Movie I'd Send In A Spaceship

[Drifter]

If you were given the choice to decide what films we'd send to aliens in order to best convey the story of humanity's world, as well as to encapsulate some high achievements of our film-art, what would your top 5 be?

For example, mine would be....

"Fight Club" - The Human spirit

"The Thin Red Line" - War

"American Beauty" - Love/Relationships

"Rushmore" - Wit/Intellegence/Irony

And last but not least...(Drum roll please)...

"Office Space" - Comedy
(All those or just send the box-set of 'sex and the city' seasons :P)

OK thats 6, i know, i cheated! So lets hear what you'd send out into the stars?

[saintsaucey]

Breakfast Club: to show what life is really like growing up.

Ferris Beuller's Day Off: To Show what we wish life was like growing up.

The Climactic Scenes of Rocky 2, 3, 4, 5, and possibly six, Major League 1 and 2, the Mighty Ducks 1, 2, and 3, to show the thrill of victory in Sports.

Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengeance, and Under Seige 2: Dark Territory to teach the aliens not to fuck with us.

and ID4 for the same reason plus for that kick ass speach by Bill Pullman

[BoosterBronze]

"It's a Wonderful Life"
"Prince of Egypt"
"Wild Things"
"Super Troopers"
and lastly "Starship Troopers" so they know not to step up to us! (DAMN, SAUCY beat me to it by seconds!)

[J. Robb]

"Gandhi"

"Life is Beautiful"

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

"The Wizard of Oz"

"Star Wars" (because I'm incapable of listing movies without adding 'Star Wars')

[Loren]

I'll have to give more thought to movies, but I thought this was worth sharing now, although I'm sure some of y'all are already familiar with it.

Voyager I and II both carried a Golden Record (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html) when they were launched, which included multiple sounds and images of life on Earth. The idea being that, perhaps one day in the far future, an alien civilization might stumble across our spacecraft, and they may use it to learn about us.

After the spoken greetings and the sounds of Earth is a selection of music (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html), the first piece of which is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2. There was an X-Files episode years ago that observed that, if/when aliens ever find and play the record, the first music of Earth they will hear will be the Brandenburg Concerto #2.

I wanted to provide a link to the piece here, but didn't have any luck. Search one out for yourself and give it a listen. And imagine the possibility that, thousands or millions of years from now, those notes could be our first artistic expression to extraterrestrial ears.

[saintsaucey]

F**k to kill a mocking bird. it's bad enough we subject our kids to it in junior english but now you want to subject our aliens to it as well. i get why the whole raceism thing. but coulnd't you send A time to kill instead. it would have the same meaning and it has samuel l jackson. "Yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!"

[kmeyers]

"Star Wars" (because I'm incapable of listing movies without adding 'Star Wars')
I immediately thought of Star Wars, mostly because it's totally appropriate. What other movie are you going to send to a galaxy far, far away?

[marshal99]

Plan 9 from outer space , that would send aliens a warning never to venture to these parts of the universe again. :D

[foxfire]

Plan 9 from outer space , that would send aliens a warning never to venture to these parts of the universe again. :D
Haha yeah, send them movies that give them a bad impression of Earth, so they never come anywhere near :D

I'd nominate:

White Chicks
Harold and Kumar
Glitter
From Justin to Kelly
Gigli

[foxfire]

On a serious note:

Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
LotR The Return of the King
It's a Wonderful Life
Gone With the Wind

[kmeyers]

On a serious note:

Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
LotR The Return of the King
It's a Wonderful Life
Gone With the Wind
I was wondering about this. How do you include the last film in a trilogy. You have to send all three, I think...aliens are smart, but even they need the whole story.

[foxfire]

I was wondering about this. How do you include the last film in a trilogy. You have to send all three, I think...aliens are smart, but even they need the whole story.
Good point. How about, I don't know, The Princess Bride? :D

[Ontir]

Casablanca

Manhattan

Primer

Lawrence of Arabia

2001: a Space Odyssey

Being There

a Room With a View

a Touch of Evil

the original Star Wars trilogy

Triumph of the Will

28 Up

the Titticut Follies

Law of Desire

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Live Flesh

Funny Games

Dog Soldiers

Brewster McCloud (and his incredibly sexy flying machine)

Harold & Maude

Rosemary's Baby

THX 1138

Bladerunner

Raiders of the Lost Ark

the Party

the Player

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

the Big Lebowski

the Happiness of the Katakuris

Betty Blue

My Sweet Little Village

Living in Oblivion

Alien

Forbidden Planet

Soderberg's Solaris

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[Ontir]

Haha yeah, send them movies that give them a bad impression of Earth, so they never come anywhere near :D

I'd nominate:

White Chicks
Harold and Kumar
Glitter
From Justin to Kelly
Gigli

You are evil, and must be destroyed!!! :p

[Sanagi]

It should depict humanity, it should depict Earth, and it should be compelling even if they fail to understand the language.

My Neighbor Totoro.

("Greetings, Earthlings. Take us to your catbus.")

[Black Atom]

Haha yeah, send them movies that give them a bad impression of Earth, so they never come anywhere near :D

I'd nominate:

White Chicks
Harold and Kumar
Glitter
From Justin to Kelly
Gigli

I'm thinking of the aliens from Abyss showing Ed Harris clips from these movies as rationale for why they should destroy Earth, and Ed pretty much agreeing with them.

[Ontir]

CALIGULA!!!

Let the aliens ponder THAT ONE, for awhile!!!

[Kirayoshi]

Haha yeah, send them movies that give them a bad impression of Earth, so they never come anywhere near :D

I'd nominate:

White Chicks
Harold and Kumar
Glitter
From Justin to Kelly
GigliIf they saw these movies, aliens would send a full-scale force to destroy the Earth to prevent such terrible atrocities from being produced again!

[Hombre]

[B]Casablanca

Manhattan

2001: a Space Odyssey

Being There

Brewster McCloud

Harold & Maude

the Big Lebowski



I like these choices. I can't help but wonder how much these and other films are indicative of the way Cinema, and Art, transfigures our reality.

It's really a window into our spiritual life, rather than the way we actually are.

[Ontir]

Thanks, and I agree. Even if you did cut (and his incredibly sexy flying machine) off! ;) :D :p

[Hombre]

Thanks, and I agree. Even if you did cut (and his incredibly sexy flying machine) off! ;) :D :p

I know Bud Cort was always training to get in shape in that movie, but I've always been in love with Shelley Duvall myself!;)

I think what fascinates me most about that movie is the desolation of Houston's landscape and buildings, so typical of early 70s minimalist cinematography, and the enigma that is the film itself, so well captured in the lecture scenes interspersed with the main plot. In the end, like so many other movies from that era, it's the story of an impossible, infinite escape.

[Ontir]

It really is a great film! I was also amazed by the vicious and racist rantings of Maraget Hamilton's Daphne Heap! In checking IMDB for her character's name, I also learned that I'd made a mistake, the full title is Brewster McCloud's (sexy) flying machine. Watching it for the first time about a month ago (Thank God for the Aero, and the American Cinematheque!), I was also amazed at how prophetic the film is, in it's portrayal of the closing of America. When I was a child, the country seemed wide-open, and that was reflected in film and TV from that time, and prior, but from the late 70's on, America in both mediums has become a compartmentalized, and boxed-in existence, which Brewster found, when he finally tried to fly, and as I increasingly find, all around me.

I hope that's coherent. It makes sense to be now, but it's 2:28, and I've been up since 7.

RE: Bud Cort, I'd never seen him in anything that exhibited his body before, and I was really surprised at what great shape he was in! It's too bad that the car accident un-did all of that, as well as left him nearly dead, in great pain, and requiring a decade or more, of surgery.

[Cleric of Hell's Brigade]

Hmm, well, here is my list.




The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

All six Star Wars (Clone Wars animated sets included)

Big Trouble in Little China

Batman Begins

Snatch

Kung Fu Hussle

V for Vendetta

Firefly (Boxed set) and Serenity

Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness

Scary Movie 1-4 :D

The Princess Bride

Abyss

Alien, Aliens, Alien 2, Alien Ressurection, Predator, and Predator 2

Dune

Father Goose

Operation Petticoat

The first Halloween movie

Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a a Vengenace

ect......


Alot more can fit there aswell.

[brian2322]

i would send catwoman that way the aliens would kill themselves before the movie was over