realistic movies set in SPACE

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

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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