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As they approach their fleet is attacked by bugs firing energy missiles seemingly out of their backsides, causing untold and beautifully realised CGI mayhem. In the finale, the mobile infantry prepares to invade the alien 'Planet P'. Starship Troopers In this superb satire of fascism and American action movies (that many critics totally mis-understood on its release), humankind is attacked by alien critters disparagingly nicknamed 'Bugs'. The brilliant effects for this dramatic and hilarious scene were created by the same team who did effect work on Battlestar Galactica.ДЈ. The film had some great action, with our favourite scene featuring the eponymous vessel (captained by the hilarious Nathan Fillion) doing its best to escape the clutches of both the cannibalistic Reavers and the sinister Alliance fleet - for reasons too long-winded to explain here.

Babylon 9 movie movie#

Serenity Joss Whedon's great sci-fi unfortunately fell flat on its face at the box office, meaning both the TV series ( Firefly) and movie franchise ended prematurely. It also brilliantly sets up the rest of the film: says Cap'n Pike to Kirk Junior later on 'Your father was captain of a Star Ship for 12 minutes. The fact that you genuinely feel there is life and death at stake - with Kirk Senior sacrificing himself and his ship - makes for a scene that is spectacular and heartbreaking. Not so now, with the USS Kelvin's demise at the hands of the Naruda proving explosive, kinetic and genuinely thrilling - so much so we awarded it the 'Best Effects Sequence' in our Summer Movie Awards. Previously, starship-on-starship fights in the Trek universe were slow, plodding affairs, as the hulking craft painstakingly manoeuvred themselves into place for combat.

Star Trek The best space battle in JJ Abram's terrific Trek re-boot takes place in the opening ten minutes. Good stuff, and a ground-breaking movie that paved the way for more sophisticated CG later on. For a movie called The Last Starfighter there's not actually that much starfighting, except in the climactic scene which sees Alex realising his dreams, utilising his button bashing skills and taking out an alien mother ship. When he finally beats it, Alex is whisked off into the game world and must become a space fighter pilot for real. The flick revolves around trailer-park teen Alex, who spends all his time on the eponymous arcade game. The Last Starfighter One of the first sci-fi films to make use of computer graphics, this cult movie holds a special place in many late 20-something's hearts. Unfortunately though - as with so much in the Prequel Trilogy - it looks pretty but unfurls with zero percent drama or peril, and ultimately feels like it was created purely for the sake of it. The opening scene of Revenge of the Sith - which sees Anakin and Obi Wan making their way to Count Dooku's ship amidst an almighty zero-gravity-ruckus - is perhaps the most technically impressive space battle ever committed to film, with the scale and detail of the action unmatched. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith The movie franchise that virtually invented the space battle had to be in here somewhere but the question was, which of the series' many space battles would make it into our feature? We decided to allow ourselves one from each trilogy, with the prequels' entry coming in here.

The best battle scene is the opening, where sinister energy aliens the Drej attack and ultimately destroy planet Earth, though luckily wimpy Matt Damon gets away.

The visually spectacular mix of hand-drawn and computer-generated animation is among the best attempted by a Hollywood studio, and in its finest moments resembles a kind of anime version of Star Wars (probably how the movie was pitched). This post-apocalyptic sci-fi failed to find much of an audience when it was released back in 2000, though it's since become somewhat of a cult film.