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There are so many fantastic space movies that it’s challenging to pick just one, but that won’t stop us. Some of the titles in our collection will have you on the edge of the seat, while others keep you concealed beneath the couch. Here are the top 12 space films.
Interstellar travel (2014)
When the explorers arrive, the globe is immersed in knee-high water. Distant “mountains” rush in their direction, generating a kilometer-high killer flood that engulfs the entire planet.
The best 21st-century answer to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey is Interstellar. It’s often goofy yet occasionally profoundly imaginative. Now that the Earth’s food system is crumbling, Matthew McConaughey portrays Joseph Cooper, a widowed NASA pilot. The latter is called upon to travel into interstellar SpaceSpace, searching for an Earth-like “Planet B” for humanity to migrate to.
Performance of Interstellar Travel
Their performances are genuine, but the set pieces set them apart. Gargantua’s ending is a visual effect predicted so precisely by physicist Kip Thorne and meticulously recreated by London effects company Double Negative.
Years before, Thorne and film producer Lynda Obst had dreamt of a film about “the twisted side of the cosmos – black holes, wormholes, higher dimensions, and so on,” as Thorne put it in an interview with Science magazine. They’re the focus of Thorne’s fascinating book The Science of Interstellar Travel.
Meanwhile, Nolan has gone on to develop increasingly tricky films. Tenet is his most recent project.
The moon (2009)
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is about to leave the moon after serving as the only supervisor of a helium-3 mine for three years. (The film’s industrial concept was inspired by Robert Zubrin’s book Entering SpaceSpace.) On the other hand, Sam is stuck in the wreckage of a crashed lunar mining conveyor. And, while Sam and Sam struggle to make sense of their strange encounter, they must also answer an apparent and pressing puzzle: how many other Sams are there?
Performance Of The Moon
When a first-time filmmaker offered a low-budget British sci-fi film, Rockwell waited until the last minute to accept, then jumped at the chance to play against himself. Once on board, he gave it his all, riffing and extemporizing on recollections of his performance and insisting that the two Sams be distinguished more by demeanor than by wardrobe changes.
The result is a gripping, emotionally charged thriller laced with an imaginative blend of effects (ranging from CGI to model work to basic, precise editing) that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats throughout. Jones has yet to equal his debut, while Rockwell will always be known as the Moon guy, whatever his later accomplishments.
Proximity (2019)
Alice Winocour’s third feature film, Proxima, was shot in Germany’s European Space Agency’s training facilities and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center complex outside Moscow. It never leaves the Earth, yet it remains an out-of-this-world experience.
Performance Of Proximity
Georges Lechaptois’ cinematography masterfully depicts the oddity, dullness, and occasional dilapidation of these rarely seen settings. When visiting this, one can’t help but believe that being an astronaut is a lot like being a professional athlete, with most of one’s glamourous career taking place in stinky locker rooms.
Eva Green deserves special praise for her depiction of Sarah Loreau, a single mother who is granted a last-minute chance to accompany a trip to the International Space Station. Sarah’s confused mood of wanting to go to SpaceSpace yet not wanting to be apart from her kid is well captured by Green. The answer exists, but it will be difficult to find, and Green’s acting is heartbreaking.
Aliens (1979)
Ripley is played by Sigourney Weaver, a member of a competent and intelligent space-going cargo crew whose talents will be of little help when they face a carnivorous, stowaway alien.
Alien was a hit with critics, who predicted that it would transform the way we thought about science fiction. It also impacted how some of us felt about biology for those who caught it at the appropriate time.
We’ve been an apex predators for so long that we’ve forgotten how unique our position is. Alien serves as a reminder of what the natural world is like. It puts us in the center of things, not without resources but far from the top of the food chain. It serves as a reminder that biological processes are predatory.
Performance Of Alien
The Alien films’ awkwardly titled “xenomorph” has a notorious life cycle roughly modeled on that of parasitic wasps, but with the addition of flexibility. A humanoid extraterrestrial emerges from a hugged human. A canine is produced when a dog is hugged. (It’s unclear where Alien: Resurrection (1997)’s aquatic creatures come from.)
Read On the Origin of Species if you want to know what Darwin stated. However, if you want to understand how it made its initial readers feel, watch Alien.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Space Odyssey is a science fiction film that was released in 2001. (1968)
When British novelist Arthur Clarke was approached by Stanley Kubrick with a movie concept, Clarke was ecstatic. “The terrific’ science-fiction film has been a long time coming,” he wrote.
The question was which perfect movie to create, which the two never fully answered. Is this a film about science and technology triumphing? Or a film on the human spirit’s eternal yearnings?
Performance Of A Space Odyssey
While Kubrick, a humanist who directed films such as Paths of Glory and Lolita, mined Japanese sci-fi flicks for visual effects, Clarke, a communications satellite pioneer and a writer developed a story centered on what he subsequently labeled “the God notion.”
Final Verdict
The conflict between David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and the inadvertently-designed-to-be-murderous HAL, a computer leading his ship to Jupiter, spans the beginning of man, the space race, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and trans-dimensional travel. Clarke is thought to have delivered the film’s wow effect, while Kubrick contributed the discomfort.
Not so: Clarke’s 1960 novella The Challenge of the Spaceship demonstrates that he was already well aware of the difficulties that a spaceship would encounter.
Movies to watch on Acid | What can we Watch?
There are so many fantastic space movies that it’s challenging to pick just one, but that won’t stop us. Some of the titles in our collection will have you on the edge of the seat, while others keep you concealed beneath the couch. Here are the top 12 space films.
Interstellar travel (2014)
When the explorers arrive, the globe is immersed in knee-high water. Distant “mountains” rush in their direction, generating a kilometer-high killer flood that engulfs the entire planet.
The best 21st-century answer to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey is Interstellar. It’s often goofy yet occasionally profoundly imaginative. Now that the Earth’s food system is crumbling, Matthew McConaughey portrays Joseph Cooper, a widowed NASA pilot. The latter is called upon to travel into interstellar SpaceSpace, searching for an Earth-like “Planet B” for humanity to migrate to.
Performance of Interstellar Travel
Their performances are genuine, but the set pieces set them apart. Gargantua’s ending is a visual effect predicted so precisely by physicist Kip Thorne and meticulously recreated by London effects company Double Negative.
Years before, Thorne and film producer Lynda Obst had dreamt of a film about “the twisted side of the cosmos – black holes, wormholes, higher dimensions, and so on,” as Thorne put it in an interview with Science magazine. They’re the focus of Thorne’s fascinating book The Science of Interstellar Travel.
Meanwhile, Nolan has gone on to develop increasingly tricky films. Tenet is his most recent project.
The moon (2009)
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is about to leave the moon after serving as the only supervisor of a helium-3 mine for three years. (The film’s industrial concept was inspired by Robert Zubrin’s book Entering SpaceSpace.) On the other hand, Sam is stuck in the wreckage of a crashed lunar mining conveyor. And, while Sam and Sam struggle to make sense of their strange encounter, they must also answer an apparent and pressing puzzle: how many other Sams are there?
Performance Of The Moon
When a first-time filmmaker offered a low-budget British sci-fi film, Rockwell waited until the last minute to accept, then jumped at the chance to play against himself. Once on board, he gave it his all, riffing and extemporizing on recollections of his performance and insisting that the two Sams be distinguished more by demeanor than by wardrobe changes.
The result is a gripping, emotionally charged thriller laced with an imaginative blend of effects (ranging from CGI to model work to basic, precise editing) that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats throughout. Jones has yet to equal his debut, while Rockwell will always be known as the Moon guy, whatever his later accomplishments.
Proximity (2019)
Alice Winocour’s third feature film, Proxima, was shot in Germany’s European Space Agency’s training facilities and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center complex outside Moscow. It never leaves the Earth, yet it remains an out-of-this-world experience.
Performance Of Proximity
Georges Lechaptois’ cinematography masterfully depicts the oddity, dullness, and occasional dilapidation of these rarely seen settings. When visiting this, one can’t help but believe that being an astronaut is a lot like being a professional athlete, with most of one’s glamourous career taking place in stinky locker rooms.
Eva Green deserves special praise for her depiction of Sarah Loreau, a single mother who is granted a last-minute chance to accompany a trip to the International Space Station. Sarah’s confused mood of wanting to go to SpaceSpace yet not wanting to be apart from her kid is well captured by Green. The answer exists, but it will be difficult to find, and Green’s acting is heartbreaking.
Aliens (1979)
Ripley is played by Sigourney Weaver, a member of a competent and intelligent space-going cargo crew whose talents will be of little help when they face a carnivorous, stowaway alien.
Alien was a hit with critics, who predicted that it would transform the way we thought about science fiction. It also impacted how some of us felt about biology for those who caught it at the appropriate time.
We’ve been an apex predators for so long that we’ve forgotten how unique our position is. Alien serves as a reminder of what the natural world is like. It puts us in the center of things, not without resources but far from the top of the food chain. It serves as a reminder that biological processes are predatory.
Performance Of Alien
The Alien films’ awkwardly titled “xenomorph” has a notorious life cycle roughly modeled on that of parasitic wasps, but with the addition of flexibility. A humanoid extraterrestrial emerges from a hugged human. A canine is produced when a dog is hugged. (It’s unclear where Alien: Resurrection (1997)’s aquatic creatures come from.)
Read On the Origin of Species if you want to know what Darwin stated. However, if you want to understand how it made its initial readers feel, watch Alien.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Space Odyssey is a science fiction film that was released in 2001. (1968)
When British novelist Arthur Clarke was approached by Stanley Kubrick with a movie concept, Clarke was ecstatic. “The terrific’ science-fiction film has been a long time coming,” he wrote.
The question was which perfect movie to create, which the two never fully answered. Is this a film about science and technology triumphing? Or a film on the human spirit’s eternal yearnings?
Performance Of A Space Odyssey
While Kubrick, a humanist who directed films such as Paths of Glory and Lolita, mined Japanese sci-fi flicks for visual effects, Clarke, a communications satellite pioneer and a writer developed a story centered on what he subsequently labeled “the God notion.”
Final Verdict
The conflict between David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and the inadvertently-designed-to-be-murderous HAL, a computer leading his ship to Jupiter, spans the beginning of man, the space race, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and trans-dimensional travel. Clarke is thought to have delivered the film’s wow effect, while Kubrick contributed the discomfort.
Not so: Clarke’s 1960 novella The Challenge of the Spaceship demonstrates that he was already well aware of the difficulties that a spaceship would encounter.
