Six late ’90s guilty pleasure spaceship movies

Want to inject some not-so-serious late ’90s scifi right into your eyeballs? Here are six guilty pleasure flicks featuring spaceships from the last three years of that decade to enjoy:

Wing Commander (1999)

From our review: “A movie about spaceships would almost always lend itself to being more bombastic and action-packed, screaming from fight set piece to fight set piece, but a great deal of this movie was very… well, naval in the way it approached space stuff.”

Lost in Space (1998)

From our review: “The look and technology of the movie is pretty and slightly original, but it still ends up looking like what the world would be if iMacs took over.”

Event Horizon (1997)

From our review: “From this point on, the film is a paranoia scare-fest in outer space which just doesn’t stop. Disturbing imagery? Check. Creepy lighting, creepy soundtrack, sense of impending doom? Right here. People gouging out their own eyes? Oh, baby, this film has it all!”

Alien Resurrection (1997)

From our review: “Some mean and malicious things have been said about this film, most of which I feel are undeserved. Alien: Resurrection had an uphill battle to fight in order to win fans back, and it did some things right in this regard.”

Starship Troopers (1997)

From our review: “Starship Troopers is pretty much Nazis in Space. And as much as the film pokes fun of their idiotic thinking, it also is slightly chilling to see how easy it might be for people to buy into all of it.”

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

From our review: “If you try to read into the contemporary parallels, we’ve got the evils of Hollywood and plastic surgery trying to vamp off of the pure life of the Amish. Weird. Really weird.”

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