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3. The Expansion Of The ISS - Valerian & The City Of A Thousand Planets
Luc Besson's Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets may have been a critical and commercial disappointment, but its incredible opening scene suggested the seeds of a far more interesting movie.
The gorgeous, affecting introductory montage depicts the development of the International Space Station (later the Intergalactic Space Station) over the course of several centuries.
Set to the inspired musical choice of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," the scene begins in 1975 and quickly leaps forward, chronicling the meetings of astronauts from different countries aboard the space station.
Later, humanity makes contact with many far-flung alien species on the station, optimistically suggesting the community-expanding possibilities of co-operation among intelligent life in the universe.
Though the sequence sadly only lasts about three minutes, it clearly could've been fleshed out into a feature-length exploration of human progress throughout the centuries, rather than turning into the more messy - though hardly bad - pulpy adventure movie we ended up with.