films-about-space-hazards

"Kozo Nomura — Murai's Assistant"

"Somesho Matsumoto — UFO expert"

"[on the disappearance of the princess] Yes, I think she survived because she fell into a gap between dimensions. You may not be aware of this...but there are other dimensions besides those we know. And there's a whole other world therein. The explosion created a gap between the two worlds. She was saved when she fell into it."

"Shoichi Hirose — King Ghidorah"

"Masaki Shinohara — Rodan"

"Haruo Nakajima — Godzilla"

"Yoshifumi Tajima — ship captain"

"Heihachiro Okawa — astronomer"

"Yoshio Kosugi — Chief of Infant Island"

"Yutaka Oka — meteorite scientist"

"Yutaka Nakayama — tourist (lost hat)"

"Eisei Amamoto — Wu, Butler"

"Senkichi Omura — Hat Retriever"

"Shin Otomo — leader of the Assassins Malness boss"

"Haruya Kato — journalist"

"Susumu Kurobe, Kazuo Suzuki Toru Ibuki — Assassins Malness henchman"

"Ikio Sawamura — Fisherman"

"The Peanuts — Shobijin"

"Kenji Sahara — Kanamaki, Naoko's editor"

"Akihiko Hirata — Chief Detective Okita"

"Hisaya Ito — Malness, Chief assassin"

"Takashi Shimura — Dr. Tsukamoto"

"Akiko Wakabayashi — Princess Selina Salno of Selgina"

"Hiroshi Koizumi — Professor Miura"

"Yuriko Hoshi — Naoko Shindo"

"Yosuke Natsuki — Detective Shindo"

"The Three-Headed Monster battles Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan for the world!"

"It's a planet that has been hiding behind the sun. Now it passes by us. It's called a flyby."

"Close your eyes. Hold my hand."

"[First lines] [Spoken over a shot of outer space] Needles in a heavenly haystack. There are more stars in the heavens than there are human beings on Earth. Through telescopes men of science constantly search the infinitesimal corners of our solar system seeking new discoveries, hoping to better understand the laws of the Universe. Observatories dedicated to the study of astronomy are set in high and remote places, but there is none more remote than Mt. Kenna Observatory in this part of South Africa."

"Here it is: money to burn!"

"[Breathing in] Best air I ever tasted."

"It's dog eat dog – the law of the jungle!"

"He'll be home the day after tomorrow."

"Romance! Thrills! Adventure!"

"Planets destroy Earth!"

"Richard Derr — David Randall"

"Larry Keating — Dr. Cole Hendron"

"Barbara Rush — Joyce Hendron"

"John Hoyt — Sydney Stanton"

"Alden Chase — Dr. George Frye"

"Hayden Rorke — Dr. Emery Bronson"

"Peter Stormare - Lev Andropov"

"[After informing his crew on the current situation] The United States government just asked us to save the world... Anybody want to say 'no'?"

"[After Freedoms Armadillo is destroyed] Get a hold of Truman, and prepare the world for bad news."

"[last words as he activates the manual detonator] We win, Gracie!"

"[addressing staff on the NASA flight center network after the space shuttle Atlantis is destroyed] Okay, I want three groups. One: internal malfunction; get the log tape and start working back; maybe it's a glitch. Two: I want NORAD, Space Command and the 50th Tactical comparing all the space junk you tracked in every orbit. I want you to check, re-check and then do it all over again. Number three: wild cards, anything and everything alright? Now, Big Russ, I want you to get on the phone and wake up 11,000 people. Walt, get 'em going."

"[briefing Harry and Grace Stamper on the situation] When the rogue comet went through the asteroid belt, it sent shrapnel right for us. For the next 11 days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Even if the asteroid itself hits the water, it's still hitting land, it'll flashboil millions of gallons of seawater and slam into the ocean bedrock. Now if it's a Pacific Ocean impact, which we think it will be, it will create a tidal wave about three miles high, travelling a thousand miles an hour, covering California and washing up in Denver. Japan is gone, Australia is wiped out. Half of the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast, the rest will freeze to death in a nuclear winter."

"I address you tonight not as the President of the United States, not as the leader of a country, but as a citizen of humanity. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges. The Bible calls this day "Armageddon"; the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction. All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service. The human thirst for excellence, knowledge. Every step up the ladder of science, every adventurous reach into space, all of our combined modern technologies and imaginations, even the wars that we've fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle. Through all the chaos that is our history, through all of the wrongs and the discord, through all of the pain and suffering, through all of our times, there is one thing that has nourished our souls, and elevated our species above its origins, and that is our courage. Dreams of an entire planet are focused tonight on those 14 brave souls traveling into the heavens. And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through. Godspeed, and good luck to you."

"When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: “It looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie.” More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed action vehicle that had come out four summers prior and contained scenes of epic metropolitan mayhem that were still something of a cinematic novelty at the time. We pray that nothing on the scale of 9/11 will ever happen again, but if something actually did, we’d now have a sickening number of summer movies to compare it to. This weekend’s Man of Steel is only the latest film this year to exploit familiar 9/11 imagery in ways that are far more extreme and blatant than anything we’ve seen on the big screen before, as though Hollywood feels the need to out-9/11 itself. It’s lazy, it’s cheap, it’s deadening, and it needs to stop."