What goes in this film festival

[cos]

Imagine a hypothetical film festival that would show:
- The Martian
- Interstellar
- Moon
- 2001: A Space Odyssey

Alien does NOT fit into this festival.
The Star Wars films do NOT fit into this festival.

What's another movie that you think belongs on the list?

No spoilers!!

Comments

[ceelove]

Gravity

E.T.

The “Out of Gas” episode of Firefly

Arrival

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

For a foreign film, the recent Chinese blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” (which is not actually a recommendation of the film, I didn’t care for it myself)

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Re: What goes in this film festival

[cos]

Close Encounters and Arrival fit my idea of what this theme is. E.T. I'm hesitant about... it has one foot in this theme and one foot somewhere else. But now I want to see Gravity, which I haven't seen. And maybe I should see The Wandering Earth even though you weren't that into it? Did you like all of the other ones you listed and all the ones I put in my post?

Re: What goes in this film festival

[ceelove]

I quite recommend Gravity, which (among other things) challenges the common one-man-against-space narrative. I like the others I listed, E.T. the least of them (and I can see why you’d disinclude it too). I loved Arrival, in my top 5 movies I saw that year. I watched The Wandering Earth in an attempt to get out of my western-centric SF movie-watching and wish I liked it, but found the scientific premise underlying the movie to be too glaringly impossible and therefore riddled with plot holes.

Of the ones you listed, I found The Martian to hold my attention the best, Interstellar interesting and thought-provoking but flawed, 2001 iconic but veeerrrryyyy slllooowww (half the movie could be cut and lose nothing), and Moon too boring to complete.