Best Space Films of All Time.

[Labcabin]

" ..... multeee passsssss ...."

"Chickennnnn......."

[Professor Chaos]

Tron? Inside your computer isnt space, I dont think.

No, no, no. Its interdimensional-inside your computer-space.

W/e. I misread the "sci-fi space" as "just sci-fi"...

[Labcabin]

sunshine

Just bought this movie on DVD and watched it. Great movie I thought. I loved it. Why it did not get pushed harder in the US I have no idea. Thanks for turning me onto this because it has become one of my favorites.

Some great vast space scenes and awesome sound track. Loved it.


Sunshine

[mud]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe with Zooey Deschanel
Outland was a great Connery film although kind of predictable.
Any space film cover by Mystery Science Theatre 3000

[iscariot]

Star Wars - A New Hope
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith

The Fifth Element

Buck Rogers - 3D

Flash Gordon

Star Trek - The Rath of Kahn
Star Trek - 2009

Alien
Aliens

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Movie (This Island Earth)

Space Balls

Apollo 13

[Rasputin]

Mission to Mars

The Black Hole

Robinson Caruso On Mars

[nickwm21]

The single most over rated film in the entire history of mankind.

I've seen it three or four times, trying to grasp the whole vibe, and I just don't get it. 2010 Was just a scab being ripped off a fresh wound.

Beautiful cinematography and music, but the plodding dialog and snail paced plot bored me too tears. My apologies to S. Kubrick, I love so much of his other work.

Just one mans impression.

i agree. one has to watch it and give it credit for basically starting the scifi thing... but it has to be one of the most boring movies i have ever watched

[OSECS]

i agree. one has to watch it and give it credit for basically starting the scifi thing... but it has to be one of the most boring movies i have ever watched

Yeah, but many people love it, so what the hell do I know, I like Ren and Stimpy.

[adam]

The Leprechaun is on a desolate planet attempting to court a princess named Zarina, whom he has kidnapped in a plot to marry her, then murder her father in order to become king of her home planet, Dominia. A group of space marines attack and the Leprechaun kills one of the marines, Lucky, with a lightsaber. When another marine, Kowalski, throws a grenade and it lands near Zarina, the Leprechaun jumps in the way, and, though Zarina is saved, the explosion of the bomb kills the Leprechaun and causes Zarina to lose a hand. While the rest of the crew attend to Zarina, Kowalski urinates on the Leprechaun's decapitated head.

The marines return to their ship with Zarina, where their leader, the half-robotic Dr. Mittenhand, explains that the princess has regenerative powers (she regenerates a hand she lost) and his plans to use Zarina's DNA to recreate his own mutilated body. Elsewhere on the ship, the Leprechaun violently emerges from Kowalski's penis when he attempts to have sex with another marine, Dolores, killing him. The Leprechaun then kills most of the crew members in various gruesome and absurd ways. He finds Zarina in Dr. Mittenhand's laboratory and injects the doctor with a mixture of his intended bride's DNA and the remains of a scorpion and a tarantula, and initiates the ship's self-destruct mechanism. A surviving marine, Sticks, rushes to the bridge to defuse the self-destruct but he is stopped by a password prompt. The other survivors, Sergeant Books Malloy and Doctor Tina Reeves, confront the Leprechaun in the cargo bay, who grows to many times his own size after being exposed to Dr. Mittenhand's experimental enlargement ray. Tina crawls through the air ducts, where her pants get torn off by Dr. Mittenhand. Tina spends the remainder of the film in a T-shirt and black panties.

Sticks is attacked and tangled in webs by the now mutated and deformed Dr. Mittenhand, who has taken the shape of a giant spider-like creature. Tina sprays the doctor with liquid nitrogen from a hose and then shoots him, shattering his body. Books avoids the giant Leprechaun and opens the airlock so the villain is sucked out into space and explodes while Zarina watches in glee and relief. Books joins the others at the helm, and they discover that the password is "Wizard," since Dr. Mittenhand previously referred to himself as "the wizard behind the curtain," stopping the self-destruct with only seconds to spare. The three rejoice and Books and Tina kiss as the spaceship flies past the remains of the giant Leprechaun's body. They fly past his fist, clenched with middle finger extended.

[donjoaoresort]

I too love to watch space movies, So which one is thw best one to watch?


John
Don Joao Resort

[danmclean09]

Lost in Space

The last starfighter

[Dromond]

I don't know if it's "all time" but I just saw "Moon" the other day and thought it was excellent. It shared 2001 and Solaris elements, but the character interplay was very interesting. Two geeky thumbs up.

[jaygu]

Check out Moon, its a low budget film by David Bowies son and its cool. Kind of reminiscent of 2001.

[Tippster]

Dude, really? Did you read the post before yours?

[Rubicon]

Bwhahaha, Tippster has started calling out spam.





Thumbs up on Moon. Low budget, kind of rough around the edges but I enjoyed it.

[amatog]

I must agree with:

Serenity

and

Firefly


Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...

[fiddler]

i agree. one has to watch it and give it credit for basically starting the scifi thing... but it has to be one of the most boring movies i have ever watched

The sci-fi thing started long before "2001" without a doubt. For example Jules Verne published "From the Earth to the Moon" in 1865.

If you like sci-fi here is a bunch of fun stuff:
http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
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The Earliest Science Fiction Films:


Voyage dans la Lune, Le/A Trip to the Moon (France, 1902), http://www.filmsite.org/voya.html
the screen's first science fiction story, was a 14 minute masterpiece (nearly one reel in length (about 825 feet)), created by imaginative French director and master magician Georges Melies (1861-1938) in his version of the Jules Verne story. The silent film's plot, a light-hearted satire criticizing the conservative scientific community of its time, was inspired by Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and H. G. Wells' First Men in the Moon (1901).

This film, Melies' 400th and most notable film, was made on an astronomical budget for the time of 10,000 Francs - risky, but worthwhile since it was hugely successful. Its popularity also led to it being illegally copied, released under others' names, and pirated (including one stolen by Edison's film technicians and distributed throughout the US). [For example, an illegal duplicate of the film was available in the USA from Siegmund Lubin under the title A Trip to Mars.]

Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere to play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet. The image of the lunar capsule landing in the eye of the moon is a memorable sight and widely-recognized in cinematic history.

As a film pioneer and producer of over 500 short films, Melies made up and invented the film medium as he directed. He developed the art of special effects in earlier films, including double exposure, actors performing with themselves over split screens, and use of the dissolve and fade. He also pioneered the art of film editing. The sets or scenery backdrops in the film are simple, painted flats. It has all the elements that characterize the science-fiction genre: adventurous scientists, a futuristic space voyage, special effects such as superimpositions, and strange aliens in a far-off place.






From the same website:
Another (Fritz) Lang film, his last silent film, was one of the first space travel films, The Woman in the Moon (1929) (aka By Rocket to the Moon). It was about a blastoff to the moon where explorers discovered a mountainous landscape littered with raw diamonds and chunks of gold. [The film introduced NASA's backward count to a launch - 5-4-3-2-1 to future real-life space shots, and the effects of centrifugal force to future space travel films.]



Lot of good movies mentioned. 5th Element is one of my favorites, gotta love Ruby Rod!

[tylerjames]

i cant believe nobody has mentioned Stargate. this is one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. cool premise, story line and kurt russel, what more do you want.

[nick > jesus]

just saw moon last light and, as others have mentioned, it was great. best space film that i have seen

[Fuzz]

Contact
Serenity
Apollo 13
Pitch Black

[Labcabin]

See some WTF clips of this movie here.


http://io9.com/5325101/the-absolute-...?autoplay=true

[brice618]

Not directly a space film, and I didn't read the whole thread, but Gattica was and is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Fuzz]

^^^ Oh yeah, Gattaca -- one of the best sci-fi movies IMHO, although not strictly a "space" film.

[Meanfruit]

I thought Contact was fair, last 10 mins were interesting.
Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff are REALLY GOOD.
Starship Troopers is like blue balls: nice build up and no finish. The 2 sequels qualify for Worst Movies Ever.
The best movie coming in our lifetime(hopefully) is the live feed sent when someone walks on Mars. THAT will be the shit

[HankScorpio]

classic Twilight Zone episodes from the 60s? Not all were good, but I still think some of those episodes were 20 years ahead of their time.