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.
The David Lynch directed version of Dune. Not sure what you saw but the Gom jabbar scene was near perfect... and the voice over thoughts of the characters is very much like the style of the book which has the POV switching among the characters from paragraph to paragraph. Also Dino DeLaurentis (or maybe Rafaella) interfered so much with the final cut of the film that David Lynch took his name off the credits... Also I think the casting was superb. It does have its flaws and could, should have been a giant miniseries in the first place, but it's nod that bad.
The newer version produced for the SciFi Channel also had flaws, but it does show more of the Fremen life than the other version and is a more straight forward story.
Jaymes
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Originally posted by SamuraiX47:
Okay which version? The 1962 version where they wind up in Spain. Or the BBC miniseries from 1981 which probably sticks closer to the book than the 1962 version.Quote:
The film version was the one where the triffids were killed by seawater, and yes it was pretty naff, I liked the mini series though.
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Originally posted by insight spinner:
...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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Actually, "Return of the Jedi" was originally entitled "Revenge of the Jedi" and was changed, not because of Lucas' psycho-family-friendly value system, but because "Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan" was ORIGINALLY "The REVENGE of Khan"--and was released at or near the same rough time as "Jedi"--the studio balked, saying it was too close and needed to put a buffer zone.
But either way, the two new "Star Wars" movies are like watered down Coors (which is already watered down swill)...
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Originally posted by Harpie:
I can't remember the name of the show but it was a cross between ER and DS9, really awful. I think it was on UPN and thankfully it didn't last very long.
Trekkie,Browncoat,Leaper,MSTie
I recall the show, as well, but can't remember the name either. I think that's because the show didn't last long enough to GET a name...
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Originally posted by kasuo:Quote:
Originally posted by Tracer:
... Er Spaceballs anyone remember that?
Dude, Spaceballs rocked!
Lone Star: "Great.. she's a Druish princess."
Barf: "Funny, she doesn't look Druish."
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Yogurt: "Merchandising, that's where the real money is made!"
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Colonel Sanders: "Megamaid has gone from suck to blow!"
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ok i'll give you that one, in retrospect that wasn't half bad
ok but babylon 5 was weak
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If we were doing Movies, I would definitely throw "Tremors" into the ring. Kevin Bacon meets Giant Worms That Eat People. Ugh. It was so bad, I thought Steven King wrote it.
For bad Sci Fi series, though ... I did see a couple episodes of Earth: Final Conflict that were awfully lame, but I don't know enough about the series as a whole to make any pronouncements.
Farscape was just dumb. A sexy priestess with mind powers who is actually a plant-based lifeform? Ugh. Every time they described her character, they talked about how sexually evolved she was ... and yet she never once had sex with anyone, the entire time. Even worse, the central driving goals and desires of the characters seemed to change every week, depending on what archetypes they needed for that week's lame skit. Rigel was actually the most consistent of them all! (Although the Earther wasn't bad; he seemed to evolve as he gained experience, instead of simply changing at random to fit that week's plot.)
What was the show with Mandy Patenkin (sp?) as an alien cop on Earth? Sour milk was an intoxicant for his race, I think.
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Originally posted by Skydance:
What was the show with Mandy Patenkin (sp?) as an alien cop on Earth? Sour milk was an intoxicant for his race, I think.
"Alien Nation" The movie had James Caan and Mandy Patenkin. The TV show had Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint.
The movie sucked - the TV show was great IMHO. I enjoyed it every week and catch reruns when I can.
"Just keep walkin, preacher man."
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Originally posted by Hardware:
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".
Yeah,someone just slipped that one is, and it's a real stinker!!
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Originally posted by Zoriah:
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."
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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
Will not talk about good movies and kings, will keep to thread, will resist ...the precious.
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Originally posted by Skydance:
If we were doing Movies, I would definitely throw "Tremors" into the ring. Kevin Bacon meets Giant Worms That Eat People. Ugh. It was so bad, I thought Steven King wrote it.
For bad Sci Fi series, though ... I did see a couple episodes of Earth: Final Conflict that were awfully lame, but I don't know enough about the series as a whole to make any pronouncements.
Farscape was just dumb. A sexy priestess with mind powers who is actually a plant-based lifeform? Ugh. Every time they described her character, they talked about how sexually evolved she was ... and yet she never once had sex with anyone, the entire time. Even worse, the central driving goals and desires of the characters seemed to change every week, depending on what archetypes they needed for that week's lame skit. Rigel was actually the most consistent of them all! (Although the Earther wasn't bad; he seemed to evolve as he gained experience, instead of simply changing at random to fit that week's plot.)
What was the show with Mandy Patenkin (sp?) as an alien cop on Earth? Sour milk was an intoxicant for his race, I think.
Well, Tremors was hi-larious it stunk, but I laughed (at it) the whole time.
I never really watched Farscape, but wasn't the nekkid blue woman a rip of from Joan Slonczewski's (sp?) book with the purple-skinned evolved lesbians dwelling on a water planet? (great book).
& I didn't get alien nation as a movie or a series.
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