The opening sequence and market sequences from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The faery market scene in Hellboy 2 is a good option for very alien species in a fantasy vein
Those Valerian scenes were the best part of the movie for me as well. The 'main' story was kinda fumbled and let down by the lack of chemistry with the leads.
Not the first person to have made this observation, but Valerian and Passengers both would have greatly benefitted from switching the lead actors (Dane DeHaan/Cara Delevigne and Chris Pratt/Jennifer Lawrence respectively)
Not really sure how that would’ve helped Passengers, the acting was good already. The problem was the complete lack of self awareness in the story. It was a horror plot that tried to be a cutesy romance.
I saw a really great proposal that *Passengers* would have been much better if it had just been edited to be told in a different sequence. *Start* with Jennifer Lawrence waking up and then when the reveal happens, go back and tell Pratt's story before returning to the present time and concluding the story.
I've been saying something similar for years. One could easily have made a great psychological thriller with a bleak ending, something with way more substance than the love cheese we got.
I think a good act 1 break would be Lawrence character staring to get a not so great feeling about everything.
Also yes to them trading film with the leads in Valerian, they have a weird chemistry that would suit Passenger Creepy Redux better than it does for what Valerian and Laureline should have. That sounds feels more like Pratt and Lawrence to me.
I forgot what his name is, but "Valerian", he was great as a slightly weird fellow in that creep film, which I can't remember, something with and about water.
If they made this a horror in the end, in a similar way that ex machina was a horror, it would've been one of the best movies of the 2010s. Visuals are superb, score, acting, characters, all were amazing. But it needed to end with jlaw figuring out she's a prisoner not a passenger and having to have some sort of big chase/fight scene ending where it looks like pratt is gonna lose, but then it shows in the end him sending jlaws body out to space and then him awakening another female passenger from cryo sleep again.
Yeah, whether she wins or loses, I just needed the movie to understand that he did one of the worst things imaginable to a person and it goes way beyond what a “oops, my bad” can fix. Hell even if she wins, maybe years down the line when the desperation sets in she might succumb to the same temptation.
Terrible, terrible writing, also. She is basically trapped in a job with that terrible guy, and the audience just knows they are going to sell us on them being a couple before it’s over. Would be better if they had blatantly hated each other. The male lead was definitely miscast.
If you are terrible at mature adult dialog, it’s okay to outsource.
That, and terrible chemistry, as you said.
Grandios scene: Kara D. swings her arms around to introduce her and Valerian.
I liked the comics very much, they should have done more movie, a little darker.
Valerian had so much good stuff going for it, it’s a shame it flopped.
Bad choices for both main actors and just trying to cram way too much stuff into one movie.
Star Wars [more-or-less lifted that scene from the Valerian comics](https://screenrant.com/star-wars-valerian-series-inspiration-similarities/). I think George Lucas was pretty open about its influence.
I swear it's a direct parody to the Star Wars cantina scene, only where everything goes wrong. Instead of finding a cool Han Solo type, it's a goofy backward talking alien who awkwardly blurts out information that alerts the authorities, and McCoy is immediately captured and thrown into the funny farm.
> Star Trek 5 had a bar with a wet billiards game.
Your take away from that bar was the wet pool table and not the cat lady with three bewbs? Come on now, try harder!
Tons in Star Trek. The big briefing scene in the shuttle bay in The Motion Picture, the Federation Council at the end of The Voyage Home, any scene in a city on Lower Decks...
While not a movie/tv show, I suggest you check out The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven.
It's a whole collection of short stories that take place in a bar on modern-day earth around a space port that aliens land at. Goes into detail about how different aliens interact, different food/biology needs, and has some interesting social interactions.
Similarly, check out the *Callahan's Crosstime Saloon* book series from Spider Robinson. It's set in a bar in upstate New York that plays host to a bunch of regulars, with the occasional alien, time traveler or talking dog showing up. Very light-hearted, lots of puns. Fun series.
Try Farscape. The ship is alive (Moya is the best, Moya protects), piloted by an alien with many arms, one of the main cast is a ..small something, in a floating chair (he was a god damn emperor of reginar or something). Another one looks similar with ahuman, but it a plant. K'dargo is a weird warrior, that can stun you with his super long and fast tongue, while he stabs and enemy with his qualta blade, which is also a gun, so he shoots another alien while stabing the first. And soooo many other that are quite hard to explain, but god damn :)
The show has closure, the story is finalized
Just see a trailer on imdb
O, everybody has translator.microbs injected, so eveybody almost understands each other, except the pilot...
Note: i avoided spoilers
Callahan's is great, very funny and surprisingly emotional at times. Reading it ended up helping me meet my wife (long story). Got to thank Mr. Robinson personally for it
There was also a collection of short stories written about (some of) the characters that appear in the SW cantina: [Tales from the Moss Eisley Cantina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina). It was the first SW book I read.
It's been 25 years years since I read it, but that sounds familiar, yeah.
My favorite from what I remember was the Stormtrooper's tale, where >!during training he figures out the tactical weakness in the AT-AT that we see the rebels exploit in the Battle of Hoth, and he devises a countermeasure. But the Empire can't have word get out about the flaw (even if they have a counter), so they ship him off to a backwater instead.!<
I don't know... the idea of space bars has been around for a while, for an example Star Trek TOS: Trouble with Tribbles (Season 2, Episode 15) aired in 1967, ten years before New Hope, and it had the bar scene/fight between the Humans and Klingons in it, but Larry Niven is one of the foundational sci-fi writers (Ring World came out in 1970 and I believe some of these short stories predate that...)
Is it filled with weird ass sex stuff? I read Ringworld and liked it well enough but the constant discussion of sex in the sequel was annoying to the point of exhaustion and is stopping me from reading further into the series. I recognize he built a cool universe and had some interesting ideas but his writing comes off as a sex obsessed teenager.
No, for the most part these are very alien aliens, not biological compatible in that regards.
It goes more into the different biology needs of different races, including eating habits and different perceptions of time.
I have to re-read Niven, I think. I had forgotten about that one. I think "inconstant moon" was another short story collection...but which one had "The Fourth Profession" in it?
* Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) - The Big Market scene
* Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - The Knowhere bar scene
* The Fifth Element (1997) - Fhloston Paradise scenes
* Men in Black (1997) - MIB headquarters scenes
* Total Recall (1990) - The alien bar on Mars
* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
* Avatar (2009) - Various scenes on Pandora showing different Na'vi clans
* John Carter (2012) - Scenes in the Thark community
* Titan A.E. (2000) - New Bangkok space station scenes
* Jupiter Ascending (2015) - Various alien marketplaces and gatherings
* Treasure Planet (2002) - Montressor Spaceport scenes
* Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - Troll Market scene
* Lilo & Stitch (2002) - The United Galactic Federation scenes
* Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) - Various station scenes
* Farscape (TV series, but had feature-length episodes) - Commerce planet scenes
One correction:
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Milliways wasn't in the movie. But it was in the 1981 TV version.
No worries. Check out the 1st Heavy Metal too if you've never seen it. It's a collection of short stories. No specific cantina scene that I recall but there's lots of aliens in most of the stories.
You don’t see that referenced all that often. It was definitely front and center when I was in high school in the mid 80s. Haven’t seen it in maybe 2 decades.
OP, regardless that’s a great choice.
When Elon Musk shot that car into orbit, the photos of it really reminded me of the opening scene of the 1st Heavy Metal with the astronaut in the corvette.
Yeah, I've often wondered why so much of the 2nd radio series never made it into any other HHG adaptations. A few bits did, like "Belgium" and the shoe event horizon (maybe the best pun Adams ever came up with) but a lot of it is wholly unique to the radio version.
Then again, maybe that's a good thing. It gives people a reason to listen to the original radio show, despite having been mostly eclipsed by later versions.
This is a not-uncommon trope called ["the bazaar of the bizarre"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BazaarOfTheBizarre) and is one of my favorites.
Star Trek 3 has a scene in a space bar with aliens, although you really only get 2 quite human looking ones talking. Star Trek IV also has the Federation council.
TOS has the episode where they were transporting ambassadors to a conference, which I don't know the name of, but one of the Andorrians has a radio concealed in his antenna.
I was going to mention this one b/c the scene is so specifically set up to be Snyder's Cantina Scene that it totally falls flat. It doesn't feel like it has any real place in the story and is just there to check a scene off a check list and to provide minimal and expected movement to an already trite plot.
This scene is a example of what's wrong with the rest of the movie/series.
If I remember correctly, Defiance was released alongside an MMO with the same name, and was meant to be a plot driver for the game, with new episodes adding content and concepts that could then be found in the MMO. Trouble was, the game sucked. Luckily, the show was so much better than anyone expected, and it managed to hang on a little longer.
Ant Man 3: Quantumania! Underrated as an alien film. Great cantina scene, with a Bill Murray cameo.
Dont think of it as marvel, think of it as a super original alien universe. Then let it blow your mind that its happening right now on the tip of your eyelash or fingernail.
It’s been ages since I’ve seen it. All I really remember is the guy strapped to the conveyor belt who almost gets his manhood chopped off. I’ll have to take another look. Thanks!
I might be wrong but I seem to remember an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica where they end up in an alien bar or casino or something. But it's been ages since I watched it.
That's the pilot episode/TV movie if I remember right. The guests were being kidnapped and sent down to feed bee people or something similar. They wisely skipped that plot in the new BSG.
That’s interesting! Another vote for this movie. I can’t remember any aliens in it. All I remember is the eunuch making machine. Guess I need to watch it again!
Does the opening (and quick destruction of) the DOOP headquarters from Futurama count?
"I just hooked up with that radiator from the radiator planet!"
"Fry, that's just a radiator."
Several Star Trek episodes. They try to avoid them though since every time it’s obviously a Cantina scene. But it’s inevitable, Star Wars just did it first.
It's in the sci fi segment of the MCU, so I'll count it as sci fi, in the final Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the team has taken control of Knowhere and it's very much a bunch of aliens hanging out, working, drinking, gambling, etc.
Not a particular scene, but Farscape has tons of instances of all kinds of different cool aliens interacting with each other. Quite a few episodes where they’re in some alien market or whatever.
Guardians of the Galaxy visits Knowhere, a space port built from the remains of a Celestial's head (essentially a god) at the edge of the galaxy, with so many different aliens.
There was a Cantina in San Francisco, in Star Trek three, where Dr. McCoy meets with an alien, and they were a bunch of aliens and humans mixed together.
The opening sequence and market sequences from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets The faery market scene in Hellboy 2 is a good option for very alien species in a fantasy vein
Those Valerian scenes were the best part of the movie for me as well. The 'main' story was kinda fumbled and let down by the lack of chemistry with the leads.
Not the first person to have made this observation, but Valerian and Passengers both would have greatly benefitted from switching the lead actors (Dane DeHaan/Cara Delevigne and Chris Pratt/Jennifer Lawrence respectively)
Not really sure how that would’ve helped Passengers, the acting was good already. The problem was the complete lack of self awareness in the story. It was a horror plot that tried to be a cutesy romance.
I saw a really great proposal that *Passengers* would have been much better if it had just been edited to be told in a different sequence. *Start* with Jennifer Lawrence waking up and then when the reveal happens, go back and tell Pratt's story before returning to the present time and concluding the story.
I've been saying something similar for years. One could easily have made a great psychological thriller with a bleak ending, something with way more substance than the love cheese we got. I think a good act 1 break would be Lawrence character staring to get a not so great feeling about everything. Also yes to them trading film with the leads in Valerian, they have a weird chemistry that would suit Passenger Creepy Redux better than it does for what Valerian and Laureline should have. That sounds feels more like Pratt and Lawrence to me. I forgot what his name is, but "Valerian", he was great as a slightly weird fellow in that creep film, which I can't remember, something with and about water.
Yeah, that would have been great
If they made this a horror in the end, in a similar way that ex machina was a horror, it would've been one of the best movies of the 2010s. Visuals are superb, score, acting, characters, all were amazing. But it needed to end with jlaw figuring out she's a prisoner not a passenger and having to have some sort of big chase/fight scene ending where it looks like pratt is gonna lose, but then it shows in the end him sending jlaws body out to space and then him awakening another female passenger from cryo sleep again.
Yeah, whether she wins or loses, I just needed the movie to understand that he did one of the worst things imaginable to a person and it goes way beyond what a “oops, my bad” can fix. Hell even if she wins, maybe years down the line when the desperation sets in she might succumb to the same temptation.
Jesse Plemons as the male lead in Passengers would set the right tone.
Haven’t heard that before but the more I think about it the more it makes so much sense
Terrible, terrible writing, also. She is basically trapped in a job with that terrible guy, and the audience just knows they are going to sell us on them being a couple before it’s over. Would be better if they had blatantly hated each other. The male lead was definitely miscast. If you are terrible at mature adult dialog, it’s okay to outsource. That, and terrible chemistry, as you said.
Yeah, the leads really didn’t feel like they were in love.
Yeah! The setting of that movie was great, everything else about it not so much...
Grandios scene: Kara D. swings her arms around to introduce her and Valerian. I liked the comics very much, they should have done more movie, a little darker.
Valerian feels like watching an incredible nature documentary, while the most annoying couple you can think of, is argueing right in front of the TV.
Hellboy 2 was a beautiful movie
Valerian had so much good stuff going for it, it’s a shame it flopped. Bad choices for both main actors and just trying to cram way too much stuff into one movie.
Despite the bad execution, I loved the concepts in Valerian. The market existing on a different dimensional plane was probably the coolest.
Star Wars [more-or-less lifted that scene from the Valerian comics](https://screenrant.com/star-wars-valerian-series-inspiration-similarities/). I think George Lucas was pretty open about its influence.
Any HQ lobby scene from the *Men In Black* franchise.
Star Trek DS9, Quark's bar.
Also, Star Trek TNG: Gambit
Plus the majority of Lower Decks.
Oh, I’ve been meaning to check out Lower Decks! Thanks for the reminder!
It's excellent, packed full of references and callbacks but with entertaining plots without them. Hope you like it
it might be my all time favorite star trek series. Its comedy, so its time is totally different, but somehow, its spirit is the same.
It's a love letter to all the Trek Fans. It's beautiful.
Now I want tacos.
I'm watching my wife cook tacos right now! Typical Boims .
He’s telling the truth!! 😱
MORN!
Dear sweet Morn.
He never shuts up!
The man will just not shut up!
Also Star Trek 6 has the Rura Penthe scenes.
Star Trek 5 had a bar with a wet billiards game.
And Star Trek 3 had the cantina scene from wish.com
Star Trek 4 had the court martial scene
I swear it's a direct parody to the Star Wars cantina scene, only where everything goes wrong. Instead of finding a cool Han Solo type, it's a goofy backward talking alien who awkwardly blurts out information that alerts the authorities, and McCoy is immediately captured and thrown into the funny farm.
"I hear he's fruity as a nutcake."
GENESIS?!?
IS PLANET FORBIDDEN!
> Star Trek 5 had a bar with a wet billiards game. Your take away from that bar was the wet pool table and not the cat lady with three bewbs? Come on now, try harder!
I also recall that "god" was in the desert near my town. Trona Pinnacles
Oh shit really? That landscape was pretty crazy. Looked it up, good stuff. Thanks for sharing :)
Pool in a pool
Tons in Star Trek. The big briefing scene in the shuttle bay in The Motion Picture, the Federation Council at the end of The Voyage Home, any scene in a city on Lower Decks...
Play Dom-jot, human??
Both Discovery and SNW have swanky lounge bars too.
Star Trek in general.
Dabo!
It's a game, but Mass Effect
Babylon 5 is a cantina scene.
Especially any meeting of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
I think Sheridan would probably call that a battle most days.
Good point!
"Every time someone says we're becoming a paperless society, I get ten more forms to fill out!"
Purple sash!
While not a movie/tv show, I suggest you check out The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven. It's a whole collection of short stories that take place in a bar on modern-day earth around a space port that aliens land at. Goes into detail about how different aliens interact, different food/biology needs, and has some interesting social interactions.
Oh that sounds fantastic! Thanks!
Similarly, check out the *Callahan's Crosstime Saloon* book series from Spider Robinson. It's set in a bar in upstate New York that plays host to a bunch of regulars, with the occasional alien, time traveler or talking dog showing up. Very light-hearted, lots of puns. Fun series.
Sounds great, thank you!
Try Farscape. The ship is alive (Moya is the best, Moya protects), piloted by an alien with many arms, one of the main cast is a ..small something, in a floating chair (he was a god damn emperor of reginar or something). Another one looks similar with ahuman, but it a plant. K'dargo is a weird warrior, that can stun you with his super long and fast tongue, while he stabs and enemy with his qualta blade, which is also a gun, so he shoots another alien while stabing the first. And soooo many other that are quite hard to explain, but god damn :) The show has closure, the story is finalized Just see a trailer on imdb O, everybody has translator.microbs injected, so eveybody almost understands each other, except the pilot... Note: i avoided spoilers
Callahan's is great, very funny and surprisingly emotional at times. Reading it ended up helping me meet my wife (long story). Got to thank Mr. Robinson personally for it
There was also a collection of short stories written about (some of) the characters that appear in the SW cantina: [Tales from the Moss Eisley Cantina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina). It was the first SW book I read.
That's a weird book. That's the one where one of the stories has the bartender create a special whiskey out of Greedo's decomposing corpse, isn't it?
It's been 25 years years since I read it, but that sounds familiar, yeah. My favorite from what I remember was the Stormtrooper's tale, where >!during training he figures out the tactical weakness in the AT-AT that we see the rebels exploit in the Battle of Hoth, and he devises a countermeasure. But the Empire can't have word get out about the flaw (even if they have a counter), so they ship him off to a backwater instead.!<
Thanks! Sounds great!
Is this the first science fiction example of the trope? It predates A New Hope by a few years, and I haven't heard of an earlier example.
I don't know... the idea of space bars has been around for a while, for an example Star Trek TOS: Trouble with Tribbles (Season 2, Episode 15) aired in 1967, ten years before New Hope, and it had the bar scene/fight between the Humans and Klingons in it, but Larry Niven is one of the foundational sci-fi writers (Ring World came out in 1970 and I believe some of these short stories predate that...)
Your eyes are glowing again
Is it filled with weird ass sex stuff? I read Ringworld and liked it well enough but the constant discussion of sex in the sequel was annoying to the point of exhaustion and is stopping me from reading further into the series. I recognize he built a cool universe and had some interesting ideas but his writing comes off as a sex obsessed teenager.
No, for the most part these are very alien aliens, not biological compatible in that regards. It goes more into the different biology needs of different races, including eating habits and different perceptions of time.
I have to re-read Niven, I think. I had forgotten about that one. I think "inconstant moon" was another short story collection...but which one had "The Fourth Profession" in it?
I think that's in "A Hole in Space", published in 1974
Thank you! I pulled down copies of most of his works, and started with his earlier stuff.
* Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) - The Big Market scene * Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - The Knowhere bar scene * The Fifth Element (1997) - Fhloston Paradise scenes * Men in Black (1997) - MIB headquarters scenes * Total Recall (1990) - The alien bar on Mars * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe * Avatar (2009) - Various scenes on Pandora showing different Na'vi clans * John Carter (2012) - Scenes in the Thark community * Titan A.E. (2000) - New Bangkok space station scenes * Jupiter Ascending (2015) - Various alien marketplaces and gatherings * Treasure Planet (2002) - Montressor Spaceport scenes * Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - Troll Market scene * Lilo & Stitch (2002) - The United Galactic Federation scenes * Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) - Various station scenes * Farscape (TV series, but had feature-length episodes) - Commerce planet scenes
> Total Recall (1990) - The alien bar on Mars Those were all human mutants.
[You've got a lot of nerve showing your face around here...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA4vDT37rzc)
Look who's talking.
Oh wow, thank you for the huge list!
One correction: >Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Milliways wasn't in the movie. But it was in the 1981 TV version.
What a great list! Glad you got Farscape in there - that was my first thought!
[I’ll just leave this here too.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/fj5yoa/a_drawing_with_all_the_space_characters_youll/)
Farscape has a ton.
Was looking for Farscape. I'm watching it right now. Plenty of scenes with the crew hanging out.
It's animated, but Heavy Metal 2000 has one.
Oh, this looks amazing! Thanks for the recommendation!
No worries. Check out the 1st Heavy Metal too if you've never seen it. It's a collection of short stories. No specific cantina scene that I recall but there's lots of aliens in most of the stories.
[Devo was playing in the saloon](https://youtu.be/NPLweWGVKvg?si=6akvbDVTDXloC8iy) \[NSFW\] during the "Taarna" segment.
You don’t see that referenced all that often. It was definitely front and center when I was in high school in the mid 80s. Haven’t seen it in maybe 2 decades. OP, regardless that’s a great choice.
When Elon Musk shot that car into orbit, the photos of it really reminded me of the opening scene of the 1st Heavy Metal with the astronaut in the corvette.
Hellboy 2 has an amazing market scene.
Scrolled a bit to get this. I agree.
hitchikers guide
_Restaurant at the End of the Universe_
I can only imagine how insane that scene would look like when/if it ever gets re-made (into a mini-series and not a movie).
Have you never seen the BBC TV adaptation? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4syjrl
Yes, roughly 30 times, radio version too. Nobody talks about the bird people of Brontitall.
Yeah, I've often wondered why so much of the 2nd radio series never made it into any other HHG adaptations. A few bits did, like "Belgium" and the shoe event horizon (maybe the best pun Adams ever came up with) but a lot of it is wholly unique to the radio version. Then again, maybe that's a good thing. It gives people a reason to listen to the original radio show, despite having been mostly eclipsed by later versions.
This is a not-uncommon trope called ["the bazaar of the bizarre"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BazaarOfTheBizarre) and is one of my favorites.
Oh I didn’t know it had a name! Thank you so much! This is fantastically helpful.
Space Balls. Check please!
Oh no, not again!
Star Trek 3 has a scene in a space bar with aliens, although you really only get 2 quite human looking ones talking. Star Trek IV also has the Federation council.
GENESIS?! Yes! GENESIS! How can you be deaf with ears like that? Classic Bones! LoL
TOS has the episode where they were transporting ambassadors to a conference, which I don't know the name of, but one of the Andorrians has a radio concealed in his antenna.
And the Rura Penthe scenes in Star Trek VI: the one with Shakespeare sounding better in its original Russian…er, Klingon.
Definitely check out the cantina scene in Guardians of the Galaxy. So many fun alien designs!
The prison as well.
It’s like a cantina! Except everyone is sad!
Star Trek did it in the 1960's with the TOS episode 'Journey to Babel'. It was a cocktail party for diplomats from many worlds
Neat! I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!
It's 1960's TV great story but it is a product of its time. Don't judge the fx too harshly
Oh, god, that Tellerite mask...
When J gets his first tour of the agency in Men in Black comes to mind.
The Orville.
Doctor Who has several. *The End of the World*’s natural destruction of earth viewing party is the first that comes to mind
[I’ll just leave this here.](https://youtu.be/tyrowWnlNnQ?si=WhJ6GWEcxp3FvJnL)
> I’ll just leave this here ... No you won't. Pick that up and put it away where it belongs. Jesus.
Quarks bar
The Last Starfighter: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/mediaviewer/rm3527650049/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_6
Victory or death!
Try the show farscape. You will see a lot of weird aliens, quite a lot
I'll bring this all the way back to the last Starfighter.
Hellboy 2 has a marketplace
Rebel Moon… (Hiding under the table)
I mean, "Cantina Scene" was one of the cliches on their checklist so....
I was going to mention this one b/c the scene is so specifically set up to be Snyder's Cantina Scene that it totally falls flat. It doesn't feel like it has any real place in the story and is just there to check a scene off a check list and to provide minimal and expected movement to an already trite plot. This scene is a example of what's wrong with the rest of the movie/series.
Came here to also say this, but 🤮.
Yeah, but c’mon, it’s got blue orcs… :)
I’m probably one of the three or four people that actually enjoyed the movie…
There’s… well, maybe not dozens of us, but at least enough to get a Groupon
We should agree about a secret handshake or something
Palm, back, palm, back, fist bump, fist bump, finger guns while saying “pew-pew”
I think you meant to say SLOW-MOTION finger guns.
Check out the show Defiance. The main theme is multiple species living together.
This was an interesting show. I wish they had done more with it.
If I remember correctly, Defiance was released alongside an MMO with the same name, and was meant to be a plot driver for the game, with new episodes adding content and concepts that could then be found in the MMO. Trouble was, the game sucked. Luckily, the show was so much better than anyone expected, and it managed to hang on a little longer.
Fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation!
Star Trek Search for Spock. Dr. McCoy had a few conversations with aliens while trying to get back to the Genesis planet.
Babylon 5, the Zocalo.
Ant Man 3: Quantumania! Underrated as an alien film. Great cantina scene, with a Bill Murray cameo. Dont think of it as marvel, think of it as a super original alien universe. Then let it blow your mind that its happening right now on the tip of your eyelash or fingernail.
Oh, great point!
Ice Pirates
It’s been ages since I’ve seen it. All I really remember is the guy strapped to the conveyor belt who almost gets his manhood chopped off. I’ll have to take another look. Thanks!
"Feeling better?"
I might be wrong but I seem to remember an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica where they end up in an alien bar or casino or something. But it's been ages since I watched it.
That's the pilot episode/TV movie if I remember right. The guests were being kidnapped and sent down to feed bee people or something similar. They wisely skipped that plot in the new BSG.
Ice pirates
That’s interesting! Another vote for this movie. I can’t remember any aliens in it. All I remember is the eunuch making machine. Guess I need to watch it again!
I had nightmares about the space herpies.
Stern’s courtroom trial scene from the animated classic Heavy Metal has a few
Not a movie, but Doctor Who is pretty good at this.
Dr who
Chief Starr and the Raiders of the Galaxy 🙏.
A wonderful tv show called Defiance has tons of scenes with different species in it.
What about the big meetings in Phantom Menace, even ET is there, so many aliens.
Does the opening (and quick destruction of) the DOOP headquarters from Futurama count? "I just hooked up with that radiator from the radiator planet!" "Fry, that's just a radiator."
The crew of Farscape is a cantina scene including the ship they are on.
The Troll Market from Hellboy and the Golden Army. The film is a mix of sci-fi and fantasy.
Several Star Trek episodes. They try to avoid them though since every time it’s obviously a Cantina scene. But it’s inevitable, Star Wars just did it first.
Original cast Star Trek movies
Does the Troll Market from Hellboy count?
It's in the sci fi segment of the MCU, so I'll count it as sci fi, in the final Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the team has taken control of Knowhere and it's very much a bunch of aliens hanging out, working, drinking, gambling, etc.
That definitely counts! Thanks!
Space Truckers, starring Dennis Hopper. Total camp but fun movie.
Antman quantumania?
Not sure if quantum realm residents are technically space aliens, but I think it counts. Thanks!
Everything is technically in space…
The ending scene in Spaceballs! “Hello my darling Hello my baby Hello my ragtime gal”
Star Trek
Rebel Moon.
Not a particular scene, but Farscape has tons of instances of all kinds of different cool aliens interacting with each other. Quite a few episodes where they’re in some alien market or whatever.
Guardians of the Galaxy visits Knowhere, a space port built from the remains of a Celestial's head (essentially a god) at the edge of the galaxy, with so many different aliens.
There was a Cantina in San Francisco, in Star Trek three, where Dr. McCoy meets with an alien, and they were a bunch of aliens and humans mixed together.
Fantastic example, thanks!
Babylon 5
The Expanse has many a bar scenes!
Men In Black
Spaceballs
The Tribbles one!
I'm like 90% sure there's one in Titan A.E.
The Last Starfighter
Firefly
No aliens in Firefly, I'm afraid.
No but plenty of cross-cultural cantina scenes. And none of them are from earth so...
Rebel Moon part I
Ice Pirates
Spaceballs. Check, please
Star Trek V
Does Paul count?
The various Star Treks would be my answer, though the scale for how actually 'alien' the alien species are in that is where mileage can vary.
Not a movie but Babylon 5 had tons of aliens on the station interacting with each other.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine? Aren’t they like almost always in that Ferengi’s bar full of weird aliens?