Dirty Alien worlds!!!

[RobertScorpio]

What movie, or heck even a TV SHOW, best depicted an alien world. Meaning, when you were watching it, you really felt you had been taken to another world? Animated movies do not count, but movies that use CGI are okay (meaning movies like Phantom Menace).

It could be a world with humans on it, or a world with no living beings, or even a world with aliens. But when you watched this movie, and they took you scenes on that alien world, it felt like another world to you.

For me? Kitimer (spelling) as depicted in TUC just didn’t feel like another world, nor did the world in Insurrection. Now, Vulcan in the new TREK movie? Yeah, that felt alien to me. Or the world in PITCH BLACK. When ever I see that movie I actually get the feeling I am seeing those events happen on an alien world; go figure..

What are some of your picks??


Rob
Scorpio

 

[Tom Hendricks]

For me its Geidi Prime from the movie Dune. Loved how oily and industrial it was, perfect to represent House Harkonnen.

 

[Vonstadt]

For me it has always been Altair IV from Forbidden Planet. I saw it when i was really young and loved, still do today. I am not sure whether it was the eerie soundtrack or the unearthly vastness of the Krell Machine, or the shot of the distant canyon that they fire their laser batteries down right before the battle with the ID monster.

The place to me, never felt like a movie set on Earth and never felt comfortable, in fact unsettling would be the world. I very much felt like the crew of the C57-D landed on and made camp on a distant alien world.

Still feels like that to this day for me.

I still watch this and Howard Hawkes "Thing from Another World" every Halloween. They have become family favorites to watch in the dark.

Vons

 

[RobertScorpio]

Good pick..

I also liked the world in the movie ALIEN and ALIENS. More so in the first movie, before it was colonized. But that world, where John Hurt is head-raped by the alien, really comes off well...

Rob

 

[davejames]

Yeah, I think out of all the scifi movies I've ever seen, Alien is the one that did the best job of creating a world that felt TRULY mysterious and alien to me.

The palpably thick atmosphere, howling wind, and creepy ass sound effects in that movie were more convincing and effective than all the grand CGI vistas and landscapes I've seen since.

 

[Hyperspace05]

The Pitch Black planet
Crematoria (Chronicles of Riddick)

 

[Vonstadt]

Good pick..

I also liked the world in the movie ALIEN and ALIENS. More so in the first movie, before it was colonized. But that world, where John Hurt is head-raped by the alien, really comes off well...

Rob

Yeah, I think out of all the scifi movies I've ever seen, Alien is the one that did the best job of creating a world that felt TRULY mysterious and alien to me.

The palpably thick atmosphere, howling wind, and creepy ass sound effects in that movie were more convincing and effective than all the grand CGI vistas and landscapes I've seen since.

Oh I agree, LV-426 in the first Alien film was JUST as unsettling. I still remember the howling winds and Ash sitting in the domed cockpit window of the comm room. It felt like you were in the Nostromo with him, enduring the creepiness and feel of the storm, good call!

Vons

 

[Trubinator]

The Riddick movies ... ALIENS ... most of Farscape ...

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Riddick movies ... ALIENS ... most of Farscape ...

I have the complete FARSCAPE series on DVD, and have had them for like two years. Never have gotten the time to watch it. Maybe I will soon..I remember seeing the promos and thought it looked pretty good...

Rob

 

[Nomad V]

Jupiter's Io

 

[Maestro]

TNG was pretty good at selling me on the Klingon Homeworld. The rest of contemporary Trek was pretty poor at selling me on alien worlds, though.

Alien is probably the quintessential "scary alien world" setting, though. A real sense of the unknown and the terror of another world there.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'm not sure if it counts as an 'alien' world, but the world on Planet of the Apes, until it is revealed to be earth, was pretty well done considering when it was made...

And another one I HAVE to mention? Planet X in the classic GODZILLA movie "Monster Zero!"

Rob

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Metaluna from This Island Earth. Unfortunately, I'm missing an Intensifier Disk for my Interocitor, so it's back to work on my Orgone Accumulator.