If there ’s one thing that Pandorum read us , it ’s that it ’s psychologically stressful to be out there in space . study have show the risk of space insaneness , but we have to intromit : It makes for good amusement .
“ The Last Man On The Planet Moon ”
Will Eisner , Jules Feiffer and Wally Wood ’s August 31st 1952 installment ofThe Spiritwas properly in the middle of the Outer Space sequence of stories , but that did n’t mean it lost its focus on little vignette about the common serviceman – In this particular case , about a man whosespace madnessmeant that he hallucinate a existence where he was the only man forget from his mission , snare all alone on the Moon . Forward thinking stuff from a period when Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon made space safe for paper strip readers .
Solaris
Stanisław Lem ’s original 1961 novel , that is , not the George Clooney movie . Lem imagined an exotic being that prompted psychological responses in humans who tried to contact it , producing a picky strain of infinite madness – Trauma As Particularly Awkward First Contact . While Lem ’s novel depicts an unknowable and reasonably disturbing idea of such event , it was soon co - opted into cuddlier forms by …
CountlessStar TrekEpisodesThe various interstellar sept of Gene Roddenberry ’s hereafter had a tendency to go insane every now and again , but there was always a well-to-do external explanation for it all – An foreign virus , judgment - ascendency of some sort , or Vulcans get horny . Anything that could allow the Enterprise and her fine crew to depart after an hour , inviolable in the ultimate guard and pridefulness of being outer space mountain man and insanity just being something that ’s akin to drunkenness :
Dark Star
Suicidal astronauts on a prospicient - terminus mission who have to spill an intelligent bomb out of exploding , resorting to explain philosophy because their cryogenically - frozen commander tell them to ? No curiosity that Lt . Doolittle ( pillager ) surrenders to his dream of channel-surf to oblivion at the closing of the movie . Never mind 2001 , this was the moving-picture show that made a generation realize what infinite locomotion could do to your mind .
The Black Hole … And for the kids that were too young to seeDark Star , there was always Disney’sThe Black Hole , in which unbalanced Maximilian Schell ( who had kill his own bunch , turned them into robots , become obsessed with the black hole of the title and end up coalesce to a slayer robot and in Hell or something ) managed to put another generation off the thought of going off into blank space . Those who were n’t upset about the whole matter and/or distracted by the cuteness of VINCENT , that is .
Red Dwarf
1992 ’s “ Quarantine ” attest that it was n’t just humanity who came down with space madness , when hologram Arnold Rimmer caught a virus that not only drove him quite mad , but finally inaugurate his latent crossdressing and puppetry disposition . If only all other space madnesses came with their own Mr. Flibbles .
Event HorizonSome have calledEvent HorizonthePandorumorSunshineof its 1997 day , but we prefer to suppose of this Sam Neill - starring SF - horror movie asThe Black Holefor hoi polloi who are afraid of robots . Again proving that hang around cosmic case can lead to hallucinations and psychosis , Paul WS Anderson ’s thriller brought a nervous standard atmosphere , love of Latin and very small originality to the space hydrophobia genre , but we love it nevertheless .
SunshineTalking of unoriginal SF - revulsion movies , Danny Boyle ’s 2007 worst - case - scenario - fest ( In turn , shamelessly rive off by Ron Moore ’s go bad pilotVirtuality ) certify yet again that , when your spaceship attain a seemingly - abandon spaceship floating in the void , the sensible matter to do is always to ignore it and have a bun in the oven on your delegation . point are subtracted for the unexpected and jolly disappointing devolution into a generic slasher movie towards the end , but any movie where space + closing off + the Sunday = distance madness can never beallbad .
MoonTaking the traditional space rage ingredients ( Namely aloneness , existential angst and improbable situations that ca n’t be well explain by what we know as science ) , Duncan Jones ’ debut movie come up with something that , unusually , give off without devolving into bromide or an " puzzling " want of answers . For that alone – as well as not succumbing to either blank space madness or picture hero syndrome – Sam Rockwell ’s Sam Bell takes the win .
TheRen and StimpyShow
Surely the bully example ever made of what space foolishness truly is . Oh my God , an icing cream measure !
See if you do n’t agree for yourself .
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