worst space movie?

Gordon Davie wrote:

SpaceCamp.


How about Stowaway to the Moon?

Pat

Doug... wrote:

Yeah, but the sequence on the "Russian Space Station" was hysterical.

"THIS..." bangs hard on a pipe with a spanner "IS HOW YOU MAKE THINGS
WORK..." bangs harder "ON RUSSIAN SPACE STATION!!!" bangs hard enough to
split the pipe...



And probably fairly close to reality if Mir was any indication. Remember
how they bent the exterior airlock hatch, and held it in place with
C-clamps from then on?

Pat

(Mark) wrote:

"bob" wrote in message om...
This set me to wondering: what ranks as the most unrealistic space movie? To
qualify, it has to have some pretense of realism (this excludes Star Wars
etc)
votes anyone?

'Spacecamp' would have to be somewhere near the bottom of the list:
though at least it did have Leah Thompson to compensate for the
appalling script .

And JoBeth Williams...

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It was titled "Houston, We Have A Problem." It was execrable.

One of the few times I was better off with the VCR not working.
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:08:56 GMT, Doug... wrote:

Hmmm... that's hard to say. "Saturn 3" qualifies, I think. Bad movie
all around, except maybe for the score.

...The problem with that movie was that the five frames of Farrah
Fawcett-Majors' tits ruined many a young man's illusions, and proved
what a lot of people suspected all along: that damn bikini had been
slightly padded *and* airbrushed to look somewhat fuller.

C'mon, OM, what you *really* liked was Kirk Douglas' pale white ass.
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"Brian Thorn"
Its actually the other way around. "Deep Impact" was originally
intended to be a medium-budget film simply about the people on Earth
dealing with their impending doom.

Deep Impact was a suck film that scored big sales on Armageddon's coat-tails.
The middle half of the film is a bunch of cars in a traffic jam. (The traffic
jam scene is long.....sorta like......filler?) The one special effect in Deep
Impact is a large wave of water. For 6 bucks you get a 15 second animation. At
least Armageddon had a good 30 seconds of the meteors in the opening scene.

If Deep Impact was medium budget......then it was on the low side of medium.
Sales were like $175 million.......they hit the jackpot.

My nominee for worst space film would be uh "Salvage One" with Andy Griffith.
The flick was aimed at some hillbilly demographic with its "Look mah they left
some copper wire on that there moon thing." A foul film on multiple levels.

"The Crawling Hand"; not really a space movie, but the NASA scenes go beyond
ludicrous.

"PUSH THE RED BUTTON!!!"

"Scott Hedrick"
It was titled "Houston, We Have A Problem." It was execrable.

It was "Houston we've got a problem". 1974 made for TV. Robert Culp hides his
heart condition so he can stay at his post to save the astronauts. Culp is the
only name in the cast that I can recognize. Well ok Gary Collins....Robert T
White plays himself as the voice of NASA.....mebbe an x-15 pilot.....

I like the thing at the time because it made sense that Kennedy's space race had
to be putting some people under a lot of pressure, and this flick recognized
their efforts, in its own maudlin and inept way. Hollywood's answer to sausage
production. Hope they paid Culp a lot as he was featured throughout.

Jeez you guys are a tough crowd. Ok so maybe it doesn't hold up over time.
When it came out we knew it was schlock [something that has no value and is
shoddily made ( slang )], maybe even execrable [damnable, accursed].

"Gordon Davie"
Imaginary dialogue, too. They actually *changed* Charlie Duke's response to
the "Tranquillity Base" call to something like "We're all going blue in the
face here!" For God's sake, why?

For the same reason they titled Culp's TV movie "Houston we've got a problem."

If you use the same dialogue as the real event, you are shooting a documentary,
which makes it tougher to include scenes with astronaut's wives smoking crack,
etc etc.or whatever dramatic elements they want to use to increase the
entertainment value.

You can tell by looking at Farah Fawcett that she has small breasts.....compare
with Raquel Welch who is actually attractive.

check out this month's "Stuff" magazine at the newsstand. The cute little
lawyer on "Jag" is on the cover doing a Pamela Anderson imitation. I think it
is fake.