Science fiction films from the 21st century tend to be a favorite among movie enthusiasts. The publication Collider recently highlighted a few acclaimed and beloved science fiction films, with a list of “the 6 best sci-fi movies released since 2000.”
The ranking, published on August 29, included science fiction films like 2014’s Ex Machina, Dune: Part Two from 2024, and 2010’s Inception. The James Cameron-directed and written film, Avatar, released in 2009, took home the title of the “best sci-fi movie released since 2000.” Collider pointed to the impact of the Oscar-nominated film’s visual effects in Pandora as a reason the movie deserved the ranking’s top spot.
Avatar holds a score of 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, its sequels, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), have the respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 76 percent and 66 percent.
James Cameron Shared Behind-the-Scenes Information About the Making of ‘Avatar’
In a 2010 interview with Discovery, Cameron explained that the idea for Avatar came out of his desire to make a CGI-heavy film to help propel the visual effects company, Digital Domain, which he “was the CEO of at the time.” He said that he and the company’s co-founder, Stan Winston, had started Digital Domain “to do great CG [computer-generated] characters and creatures” in films.
Cameron also said he began penning the script for Avatar in 1995. However, he benched the project for 10 years because he and Winston soon realized there needed to be other films made that would “improve the CG” so Avatar could be exactly what he envisioned.
“Avatar couldn’t be that project because if we tried it, we wouldn’t be able to complete within the cycle of a single movie all of the stuff that we needed to do. There needed to be movies in between,” explained the filmmaker.
He then said that he eventually showed the Avatar script to Jon Landau, who produced his film Titanic (1997), in 2005. According to Cameron, Landau encouraged him to start working on the project.
“We started a process which ultimately took about two years, a little over two years, of in parallel designing everything, every creature, every plant, every tree, the floating mountains, the whole nine yards,” said Cameron. “And in parallel designing, our process for doing the performance capture now, interestingly, I didn’t have to create the 3D camera ’cause we were ready on that. We were good to go. The fusion camera was ready.”
He clarified that filming for Avatar didn’t start until 2007.
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