All of this Large Hadron Collider craziness (particle accelerator, big bang, proton beams - woah!!!!) has me thinking fantastical science thoughts and with that about my favorite science movies.   I’ve thinking about it so much that I made a Top 10 list!

I’m sure I missed a bunch though - be sure to let me know your favorite science movie.

10. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: This movie was always a childhood dream of mine, imagine the adventure of being so small - I could use some pf that adventure now.   Plus, Rick Moranis is maybe the most awesome, dorky scientist ever.

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9. Spiderman - I figured I should include at least one superhero movie and even though the X-Men are my fav, I think Spiderman is most science heavy of the bunch.

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8. Wet Hot American Summer - David Hyde Pierce is easily one of my all time favortie scientists.   The scene at the end with the nerdy kids makes me laugh harder each time I see it  Also the scene below makes me smile, 1) because it’s funny and 2) I embody that same social awkardness.

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7. The Day The Earth Stood Still - Maybe not the most science heavy but it deals with progress and space, two themes of a lot of science friendly films. Plus, there is a remake coming out and I thought the original could use some props.

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6. Notorious

Scientists, Nazis and Evil Mothers! Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant! Alfred Hitchock! Need I say more?

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5. Dead Ringers

Jeremy Irons plays identical twin gynocologists with a few problems, including that one of them finds what he thinks is a mutant woman (on the inside).   It’s by David Cronenberg, a master of science films, and even though this isn’t one of his more science heavy pieces, it’s my favorite.

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4. The Invisible Man

Another Claude Rains classic, this beats Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man hands down (although I do love Paul Verhoeven). A scientist gone mad, a scientist invisible - could it get any better?

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3. An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore took a subject that needed some attention and turned it into a pure science movie.   There’s no plot, just science and it’s AWESOME (not the global warming, but the movie)

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2. Jurassic Park

I may not be a Spielberg fan, but I am a huge dinosaur fan.   Another movie whose science I wish could come true (minus the eating us parts).

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1. 2001 A Space Odyssey

The ultimate look at man, science, progress, humanity etc.. It’s all here, and it’s all beautiful.

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