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Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time
Comatose51 writes "Space.com has posted a Top 10 Space Movies of All Time list based on reader ratings on each movie. Apollo 13 is currently the #1 movie, followed by Star Trek: First Contact at #2, and Wrath of Khan at #3. I was surprised by Apollo 13 at #1, since I initially equated space movies with sci-fi. However, I don't disagree with it. What do other Slashdotters think, or suggest as good space movies?"
khan is #1 for me, just because it resonates so deeply with me. i, too, was left stranded on ceti alpha five.
Where is StarWars VI?
On the list of gayest space movies.
"I see that your schwartz is as big as mine."
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
How could this movie not at least make the top three?! Shocking lack of taste, I say. Shocking.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
I've been watching that movie for over a decade and I still don't get that joke...
This is the honest truth:
I cry every time I watch that movie when Yeager breaks the sound barrier.
My wife doesn't understand it, but that's what happens.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
"Office Space"!
"Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest that I am hard to turn" -- A Scots-Irish prayer
Battlefield Earth didn't make the list, I'm so suprised! Thoughs religious bigots! I'm going to sue YOU!
Core dumped
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Right, how could they forget the ultimate in space movies?
It has all the elements the other movies have and more.
Lets start or own list.
#1 Spaceballs
#2
if your pants fit well, it's not only because of the pants
I'm disappointed. That movie is so bad the badness overflows and it becomes good again. Also, has 2001 got an operating system named after it?
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
He travels through time and space?
*ducks*
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
Or "Spaceballs" take:
COLONEL SANDURZ: Prepare ship for light speed.
DARK HELMET: No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
SANDURZ: Light speed, too slow?
HELMET: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed.
SANDURZ: Ludicrous speed? Sir, we've never gone that fast before. I don't know if this ship can take it.
HELMET: What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz, chicken?
SANDURZ: Prepare ship, prepare ship for ludicrous speed. Fasten all seat belts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the 3-ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo...
Do note the list is about space movies, not scifi movies. Calling Gattaca a space movie is a bit of a stretch.
If you get to add Gattaca then I get to add Lawrence of Arabia. Earth is in space too, and LoA has all those wide open spaces.
In that case I nominate all the films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Clearly the characters occupy space and walk/run through it, qualifying it for the list.