What is your favorite space related movie?

Serenity.

Starship Troopers
"You put a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs"

Serenity and Spaceballs.
Galaxy Quest and Guardians of the Galaxy I and II.
I'm sure there's more... Like The Right Stuff and Apollo XIII...

2001: A Space Odyssey

Hard to believe that you all missed it...

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klatu barada nickto!

And another personal fave... Silent Running. (Huey, Duey, and Louie said you should see it.)

In no particular order ...

Star Trek (any), Star Wars (any), Serenity, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Alien, Aliens, Galaxy Quest (not a fan of comedies but it was okay), Stargate, Apollo 13, Arrival, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Contact, Fifth Element, The Black Hole, Space Cowboys, Space Camp, Pitch Black, Silent Running

2010 and The Martian - because I read the books first - you knew so much more about what was happening in the movie.

Spaceballs is hilarious! Like the part where they "Play" Spaceballs the movie, and they fast-forward and play the exact spot they were "Making" the movie - about the hardest I ever laughed - so funny!

2010 definitely!! Aliens. Also a big fan of the first two rebooted Star Trek movies.

Gravity, not so much. Worst space movie ever.

Wow I like how diverse the movies are! For me, not sure which ones my favorite

The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Hidden Figures. Great movie on a subject I knew nothing about.
Tried to watch 2001 A Space Odyssey again last night, got through about an hour, got bored and fell asleep.
I guess it is just to cerebral and intellectual for me.
Armageddon
Most of the Star Trek movies, never did like Star Wars very much, yes I know blasphemy to some of y'all

KILTED COWBOY said:

The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Hidden Figures. Great movie on a subject I knew nothing about.
Tried to watch 2001 A Space Odyssey again last night, got through about an hour, got bored and fell asleep.
I guess it is just to cerebral and intellectual for me.
Armageddon
Most of the Star Trek movies, never did like Star Wars very much, yes I know blasphemy to some of y'all

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oooo Nice! Really I'm not a Star Wars fan, but the movies are just for entertainment, but also silly to be honest

2001: A Space Odyssey

RMoore said:

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Oh yes these are Jeff Bezos's blue prints of the new Blue origin Space station!

The Right Stuff . . . From The Earth To The Moon . . . Apollo 13 . . . Space Cowboys . . . Marooned . . . etc, etc, etc.

Dave F.

RMoore said:

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Great soundtrack!!

for me, hands down: 5th Element.
Go find 'The Incal by Moebius & Jodorowsky. this movie is based off this story (loosely)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal

And, since I like the look that Luc Besson brings, so I will also add Valerian; city of 1000 planets.


The Martian, the book:

teh wife piked this up for her read while on vacation. She started reading it and soon stopped to ask me certain "orienteering" questions. She then decided this book had to be read by both of us. (She likes to read out loud) so each night we would read a chapter (or there abouts.) while she read, I would start to chuckle. Sometimes of her pronunciation, or just the 'nerd humor. I had to explain a lot of the book to her as we read. "Whats AzshKey-ii?" Oh, ASCII!! it's the ....

Dark Star

I like a lot of the movies listed above. One that hasn't been mentioned is 'Countdown', 1968. The Rooshians are about to get to the moon first, so the US does a crash program to put one man on the moon, in a habitat that's already been landed. James Caan and Robert Duvall (also appeared together on The Godfather). Panned by the critics but seems fairly realistic to me for a movie done in the 60s. Face it, most of the early movies were "Hey, I got an idea, let's have a monster that comes out and kills everyone!"

Moon. About a solitary miner on the moon there to tend to the mining robots. Really a thought provoking movie, and one a lot closer to reality than many.


Tony

prfesser said:

I like a lot of the movies listed above. One that hasn't been mentioned is 'Countdown', 1968. The Rooshians are about to get to the moon first, so the US does a crash program to put one man on the moon, in a habitat that's already been landed. James Caan and Robert Duvall (also appeared together on The Godfather). Panned by the critics but seems fairly realistic to me for a movie done in the 60s. Face it, most of the early movies were "Hey, I got an idea, let's have a monster that comes out and kills everyone!"

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errrr? I need to find this. Clearly!

Surprised no one mentioned Forbidden Planet yet. Maybe not the best, but one of many firsts. Stars Leslie Nielsen of “I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.” fame.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/

October Sky, Galaxy Quest, Silent Running

Jim

I am one of those people who just can't pick a favorite (of anything). I would get thrown off the bridge for sure at "favorite color."

"October Sky," of course, has almost nothing to do with actual rockets, but instead WV hillbilly teens blowing up half the Appalachians trying to build their own.

Ironically, the model rockets which many of us Sixties kids grew up launching (and some still do) were essentially invented in order to avoid kids becoming high explosives manufacturers producing high impulse propellant in their basements.

Best semi-historical space movies:

Apollo 13
From The Earth To The Moon (series)
The Right Stuff
Hidden Figures
First Man

Semi-documentary:
In the Shadow Of The Moon
Apollo 11
Moonshot One
About 50 different on Amazon Prime


Semi-serious fiction:
The Martian
Gravity
Deep Impact
Space Cowboys
2001
2010
Marooned
Contact

Space fantasy:
Armageddon
Star Trek series
Star Wars series

Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech said:

Really I'm not a Star Wars fan, but the movies are just for entertainment, but also silly to be honest

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I’m a big Star Wars fan but don’t think of it as science fiction. “Space Opera” or “Science Fantasy” are my preferred terms.

For actual hard-sf space movies:
2001
2010
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
The Martian

I never actually saw Gravity. I should.

I like a lot of the films mentioned, but I really liked this one ...the personal reflections, the really nice Phil Sheppard soundtrack.... and especially this ending:


Also liked the redo of Solaris.
That said...even with all the great films that have come out since then, I have to say the most impressive space film experience I had was spring of 1968 when my dad drove my brother and me to the Uptown in Washington DC for the premier of 2001, in Cinerama. It was like a realization of all the great space flights we had only been able to see in Life magazine and TV , leading up to Apollo 8 that December...and the landing the next summer. Incredible exciting times those days. And Kubrick elevated the state of the art.

Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech said:

Gravity is on my bucket list! The Graphics are soooo goood!

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Agree about the graphics, but some of the sound effects are so good they send a shiver up my spine whenever I hear it.

JStarStar said:

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Semi-serious fiction:
The Martian
Gravity
Deep Impact
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Space fantasy:
Armageddon
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I totally agree with your classifications of Deep Impact and Armageddon.

MaxQ said:

... I have to say the most impressive space film experience I had was spring of 1968 when my dad drove my brother and me to the Uptown in Washington DC for the premier of 2001, in Cinerama.

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With instant digital distribution of movies today, folks forget (and younger folks today never knew) that it used to be that only a limited number of prints of a film were made, and those prints 'traveled' from city-to-city, theater-to-theater. 2001 didn't get around to the boonies here until June 1969. When I saw in the paper that it was playing in Ontario, Oregon, I knew that it would be in Boise a few weeks later.

The Capsule

the credits say it's based on fact

I've only watched the first Star Wars ( which I thought was some really stupid crap), and 1/2 of Apollo 13. So I guess that one.

"Marooned" was very realistic for a 1969 movie -- I think they used a Block One Apollo spacecraft mock-up -- although the SFX look awful now.

Also, "Marooned," at least in part, helped inspire the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: several influential NASA managers saw the movie (released between Apollo 11 and 12) and saw the scenario as not completely far-fetched.