The ever-increasing ambition and intelligence of man is the theme reflected through superb visual effects for this 30-year-old film. Kubrick's vivid imagination incorporated with Arthur C. Clarke's analytical perspectives made it possible for the realistic quality of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and showed the real possibility of man reaching the moon in 1969. No question that this is one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever made.

Director Ron Howard, who proved himself with big movie productions like Far and Away and Cocoon, turned this non-fictional story by Apollo 13 Captain Jim Lovell into a great dramatic vision. Starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon and Ed Harris, it shows the relationships between men under threatening circumstances.

This imaginative silent movie can be considered the genesis of all Sci-fi flicks. It depicts a futuristic human society where the upper class people act as the brain while the lower classes are its limbs, and where people yearn for freedom. The core message that makes this film a classic is that the brain and limbs cannot work without a heart. Fritz Lang's Metropolis is the father of many later Sci-fi films such as Blade Runner.