What are you favorite Extraterrestrial/Space travel movies???

contact, with jodie foster

obviously the book was far better, but not a bad attempt...

by the great carl sagan, get your own copy today, kids, on amazon or ebay or countless other used booksellers out there...

read, read, read...

now if only they can make an effective screenplay of robert forwards "dragon's egg"?

that would be a challenge!

Originally posted by JohnnyQuest18
I can't believe the lack of support for Star Wars! Go Boba!

well, it really wasnt a space travel movie, more of a great fairy-tale in a sort of space-sci-fi-ish setting...

wizards, knights and princess, oh my!

Originally posted by halfmask
Some of my favorites that haven’t been mentioned yet would be; stargate (the original), the Andromeda chain (I think it counts), Solaris and the old school classic "the thing".

I just realized I mixed up solaris and sunshine. I ment to say Sunshine and I have never actually seen solaris.

oops double post. Mods delete it if you can.

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K-Pax, Species, any Star Trek movie...Oh and Star Wars for sure!!!

Don't waste your life watching Solaris...I still imagine what I could have done with those 2 1/2 hours...:bnghd:

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My Faves as a kid.

The Flight of the Navigator.
The Cat from Outerspace.

The space craft in Flight of the Navigator was amazing also

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Top thread! Didn't see Apollo 13 (skipped a few pages tho!)

I have to add, regarding Solaris.. I thought it was a great film. It entertained me somewhat trying to figure out what actually happened near the end, although I didn't settle on a definite, I liked that I could put a few different interpretations to fit the film.

I can see why some would not like it at all.. But IMO, if you like psychological films, you'll like Solaris.

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Originally posted by menguard
Where do I start 44OO was real good, to bad the show got taken off for some reason. That being a series.k

Invasion, w/ nicole kidman was, good just a remake of invasion of the body snatchers.

The Forgotten.

Xfiles Super Soldiers mythology series, that was good.

E.T.

Critters

TommyKnockers Steven King

War of the Worlds remake with Tom Cruise was good.

Kevin Spacey, K-PAX.

A good kids movie W.A.L.L.E

Cocoon.

Batteries not included.

Andromeda Strain. More scientific of microbiology affecting a town. Very good movie.

Mission to Mars, Enjoyed that one.

Space odessy was alright.

EnemyMine

The Cube or Cube can't remember.

The Day The Earth Stood Still, Old but a briilliant piece of work.

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Critters, oh wow, I watched all the Critters DVDs.
Bloody Funny, especially when the critter swears in it's own language then gets shot!! The two bounty hunters are funny as well!!

ALWAYS:

Star WARS


BEST UNDERATED EVER:

Fifth Element

Close finish(For imagination and humor)

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.

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My list of faves would be

Star Wars (the Originals)
Star Trek the wrath of Kahn
They live
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (very funny)
V
The Last Starfighter
Independence Day,
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Apollo 13

My favorites would be:

Alien

Aliens

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

War of the Worlds - the newer one.

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Men in Black

Men in Black II

Now let me see...

Contact is my all time favourite.

There are too many, and I bet I am missing loads of good ones ... But in no particular order:

Contact
Close Encounters With The Third Kind
K-Pax
Event Horizon
The Abyss
Serenity
MIB 1

I guess it really depends on my mood

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reply to post by daddymax


Thats your opinion ofcourse, I thought it was an excellent film - if you enjoy that kind of film, as a previous poster stated, you will love it - 90% rest of population will hate it.

Same with There will be blood - Truely one of the worst movies I'v ever seen, although it was labelled as one of the best ever.

Sunshine... I can't believe this has not been mentioned more.
Fifth Element
and many of what has already been mentioned

I also just watched Starship Troopers 3 and was pleasantly surprised.

Well this is a tough one....

Here goes:
Star Trek (not all of them)
The Abyss
Predator
Aliens
CEO3K
Mars Attacks
Independance Day

They are in no special order whatsoever.

So many good ones mentioned....I like

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Star Wars.

Alien (no s)

2001

And so many more.Great to read about so many I had forgotten about.

Originally posted by snowen20
I have one though Im not sure if it qualifies.
It was a really wierd cartoon about some giant blue aliens that looked at humans as pests and some were kept as pets.
I think it was called fantastic planet.. Not to be confused with forbiddon planet, which I also love!

Fantastic Planet is a classic French sci fi animated film - one of the first of its kind...still a brilliant film even though its at least 30 years old..,.

another great film is for ETs visiting earth is an Argentinian film called:

"The Man Facing Southeast" - This film was remade ala hollywood a few years ago and starred Kevin Spacey and is called K-Pax...

And the original Alien is one of the greatest films, let alone sci fi horror films, ever made...

Followed closely by Blade Runner -

My Favorites are
1:Aliens
2:2001 Space Odyssey
3:Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4:Enemy Mine