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
- Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesRare60points
- Terminator GenisysRare60points
- Terminator SalvationRare60points
- Terminator: Dark FateRare60points
- The 5th WaveRare60points
- The 6th DayRare60points
- The AbyssRare60points
- The Adam ProjectRare60points
- The Adjustment BureauRare60points
- The Amazing Spider-ManRare60points
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2Rare60points
- The Andromeda StrainRare60points
- The AnimatrixRare60points
- The BlobRare60points
- The Butterfly EffectRare60points
- The Chronicles of RiddickRare60points
- The CircleRare60points
- The Cloverfield ParadoxRare60points
- The CoreRare60points
- The CreatorRare60points
- The Dark TowerRare60points
- The Day After TomorrowRare60points
- The Day the Earth Stood StillRare60points
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)Rare60points
- The Divergent Series: AllegiantRare60points
- The Divergent Series: InsurgentRare60points
- The Dog StarsRare60points
- The Electric StateRare60points
- The Emoji MovieRare60points
- The FacultyRare60points
- The Fantastic Four: First StepsRare60points
- The First PurgeRare60points
- The FlashRare60points
- The FlyRare60points
- The FountainRare60points
- The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeRare60points
- The GiverRare60points
- The GorgeRare60points
- The HappeningRare60points
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyRare60points
- The HostRare60points
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1Rare60points
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2Rare60points
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & SnakesRare60points
- The Incredible HulkRare60points
- The Incredible Shrinking ManRare60points
- The InvasionRare60points
- The Invisible ManRare60points
- The Iron GiantRare60points
- The IslandRare60points
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.