Recorded answers
4,153 recorded answers
How to approach it
Recommendation instinct needs reversing here. Rather than reaching for the celebrated titles everyone knows, assemble a private list of the strange, the cheap and the barely reviewed: late-night television films, imported genre pictures, animated oddities, unwanted sequels, anything glimpsed on a streaming shelf at three in the morning. Check each candidate against the two hard conditions before committing, since a thin vote count or a genre field lacking the tag makes a title worthless however futuristic it feels. Then rank the survivors by how unlikely another player is to name them, and spend the answer on the oddest title you can defend as genuinely eligible.
Get a hint
Bear in mind that a database label, not reputation, defines this category, so the pool holds hundreds of films nobody would bring up in an ordinary conversation.
A little more
Steer toward the edges of the catalogue: low-budget productions, regional cinema, animated features, straight-to-video entries and old black-and-white titles sit under the same tag as the blockbusters.
One step further
Once a candidate comes to mind, confirm that its vote count genuinely passes four figures and that the genre field lists the science-fiction tag explicitly, since a title that merely feels futuristic but is filed elsewhere earns nothing.
Reveal answers 4,153
- Minnal MuraliDeep Cut85points
- Minor PremiseDeep Cut85points
- MinotaurDeep Cut85points
- MinutemenDeep Cut85points
- MiraDeep Cut85points
- MirageDeep Cut85points
- Missile to the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Mission Galactica: The Cylon AttackDeep Cut85points
- Mission StardustDeep Cut85points
- Mission to MarsDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91Deep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam IDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of SorrowDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in SpaceDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FreedomDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's CounterattackDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam: HathawayDeep Cut85points
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Blue-Eyed CasvalDeep Cut85points
- Moda Kavida VaatavaranaDeep Cut85points
- Modern ProblemsDeep Cut85points
- MoebiusDeep Cut85points
- Molli and Max in the FutureDeep Cut85points
- MollyDeep Cut85points
- Mom and Dad Save the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Mondays: See You 'This' Week!Deep Cut85points
- Mondo HollywoodlandDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian Death WormDeep Cut85points
- Monkey BusinessDeep Cut85points
- Monkey ShinesDeep Cut85points
- MonolithDeep Cut85points
- Monolith (1993)Deep Cut85points
- Monster (2008)Deep Cut85points
- Monster a Go-GoDeep Cut85points
- Monster ArkDeep Cut85points
- Monster Family 2Deep Cut85points
- Monster from Green HellDeep Cut85points
- Monster from the Ocean FloorDeep Cut85points
- Monster in the ClosetDeep Cut85points
- Monster IslandDeep Cut85points
- Monster on the CampusDeep Cut85points
- Monster TrucksDeep Cut85points
- Monsters of CaliforniaDeep Cut85points
- Monsters of ManDeep Cut85points
- Monsters: Dark ContinentDeep Cut85points
- MonstroidDeep Cut85points
- MonstrosityDeep Cut85points
- Moon 44Deep Cut85points
- Moon ChildDeep Cut85points
- Moon ManDeep Cut85points
- Moon Zero TwoDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The recorded pool ran to 4,118 titles, and the shape of the scoring is the lesson. A single answer reached 100 points, 3,440 sat at 85 and 547 stopped at 60, with only 130 slipping below the line, so the gap between a good result and a mediocre one was almost never validity; it was distance from the crowd's first thoughts. Titles such as Woman in the Moon (100), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) (85), 2-Headed Shark Attack (85), *Batteries Not Included (85) and A Boy and His Dog (85) all live in the high band, and what they share is a refusal to be obvious: a silent space voyage, a remade Victorian adventure, a creature feature, a family comedy about hardware, a post-apocalyptic road movie. Franchise entries are legal but crowded, so they settle lower. Rarity, not fame, is what the leaderboard paid for.