one of my least favorite genres is space movies without any sci-fi elements

space cowboys

                                                                      
               james garner may look like an alien or like he's suffering from some horrible space disease but sadly that's not the case

                                                                         apollo 13

                           another dream-team-all-star line up to go out into space and do battle with....you guessed it a cracked windshield and failing instruments. the climax is forrest gump wrestling a joystick


                                                                           armegeddon

you know what would have been more interesting than fighting a meteor? anything

red planet

instruments will fail........

here are a few that appear to be from that genre but are actually not totally boring

                                                                            moontrap

bruce campbell and chekov do battle with alien robots on the moon

moon

looks boring i know, but it's pretty great

space truckers

on first glance it really just looks like a boring space movie