Bad Sci FI
POSTED BY: insight spinner
UPDATED: Saturday, May 1, 2004 02:46
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Originally posted by dbell46:
No one has mentioned the theatrical release of Dune staring Kyle Mc...something. I do not mean the cable
release, but the other one.
They changed the story so much it was unrecognizable. I'm glad it bombed. the director/producer should never get another nickle to waste film ever again in life.
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While the movie wasn't nearly as good as I'd hoped it to be I didn't think it was terrible. Bad yeah, terrible nah.
And to give it it's due, I loved the soundtrack for it. Very nifty stuff.
Now if you want to talk bad Sci-Fi all I have to say are the dreaded words..."Jar Jar".
I mean I loved Star Wars, saw it the day it opened in a drive-in, saw the original trilogy more times than I care to admit to but...the prequels made me want to drive to California and shake George Lucas like there was no tommorow.
I saw the Phantom Menace in the theater because it was new Star Wars after so many years, saw Attack of the Clones because I thought to myself it had to get better...The third one, not getting my money. I'll wait till it's on cable.
Besides all my '05 summer movie money is going to The Big Damn Movie.
"Pain is scary..."
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I agree with you there, I despised Attack of the Clones, it was lame, boring and emotionally un-engaging. "The hills are alive with the sound of Naboo" pretty much sums it up for me.
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Originally posted by Gunhand:Quote:
Originally posted by dbell46:
No one has mentioned the theatrical release of Dune staring Kyle Mc...something. I do not mean the cable
release, but the other one.
They changed the story so much it was unrecognizable. I'm glad it bombed. the director/producer should never get another nickle to waste film ever again in life.
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If history is remarkably clear on one point,
its that people don't learn from history.
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While the movie wasn't nearly as good as I'd hoped it to be I didn't think it was terrible. Bad yeah, terrible nah.
And to give it it's due, I loved the soundtrack for it. Very nifty stuff.
Now if you want to talk bad Sci-Fi all I have to say are the dreaded words..."Jar Jar".
I mean I loved Star Wars, saw it the day it opened in a drive-in, saw the original trilogy more times than I care to admit to but...the prequels made me want to drive to California and shake George Lucas like there was no tommorow.
I saw the Phantom Menace in the theater because it was new Star Wars after so many years, saw Attack of the Clones because I thought to myself it had to get better...The third one, not getting my money. I'll wait till it's on cable.
Besides all my '05 summer movie money is going to The Big Damn Movie.
"Pain is scary..."
I don't understand seeing Attack of the Clones. Phantom Menace was like a big sign saying "don't come to Star Wars Movies anymore!!" And I saw the original Star Wars in NYC in a Big Damn Theater. And until last year, had a thread-bare Revenge of the Jedi T-shirt. That was going to be the movie's name before Lucas, et. al decided that Jedi are not vengeful. True to form, I wore it instead of saving it as a collectors item. All my cash will go for viewing and re-viewing Serenity.
And yeah, the Dune movie was a mess, but I kinda liked it.
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Originally posted by Fireflythemovie:
Plan 9.
True.
But...Um...Buckeroo Banzai kinda cracked me up. And it had Rosalyn Cash in it -- I sure loved her...and she was in Omega Man.
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I guess I'm showing my age but y'all are missing a movie that is widely considered not only bad sci fi but also the worst movie ever made.
This movie is so excrable that it is hailed as a low mark and actually still screened at midnight movies as a bad example of movie making.
I speak of the immortal Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
In spite of the bad script, sets, costumes, plot and effects this movie goes under and short of a decent goal by having one of its stars, Bella Lugosi, pass away during filming. Working on a shoestring budget Wood had one of the crew, Tom Mason double as Lugosi. Despite the fact that Mason didn't look much like Lugosi at all.
The legend has it that some theatres pulled this after the first showing. Some are rumored to have pulled it during the first showing. Whatever the case it disappeared without a trace during its theatrical release and was only saved from the dustbin by sci fi fanatics. Movie makers like Sam Raimi, Joe Dante and Tim Burton love this movie.
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Two words: Solar Crisis.
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Originally posted by Zoriah:
I agree with you there, I despised Attack of the Clones, it was lame, boring and emotionally un-engaging. "The hills are alive with the sound of Naboo" pretty much sums it up for me.
well, okay that really WAS the worst
(Lucas is single handedly dismantling his own franchize!)
But I really REALLY hated 'Dreamcatcher'
it started out as disgustingly over the top horror
but then it turned into lame Sci-fi
so: ewwwwwww
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BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!! Was the most disappointing Sci-fi movie event ever for me. I read the book for the first time about 20 years ago and loved it!
The book had a special centre insert that talked about the soon to be made movie.. (A movie based on this book!! Soon! WOW!)
Well.. I waited and waited and every few years I would re-read the book and again see the advertisement for the "soon to be made movie" and get all excited again thinking about how good this movie is gunna be, and how it must be close now! its been a few years.....
By about the 6th time i'd read the book and there was still no movie I started getting a little skeptical... 
A few more years passed..
Finally! The movie "Battlefield Earth is a reality!! I was STOKED! couldnt wait!
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Man that movie sucked...
It would probably have had to be pretty damn good to live up to 20 years of expectation. Still..
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Originally posted by embers:Quote:
Originally posted by Zoriah:
I agree with you there, I despised Attack of the Clones, it was lame, boring and emotionally un-engaging. "The hills are alive with the sound of Naboo" pretty much sums it up for me.
well, okay that really WAS the worst
(Lucas is single handedly dismantling his own franchize!)
But I really REALLY hated 'Dreamcatcher'
it started out as disgustingly over the top horror
but then it turned into lame Sci-fi
so: ewwwwwww
As much as I never thought I'd say it, I've come to the realization that the Star Wars franchise would be better off, I mean really better off, if Lucas let go. Now admittedly some of the "Expanded Universe" novels and whatnot are beyond contempt, but the sad thing is to me the prequels are as bad if not worse than most of it.
Now I'm not a rabid Lucas hater, I mean the man made movies that defined my childhood. But to paraphrase a Good Movie,"The King has lost his way." I guarantee if Episode I and II didn't have his name on it, and the names were changed just enough that it wouldn't be considered out and out copying of Star Wars, then those movies wouldn't have made a dime based on their plot, direction, writing and acting. Shame really.
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Originally posted by Calhoun:
BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!! Was the most disappointing Sci-fi movie event ever for me. I read the book for the first time about 20 years ago and loved it!
The book had a special centre insert that talked about the soon to be made movie.. (A movie based on this book!! Soon! WOW!)
Well.. I waited and waited and every few years I would re-read the book and again see the advertisement for the "soon to be made movie" and get all excited again thinking about how good this movie is gunna be, and how it must be close now! its been a few years.....
By about the 6th time i'd read the book and there was still no movie I started getting a little skeptical...
A few more years passed..
Finally! The movie "Battlefield Earth is a reality!! I was STOKED! couldnt wait!
.
.
.
.
.
Man that movie sucked...
It would probably have had to be pretty damn good to live up to 20 years of expectation. Still..
Ooof, I was trying to forget about that one. But yeah it made me cry at how bad it was. Only movie I ever rented and went back to the store demanding for a refund. Not of my money, but of those precious minutes of my life that were wasted forever.
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"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"
My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html
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