Favorite Space Movie?

pete.dakota said:
Capricorn One is also worth a mention. It's got a very interesting premise and a solid cast. Definitely worth a watch.
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sorry to bump this thread, but I just watched Capricorn One. (Please excuse the expression) IT WAS AMAZING!, the aerial chase scene would be interesting to replicate on Orbiter Multilayer; maybe some people can make a playback and upload it to Orbithangar. It was really a :speakcool: movie!
 
Well, I liked Armageddon, that movie where a comet is on a collision coarse with earth and astronauts tried to stop it by planting bombs in the middle of it and they end up sacrificing themselves to save the world (sorry, I forgot the name), and Wall-E (well it is set in space on board a big spaceship/ark).
 
Contact, Event Horizon (best space horror movie ever!), Star Wars (3, 4, 5), Alien, the original Stargate movie, Species, Independence Day
 
I've loved all Star Trek movies I've seen so far, Especially First Contact And Nemesis. Nemesis had a great space battle. Makes me wish there was the Scimitar in Orbiter!
 
Why does so many people hate Armageddon? I love that movie. Sure, it may not be exactly realistic... But it has a good story line, good actors and some tear jerking moments. Better than most attempts at a space movie... Mission To Mars for example?

Plus you never know, if an Asteroid is heading toward Earth, maybe this is how NASA would handle it.. Not like they have much other options at this time.

Deep Impact was also a good film!
 
Star Trek VI is my personal favorite. Just the right amount of everything in it. It's a much better balanced movie than most of the other Trek movies.
 
jgrillo2002 said:
Interesting. I like the movie also. I did this 3 years ago. I just never got a chance to work on it again:LOL!:
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Oh yes, this movie was awesome too!:speakcool: I forgot about it until you posted it jgrillo2002 so I owe you a thanks. Also, please, please, make this into an addon? Please!!!!!!!!!!!
(LOL, your one post away to 100 posts, congrats!)



landon2006 said:
Deep Impact was also a good film!
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Oh yes! That's the name of my 2nd favourite space movie (right after Armageddon). Thanks for the tip!





jedidia said:
I love independance day. I don't know why exactly. It's just... cool. And it doesn't take itsel seriously which seperates it from Armageddon.
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Again, oh yes! Interdependence day was one of my favourites too!:speakcool:
 
My top 5:
5. Pitch Black
4. Event Horizon
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
2. Alien (the first one)
1. Return of the Jedi

Also loved 2001/10 (Roy Scheider is a terrible actor, but John Lithgow more than covers his sins), Deep Impact, Signs (it has aliens, so it qualifies).

Has anyone ever heard of Official Denial with Parker Stevenson, and Visitors of the Night?

Armageddon was okay. (Liv Tyler is just too hot to ignore).

Wasn't crazy about the Empire Strikes Back. It bored me for some reason.
 
well i might as well post here.

2001
Contact
Earth to the Moon HBO series -> A must for all those that loved apollo 13
The right stuff
Apollo 13

For a good education on the moon landings I suggest to watch the movies in the following order:

1) The right stuff
2) Earth to the moon series
3) When you get to the apollo 13 episode in "Earth to the moon" , watch apollo 13 first.

There is also some great doco's out there about the moon and how russia vs usa in the cold war started sparked the space race.

As for SciFi:
Best Ever: Alien and Aliens => the best scifi sequel ever
1) Deep Space Nine Startrek
2) Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
3) Starwars V then VI then IV (thats 5 then 6 then 4)

Worst ever:
I think starwars episode I is worse then "the day the earth stood still (Old version)"

Ja*Ja* Bin** -> His name shall not be uttered here in full!
 
2001, The Right Stuff, and all the Star Wars movies.

I actually didn't like Contact. Not sure why.
 
I was disappointed by Contact. The ending was not satisfying, and I don't like McConoghy (spelling). Not sure what is so cool about it.
 
Andy44 said:
I was disappointed by Contact. The ending was not satisfying, and I don't like McConoghy (spelling). Not sure what is so cool about it.
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Yeah, I was very disappointed by the ending. Three things bothered me, the "it shouldn't have a chair" crud, everything about the alien she meets, and the stupid senate hearings. They're all calling her a liar and acting like they never trusted her to begin with when they trusted her enough to send her (eventually). She might as well say, "If you don't fricking believe me, send somebody who you do trust so they can say the same thing."
 
Eagle said:
They're all calling her a liar and acting like they never trusted her to begin with when they trusted her enough to send her (eventually).
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Well, they didn't want to send her. It was the other guy with the duplicate machine who did. As for the chair, it was funny: how arrogant to think that we humans should know better than the machine designers how to build it...
 
landon2006 said:
Why does so many people hate Armageddon? I love that movie. Sure, it may not be exactly realistic... But it has a good story line, good actors and some tear jerking moments. Better than most attempts at a space movie... Mission To Mars for example?

Plus you never know, if an Asteroid is heading toward Earth, maybe this is how NASA would handle it.. Not like they have much other options at this time.

Deep Impact was also a good film!
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I watched Armageddon again the other day, I first saw it years ago when I was fairly young and the rather iffy science behind it didn't bother me...however watching it again as an adult had me shouting at my laptop on an almost constant basis!

I think there were two main things that bothered me:

1) They actually started off with a pretty good idea that had the potential to be a good movie - namely the Earth is on the verge of being wiped out and NASA launches a mission with a motley crew to stop it.

2) They had evidently made some effort to do a little research or work with NASA who must have helped with the T-38 scenes, and allowed them to film outside the space centre (if it wasn't just a set?)...why did nobody from NASA say "hang on a minute, this script is total tosh...why not try x, y and z?". Furthermore, the actual bits of dodgy science and physic were all stupid little things that could easily have been done right - especially the CGI sequences which would have been no more expensive to do right (thinking of the docking one here)!

Or is that just me?
 
My favorite space "movie" would be From the Earth to the Moon, although I do not like all the episodes. For a real movie, it would be The Right Stuff.
 
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One of my favorite "sleepers" is Marooned starring Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, and Gregory Peck.
 
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