Best spaceship Crash

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Are we talking about crash landings or kamikaze rammings? Or both? Well here's my picks

Airplane II
(this time its Shat guiding Ted Striker in for a ridiculous crash landing)

Earth-II
(the crash in ep I is the high point of this tv show everything else is downhill)

Icarus in Planet of the Apes
(Why does does it sound like Adam West crashed the batmobile?)

Pitch Black

Aliens 1986 crash
(followed by a hysterical Hudson going "game over man")

Flash Gordon 1980 into Ming's palace

Enterprise in the movie ST Generations

Will Smith's F/A-18 Hornet vs the ID4 alien

Voyager Timeless

Serenity - 5 min crash scene near the end of movie

and my favorite of all time goes to:
Le Voyage dans la lune, Georges Méliès Y 1902

 

[Candlelight]

The Enterprise-D in Generations, and the Scorpio from Blake's 7 pretty good when you consider it was a low budget 70's space show.

Glad someone mentioned Scorpio...actually when you compare Scorpio and the Ent D side by side it's hard to imagine one probably cost a thousand times more than the other!

Scorpio had one up on Ent-D - The consoles on Scorpio broke up and turned into dodgems! Lucky Tarrant!

 

[exodus]

Gen. Grevious' command ship in "Sith".

 

[Holdfast]

Gen. Grevious' command ship in "Sith".

That's what sprung to mind for me too. I thought it was a very nicely done sequence. Actually, I enjoyed the entire opening of that film a lot up to the end of the crash.

I'd second the mentions of Ent-D in Generations & liked Pitch Black's crash too.

 

[I Grok Spock]

 

[Ol Scratch]

Pitch Black definitely had the best crash landing, but I really enjoyed Pegasus' demise in the new Battlestar Galactica. She came in with all of her guns firing and went out in a blaze of glory, and all in order to rescue a sister ship. I really felt it in that scene, which I can rarely say about most other crashes/collisions.

 

[Lt. Trull]

O come on now.... Nobody's mentioned NCC-1701's crash in ST3.
When i saw that flaming across the sky it made me sad...
and u knew it became pieces parts all over the planet side...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Abin Sur's.

 

[nx1701g]

Another vote for Voyager in Timeless.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

O come on now.... Nobody's mentioned NCC-1701's crash in ST3.
When i saw that flaming across the sky it made me sad...
and u knew it became pieces parts all over the planet side...

Good call. One reason why I still like that film, not more than the sum of it's parts, but its parts are quite good.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

I'll have to watch ST3 again, I remember it going self-destruct not crashing

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

The reason I rank Enterprise-D in Generations so low is I believe it wasted a great piece of visuals and theater. The concept is of the Enterprise dying in a crash landing is huge, the visual special fx displaying the saucer section USS Enterprise separating and crashing into the planet are a stunning visual effect.

But the way the story was wrote and the way visuals are edited is just wrong and the whole comical nature of the scene wastes away the emotional impact of seeing the USS Enterprise destroyed. Giving Data an emotion chip wrecked him, this android nature to him is exactly what makes his character unique and they had to wreck Data with angst and poor comedy. As Enterprise dies Data should have been given great dialogue like Roy Batty's memorable speech from Blade Runner instead he sounds like the Bender Bot from Futurama. Generations could have been great but it was mostly a gimmick, Carson, Moore and Braga are over paid twits.
Carson, Moore and Braga used Picard and Krik together mostly to get the young trekkies and the older generation into the cinema seats.
Worse again these replays of the Enterprise death weaken the moment and immensity of the Enterprise being destroyed is totally diluted by when this Time Traveling Nexus Wave gives us a second action replay of the destruction.

The sequence editing and score for Enterprise's finale are just fucking dreadful. First they should have sequenced the evac, the plummet through atmosphere and crash in proper order and second the music was just a disaster. They should have used maybe soundmasters like a LisaGerrard, Enya, Yo-Yo-Ma, Loreena McKennitt, James Horner's epic pieces or some other talented dude like that fantastic sequence at the end of the Mission by Ennio Morricone. If they didn't put a dog collar on Dennis McCarthy he probably could have provided an amazing musical theme but the writers and director had no idea what they were doing so it ended in disaster.

The actors are great in this movie but as a whole the movie just does not work. Generations guest star Malcolm McDowell does a fantasic job with the crummy bits of script he's given truning an ugly stone script into a nice gem of a performance. Enterprise-D was part of a massive tv series with a huge following all over the world for well over a decade. destruction of the TNG Enterprise should have been a huge thing, worse still it was followed by a very swallow the death of Kirk

Here's what I mean when I say crummy and all the end of Enterprise could have been much better
Fans do it better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5rpmZqhM9c
this is how a bunch of fanmade vids done a much better job at editing and layering it with some music track to provide a much better emotional impact.


ST Generations was a great concept but was in execution completely shallow

it might have entertained me as a kid but the movie today for me is almost a complete waste


if fans can upload better Enterprise vids on the internet what does it tell you about this movie?

 

[DWF]

The crash in Generations followed by the crash of the Jupiter II in the Lost In Space movie.
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