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I think 'what makes a good sci-fi movie' is a provocative combination of story and style. When you're writing/designing future style you get to invent stuff, break rules, imagine all sorts of future scenarios that have some resonance with how we live today and the choices we will have to make as we move forward. What might it be like to confront some issue or problem as a planet? How as a film-maker do you present the unimaginable or the never-before-seen?
Those facets are perhaps unique to sci-fi, but you still have to pay attention to the basic foundations of making a good movie (sci-fi or not). Good writing, acting, plot-lines, dramatic devices. Making the audience have a stake in an outcome and caring. Any decent film has to be more than just eye-candy or it's just a 2 hour music video --- which is not necessarily unpleasant, but not much of a film.