realistic movies set in SPACE

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 capsule
iii: 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!

i mean how would I know

make a pitch for yr theory, sit back as fools mock it, same as every other thread here

borad description etc

well I mean The Martian is probably 8/10 realism but it’s mostly not in space per se

Lol xp

wing commander

say more

no

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.

doesn't Gravity qualify here?

good question answered in the O/P

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

oops! well, a second vote for Gravity then

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.

(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

re: boredom of space, i thought the fuck room in High Life seemed kind of realistic

Flash Gordon

Countdown (1968)

… and discuss them if they're realistic!

― mark s, Sunday, May 12, 2019 12:33 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

>:(

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.

Capricorn One - very realistic as the rocket going to Mars doesn't work and the astronauts have to fake the landing on Earth.

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.

And in a similar way to Countdown, Marooned (also from 1969) looks realistic but isn't.

A+ freak coincidence, snoball, just watched Destination Moon for the first time last night and came here to mention it.

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

The first hour of Alien has an Altman kind of realism.

cosign Moonraker

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhvIrKJCcAAk4IM.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U

it’s like they’re really in space

https://media3.giphy.com/media/sYSjXkUeHrI52/giphy.gif

xxp what is this, amateur hour?

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.

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.

"How hard can hard it be? Aim the drill at the ground and turn it on." loool

completely expendable precariat workforce

outland has this despite basically being high noon in space

xp

it's been many many years since i saw it but iirc outland is on the more realistic end of sci-fi movies.

https://www.joblo.com/assets/images/oldsite/posters/images/full/1981-outland-poster1.jpg

(everyone posts about outland at the same time)

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5582f155e4b09b4ecb831628/t/5bca9f0c1905f46470e8ca6f/1540005647798/41478429_336167677120507_6753124538781143691_n.jpg

Spacewalker / Age Of Pioneers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA38QfbGvDE

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.

also cliffie from cheers is it AND SO IS HIS MOM