FReeper Canteen ~ What Is Your Favorite Outer Space Movie ~ October 16, 2007

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~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ What's Your Favorite Outer Space Movie?
Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with us!! Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

 

 

Your Opinions Please!

 

What is your favorite Outer Space Movie?

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film and a subsequent novelization by W.J. Stuart. The film features a number of Oscar-nominated special effects, groundbreaking use of an all-electronic music score, and the first screen appearance of the famous Robby the Robot.

In this film, "quantum mechanic" is a job description. The starship has a "quanto-gravitic" Q-G drive system that allows travel over the 16 light year journey distance in about a year. The crew must place themselves in "DC Stations" (Deceleration tubes) as the ship comes out of light speed — a form of stasis in order to avoid injury or death from such braking forces. 

This was the first film in which humans constructed a flying saucer and used it to travel in outer space.

 

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, released in 1977, is a landmark science fiction film, not only for its special effects, but also for its portrayal of UFO occupants as benign, even kind, which was a sharp departure from the "evil monster" style of most earlier films. It popularized a number of UFO motifs, many of which had earlier been reported in conjunction with UFO sightings, such as alien abduction, small and thin aliens ("greys"), and UFOs covered in lights rather than the disc shapes popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

The enigmatic title refers to the three "kinds" of "close encounters" with UFOs, as categorized by the noted astronomer UFO investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek who defined Close Encounters of the First Kind as "Sighting," the Second Kind as "Evidence," and the Third Kind as "Contact."

Also released in 1977, Star Wars IV, A New Hope, was ground-breaking in its use of special-effects. This first Star Wars movie is one of the most successful films of all time and is generally considered one of the most influential as well.

George Lucas finished a draft of the screenplay in May 1974. As the draft developed, the characters evolved significantly. Early in development, Luke Skywalker's character changed from a 60-year-old general to a member of a family of dwarfs; the Corellian smuggler, Han Solo, was envisioned as a large, green-skinned monster with gills. Chewbacca was inspired by Lucas' Alaskan malamute dog, Indiana, who often acted as the director's "co-pilot" by sitting in the passenger seat of his car. The Force, a mysterious energy field, was initially conceived as the Kyber crystal, a "galactic holy grail."

In the wake of Star Trek's popularity in the early 1970s as a result of newborn Trek fandom and syndication, there were several failed attempts to produce a Trek feature film, starting in 1974. "The Planet of the Titans" was nearly produced as the first Star Trek motion picture. Written by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, the script involved the crew of the Enterprise rescuing the starship Da Vinci from a disaster. During the rescue, Kirk suffers a shock to the brain causing him to go mad and disappear.

By the end of 1977, Star Wars had become a huge box-office success, and Paramount put The Motion Picture into pre-production. Rather than follow the space opera feel of Star Wars, Star Trek The Motion Picture  instead emulated the mood and format of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Alien became a success, spawning a Hollywood media franchise of literature, video games, merchandise and three official sequels. By featuring a strong heroine the film itself also proved unconventional for the action genre. While the Alien (referred to in spin-offs as a xenomorph) proved a popular aspect of the film, the story of Ellen Ripley became the thematic thread that ran through the series. Together with the films of David Cronenberg from the 1970s Alien emerged as a central work in the development of the body-horror subgenre.

 Publicity for the film used a tagline which became famous: In space no one can hear you scream.

Total Recall explores the question of reality versus delusion, a recurrent theme in the author's works. The plot calls for the lead character and the audience to question whether the character’s experience is real or being fed directly to his mind.

There are several visual and informational clues which point in both directions. The director and the writer play up the intentional ambiguity to the very end,  and the viewer is left wondering whether or not the events actually happened, if the entire story is simply the memory purchased at Rekall gone terribly awry, or if in fact Rekall had simply delivered on its original promise of “action” and “adventure.”

Independence Day's success was partially credited to an extensive marketing campaign which began in the United States with a dramatic commercial during Super Bowl XXX. The movie was scheduled for release on July 3, 1996, but due to the high level of anticipation for the film, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, 1996, the same day the action in the film begins.

Come tell us about your favorite Outer Space Movie!!

 

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, dainbramaged.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD SARGE'S DAD!!!!!!!

HAPPY 30TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, TINA07!!!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Mogger]

Ditto... The Last Starfighter

[cavador]

Here's a couple everyone missed=

Buckaroo BanzaiIt's got a theme song which stays in the head for days!

Battlestar Galactica
(Galactica was made a looong time before George Lucas even THOUGHT about Star Wars!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone. Good morning

Thank you, Lauren, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities. Hmmmm, I think if I had to choose my fav it would be Independence Day and/or ET. I did like Serenity. I was sorry to see that they took it (as FireFly) off tv.

DC Metroland weather report ~ Today....Partly cloudy. High 78F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. ~ Tonight....Mostly cloudy. Low 57F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

I did get everything I need to get done, yesterday, so all I have to do is start working on the stuff sitting on my desk. This will require me to be in and out of the Canteen. I'll have my pinger on so I'll know if anyone needs me.

Time for me to make my rounds. Have to go read all my pings and do my morning Howdys. But, you stay right where you are. Don't touch that dial. Don't change that channel. Put down that remote. Don't leave the room. Keep your eyes on your monitor. Cause...............I'll be bock!

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[dangus]

Sorry. I thought it was a repost from somewhere else. In that case, I do have to commend you on the first couple :)

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Beach. How’s it going?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning and (((HUGS))) EG. I’m dealing with back pain this week. Actually, it’s been about a week and half since I pulled the muscle. It’s slowly, very slowly, moving its way down my back. I’ve tried just about everything, but this morning OUCH! So, I’m trying to work sitting in this no-good chair at the desk. I’m also review info on the XM radio. I’ve got three free months in my new car. I’ve got to decide if I want to keep it.

Ok, howz things with you? Did you get any of that rain?

[E.G.C.]

((LOL))Well, yep we did get a little bit of rain but the main story was the wind and all that lightning which did cause that power outage at our house early Monday morning.

The forecast is for more bad weather tonight and especially tommorow. There is a Moderate Risk of severe weather over parts of Central and Eastern Oklahoma. Hopefully it will move East of us before it starts develping but it all depends on how much moisture we get.

We slept real well last night. As opposed to the night before. It sure felt good.

[beachn4fun]

WOW! Boy, hope you don’t get hit too bad.

I guess I’d better keep my eye on the weather channel.

[dangus]

Well, I didn’t like the new version of Time Machine :^).

Actually, I am a big sci-fi fan. (I’ve already apologized that I didn’t realize I was being hard on a vanity post.) Verne and Wells aren’t my favorite authors.

As for Verne: I did like the original movie versions of Journey to the Center of the Earth, and 20000 Leagues beneath the sea. I never like reading him, but I’ve read harsh criticisms of the translators; I should check out more modern translations.

As for Wells: That’s tough. He’s created so many of the templates for modern sci-fi, including those of excellent works, I do have to give him his due. Give more credit to another Wells (or Welles), but War of the Worlds is a blast. But his enthusiastic support of authoritarianism (he was an avowed Stalinist) and pervasive nihilism makes it hard to just get lost in his worlds. I find ancient (pre-1950s :^D) sci-fi works best when it is mythological, and the more Wells gets to explain himself, the more fun he robs from his stories.

[dangus]

Some to think of it:
I should try reading Verne in French! (That’d be some way to re-learn my HS French!)

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen.
Check out the on line video at the link below. That is a great way to take shots at the Congress.

Uncle Jay Explains the News (How Congress works)

[Lee'sGhost]

Do yourself a favor and rent it ASAP. One of the best ever. Great character development, conflict, action, special effects only as necessary. WAY overlooked.

[Lee'sGhost]

“It makes it look like it’s going to be Buffy/Xena/Warrior Space Woman or somehting and that wasn’t what it was about.”

Good observation. The movie was a hundred times better than that poster would lead you to believe.

[7thson]

Forbidden Planet - one could call it a Star Trek episode.

Aliens - the first one was good but I liked the second one better. The third one I thought sucked because they killed off the little girl and Cpl. Hicks. I never saw the fourth one.

I have to disagree with you on Independence Day. There were so many errors and plot holes in the film it made it more stupid than anything else. Which, IMO, is too bad because it had the makings of a classic sci-fi film.

War of the Worlds - the one with Gene Barry.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, dear

[tomkow6]

Morning, AH!

[Lee'sGhost]

because of Eva Habermann

Worth repeating. Where is she now?