# Name this space movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594 "2008-02-14T14:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/1 "2008-02-14T14:53:08Z")
Was there a movie where a pressurized cabin is punctured by micrometeors and the crew sprays some water to find the holes? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/2 "2008-02-14T14:56:02Z")
Could have been. The only movie i recall right now in which the ship was punctured by micrometeors is _Pitch Black_. No water was used in an attempt to find the holes, though; they were too busy trying to prevent the ship from crashing. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/3 "2008-02-14T14:57:43Z")
[_Mission to Mars_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/) had a scene where they use Dr. Pepper to find a meteor puncture. Still a horrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/4 "2008-02-14T16:17:29Z")
There was a TV movie called [Lifepod](http://imdb.com/title/tt0107415/), which was a remake of Hitchcock’s non-scifi flick [Lifeboat](http://imdb.com/title/tt0037017/). In the remake, the surviviors of a spaceship disaster are adrift in space in a rickety escape pod that sometimes ‘springs a leak.’ They manage to patch the leaks by spraying a quick-drying liquid compound over the holes. That might be what you’re thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/5 "2008-02-14T16:19:04Z")
[QUOTE=tanstaafl] [_Mission to Mars_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/) had a scene where they use Dr. Pepper to find a meteor puncture. Still a horrible movie. [/QUOTE] I think that is probably the one. And it is not as bad a movie as “Red Planet”. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/6 "2008-02-14T17:07:04Z")
[QUOTE=Scoundrel Swanswater] I think that is probably the one. And it is not as bad a movie as “Red Planet”. [/QUOTE] I can’t comment authoritatively since I didn’t see “Red Planet”. I did however sit through a special advanced screening of “Mission To Mars” and let’s just say if anyone associated with the production of that steamy turd was in the theatre they left early for their own personal safety. I have a hard time imagining a worse movie, and I’ve got a hell of an imagination. I’m thinking that MTM is down there at 0 degrees Kelvin on the “Bad Movie Thermometer” - there may be others just as bad but there’s a point where it is impossible to actually get _worse_. “Battlefield Earth” sucked equally, for example. And I’m not going to rent RP to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/7 "2008-02-15T14:15:42Z")
Red Planet is very much like Mission to Mars, except that it is really, really, REALLY boring. And the actors are all playing like they are trying to win Oscars for their performance. I think it is easily the worst Sci-Fi movie I have ever seen (and yes, that included Battlefield Earth). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-space-movie/437594/8 "2008-02-15T14:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Red Planet is very much like Mission to Mars, except that it is really, really, REALLY boring. I think that anyone who brings a reprogrammed robot killer dog on a Martian expedition deserves whatever they get. Like they couldn’t see THAT one coming a mile away.