"The Andromeda Strain" does that absolutely brilliantly. "2001" put all that behind, and made it necessary for science-fiction movies (ambitious ones, at least) to create a plausible environment. The low in these matters was reached with Captain Video on the old DuMont network, whose ship actually rocked up and down as it sailed the sea of space, which presumably had waves just like the ocean. We're asked to believe that our heroes are somewhere beyond Alpha Centuri and picking up steam, but their control panel looks like a 1949 Studebaker that's dropped acid. One of the problems with science-fiction movies has always been the hardware.
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