Best 21st century sci-fi movies? Not quite, Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone magazine did an okay job with their top 20 sci-fi movies of the 21^st century list. (Let’s just keep calm, ignore the fact that the 21^st century has only had 15 years in it so far, and carry on.)

There’s one obvious thing about the movies that I have to nitpick right off, and it comes in one word:

Monsters.

See, to me, monsters aren’t sci-fi; they are fantasy.  Because they are hands-down impossible and/or stupid.  And, therefore, have no business in a sci-fi list.  Move them to some list that includes ghosts, wizards and hobbits.  That means that certain movies should be removed from this list.  The biggest offenders are:

• The Host
• Cloverfield
• Monsters (duh)
• Reign of Fire (a close one, admittedly; but since it’s based on the idea that dragons have always existed, and just recently awoke from hibernation—and no archeologist has yet to find a sleeping dragon or the species’ fossils—I am forced to add this to the fantasy monster list.)

Which leaves us a list of 16 movies.  Which is good, because I know just which movies were omitted from the Rolling Stone list that I would add to create a well-rounded 20 monster-free sci-fi movies.