IMHO, the ability of sci-fi spaceships to somehow fly in the atmosphere without any sort of aerodynamics is one of the most ridiculous. The other is the ability to maintain internal artificial gravity under (apparently) all conditions, including power failures, and also neutralize all G-forces from the various extreme maneuvers the ships are doing all the time. Of course, the gravity business is sort of a necessary compromise to facilitate scenes inside ships, but there is no good reason I can think of why TIE fighters should be flying around the atmosphere and even landing. Yeesh.
Zero G is hard to realistically simulate with real actors. I think Apollo 13 made the best effort using the Air Force KC-135 Vomit Comet,
From
https://www.space.com/37942-vomit-comet.html
According to NASA, one of these airplanes, KC-135A, performed more than 58,000 parabolas, and averaged 3,800 parabolas and 300 flight hours per year before it made its last microgravity flight, on Oct. 29, 2004.
The airplane also made a Hollywood appearance: It was used to film weightless scenes in the movie "Apollo 13." According to an article on Space.com's sister site Live Science, set designers created a spacecraft interior adapted to the inside of the airplane. Then, the cameras captured short, seconds-long snippets on film. Director Ron Howard leased the aircraft for six months to achieve the shots of weightlessness that viewers see in the film.
Space Cowboys (great fun film for us middle aged BARS.) used Computer Animation for many of its scenes
From.
https://mauiwatch.com/2020/08/a-rons-film-rewind-presents-space-cowboys-20th-anniversary/
The third act of the film (the time they spend in space), were entirely done by computer graphics and the actors’ faces were added in digitally.