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buzzlightyear Non-Standard Userer	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 05-08-2002 09:24 AM PT (US)

SEBULBA Standard Userer	Undoubtably, the Death Star attack in Star Wars has still got to be one of the best space scenes in a movie. 2010 has some really nice space shots also. And even the Death Star attack in ROTJ.
posted 05-08-2002 09:38 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Standard Userer	2001 has excellent and classic outer space scenes. I also like the Dish sequence in Trek: First Contact.
posted 05-08-2002 10:12 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	Death Star battle scenes. When Tim Robbins floats off in Mission to Mars. Quite a few from Moonraker. The whole mothership sequence from ID:4
posted 05-08-2002 10:15 AM PT (US)

Greg Bryant Standard Userer	Battle in the Mutara Nebula in Star Trek II The Star Gate sequence in 2001 Shuttlepod escape from the Nostromo in Alien
posted 05-08-2002 10:43 AM PT (US)

Bradley Standard Userer	Already been said but I'll say it again anyway, Death Star battle in Star Wars. And now a new one, the Asteroid Field Chase in The Empire Strikes Back. Spaceball 1 going to "ludicrous speed" and transforming into Mega Maid from Spaceballs.
posted 05-08-2002 11:18 AM PT (US)

Widescreen Standard Userer	My personal favorite is everytime the Enterprise went into warp speed in the first six films (More specifically in TMP)- it looks ten times better than that stupid ass rubberband effect used the Next Gen pictures (or just about every Berman produced product). The slingshot look was much better produced with the stars merging into lines running past- similar to the jump to lightspeed in Ep.'s IV-VI of Star Wars. A New Hope's coolest space sequence was the Millenium Falcon fending off Tie Fighters after escaping the Death Star. (Had to be different, the good one was taken). [Message edited by Widescreen on 05-08-2002]
posted 05-08-2002 11:25 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	I also like the scene where the Falcon is tossed out with the trash. Useless Fact of the Day: Apparently (seems true to me, need to double check) the only set used in ANH which returned in ESB was the Millenium Falcon.
posted 05-08-2002 11:31 AM PT (US)

Hasta Standard Userer	Definitely the Death Star battle in Return of the Jedi... Probably my favorite. Starship Troopers also features some amazing space scenes. The first -- the "Klendathu Drop", the second, "The Destruction of Roger Young"... Coincidentally, both of those pieces from Poledouris' are excellent. I can't really think of any more; good topic, though.
posted 05-08-2002 11:34 AM PT (US)

jeffy unregistered	The Empire Strikes Back -- The Asteroid Field Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Traveling through time to the past Contact: "I had no idea...no words. No words."
posted 05-08-2002 11:44 AM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Standard Userer	The Star Destroyer flyover in A New Hope. Dramatic, impressive, the thing seemed to go on forever while still appearing to move fast. The Enterprise Drydock flyaround. Some say it's indugent and overlong but I love it. I felt I was seeing the real Enterprise for the first time. Of course there was the music too. The Stargate sequence from 2001. Groundbreaking. The Dropship launch from Aliens. Boom, Vroom, Zoom! It's not outerspace but it may as well have been. The Mothership rising from behind Devils's Tower in CE3K. Gasp inducing the first time, just plain awesome everytime after that.
posted 05-08-2002 12:26 PM PT (US)

Widescreen Standard Userer	HAL, Have to agree about the drydock sequence, I swear we as audiences deserved that with the newer Enterprise ship in First COntact- it was a beautiful design. but unfortunately, those filmmaker don't care about making the material they've got larger than life. That's why any next gen film will face more ridicule because it's harder to please since the bar has been raised by the initial films.
posted 05-08-2002 12:41 PM PT (US)

Quill Standard Userer	1. Death Star Attack ROTJ (it simply has a grander scope than ANH) 2. Battle in the Mutara Nebula (great pacing, great music, great drama) 3. Tie between the Asteroid Chase is TESB and the final battle in Star Trek 6...always liked watching the Enterprise take a pummeling. From what I've read of the Star Trek: Nemesis...the end battle may take its place up there.
posted 05-08-2002 12:55 PM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Quill: 1. Death Star Attack ROTJ (it simply has a grander scope than ANH) Grander? Yes. But I found it to be, like the space battle in TMP, lacking the original Death Star battle's, tension, pace and drama. ROTJ was just a zillion ships flying all over the place. Lucas designed the original Death Star attack from splicing dogfight scenes from old ww2 movies like 633 Sqaundron and The Battle of Britain and it resulted in a tighter more urgent sequence. Everytime the rebels lost a ship in that battle there was a sense of "Oh crap!" In ROTJ when the rebels lose ships it's just another explosion. It also helps that the movie stays with that battle for the duration rather than skipping alternatly from several locations as in ROTJ and TMP.
posted 05-08-2002 01:27 PM PT (US)

Gae Standard Userer	All the ones mentioned above but also do you remember the scene in 2010where John Lithgow and a Russian astronaut have to float over to the abandoned Jupiter ship ,which is now spinning out of control in orbit? Lithgow suffers throughout the scene evident by his continuous heavy breathing. Man, that scene just gives me sweaty palms every time I watch it. Also in Starship Troopers when Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) takes off in the shuttle to get to her first flying assignment darting dangerously through the docks and out into space is a great scene...aided wonderfully by Poledouris' magical and uplifting music! Gae NP Film themes compilation
posted 05-08-2002 02:55 PM PT (US)

Lancelot Standard Userer	Disclaimer: I usually protest "picking the best", just on principle. I won't say the are the three best, but they are notable. *Glenn's orbit from The Right Stuff.* Before the advent of computer-enhanced scenery, this epic event was depicted by Phillip Kaufmann with striking reality. Conti's Holst-ian music underscores the sequence with a reverent magnificence. *TIE Fighter Attack from Star Wars/A New Hope.* It's not the fact that Star Wars does not obey the laws of physics--it's not important that it does. Space is merely a setting for this battle sequence that is more a scene out of a WWII film. It's brilliant, because you buy it--setting, score and scene. Burn Around the Moon sequence from Armageddon. Quite a dramatic scene, notable as it has just followed a tense scene played for laughs, and then suddenly the scope of what must be accomplished becomes shockingly evident, and that it happens so rapidly that nothing can be done to spare the initial price of the Independence shuttle. (Symbolically, independence is lost--dependence upon freedom remains.) The score for the scene (omitted from the commercial release) slides from an exciting, energetic pace to an appropriately lacrimal choir.
posted 05-08-2002 04:15 PM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	I'd have to say Armageddon's whole space thing from the point of the launch to the end of the shuttle crash sequence is great. ID4 has a great sequence when Will and Jeff had just planted the bomb and were trying to escape the space ship. Clayton
posted 05-08-2002 04:26 PM PT (US)

cosmonaut Non-Standard Userer	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 05-09-2002 11:10 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Standard Userer	Of course, the Death Star battle in Star Wars is pretty much a classic as can be. Or the scene when the Millenium Falcon takes off for the first time. Another favorite of mine though is the scene in Douglas Trumball's Silent Running, when the last of the three little robots gets blasted off into deep space in the with the final remains of Earth's flora, armed with a small plastic watering can.
posted 05-09-2002 01:23 PM PT (US)

Tom_B_Stone Standard Userer	1. Opening scenes in 2001 - Kubrick's point of view shots of our solar system are full of awe and wonder. 2. Any space scenes from Starship Troopers - pure eye candy. 3. Opening scenes of Forbidden Planet - not very realistic, but still manages to fuel the romance of space, unlike the Star **** movies, where space is just a backdrop for noisy, speeding spaceships.
posted 05-10-2002 08:08 AM PT (US)

Loganmercury Non-Standard Userer	Bob Hope and Bing Crosby shot into orbit... Three Stooges meeting Venus women... Any Thunderbirds space episode... (This is a joke...this is not to be interpreted as a serious sci-fi guy thread!) LOL...
posted 05-11-2002 11:22 PM PT (US)

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