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
- Sorry to Bother YouRare60points
- Source CodeRare60points
- Soylent GreenRare60points
- Space JamRare60points
- Space Jam: A New LegacyRare60points
- SpaceballsRare60points
- SpeciesRare60points
- Speed RacerRare60points
- SphereRare60points
- Spider-Man 2Rare60points
- Spider-Man 3Rare60points
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseRare60points
- Spider-Man: Far from HomeRare60points
- Spider-Man: HomecomingRare60points
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseRare60points
- SpliceRare60points
- Spy KidsRare60points
- Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost DreamsRare60points
- StalkerRare60points
- Star Trek BeyondRare60points
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanRare60points
- Star Trek III: The Search for SpockRare60points
- Star Trek Into DarknessRare60points
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeRare60points
- Star Trek V: The Final FrontierRare60points
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryRare60points
- Star Trek: First ContactRare60points
- Star Trek: GenerationsRare60points
- Star Trek: InsurrectionRare60points
- Star Trek: NemesisRare60points
- Star Trek: The Motion PictureRare60points
- Star Wars: The Clone WarsRare60points
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian and GroguRare60points
- StargateRare60points
- StarmanRare60points
- Strange DaysRare60points
- Suicide SquadRare60points
- SunshineRare60points
- Super 8Rare60points
- SupergirlRare60points
- Superhero MovieRare60points
- Superman (1978)Rare60points
- Superman IIRare60points
- Superman IIIRare60points
- Superman IV: The Quest for PeaceRare60points
- Superman ReturnsRare60points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesRare60points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)Rare60points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemRare60points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the ShadowsRare60points
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.