2024-05-12 17:49:32
If a movie starts on a spaceship and a voice says “Logbook, year 35, wishing to return home” You already imagine, as a seasoned viewer, that there is no chance that they will end up returning home at dinner time to see their daughter Jenny eating her favorite dish. Astronauts lost in space before their time exist in cinema since the silent era, but we have put together the 9 best films of the subgenre so you don’t have to look any further. Grab your oxygen and seal your helmet tightly: There is no gravity here!
‘Lost in Space’
Address: Stephen Hopkins Department: Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert
Based on the 60’s series with the same name, it could not be missing from this list of people lost in space, well, ‘Lost in Space’, in which An entire family was looking for a new habitable place for humans. At the time, it was expected that its familiar, white tone would help, so marketing prepared for it to be a franchise-creating success, but it didn’t even make what it cost and Its camp tone did not convince the public or critics. Not even the presence of an elite cast encouraged this trip to nowhere.
‘Gravity’
Address: Alfonso Cuaron Department: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Alfonso Cuarón made us wait seven years to see his next film after ‘Children of Men’, but the wait was worth it. ‘Gravity’ almost won the Oscar (’12 Years a Slave’ took it) thanks to the story of a Sandra Bullock totally alone in the stratosphere. It is a claustrophobic, exciting, intelligent film with outrageously good visual effects that marked the industry in 2013. So much so that even James Cameron ended up confessing that It was the movie I had been wanting to see for a long time.
Review in Espinof by Mikel Zorrilla | To see in HBO Max y Movistar Plus+
‘Horizonte final’
Address: Paul WS Anderson Department: Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
That ‘Final Horizon’ is good is a miracle, because Its assembly had to be rushed, 35 minutes were cut and Paramount left Paul WS Anderson sold, forced to fill the gap that ‘Titanic’ was originally going to have. And although it was a resounding failure at the box office, over time it has gained a very fair cult status that even Christopher Nolan honored (wink, wink) in ‘Interstellar’. Hard science fiction, horror and unhinged Sam Neill: sometimes you don’t need more to enjoy for a little more than an hour and a half.
Review in Espinof by Sergio Benítez
‘Ad Astra’
Address: James Gray Department: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, Loren Dean, Donnie Keshawarz
A film with its own voice that managed to renew interest in a subgenre always marked by the same common points. ‘Ad Astra’ premiered at the Venice Film Festival and there are many who have described it as a goofy science fiction film. And it is, in part, but not because the studio didn’t try to make it more mainstream with the constant voice-over of Brad Pitt (which ends up being, in the street, the most irritating thing in the entire film). Perfect if you want to see something very different within this little space world.
Review in Espinof by Mikel Zorrilla | Watch on Disney+
‘Marte’
Address: Ridley Scott Department: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Kristen Wiig
There are eleven years left to reach the future that ‘Mars’ promised us and it doesn’t look like Matt Damon is going to put on his helmet to travel to the red planet. However, we will always have this little gem by Ridley Scott with a script by Drew Goddard that was not only intelligent and exciting: it was also It was surprisingly funny, with hints of unexpected humor that covered all their footage. In addition, he sends us a message that we should burn into ourselves in the coming years: perhaps it is not a good idea to live on Mars, after all.
Review in Espinof by Mikel Zorrilla | Watch on Disney+ and Netflix
‘Alien, the eighth passenger’
Address: Ridley Scott Department: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton
And we repeat director, but… How could we leave the Nostromo off this list? All the movies we have seen so far were about people lost adrift in an unknown universe, but in this case, there is also a xenomorph who has stayed to live with them. What am I going to tell you that you don’t know? At this point, if you haven’t seen ‘Alien’ it won’t be because you haven’t heard about its existence!
Review in Espinof by Sergio Benítez | Watch on Disney+
‘Interstellar’
Address: Christopher Nolan Department: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Timothée Chalamet, Matt Damon
An incredible soundtrack, a scene that has already been honored a thousand times (that of the infinite library) and a temporal paradox as simple to understand as it is complex to carry out: Christopher Nolan marked one of his best films with this classic story of astronauts lost in space-time, as unforgettable as it was well shot and that, for a decade, has marked all types of audiences and filmmakers. Essential.
Review in Espinof by Mikel Zorrilla | To see in HBO Max y Movistar Plus
‘Planet of the Apes’
Address: Franklin J. Scaffner Department: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
There are two images that will almost inevitably come to mind when you think about ‘Planet of the Apes’. One is Charlton Heston screaming “Maniacs! You have destroyed it! I curse you all! I curse the wars!” and the other, why not admit it, the musical parody of ‘The Simpsons’ (“I hate every ape I see, from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z”) that highlights its influence on pop culture. The film, more than fifty years later, It has become a franchise with reboots, remakes, impossible sequels, comics, video games and television series. He deserves no less, not even for giving one of the most iconic final shots in film history.
Review in Espinof by Juan Luis Caviaro | Watch on Disney+
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Address: Stanley Kubrick Department: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain
How could we not mention Stanley Kubrick and HAL 9000? The great masterpiece of science fiction, which inspired so many others, After all, it was the story of an astronaut adrift in a story bigger than himself (and life itself). ‘2001: a space odyssey’ revolutionized the world of cinema in the late 60s and still doing it right now with its mix of avant-garde cinema and hard sci-fi. Wonderful.
Criticism in Espinof by Adrián Massanet | See in HBO Max
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