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Posted By: buzzlightyear Apr 25, 2002 - 10:46 am

And the nominees are… It’s fun to hear what scenes in a film stand out, science fiction or otherwise. Now lets hear what space scenes kept you buying a ticket (or rewinding your VCR) time and again.

Posted By: Baze Apr 26, 2002 - 02:29 am

OK, it's that pull-back in Event Horizon. The guy's stood at the window of a space station, then the camera pulls out and twists at the same time, revealing that in perspective he's effectively standing on the ceiling, surrounded by stars. Just makes your stomach leap for no good reason. Really well done.

Posted By: Nomad Apr 26, 2002 - 06:41 am

How about the traditional starwars wcene where luke uses the force to fire into that tiny maint shaft to blowup the deathstar?

Posted By: cosmonaut Apr 26, 2002 - 09:00 am

Do new films count? I got to see a sneak preview of the most amazing space movie EVER! Space Station 3-D. I saw it in an IMAX theater. If you’ve ever been to an IMAX movie, you know that the screen is something like eight stories high and it completely fills your field of vision. Between that and the 3-D imaging, it really makes you feel like you’re an astronaut hundreds of miles above the earth. The sound thumps at you and pulls you in with everything else. It’s an incredible experience. Pretty much the whole movie is an outer space scene, so I'll use up my three and go with that one. I think everyone should see this, but particularly any fan of space films: http://www.imax.com/imaxspacestation

O.K., I have to mention one more, even though the scene takes place inside a ship rather than an being an ‘outer space’ shot. One of my all time favorite sci-fi moments is the dinner scene in Alien when the creature pops out of John Hurt’s chest. I couldn’t stop drawing pictures of it when I was a kid. That scene was so masterfully done. I wish Ridley Scott would do another space film.

Posted By: The Master Apr 26, 2002 - 02:36 pm

"the dinner scene in Alien"

LOL! That's what I was going to say! Definitely at the top of my list.

I would say the lightsaber battle between Luke and Vader in Empire Strikes Back is above Luke destroying the Death Star. It was truly thrilling and gave us one of the all time classic quotes..."I am your father, Luke".

Three huh....hmmmm. Well, another one that stands out for me is Leilu's (or however you spell her name) dive off of the building in 5th Element. My stomach churned and I got the most intense feeling of vertigo from that scene. Movies rarely elicit that kind of physical response from me.

Posted By: Baze Apr 27, 2002 - 02:07 am

And for my second choice... Well, it's the obvious one, but the docking at the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The approach, when the circular station is wheeling in space, then the space craft matches the spin and docks, all to the sound of the Blue Danube (I think!). Absolutely beautiful, and scientifically accurate!

Posted By: Sindatur Apr 29, 2002 - 01:47 pm

Well if we're going for Vertigo in a film from today, I gotta go with the scene from Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise runs up to the edge of the building. I've only seen the promos for this movie, but I almost heave everytime I see the commercial, because I get so much vertigo from it. I actually just watched Fifth Element a few days ago, Leilu's jump scene was not as bad for me as Vanilla Sky.

Posted By: Hyperion May 05, 2002 - 03:28 pm

The shadow fleet in full convoy mode, in Babylon 5 movie.
Also the view of Curosant the planet that is a city in Phantom Menace. Also the view from the balcony on that planet aswell, with obe 1.
However some of the scenes from Attack Of The Clones, that I have seen look awsome.
Especially all the ones with my hero Bobofet
Bobofet rules guy.
Regards:::::
Hyperion

Posted By: legiondary Jun 27, 2004 - 06:37 pm

Jodi Foster's wormhole journey in Contact.

Posted By: Bmat Jun 27, 2004 - 06:42 pm

The surreal scene in 2001 should be mentioned.

Posted By: MrB Jun 28, 2004 - 04:43 pm

Forbidden Planet should definitely be mentioned, some of the landscape art on that was truly fantastic. Without doubt a movie years ahead of its time.

Posted By: MrB Jun 28, 2004 - 04:44 pm

of course if you mention Forbidden planet, you also have to mention This Island Earth.

Posted By: Bmat Jun 28, 2004 - 05:18 pm

I agree about Forbidden Planet. Galaxy Quest had some cool space scenes, too.

Posted By: Desslok Jun 29, 2004 - 12:15 pm

My vote goes to the opening scene in Star Wars.

Second place goes to the POV shots from the Millennium Falcon's cockpit during the final space battle in ROTJ.

Third place goes to the beautiful shots of the Enterprise as it leaves Spacedock in TWOK (although I think the scene was recycled from TMP).

Posted By: Houston, we have a problem. Aug 16, 2004 - 01:52 am

Oh come on, I bet Cosmonaut will be the only one to agree with me here (probably cos he's the only one who's a REAL space-freak), but I think that Apollo 13 was the best space movie ever, but Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI are pretty •••• good. I have to see that spacey movie that Cosmonaut was on about - Space Station 3D.
Caitlin x

Posted By: Jdogg Aug 16, 2004 - 02:30 am

Puncturing the alien in Dark Star

Posted By: Aldan Aug 17, 2004 - 09:07 pm

Has anyone else here seen Outland? Not a great movie, and not vertigo-causing, but a pretty good sci-fi movie for its time...

Posted By: MrB Aug 19, 2004 - 01:01 am

I went to an Imax theatre a few weeks ago, in a word WOW, I ddn't see the space station one, I saw a weird animation thingy, and it was brilliant, The petshop boys bit was as camp as a row of chiffon tents, but it was very good, it's just a pity that the cost of making these movies prohibits some of the big block busters being made in this way, can you imagine Chronicles of Riddick in Imax styley... fab !

Posted By: Hyperion Aug 19, 2004 - 02:24 pm

I fist went to one of those stand up imax cinemas at a theme park when I was only 7

Guess which film it was ?

YUP you guessed it, the over 18+ gory horror one.
I well and truly dumped it and ran out screaming.

I never did find out the name of the horror film though.

I can still remember how scary it was, at 1st I was swaying left and right and back and forth while standing still - just like the next guy as the roller coaster begriming played out on the massive screen, then it turned to horror and I mean really gory Imax horror for a 7yr old, I dumped it well and truly

LOL

Only I managed to get in was my dad was with his mates and they all managed to blag the attendee to let me in with them.

Ouch!!

Hyperion The Despised

Posted By: legiondary Nov 01, 2004 - 07:31 am

My Personal Picks:

1)The entire battle in the Mutara Nebula from ST2. Roller coaster ride and nifty homage to submarine warfare.
2)The exterior shots from 2010 did a terrific job of imparting scale.
3) Enterprise blowing up in ST3 (still get teary eyed thinking about it.)