Comments on: The Top 5 Astronaut Movies of All Time

By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking

Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:17:51 +0000

gottarhyme – Many thanks to you for submitting a movie that I not only never heard of, but that accounts a story I’ve never heard of either! As a self-professed Apollo Whore, I am almost ashamed that I hadn’t heard the story of Parkes Observatory in Australia that was used to help provide video and radio connectivity from the Moon landing and — PROVIDED THE FIRST IMAGES AS PRIMARY CREW! I recommend this film also to everyone (and I don’t think it would have trumped any in my listing). The only hiccup I thought was an actor I am devoted to: Sam Neil. He’s from Norther Ireland/UK and – how is it he wasn’t able to/encouraged to adopt an Aussie accent for this role!?!?! Every other person (other than the people from America, hello?) had that thick Drawwwwl that we’ve all come to love yet, Sam Neil provides us an english representation that showcases that he didn’t even TRY one? Stymied but a great movie for sure. Thanks, gottarhyme!

By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking

Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:12:12 +0000

Fear not, Peter! There are many lists to come and they make for great and interesting commentary sections for sure! Thanks for taking the time to comment and please look for more from me and the entire staff here at ScreenRant.Com! Cheers!

By: Peter Reyes

Peter Reyes — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:16:57 +0000

Great list, Mike!
to piggy-back onto this one, I found something you might like: a list of the 5 worst sci-fi-related TV shows. Really funny and maybe the opposite end of the spectrum of your list!

http://www.tvtango.com/news/detail/id/54

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:13:38 +0000

Channel 4 just showed In The Shadow Of The Moon in the UK. Amazing stuff – lots of footage I’d never seen before. Michael Collins and Charlie Duke came across especially well I thought.

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:15:44 +0000

Thanks for the list.

I thought October Sky was excellent as well.

By: Joker961

Joker961 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:12:58 +0000

Suprised Marooned didn’t make the list.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:08:43 +0000

@Steve

Look again closely at the list. ALL the movies are about ACTUAL space exploration.

Vic

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:28:14 +0000

Can someone tell me why 2001: A Space Odyssey is not on this list?

Not only one of the best SPACE movies, but one of the best films of all time!

By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking

Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:18:36 +0000

David your post reminds me of a blog post I made now years ago referring to the very music you’re talking about. While you know that there is a “From the Earth to the Moon” soundtrack, it includes only the smallest sampling of score from the film. Well, BEHOLD, and be sure to stop by the Mason Daring website to thank them for posting them, and HOPE against hope that they’ll eventually release the score to From the Earth to the Moon.

Thanks for chiming in and sharing your thoughts!

http://grabthewheel.blogspot.com/search?q=mason+daring

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:13:07 +0000

I liked the ‘Spider’ episode too. It was very touching when they played the lullaby whenever the engineers were looking at the LEM. Growing up near Grumman there was a lot of pride that it was one of the greatest vehicles ever made.

Like you I wish I could have been involved in something great in my career.

By: Quvmoh

Quvmoh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:18:00 +0000

Chill went down my spine when you mentioned spider as a special moment, this was my favorite story in the series and am pretty sure i wore out a VHS tape prior to getting the dvd’s.

By: Jannah

Jannah — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:45:23 +0000

Great article and comments everyone!

Having grown up during the early space program era, and my dad being a test engineer for the Titan2, I’ve got much love for good space movies and documentaries. Your list is great! But I do agree that I’d put Apollo 13 a bit higher.

I ditto the comments that “Dish” and “Capricorn One” are fun also! To add to your list of future space movie viewing, don’t forget “Moonshot” — a fantastic astronauts-eye-view documentary; and Robert Altman’s “Countdown” — a 1968 movie starring James Caan and Robert Duvall that gets a bit hokey at times (in our space-educated hindsight), but reflects the psychological aspects of training, family, health, and competitiveness in the vein that FTETTM did, but within the actual zeitgeist of the era (was VHS only, but just released on DVD) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(film)

By: mike

mike — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:10:46 +0000

what? No love for capricorn one, deep impact, space 1999

By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking

Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:06:39 +0000

Thanks to the many of you that provided listings of other Astronaut films. I’m glad that you’ve helped me build a new listing of “need to gets” that include some more great Astronaut movies.

Thanks to everyone for your comments and keep ‘em coming!

By: Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking

Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:04:28 +0000

Hi Darren!

Thanks for taking the time to comment on The Top 5 Astronaut Movies of All Time here at Screen Rant! we really appreciate it!

The reason you don’t see Armageddon on the listing, is that we have 5 slots, and – for me and clearly a number of others – it doesn’t fare any better than the ones I listed in the top 5 listing.

I remember seeing Armageddon in the theaters and wondering why every, single, meaningless shot have to be “moving”. There’s something to be said for a dynamic camera, but every now and again, watching things go by the frame with a static camera also helps out a film.

Thanks for your question and have a great day!

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:44:53 +0000

Why isn’t Armageddon with Bruce Willis here?