2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Science fiction · Stanley Kubrick · 2h 29m
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
- Strongly epic
- Strongly complicated
- Strongly slow
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Dune
87% alike
2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
- Strongly epic
- Strongly fantastic
- Strongly complicated
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Blade Runner 2049
87% alike
2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
- Strongly fantastic
- Clearly epic
- Clearly slow
- Clearly complicated
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Arrival
81% alike
2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
- Strongly complicated
- Clearly fantastic
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