Though it didn’t make our list of the best sci-fi movies of all time , there is a contingent of people who consider Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, Stalker , to be one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. Now, I understand why it didn’t make our list. Because Stalker , which came out in 1979 during the Soviet Union, doesn’t contain any cool opening moments like Terminator 2: Judgment Day , nor does it have characters swinging around lightsabers like in the Star Wars movies .
Instead, it's a deeply philosophical movie that is devoid of any bells and whistles or flourishes, and...
I kind of love it for that reason. Here’s why. Stalker Is A Sci-Fi Movie By Ideas Alone I’m going to be honest with you.
Stalker is one of the strangest sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen, and mostly because I wouldn’t even consider it to be a sci-fi movie at all. I mean, it definitely is, as the plot concerns three men journeying into a mysterious place called “the Zone,” with the attempts of entering a room where all of their desires could come true. But.
..everything else about the movie (besides the fascinating ending) doesn’t really feel sci-fi at all.
For example, the Zone itself, which colorizes this initially sepia-toned film, isn’t really impressive in the slightest. In fact, it looks like a nuclear waste site (And partially was, which is possibly why the director, his wife, and some cast members died untimely deaths not too long after filming this movie). The three main characte.