Space Film Recommendations

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I have always liked movies with the setting of being in space, as I would certainly like to be there (although it is highly improbable that I'll have the chance unless I ever can dish out the financial incentive to a space agency, which is probably less likely than my building my own working spacecraft.... ). Anyhow, on a slightly less depressing note, here are some of my favorite space themed movies in Alphanumerical ascending order:

2001: A Space Odyssey (I like the space stations and spacecraft which rotate to substitute gravity).

Alien (Really excellent for its time and it sets the stage for the best movie in the quadrilogy)

Aliens (Marines in space fighting giant bugs, yeah man!)

Angry Red Planet (this was so ridiculously bad it made itself good in that very respect).a

Enemy Mine (It's kind like a mix of Robinson Crusoe with an episode of Black Sheep Squadron, both of which I like)

Event Horizon (One of the best combinations of Sci-fi and Horror ever made.)

Forbidden Planet (A b-grade movie which is actually as well done as an episode of the Twilight Zone.)

Last Starfighter (It's premise was a little convoluted, but otherwise it had a good story and good special effects for its time).

Lost in Space (I thought the robot was cool).

Moon (The bunker base was pretty neat, although the story could have been better.)

October Sky (Awesome story, based on actual people and events, about a group of high school students designing and building their own rockets).

Pandorum (The Event Horizon of the 21st Century... in a manner of speaking).

Red Planet (It was interesting, good special effects, interesting but - as with Stargate Universe and that I'm rooting for the aliens to kill off the crew - I rooted for the robot as the characters other than the robot were just that bad.)

Serenity (Pretty good wrap up to the Firefly series, but Sheppard Book and Wash shouldn't have been killed off. River is the main character, who kills space pirate zombies who were made into space pirate zombies by the Umbrella Company *ahem* .. I mean the Alliance.)

Stargate (I don't really know why I like this.. perhaps just because it gives a background for SG1. Otherwise a movie about Crash Goes the Chariots would have been better than a movie based off of the opposite ideas....)

Stargate: Continuum (I like the time travel aspect of this film, and also where Daniel tells the MiG pilots "shoot the guys who are shooting at us!! !".)

Star Trek: First Contact (Yeah, time traveling and fighting the borg. Hey, wait, the Vulcan ship didn't notice the Enterprise D going through time???)

Star Trek: Nemesis (It's good because Riker and Deanna finally got married, and the mega capital ship is mega cool although its owner isn't).

Total Recall (The story stinks and the acting is okayish, but I liked the setting and the idea of colonization and tourism of Mars, although the right to oxygen ought to be indivisible from the get go rather than treated as a commodity.)

Wing Commander (I like how the space combat is displayed as a battle between navies.)

Outland is pretty cool--Basically High Noon in space starring Sean Connery as Federal Marshal of a mining outpost on Io.

Have you watched "2010: The Year We Make Contact" ?

Agg, i hated that movie.

Dune directed by David Lynch

Supernova, Link, Click here it dose not have a very complex plot but is still a fairly good movie

and The Fifth Element is pretty good

The 2009 Star Trek film was exceptional!

"Robinson Cursoe On Mars" has some pretty good stuff for mid-sixties sci-fi. Criterion released a nice blu-ray of it a few weeks ago.

"The American Astronaut" It's a bit like "The Last Picture Show" in space. Well... not really, but the run down, seedy bars, space ships and mining planets along with the very nice black and white photography give it that feel. Anyway, it's a sci-fi western rock and roll musical with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. How can you go wrong with a film that has a character called "The boy who actually saw a woman's breast"?

"Silent Running" While the film suffers a bit from it's very low budget, it is still quite a good, moving story.

"Solaris" by Andri Tarkovsky. (Steven Sodderberg made an english language re-make that isn't bad, but I prefer the original) This is a slowly paced, philosophical story about guilt and the desire to correct past mistakes and also the utter weirdness of alien intelligence.

AAArrrrgggg!! !! I HATED that movie!

(That movie was so bad it made my eyeballs stink!)

I was so embarrassed for Chris Tucker...

At least it was not as bad as a 50 year old Sean Connery firing a shotgun and a Winchester in what looks like a poorly ventilated and lit space station.

Last edited by Titangeek on 26 Jan 2011, 11:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

'twas.

And if you don't mind animation, Titan AE was a fun movie as well.

Dreadful. It was so bad that it stunk.

ruveyn

Was that the one that Sting happened to 'act' in?

That's a great list you've got there! I've also always been a fan of space movies. I would recommend Sunshine.

Surprised I do not see the Babylon 5 movie here.

i believe that was a tv show