15 Most Visually Stunning Sci-Fi Movies

8. Fury Road

Gravity sci-fi movie
Warner Bros.

Babe director (yes, really) George Miller is no stranger to framing a stunning sci-fi story.

After all, a cursory glance at the first Mad Max offers a stunning view of verdant locales suddenly encroached on by brutal, but effectively realized, bursts of violence. Meanwhile, the film’s first sequel treats us to a dusty, orange-tinged post-apocalyptic landscape which is so well-realized, it’s still being ripped off by filmmakers to this day.

But the hyper-contrasted settings of Fury Road take the stylized approach up to eleven and offer some of the director’s most stunning vistas yet, with the burnished metals glinting in blinding sun as the characters kick up sandstorms in the expansive desert. Water looks like life itself when it pours free come the film’s close, resulting in an ecological message viewers are more likely to feel in their bones than roll their eyes at.

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