# Science Fiction movies about space travel, without aliens. (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586 "2004-12-13T13:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/41 "2004-12-14T20:09:09Z")
Oh, wait, is the sphere itself an alien artifact? I could be, but if we are never told for certain does it count? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/42 "2004-12-14T20:24:23Z")
**Moon Zero 2 Saturn 5** (Sounds like the score in an interplanetary baseball game) **Countdown** (cheapie 1960s space flick starring a pre-Godfather James Caan. The lunar lander looks like the bottom of a LM with a Gemini capsule stuck on top) There’s a whole sub-genre of “Astronaut goes into space and comes back as a horrible monster” that has _wayyyy_ too many entries. In many of these ( **The Quatermass Experiment/The Creeping Unknown, Xtro, The Astronaut’s Wife** , etc.) the spaceman has obviously been invaded/attacked/ taken over by/parasitized by some alien life form. In others it’s not so clear: **The Crawling Hand** (an early MST3K masterpiece) \*\*First Man Into Space The Incredible Melting Man Monster A Go Go\*\* ---
**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:** [December 14, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/43 "2004-12-14T20:42:00Z")
**Marooned** , of curse. How’d I miss that one? I see that \*\*Saturn 3[/NB] was already mentioned, but then, if I’d noticed that, I couldn’t have usede that line. Technically speaking, **Journey to the Far Side of the Sun** _does_ have aliens. Everyone on the counter-Earth is certainly an alien, by any definition. This movie is, in my opinion, awful. It exists solely to support one stupid and disappointing idea. Kind of a pre-Shyamalan Shyamalan movie. (I’d like to see a remake of **Journey to the Far Side of the Sun** in which Counter-Earth is inhabited by fat nerdy kids, cows, large women in harlequin glasses, and various monsters. But it’ll never get made.) If you broaden the definition to allow TV shows, then you have the entire series of **Man Into Space** , and several episodes of **Twilight Zone** , possibly **Outer Limits** , and the British series **Out of this World** and **Out of the Unknown**. ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/44 "2004-12-14T21:06:02Z")
Soldier? can’t remember it well enough. Lifepod Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/45 "2004-12-14T21:26:43Z")
> [@flight](#): > > **Sphere** Does that movie involve space flight? One that I haven’t seen mentioned is **Space Camp**. I was a kid and SO in love with Lea Thompson after that movie came out. I watched it over and over. And I didn’t realize until I saw it mentioned on a talk show recently that the young boy in the movie is Joaquin Phoenix! Also, **The Dish** is a movie based on the true story about the people who worked at a large satellite dish in Australia that is used to communicate with American astronauts during the Apollo missions (the movie deals with _Apollo 11_). I’m not sure how embellished it is, but I don’t think it is as “true” as **Apollo 13**. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/46 "2004-12-14T21:34:16Z")
Oh yeah, and **Airplane II**. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/47 "2004-12-14T21:51:43Z")
The Fantastic Four. Airplane II. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/48 "2004-12-14T22:24:40Z")
[Capricorn One](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/) was about a fake landing on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/49 "2004-12-14T23:04:26Z")
From Anime I believe Cowboy Bebop has only humans (and an intelligent canine, not to forget), a movie version was released not too many years ago in US. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/50 "2004-12-15T00:16:39Z")
**Cowboy Bebop** won’t work because it has all sorts of non-sentient alien life like Ganymede Rock lobsters, floating Venetian flowers, and predatory fridge funguses. One that we seem to be forgetting is **Red Planet**. An awful film, but no alien life. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/51 "2004-12-15T00:41:54Z")
But are they alien or just Earth creatures/plants hybrided and mutated on other planets? The predatory fridge fungus came from an over ripe ganemede rock lobster. Alien species would have none earth names not be a type of Rock Lobster. Also Cowboy Bebop is fairly reasonable scientifically, so I doubt Venitian flowers would be native to Venus (which we know is pretty darned lifeless), but instead native to the terraformed Venus of the future. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586/52 "2004-12-15T01:14:19Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > **Thunderball** , with Sean Connery. _Thunderball_ takes place almost entirely in and around Jamaica. You may be thinking of Connery’s _You Only Live Twice_, which involved SPECTRE launching rockets from Japan to attack American and Soviet spacecraft, in an attempt to get them to go to war with each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-movies-about-space-travel-without-aliens-spoilers/279586.md?page=2)