The 25+ Best Space Movies, Ranked by the Ringer.com
plus 30 "honorable mentions" using their full listing...
"Space: It's the final frontier, the place where no one can hear you scream, and a boundless backdrop that squashes any man's ego, as determined by the semi-rigorous ranking process we're presenting here. Whether a story unfolds in the past, the present, or the future — in our own galaxy or one far, far away — space makes a great setting for film. The inhuman emptiness of space forces characters to confront their private fears and self-doubts even as it inspires existential and epistemological questions that fascinate us all. To qualify for the list, it's not sufficient for a film to be sci-fi. Nor are aliens alone enough (sorry, E.T., Close Encounters, and Arrival). The prerequisite is simple: To be eligible, a movie has to be at least partly set in space. To arrive at our ranking, we calculated each movie's GSS, or Great Space Score with three components: Cultural Relevance, Rotten Tomatoes score, & Public Opinion." -theringer
avg. score: 27 of 55 (48%)
required scores: 1, 14, 21, 29, 41
