10 Pre-Star Wars Sci-Fi Movies That Are Still Worth Watching

"Science fiction has had a long, storied history in cinema. The 1940s and 1950s were overcrowded with cheesy b-movies designed to freak out teenagers at drive-ins. These days, science fiction films are more frequently celebrated, thanks to better technology and film-makers being allowed to tell the kinds of stories they want to tell. One can very easily separate the genre into two time periods - before and after Star Wars. George Lucas' masterpiece was not just a revolution for the genre, but for cinema as a whole. It took over pop culture and people couldn't get enough of it. As a movie, it employed state of the art special effects that sold the audience on a truly fantastic world. After watching Star Wars, most fantasy and sci-fi from before just didn't look as good anymore. We say most because a lot of films from before 1977 still do hold up."