{"id":148736,"date":"2022-10-23T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/5-science-fiction-movies-that-actually-have-science-fiction-in-them"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:22:47","slug":"5-science-fiction-movies-that-actually-have-science-fiction-in-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/5-science-fiction-movies-that-actually-have-science-fiction-in-them","title":{"rendered":"5 Science Fiction Movies That Actually Have Science Fiction in Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QVKoCD9uRxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many modern science fiction movies tend to use the veneer of science fiction as a way to plug potholes or feature elaborate explosions and action. There\u2019s always a time-travel portal to stand in as the deus ex machina, and some advanced robot or alien who only seems interested in killing everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I like those movies as much as the next fella. But some filmmakers do make a sincere effort to imagine other realities and technologies that inspire in the way classic science fiction does. It doesn\u2019t mean the films have to be the on-screen equivalent of reading an MIT paper on quantum entanglement or something, just that they spin a decent yarn inspired by actual science.<\/p>\n<p>The below are a few slightly less commercial selections, instead of obvious choices like <em>Interstellar<\/em> or <em>2001<\/em> or <em>Chef<\/em>, that science fiction movie where Jon Favreau dates both Scarlett Johnasson and Sofia Vergara. That\u2019s the future I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many modern science fiction movies tend to use the veneer of science fiction as a way to plug potholes or feature elaborate explosions and action. There\u2019s always a time-travel portal to stand in as the deus ex machina, and some advanced robot or alien who only seems interested in killing everyone. I like those movies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}