Science-fiction movies are often doomed to be forgotten—and given that most of them are cheap, half-assed cash grabs, that’s probably for the best. But when sci-fi is good, no other genre can match it—as evidenced by the lineup of enduring classics at OMSI’s Sci-Fi Film Festival.
OMSI’s fest boasts plenty of fun sci-fi adventures—John Carpenter’s They Live, Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop and Total Recall, the 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8—alongside a couple that haven’t aged as well, like David Lynch’s yawn-inducing Dune and that ’70s show that is Logan’s Run. But your best bets are the films that will shine on OMSI’s massive, 61-foot-by-40-foot screen—especially given that this year, OMSI’s picks are all screening from digital DCP files, which should make the films look and sound phenomenal.
