What is your favorite movie about space?

The Right Stuff

The Dish.

The Empire Strikes Back or Forbidden Planet. I can’t decide.

Wrath of Khan

Star Trek: First Contact

@RocketGuy
The scene where the Phoenix spreads her wings was glorious.

Rocket Man, lol.

2001

Star Trek…wait, stop…what the fuck was I thinking?
Alien beats every other space flick out of sight, end of.

Far Side of the Sun

Armageddon

Apollo 13.

Mars Needs Mom
Pretty touching movie.
I don’t care what those critics say about it. It’s my favorite.

I have three favorite sci-fi movies, “Destination Moon,” “Forbidden Planet” and the 1953 “War of the Worlds.”

The Right Stuff was a great movie, but I am going with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Space Cowboys – Tommy Lee Jones, and others. Dumb movie, but funny as hell.

OK, as an avid sci-fi buff, there are movies about space, and there are movies that take place in space.

Movies that take place in space: Star Trek: First Contact and The Wrath of Khan.

Movies about space: Event Horizon and Solaris.

@Seek_Kolinahr

Solaris? Really? That was the first movie I have ever walked out of. It (my opinion) had no plot, poor camera work, and was a complete waste of an afternoon.

It was so devoid of content that I got up and left….

Star Wars
Serenity
Star Trek
Spaceballs
Space Pirates (dumb but funny)

I know it isn’t a movie but I absolutely LOVE Battlestar Galactica.

@elbanditoroso Did you like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? In my experience, the same crowd actually liked both, and the same crowd hated both. I also loved The Fountain – and my husband fell asleep watching that in the theater.

I’m with @RealEyesRealizeRealLies on 2001.

Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon

@Seek_Kolinahr – never saw Eternal Sunshine. I read the reviews and the blurb and thought to myself “another Solaris” and decided not to spend the money.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOFBGUPOfGA
Cheap as chips, low budget crap, but funny as fuck.

So I really need to get around to watching 2001. I’ve tried a couple times now but the intro is so bloody slow I end up turning if off after 20 minutes. I’m going to have to really sit myself down to watch it sometime.

Lots of great movies listed here that I hadn’t heard of before so I’ll definitely be checking them out.

I also should have clarified above I’m looking for the more realistic space movies, that is why I left out Star Wars and other such films like that.

@Seek_Kolinahr Loved Eternal Sunshine, one of my favorite movies. Wasn’t crazy about
Solaris though. Not bad, just wouldn’t watch it again.

I think the 2001 intro is about serenity, and to purposefully lull you, @uberbatman. It gives you greater empathy for the rest of the movie. The old writer’s admonition, “Don’t tell it, show it.” It balances out.

The Brother from Another Planet

Armageddon, Pitch Dark with Vin Diesel (cheesy but I like it), Chronicles of Riddick.
And of course WALL-E!!!

@ibstubro fair enough, to be honest, I haven’t tried to watch that movie since I was much younger with a much much shorter attention span. Maybe I’ll give it a shot tonight.

I recently however did have an amazing video game experience with music from 2001 playin the the background. It was perfect. I was playing KSP and struggling horribly to figure out how in the hell to orbit, I was about to give up but said nah one more try but this time lets do it with some music so I put this on. It just all lined up perfectly, the song would raise in intensity as each success stage of my rocket was engaged, finally climaxing as I broke atmosphere and giving way to blue danube as my ship began to float around the planet.

2001
Alien
Armaggedon (cheesy as hell, but I love it)
Star Wars

I keep meaning to see Silent Running, but I still haven’t got around to it yet. Anyone have this as a favourite?

@glacial It was on a lot of lists I read before asking this question. I’d never heard of it before, I’ll have to check it out some time; Along with about 7 other movies from this thread :P

Star Wars Episode IV.

The Cowboy Bebop movie.
Serenity.
I also have a lingering nostalgic fondness for Apollo 13 and Flight of the Navigator.

I liked Serenity too.

I can’t pick one favorite.

Alien
Star Wars
2001
Gravity

Alien set the standard for space movies, Star Wars set the standard for space fantasy and horrible dialogue. Star Trek set the standard for telling us it’s okay Elves from Lord of the Rings can go to space. Aka Vulcan’s. Gravity is on a league of it’s own. Sunshine was fantastic but still had that Alien feel to it. 2001 manage to set a new standard by showing us how boring can it be, I watched most of 2001 in fast forward. Serenity was something new. It’s almost a sin thinking that they canceled Firefly:-(

@antimatter I thought Sunshine was amazing until the last ~30 min when it transformed from beautiful philosophic space movie into cheesy slasher flick. I though Gravity was good, but I don’t know why everyone is so in love with it. Ya it was pretty as hell, but the story was meh. Kinda like Avatar.

Apollo 13, Moon, Alien, and In the Shadow of the Moon is hands down the best documentary about the moon missions I’ve seen.

Independence Day