Best Space Films of All Time.

[milton]

Blade Runner with hottie droids.

[OSECS]

Really, the director turned Dune into his own thing, completely. I enjoyed both the book and the film but the similarities other than nomenclature were pretty minimal.

Hey, it's all personal taste. I just remember watching dune with my high school buddies, and everyone making the same points about the plot and how the movie just couldn't capture the really very interesting sub plots within the book. Still a very cool cinematic production.

It's rare that a movie ever really captures the total essence of a book. I can only think of one example of a movie I liked more than the book, and that was James Dickeys' "Deliverance".

[karpiel]

sunshine

[Viva]

You guys talkin' about Dune the crappy 80s movie starting Sting or Dune the 7-8 hour thingy?

[OSECS]

Re ignite the Sun ????????????????

[Dromond]

You guys talkin' about Dune the crappy 80s movie starting Sting or Dune the 7-8 hour thingy?

Dune the 80s movie. I saw the 7-8 hour thing, too. Clearly someone else thought that the plot of the book was interesting enough to remake.

[The AD]

Apollo 13

[Labcabin]

Blade Runner with hottie droids.

two thumbs up...

[bio-smear]

STAR SHIP FKN TROOPERS!

EDIT: trainwreck doesnt get it

BUT...did you see Starship Troopers:Marauders?

I found it one day on Mininova. Apparently it's part III. Just as inane. Just as campy as the orig.

[summit]

SciFi
Serenity
Event Horizon
2010
Alien/Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Starfighter
5th Element

Documentary and Docudrama:
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
The Dream Is Alive!

TV SciFi
Firefly
Babylon 5
Space Above and Beyond
Stargate

PS I love Blade Runner but it has nothing to do with Space SciFi. Neither does The Day the Earth Stood Still. You might be able to claim that Independence Day is about space, but only for five minues.

[Labcabin]

SciFi
Serenity
Event Horizon
2010
Alien/Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Starfighter
5th Element

Documentary and Docudrama:
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
The Dream Is Alive!

TV SciFi
Firefly
Babylon 5
Space Above and Beyond
Stargate

PS I love Blade Runner but it has nothing to do with Space SciFi. Neither does The Day the Earth Stood Still. You might be able to claim that Independence Day is about space, but only for five minues.

I agree on Blade Runner. But I gave it two thumbs up anyway its so good. I allow it to have a mention because at least the replicants came from outer space. But your right it really isn't a space flick.

[slim]

Forbidden Planet.

[OSECS]

Forbidden Planet.

Classic, Robbie the Robot, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielson 50's schtick at it's best. There's even a movie poster of the film in the original movie "The Blob".

[vinzclortho]

Blade Runner with hottie droids.

Hmm...Blade Runner takes place in LA so I'm inclined to say this isn't a space flick...but then by that reasoning Planet of the Apes takes place near NYC and I consider that a space flick. quite the connundrum.

I never read the book Starship Troopers but the movie is so godawful that I love and own it and watch it at least once a year. I don't own it, but Blue Crush is in that same category...so bad I love it.

[karpiel]

Re ignite the Sun ????????????????

Yes, actually.

The plot does not revolve around the sun dying in the normal sense: this is not due for around five billion years based on our understanding of nuclear fusion. It has instead been "infected" with a "Q-ball" - a supersymmetric nucleus, left over from the big bang - that is disrupting the normal matter. This is a theoretical particle that scientists at CERN are currently trying to confirm, and was one of the many contributions of the science advisor. The film's bomb is meant to blast the Q-ball to its constituent parts which will then naturally decay, allowing the sun to return to normal.

Dr Brian Cox, CERN / Manchester University, acted as the film's science advisor

[OSECS]

Well I'm on board if it's a good flick. Damn those physicists and all the shit they keep discovering that can seriously fuck us up !!

[Jumper Bones]

It's not exactly a space movie, but I kind of enjoyed Babylon AD lately.

[karpiel]

It's not exactly a space movie, but I kind of enjoyed Babylon AD lately.

And by "not exactly" you mean it had nothing to do with space, other then earth being in space?

[Big Blue]

And whatever that movie was with the little buzzsaw things that ran through the sand and cut people up.

Screamers. Yeah, that movie kicks ass.

[Labcabin]

Space Truckers... Haha funny and bad.. hardly the greatest.

[Jumper Bones]

And by "not exactly" you mean it had nothing to do with space, other then earth being in space?

Neither did Blade Runner.

Step off.

[karpiel]

Neither did Blade Runner.

Step off.

Blade Runner not being a space movie had already been addressed.




This shits on like Donkey Kong!

[mc_roon]

It's not exactly a space movie, but I kind of enjoyed Babylon AD lately.

the most interesting thing about Babylon AD is the US version is 90 minutes.


The director's cut is 160.


im waiting to see the directors cut

[karpiel]

the most interesting thing about Babylon AD is the US version is 90 minutes.


The director's cut is 160.


im waiting to see the directors cut

Same here, at first I thought it was a mistake.

It just seems wrong to cut out over an hour.

[Tippster]

Film:

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan ("From the depths of Hell I spit at thee!")
Alien
Aliens
Starship Troopers was funny as hell and no, most people don't get it.
Serenity

As far as TV goes I like:

Battlestar Galactica (current version)
Firefly
Star Wars the Clone Wars (current Animated series -- kicks ass, actually)
Babylon 5
Dr. Who
Stargate SG-1
Star Treck & Next gen.

The new Star Trek movie coming out looks promising