Movies based in space

[Printimus]

Since this has been a very slow week thus far, I have been watching my fair share of sci-fi space movies. One movie I had not seen before and was thoroughly disturbed about playing SC afterwards, was Even Horizon.

What are some of your favorites or you found most intriguing?

 

[Doctor Antelope]

Moon. As you may have guessed by the name it's takes place on the moon, so not exactly space, but close enough.

Stars Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey (as the voice for an AI)
I would be careful looking up too much about it if you intend to watch it. Best to go in blind.

 

[Floating Cloud]

Both excellent films.

Putting aside the Star Wars/Star Trek/Aliens franchises there are five films which spring to mind....

2001: A space oddesey
Fascinating film, and so well done.

Silent Running
A poignant film that I have always loved.

Avatar
Bravo. A modern mainstream blockbuster sci-fi that didn'the disappoint.

The Last Star fighter
OK, this one is a bit puerile, but I was a young teenager when it came out and so am stuck loving it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Battle Beyond The Stars
Haven'the seen this in a while, but another one that I have fond memories of.

 

[Floating Cloud]

OK, well Avatar is not technically 'in space', but more 'off Earth'. In that vein Forbidden Planet is another one from my hit list. Are you thinking literally 'in space/spaceships' though Print?

Darn it, it's 3.30am here and I want to get to sleep, but now my mind is running through old sci-fi films :)

Edit note: 3.40 am. Must. Stop. Thinking. But... two great movies including alien space ships, but on Earth.

John Carpenters 1980's film 'The Thing'. Epic sci-fi horror crossover.

Quatermass and the pit. Very cool 1950's sci-fi.

OK, definitely going off-topic now so will stop. Looking forward to seeing other people's picks.

 

[Accented]

I gotta say this one: Serenity.

 

[JimiJons]

If you liked Event Horizon, you'll love Pandorum.

You've probably already seen it, but Interstellar is excellent spaciness and deals with a lot of scientifically proportionate spectacles. The modeling of the supermassive black hole in the film was done by astrophysicists who ended up publishing a paper based on that experience.

The 2004 reboot miniseries of Battlestar Galactica is pretty great, and includes some delicious space dogfighting.

The Fifth Element is always a classic.

Starship Troopers for that Star Marine FPS hype.

Blade Runner is a legendary film. Doesn't take place in space, but does takes place during a time when humanity is an advanced space-faring civilization.

Alternatively, if you're like me and you've seen too many films and they don't make new ones fast enough, I recommend the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series (which spawned after the success of the miniseries, and which you'll undoubtedly want to watch after finishing the miniseries anyway), Stargate SG-1, and any of the Star Trek series (i'm enjoying Voyager currently).

 

[Accented]

I'm sad they took Stargate SG-1 off Netflix. I'll check out that 2004 Battlestar Galactica tonight.

 

[Fade691]

Well i have to also recommend Pandorum, both of those movies are awesome.. Sunshine is another good one in the same vein. Less scary but in the wierd thought provoking sci fi vein watch Solaris(2004) if you haven't seen it.. I just found out this is actually the third cinematic remake based on a polish novel from the 60's by Stanislaw Lem. Just some of the other movies i loved and recommend would be Mission to Mars, Contact, Close encounters of the third kind.
SG1 is probably, no is my favorite tv sci fi series all time... just cause it lasted longer than firefly... would be harder choice otherwise. I'm really surprised they removed that from netflix. Course i still find it hard to imagine a scy-fy that doesnt play sg1 episodes 3-4 times a week.

 

[Beerjerker]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YZ8WOU1-w

 

[Fade691]

Haha, Space Herpes :eek:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw

 

[Printimus]

Wall-E and Elysium are some good ones too. Cant skip out on Guardians of the Galaxy. And what about the 1998 classic, Lost in Space?

 

[Varku]

Currently i'm watching Star Trek (the old one with Cpt. Cirk) on Netflix.
As i'm not that much into Movies, but in Books, i can highly recomend the book Limit by Frank Schätzling. It's an awesome book.

 

[Printimus]

Currently i'm watching Star Trek (the old one with Cpt. Cirk) on Netflix.
As i'm not that much into Movies, but in Books, i can highly recomend the book Limit by Frank Schätzling. It's an awesome book.

As far as sci-fi books go, I am a huge fan of the Warhammer 40k series, especially those dealing with Adeptus Mechanicus.

 

[Huegpaynis]

Sunshine
The Martian (Matt Damon in space part 1)
Moon
Interstellar (Matt Damon in space: the reckoning)
Titan AE
Elysium
Space Truckers
Starship Troopers
Serenity
Dune

Edit: ALL the alien movies.

 

[Floating Cloud]

Sunshine
Dune

Edit: ALL the alien movies.

Dune, good catch. One of my favourites, and in fact I just bought it a couple of days ago on Amazon Instant Video.

Agreed on the Alien movies too. All three were excellent (not sure about the prequel yet. I might wait to see how 'Covenant' turns out next year).

 

[Callahad]

I'm going to throw in Apollo 13 in the mix

(note to self: don't ever go travelling with Tom Hanks)

 

[DansAFK]

I always enjoyed these movies, some of them have some great deep space sequences, my list tails off a bit at the end :

• Mission to mars
• Sunshine
• Contact
• Alien
• Ender's Game
• Promethius
• Riddick (2013 the dog thing, omg so cute. )
• Pitch Black
• Oblivion (not strictly in space, but the soundtrack and sequence up to the tesseract is worth)
• Outlander (Set on earth, but vikings and spaceship sword!)
• Chronicles of Riddick
• Solaris
• Galaxy Quest
• Wing Commander
• Star Trek : First Contact (for the scene where the enterprise swoops in to shield the defiant at the start)
• Armageddon
• Space Cowboys (little corny but not too bad)

 

[DarthMatter]

SPACEBALLS!!

 

[mromutt]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YZ8WOU1-w

lol I remember when my dad brought this movie home for me when I was little

 

[Huegpaynis]

Ooh, I forgot, Last Days on Mars.