We took a trip through decades of the genre and came up with a list of the most important and best hard science fiction movies of all time. They are the essence and the foundations of the book of sci-fi rules that’s still being written as we, the audience, become much more self-aware of our relationship with technology, the future, and whatever those two will bring.
What basis do you anchor manufactured animals and people on? Blade Runner is number 1. Replicants aren’t clones, or robots. They’re something else entirely.
Really there are several movies on this list I wouldn’t call hard SciFi.