Ha, crossed comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9128083) I too was thinking about dark scifi movies of this era[1], am very very often questioning how subjective this is, but some things do stand the test of time and these don't fade.
[1] something I can't find anymore in nowadays movies.
Many of the sci-fi action films that have persisted are about ideas, and this elevates them far about the sort of films that pass for most science fiction these days. Just like in twenty years people will watch Inception and Pan's Labyrinth and everything Michael Bay has done will be wiped clean from memory.
Inception will be remembered in part because it's overrated. (Birdman does better incidentally what Inception tries to do.) Pan's Labyrinth will be remembered for its style. Michael Bay will be remembered as an example of the excesses of technologists in art.
[1] something I can't find anymore in nowadays movies.