Internet Best Space Films?

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Hands down, The Right Stuff stomps all others. Its definitely the one movie that I can quote line for line from memory (while giggling like an idiot :lol

#1 - The Right Stuff
#2 - Hubble documentary (the NASA one about the last Shuttle mission to service it);
#3 - Race to Mars (Look it up on Youtube, will blow your mind);
#4 - From the Earth to the Moon, Spider/Apollo 11/Apollo 15 episodes (If they count as a movie);

And you know what? I wont even list Apollo 13 as #5, cause I don't think it was actually that good. Quite frankly, Apollo 13 seems worse and worse as time goes on, while all of the other movies in the list get better. I guess the film just doesn't age well for me :shrug:

I didn't list any Star <Wars/Trek> etc., since I don't they they actually measure up as real "Space Movies", but of that category, I would say:

#1 - Revenge of the Sith
#2 - First Contact
#3 - Return of the Jedi
#4 - The Undiscovered Country
#5 - A New Hope
#6 - Wrath of Khan (I mean really, how could I not mention it?)

And in conclusion, just to convince you that I really am crazy, I have my "Firefly Plan":

// The Firefly Plan ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// In order to avoid MFWS (Massive Firefly Withdrawal Syndrome)
// I will now plan to evenly space my viewings of the remaining Firefly
// episodes and movies. 

2018 - "Shindig"
2023 - "Safe"
2027 - "Our Mrs Reynolds"
2031 - "Jaynestown"
2036 - "Out of Gas"
2040 - "Ariel"
2045 - "War Stories"
2049 - "Trash"
2054 - "The Message"
2058 - "Heart of Gold"
2063 - "Objects in Space"
2067 - "Serenity"

// Projecting from the currently listed
// expected lifespan of a Canadian male, the above schedule of
// viewings should allow for a minimum of Firefly withdrawal,
// given that I will most likely be able to find more significant
// uses of my time in my later years. These lifespan estimates may be on the
// conservative side, given that I dont drink, smoke, am in reasonably
// good physical shape, and dont participate in any excessively dangerous
// activities. However, the error bars on any human lifespan projection
// must be quite large, so the above assessment seems reasonable

// Common symptoms of MFWS include a blank expression, loss of will to live,
// frequent  comparisons/complaints about any show not named Firefly being
// revived, and frequently shaking ones fist at the sky while yelling "FOX!!!"

 

[STS]

Real Spaceflight:

1: From the Earth to the Moon (full series)
2: Apollo 13
3: Moonshot
4: The last flight of the Space Shuttle (4HD doc.)
5: Space race - BBC

Sci-Fi

1: Star wars
2: Star wars Expanded Universe videogames (Starting with Dark Forces)
3: 2010
4: Moon
5: 2001

 

[TMac3000]

#4 - The Undiscovered Country

Argh! How could I have forgotten that one?!:facepalm:Best movie in that series:thumbup:

Also:
The Last Starfighter. Just a great little bubble-gum flick:thumbup:
Pilot of the new(er) Battlestar Galactica
BBC's Voyage to the Planets

 

[DanM]

Spaceballs

 

[Frilock]

I know its not a movie yet, but when the Rama series eventually gets made it'll probably make up 4 of my top 5 list. Might have to extend the list to 15 if it gets made by Peter Jackson. (Rendezvous with Rama Parts I and II, Rama II parts I, II, and III, Garden of Rama parts Ia Ib, IIa and IIb, Rama Revealed Parts Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb)

 

[AstroBeatle]

I've seen all the movies Kyle and Swigert mentioned - all good movies, but Gravity was kinda a disappointment due to some factual errors. But Moon is nice, and 2001 is EPIC. Apollo 13 and the Right Stuff was one of the ones I've seen, and I've seen Contact some time after I knew about Carl Sagan - and I have the book too! And Star Trek: Wrath of Khan was awesome...why didn't anybody mention Star Wars? Hello y'all, the seventh one is coming soon!

 

[Soheil_Esy]

1) Plan 9 from Outer Space (originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space, or simply known as Plan 9), Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1959, United States, 80 minutes

2) 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968, United Kingdom, United States, 142 minutes

3) Gagarin: First in Space, Pavel Parkhomenko, 2013, Russia, 108 minutes

4) China’s First Man in Space (Xiao Gang, Li Dong Jiang, Singapore, 2006, 51mn)

5) Space tourists, Christian Frei, Germany, 2010, 98 minutes

 

[Delta glider]

I only have three, but Star Trek (even a space shuttle was named after this), Apollo 13 and a series that was about the Apollo program that was called, guess what... Apollo!

 

[ky]

Apollo 13, Right Stuff, and Gravity are my favorites, though Gravity was not completely accurate. Then again, it was made to sell.

 

[Anroalh12]

1. Apollo 13
2. Gravity
3. Interstellar
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey
5. Star Wars A New Hope

 

[ex-orbinaut]

All the ones I might have mentioned are already listed except Red Dwarf. It is a comedy series, yeah, and I only watched a couple of the very first seasons before I left the UK, but it was quite funny to me, then. Don't know if it still would be, but it seems it is still going, by the looks of things(?).

 

[Nikogori]

I watched Gagarin first in space in January in Japan. The theater (there were only a few theaters where we could watch this movie) was nearly full and I barely managed to buy the ticket. And I immediately fell in love with it.

If you are interested in people behind one of the greatest manned space mission, I strongly recommend this movie. This is a story of humanity, their passion and love.

Trailer (Japanese edition)
https://youtu.be/Q4xPbsJaPqs

Japanese official website
http://gagarin.jp/

 

[Soheil_Esy]

Radio Free Albemuth (2010)

1) Plan 9 from Outer Space (originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space, or simply known as Plan 9), Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1959, United States, 80 minutes

2) 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968, United Kingdom, United States, 142 minutes

3) Gagarin: First in Space, Pavel Parkhomenko, 2013, Russia, 108 minutes

4) China’s First Man in Space (Xiao Gang, Li Dong Jiang, Singapore, 2006, 51mn)

5) Space tourists, Christian Frei, Germany, 2010, 98 minutes

7 OCT 2016 Update:
This cinematic gem just discovered recently, ranks now at the top in the list, without any doubt, as it surpasses Plan 9 from Outer Space !!

Radio Free Albemuth (2010)

Radio Free Albemuth is a 2010 American film adaptation of the dystopian novel Radio Free Albemuth by author Philip K. Dick, which was written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985. The film is written, directed, and produced by John Alan Simon and stars Jonathan Scarfe and Shea Whigham.

Plot

The story is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont. It makes liberal references to the collected works of Philip K. Dick.

Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) lives modestly with his wife Rachel (Katheryn Winnick) and their infant son. Nick has been experiencing strange visions and dreams. He confides in Rachel and his best friend, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick (Shea Whigham). Nick calls the source of his visions VALIS (Vast Alien Living Intelligence System).

One recurring symbol that he has been seeing is an ichthys. While he and Phil sit at a table, an orbiting satellite shoots a pink laser directly into Nick's head. He rushes his son to the ER, convinced that he has an inguinal hernia. The skeptical doctor is stunned to find that Nick is right. Nick has subsequent visions that tell him that he should relocate to Los Angeles, where he lands a job at a record label.

Philip gets visited by two members of FAP (Friends of the American People). They press him for information about Nick's visions. The female FAP agent returns and try to sleeps with Philip, pretending to be underage, in the hope to coerce him into revealing what Nick is seeing from VALIS. Philip refuses to divulge anything about Nick.

Meanwhile, Nick has a dream where a woman (Alanis Morissette) is singing. During the dream, someone comments that there is something about her singing that seems subversive. Eventually, the woman turns up at Nick's record label, looking for a clerical job. She introduces herself as Sylvia, and Nick just assumes that she is a singer. Sylvia gradually reveals that she also receives visions from VALIS. She explains that there are several thousand people who receive transmissions from the orbiting satellite, and they are very loosely organized as a secret society.

The Russian government sends a space probe to inspect the UNIDENTIFIED satellite, but destroys it by an accidental collision.

Sylvia explains that it will take another 100 years for a replacement satellite to arrive. She writes a song with subliminal lyrics about VALIS. Nick forces The Fisher Kings to record the song, despite their total disinterest in it. When they debut the song at a club, Nick explains to Philip how the subliminal messages are encoded in the recording.

FAP arrest Nick and Philip. They waste little time in executing Nick, as well as Sylvia. The film ends with Philip in prison, writing about Nick's VALIS experience. While he is working in a field one day, some teenagers gawk at the prisoners and laugh. Their boombox is playing Sylvia's subliminal song, and Nick realizes that the secret society found a way to get the song out, despite FAP's best efforts.

Cast

• Katheryn Winnick as Rachel Brady
• Jonathan Scarfe as Nick
• Shea Whigham as Phil
• Alanis Morissette as Sylvia

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 36% of 11 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.4/10. Metacritic rated it 35/100 based on six reviews. Jeanette Catsoulis dismissed the film's "stiff staging and so-so special effects" in The New York Times before concluding, "The excellent Shea Whigham, as a science-fiction writer, is our guide and narrator, but even his gravitas won't keep you from laughing at an extraterrestrial who thinks that hiding subliminal messages in pop songs is the way to start a revolution."[11] Richard Kuipers of Variety called it "an engrossing adaptation" that "operates successfully as a study of enlightenment and a straight-ahead conspiracy thriller". John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Though it echoes A Scanner Darkly in a few pleasing ways, Albemuth is a substantially less satisfying affair, one whose longueurs and (deliberately?) cheesy effects work will alienate all but Dick's hardcore devotees." Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called it "a sluggish, often cheesy sci-fi thriller".

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Katerina Vinitska as Rachel Brady

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Alien satellite in Earth orbit

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Alien satellite in Earth orbit beaming

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Beam hitting human brain:
Note the contradictory angle with the previous space cam view, as the satellite's elevation is nearing 80-90 degrees i.e over the zenith of the human target.
But correct depiction of an orbital targeting, as the elevation of the emmiting satellite must have a low elevation, possibly the nearest to the horizon!

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Katerina Vinitska as Rachel Brady

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Protecting Us

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Katerina Vinitska as Rachel Brady

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Albemuth_(film)

INTERESTING THEMES OF THE MOVIE

• Dystopian world
• Alien mind-control satellite, with daily mind-control session at 3-4 a.m. made of visions and voice hearings
• Alien mind-control satellite destroyed accidentally need time (100 years) to be replaced

 

[JonnyBGoode]

1. Apollo 13 - So accurate, when I was flying it in Orbiter I'm like "I know this switch!" Though after flying it in Orbiter I can point out the errors, as well...
2. The Right Stuff - Great feel-good movie and a great double-feature with Apollo 13. A lot of it took place in the area I grew up in, and I remember all those jets flying overhead, with their sonic booms. Nostalgia. "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey - This movie, along with the Apollo program when I was growing up, made me believe we would be living on the moon and colonizing the planets in my lifetime. And then politics happened. Fooey.
4. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - because it's really a classic submarine movie repackaged as a space epic. And because KHAAAAAAAAN!!!
5. Star Wars: A New Hope (I saw it before it had a label. ) That opening scene.

Special mention: Marooned. Pretty good for it's time.

 

[Becker]

Love this thread yet can't believe no-one has mentioned my all time favourite.

1. Dark Star - Bombs with personality, a dejected crew and a beachball with claws
2. Alien
3. Aliens
4. Silent Running
5. 2010

 

[lotbr]

Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Gagarin: First in Space (Гагарин. Первый в космосе)
Gravity
...
I'm looking forward to "First Time" - Alexei Leonov Spacewalk

 

[Ravenous]

Love this thread yet can't believe no-one has mentioned my all time favourite.

1. Dark Star - Bombs with personality, a dejected crew and a beachball with claws

"Sergeant Pinback, it's your turn to feed the alien..." :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

I really need to include Interstellar into my top 5 list now, it really is a great Space movie

The first news about "Hidden Figures" also sound interesting, let's see how the movie really is.

 

[hutchison66]

nobody mentioning The Martian great movie and NASA helped on it

if you want a new film for Christmas take a look at it looks good

 

[Gargantua2024]

My Top 10 list of the best space films ever made

1. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
2. The Martian
3. Armageddon
4. Interstellar
5. Star Trek Beyond
6. Rogue One
7. Planet 51
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Avatar