Science Fiction movies about space travel, without aliens. (Spoilers)

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I’ve been trying to make a mental list of sci-fi movies that include space travel of some sort, interplanetary or interstellar, even in a peripheral way, that do not, at some point, include alien life. For purposes of the discussion, I mean any alien life, from microbes on up to humaniods with funny bumps on their foreheads. (Advanced Earth life from the future is a interesting enough exception that we might as well list those, too.)

So far, I have an interesting mix of good and bad:

Destination Moon
Fortress II
Outland
Bladerunner
Gattaca
Armageddon
Deep Impact

I know that’s not a complete list. What have I forgotten (or never seen?)

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Silent Running

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Would ‘Apollo 13’ count?

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Planet of the Apes
2001 (depending on your interpretation…)
The Black Hole
Saturn 3

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Solaris, or maybe not?
There is only one alien in Dark Star and it is a very silly one, so could you sneak this in?

Jonathan C IIRC Apollo 13 is not fiction :slight_smile: I recommend reading This Book to see just how much they got right in the film. Maybe when they do the sequel they can add some aliens?

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Space Cowboys

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strictly theater release? Or do you count made for tv as well?

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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun aka Doppelganger.

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Next year’s Serenity, barring a huge surprise from Joss Whedon. It’s based on the show Firefly, which didn’t have aliens.

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The worst sf movie I have ever, ever seen:

Event Horizon

God, it took a google search for me to recall the title… it was so bad I blocked it from my mind.

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TV shows count? If so, Red Dwarf as well as the aforementioned Firefly.

–Cliffy

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I think it’d be an interesting debate whether Apollo 13 counts as science fiction. I mean, part of me says that it’s obviously not, but part of me says, damn, that’s some good science fiction. :slight_smile:

Feature releases, only, I think.

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Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Weber’s entire Honor Harrington series (start with On Basilisk Station)
Anne McCaffrey The Ship who Sang (I think there aren’t any aliens)

Yeesh, that’s all I can think of without looking at my bookshelves.

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Holy cow, I completely missed the part about movies!

Sorry, nevermind, nothing to see here, move along… :smack:

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Um, Jules, sweetie, wouldja do me a favor and check your DVD rack instead? :slight_smile:

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OK Poddy, but it’s full of cowboy movies! :smiley:

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Dune

All the alien like people are really just engineered or spice inhanced earth humans.

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Oh crap, the worms were aliens.

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I’m wracking my brain to come up with a space movie, with cowboys, without aliens . . .

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Well it depends if the OP was referring to sentient aliens or non-sentient aliens. Dune is definitely a story about humans and space travel.