2010-2019: A decade of science fiction cinema, part 3 of 3

The Franchises

In the last two parts, we discussed my top 50 science fiction films of the decade… except I got a bit stuck on the franchises. So I left out any films which were part of a film series with two or more entries this decade.
In this post, we’ll walk through all those franchises for which at least some entries were seriously considered for a best-of-decade list.
And so we will talk at length about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not discuss the DC analogue.
No particular order.

The Franchises

2010-2019: A decade of science fiction cinema, part 2 of 3

2015-2019

We consider the best science fiction of the last half of the decade. Find a discussion of the films from the first half of the decade here. The third installment will talk about the decade’s franchises.

If I’ve done my math right, we discussed 25 films in the last installment, so we’ll talk about another 25 here, to make an even 50.

Chronological order.

2010-2019: A decade of science fiction cinema, part 1 of 3

2010-2014

In 3 parts, I will talk about some of the best science fiction movies of the 2010s. The first part will focus on films from 2010-2014, presented in chronological order. The second part will concern 2015-2019. These two parts will skip most franchise films, any film series with 2 or more entries in the current decade. We will talk though several science fiction film franchises in a 3rd part.

For a few films, we’ll also discuss some precursors within older science fiction cinema for the ideas on display.

Warning that light spoilers may follow, as the essential sci/fi premise of many of these films is sometimes a twist or late-movie revelation.