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    Sci-Fi Movies (1940-2024)

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    1. underlander on

      what’s with all the cutouts of random people on here? It’s hard to actually read the chart

    2. DesolationRobot on

      I assume the 10k vote threshold is to limit it to “how many sci fi films (that matter) were released every year.”

      But with IMDb being younger than most of this timeline, there’s a bias present just in votes. The older movie you are, the more popular you have to be just to get the vote threshold.

    3. thetreecycle on

      if we’re going to specify sci fi movies released, this only really has meaning if we compare to total movies released. Perhaps sci fi as a percentage of all movies?

      Then for rating, consider that IMDb as a web site is much younger than many of the movies it rates. Perhaps there’s some survivorship bias in that the old sci-fi’s people watch would be the good ones that friends recommend instead of just what the movie theaters are promoting.

    4. rogert2 on

      It’s good that you mentioned you used “AI” in this, but now I question the validity of all the data. Maybe _some_ of this data is accurate, but who knows? Better to not read it and fill my head with dubious information, because Future Me won’t know which datapoints were solid and which were LLM slop.

    5. pm-ing_you_bacteria on

      What about controlling for the number of movies made per year? I assume every genre would have a similar graph because the number of movies per year has increased.

    9. StickFigureFan on

      Not starting your graph at 0, only including movies with 10,000 votes, etc. This data is not beautiful

    10. gturk1 on

      I know 2001 is a classic (that’s the peak in 2nd chart) , but Arrival is my favorite SF film.

    11. opponweb on

      Survivorship bias meets IMDb’s timeline—old sci-fi classics beat modern blockbusters on paper, but we forgot the 90% of space junk that flopped!

    13. goodsam2 on

      I think some of the recent surge is falling CGI prices and more international films as most bigger movies want to appeal to everyone and Sci-fi can do this organically.

    14. CSWorldChamp on

      I get that there is some crossover, but referring to MCU movies as “sci-fi” is kind of a reach, no?