg, South Africa. They came in search of refuge and were given a ghetto called District 9. Many years later, in 2010, things would change so much.
District 9 which is definitely one of the best technology movies had a budget of $30 million and it made $210 million at the box office, and the science fiction movie has won the Bradbury Award as well as four Academy Awards nominations, even British Academy Film Awards nominations, and five Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations.
