Over the years, science fiction has grown to mean so many things.

It brought new life to long-faded franchise and has gotten a whole new generation invested in this world.

‘E.T.

Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Movies

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The Extraterrestrial’ (1982)

A classic story about a boy and his…alien?E.T.

Through their adventure, they grow to love one another and must protect each other at all costs.

It’s a beautiful story about friendship and family and what it means to be accepted and loved.

The mothership hovers above Devils Tower in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’.

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And in some cases, rightly so.

They determine quickly that these hallucinations are coming from the planet itself.

And the love story between him and EVE is just wonderful.

A War Boy leaps from car to car in Mad Max: Fury Road

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Luke Skywalker & Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars: A New Hope

A close-up shot of Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore smiling in ‘Her.'

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E.T. with a glowing finger looking straight ahead in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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Kevin McCarthy, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Dana Wynter in a greenhouse looking scared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Solaris 1972

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Wall-E holding a Rubiks cube in the film WALL-E.

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Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone in her space-suit looking at an object offscreen in Gravity

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Maschinenmensch surrounded by light beams in Metropolis

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