so i just watched SALYUT 7 on amazon prime and it's good not bad:
i: i didn't really know this story and checking back on wikipedia afterwards it turns out many of the details are not especially in the public domain (bcz the soviet space programme hushed up a bit how nearly extremely catastrophic it was? or bcz the film-makers have 1 x pudding they need to over-egg, I DO NOT KNOW)ii: even on TV it gets across (1) the lonely intimacy and (2) the vastness and (3) the near-psychedelic strangeness of time spent in space, in and out of the capsuleiii: it is good on the gap between the need for de-stressing dark humour in an intrinsically stressful situation and cosmonauts (also astronauts) being ON-MIC nearly the whole time and having to guard what they say iv: i enjoyed though am no real judge of the glimpses of soviet life in the mid-80s and the sense of humour needed to handle that even when you aren't any kind of refusenik (as cosmonauts and space scientists presumably mostly weren't)
for thread discipline purposes 2001: a space odyssey is realistic in places with long non-realistic stretches (= all von daniken stuff, stargate section) while gravity is realistic (if absurd). while excellent, THE WANDERING EARTH (流浪地球) is not realistic…
films with the word "star" in the franchise title mostly belong elsewhere)
beefs i had w/SALYUT 7 as shown on amazon prime = its subtitle viz "The True Story of the Soviet 'Apollo 13'" -- science fact this film is a trillion times better than Apollo 13. elsewhere the subtitle is "history's most daring space mission" and this is a much better description…
name films in the thread and discuss them if they're realistic!
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
i mean how would I know
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
make a pitch for yr theory, sit back as fools mock it, same as every other thread here
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
borad description etc
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
well I mean The Martian is probably 8/10 realism but it’s mostly not in space per se
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
Lol xp
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
wing commander
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
say more
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
no
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
there was a very grim/elegiac radio 4 drama about doomed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's final hour as he burns up in Soyos 1 broadcast a couple of years back, someone should make a movie of that.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
doesn't Gravity qualify here?
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
good question answered in the O/P
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
more good questions: Question about the movie Apollo 13
It's a dramatisation of a real event with real historical people.
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, October 9, 2017 4:34 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
oops! well, a second vote for Gravity then
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
I think Solaris, Dark Star and Moon should qualify, as they all deal in various ways with the boredom/monotony of space travel. I think being in space is probably a lot more boring than most of us realize.
― henry s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
(1) the lonely intimacy and (2) the vastness and (3) the near-psychedelic strangeness of time spent in space, in and out of the capsule
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
re: boredom of space, i thought the fuck room in High Life seemed kind of realistic
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Flash Gordon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
Countdown (1968)
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
… and discuss them if they're realistic!
― mark s, Sunday, May 12, 2019 12:33 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
>:(
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Countdown could be viewed as very realistic, although much less so if you know about orbital mechanics - it's not possible to bring the launch of a moon mission forward by a week.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Capricorn One - very realistic as the rocket going to Mars doesn't work and the astronauts have to fake the landing on Earth.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Moonraker - about as realistic as any other Bond movie.
Destination Moon - the writers, including Robert Heinlein, deliberately tried to be as realistic as possible but it looks very 50s sci-fi compared to the real Moon landing just 19 years later.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
And in a similar way to Countdown, Marooned (also from 1969) looks realistic but isn't.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
A+ freak coincidence, snoball, just watched Destination Moon for the first time last night and came here to mention it.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Europa Report (2013) has a middling script, but takes considerable pains to be realistic considering the < $10 million budget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583Eukgz0QQ
― nonsense upon stilts (Sanpaku), Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
The first hour of Alien has an Altman kind of realism.
― Darin, Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
cosign Moonraker
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhvIrKJCcAAk4IM.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
it’s like they’re really in spacehttps://media3.giphy.com/media/sYSjXkUeHrI52/giphy.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
xxp what is this, amateur hour?
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
xp the Moonraker space marine fight is so bad (although it gets better once they get into the space station). But outside it reminds me of Spock's comment that Khan's tactics "indicate two dimensional thinking".So if we're going to have Flash Gordon, I nominate Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/12/protect-solar-system-space-mining-gold-rush-say-scientists?CMP=share_btn_tw
this article suggests space mining could become a growing industry in the coming decades which might inspire a wave of dour space realism that portrays a completely expendable precariat workforce as opposed to the heroic astronaut/cosmonauts of space realism past.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
"How hard can hard it be? Aim the drill at the ground and turn it on." loool
― jmm, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
completely expendable precariat workforce
outland has this despite basically being high noon in space
― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
xp
it's been many many years since i saw it but iirc outland is on the more realistic end of sci-fi movies.
― visiting, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.joblo.com/assets/images/oldsite/posters/images/full/1981-outland-poster1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
(everyone posts about outland at the same time)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5582f155e4b09b4ecb831628/t/5bca9f0c1905f46470e8ca6f/1540005647798/41478429_336167677120507_6753124538781143691_n.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Spacewalker / Age Of Pioneers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA38QfbGvDE
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
I can remember watching Outland about 30 years ago and being dead impressed, but can't remember much about the plot - but remember thinking it looked pretty great.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
also cliffie from cheers is it AND SO IS HIS MOM
― mark s, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link