To preface this, Lost in Space is a bad movie. No, I mean it. The move has terrible writing from Akiva Goldsmith. Horrendous acting from William Hurt and Mimi Rogers. A third act that crumbles in on its own logic, and finally some very cheesy over blown action set pieces. With all that, I still love the hell out of this dumb movie. It never ceases to put a smile on my face whenever I watch it. I recently watched the Blu-Ray which came my way via Netflix. However, the movie is still bad, but pretty and nostalgic to my 1998 mind set. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, and is a remake of the 1960s television show of the same title Lost in Space follows a family hoping to save to human race by traveling deep in to space to find a new home for humans, but everything goes horribly wrong. Dr. Smith, played very well by Gary Oldman, sabotages the ship and he and the family end up...well lost in space.
It was very hard trying to figure out a scene that really stands out in this film simply because there are so many great moments ruined by the before mentioned issues. In the end I ended up going back to one scene that comes up around the mid point of the film. The family has just realized that they are really lost and they discover an odd "hole" in space in the system that they are in. They fly into the "hole" and discover a spaceship that is from earth, but most likely from earth in the near future. while they are looking over the ship they find another ship docked with it. This ones does not appear human. So...uh...yeah. That's it. That is my favorite scene form this movie.
Now on to the why. why I love this scene is because of the idea of space travel films in the 90s. these films had an odd quality that you never see any more or at least rarely. In the 90s filmmakers were using both models and CGI so you get a really nice bled of the two. This is one area where Lost in Space really knocks it out of the park. The only other film that I feel is similar is the far superior Serenity. The other thing that is wonderful about this moment is the discovery and the confrontation with the unknown. In this scene there are three unknowns: the "hole" in space, the human ship from the future and the alien spaceship. This sense of the comes up here and pretty much no where else in the film. It is the one aspect of the film that it really makes its own and I rarely see this in film today. This doesn't save the movie from being bad, but it certainly makes me happy whenever I watch this movie.
Lost in Space trailer (this trailer is so bad):
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