Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech
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Did anyone say October Skys yet?
What is your favorite space related movie?
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dr wogz
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what's your view on that one?
Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech
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I saw clips of it, never had the chance to see the full movie, though people always tell me that I remind them of that movie lol
Winston
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When I related my Jr. High School through High School amateur rocketry experiences to coworkers, they said it sounded like that story... except I wasn't the son of a West Virginia coal miner and we didn't attract undesired attention. In a bizarre coincidence, we even had a machinist friend of the father of my partner in pyrotechnic adventures machine a nozzle for us. After that extreme PITA, he said that would be the only one. It was used, not stolen.
dr wogz
Fly caster
read the book..
then watch the movie.
(I thought either the book or movie was required in order to gain admission to TRF!
)
If you watch Galaxy Quest, make sure to switch the audio track to Thermian.
I firmly believe that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie ever made. And I say that as a committed Trekkie who named a child after a Star Trek character. The Tim Allen/William Shatner disguise is approximately Saran Wrap thin.
Others:
Arrival
The Martian
Apollo 13
Star Trek 4 (Save the Whales!)
The Wrath of Khan is not only my favorite space movie but my favorite movie period. And it's the only Star Trek movie that stands well on its own even for non trekies.
Serenity, Apollo 13, and The Martian I loved. Many others I like a lot, but none has yet to stand the test of many repeated watchings.
Serenity, Apollo 13, and The Martian I loved. Many others I like a lot, but none has yet to stand the test of many repeated watchings.
Botany Bay? Botany Bay?!?! Oh NO!!!
Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech
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Wow, just wow, I guess dudes here love that movie or something
JCRL
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The Martian is my favorite space movie. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was not a good movie, but the visuals and alien design make it something special.
Charles_McG
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I like Valerian and the Kiloplanet City. I must be easy to amuse.
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MST3K's This Island Earth
"Hey! Keep it on the road, we're in the tubes back here!
stealth6
insert witty tagline here
"And if your hands were metal, that would mean something."
But I'm not an alien (and I so want an interocitor)
s6
dr wogz
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Curious to know why you thought it was not a good movie? I know a few others who didn't care for it.. And the overall ratings also showed.. But I am genuinely curious as to why. (Most of my friends liked ti, so I'm looking for thoughts from someone who didn't'!)
JCRL
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I genuinely like the movie, I paid for the Blu-ray after seeing it for free on a streaming service. It has breathtaking visuals, the world building is superb, and some of the concepts (that multidimensional heist scene) are brilliant. All of that said, I also recognize that the writing and acting is subpar. It's one of those movies that I love in spite of it's numerous flaws. I don't know anyone else who likes it so I'm happy to hear that it's getting some love in this group.
I'm sorry but, Ugh.
MST3K: I like watching and laughing about cheesy movies as much as the next guy. I don't generally like MST3K for two reasons. The first is just me: my auditory processing is such that if people are talking over a movie I can't follow it; I guess everyone has that problem to an extent, but it really just throws me out the movie very easily. So, half the time, since I can't follow the movie, I don't even know what the heck they're joking about. And second, not unrelated, they emphasize quantity over quality. It's all well and good to come out with a few cracks when they're clever but these guys just have to make a crack every 15 seconds whether it's funny or not.
This Island Earth: This is really a pretty good movie if you watch the whole thing. Flawed, a bit cheesy in spots, but all together pretty good.
The MST3K treatment of This Island Earth spends a lot of its time picking on how the movie is disjointed, on how one thing doesn't follow from what came before or is totally out of left field. But they left a lot of the movie out of their presentation. The created the very "flaws" they pick on by hacking the movie apart.
This Island Earth is pretty good, no better. MST3K This Island Earth is an atrocity.
dr wogz
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I will say, to all the MST3K people, the originals were a lot better than the newer ones. While i do like them, they aren't as good as the originals from 20 years ago.. They do feel rushed these days.. and, some are reaching for a laugh.
Joe, try turning on the sub-titles. My wife is deaf in one ear, and also has a hard time hearing. So, she turns on the sub titles to read along..
Joe, try turning on the sub-titles. My wife is deaf in one ear, and also has a hard time hearing. So, she turns on the sub titles to read along..
Thanks, but I'm afraid subtitles are even worse for me. My auditory processing is bad enough, but I'm also such a slow reader that when I watch something with subtitles I mostly end up reading instead of watching, and often not finishing one subtitle before it's gone and the next one is up. With languages that employ rapid-fire speech like Spanish and Japanese, a subtitled movie is completely unwatchable.
stealth6
insert witty tagline here
Yes, yest I did.
SteveNeill
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2001: a space odyssey
SteveNeill
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Oh and Star Trek the Motion Picture. But I'm bias because I did Spock's ears for that movie and other aliens.
Rest assured that the ears are no part of why that movie is nicknamed Star Trek: The Motion Sickness by lots of trekies.
SteveNeill
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Does working on TNG and the last true Star Trek movie count? ST 6. The JJ Trek was my Motion sickness. All of them.
Yes, that gets you lots and lots of Trekie cred. I would call Nemesis "the last the last true Star Trek movie", but why split hairs; ST. 6 was terrific, a close second to ST 2.
(When the first JJ Trek movie came out and my wife's uncle asked my how I liked the new Star Trek movie, I replied "There is no new Star Trek movie.")
(When the first JJ Trek movie came out and my wife's uncle asked my how I liked the new Star Trek movie, I replied "There is no new Star Trek movie.")
SteveNeill
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Agreed.
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No one mentioned Disney's Unidentified Flying Oddball...good.
"He's the wrong-way astronaut who journeyed back to Camelot...trumpets blare and wizards scream "There's an oddball on King Arthur's Team!
"He's the wrong-way astronaut who journeyed back to Camelot...trumpets blare and wizards scream "There's an oddball on King Arthur's Team!
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