Bad Sci FI
POSTED BY: insight spinner
UPDATED: Saturday, May 1, 2004 02:46
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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...
I think the show was Mercy Point, or something along those lines. I remember hearing it was going to be on, and I remember hearing it had been cancelled. I don't remember it actually being on.
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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.
insight spinner
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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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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne
Yeah, well the woman who gave me the shirt, who was on the production team and went to my mom's hairdresser, gave me the shirt before the controversy hit. When the movie came out, I asked her what happened to the name, and she gave me that "Jedi's aren't vengeful" spin. Your version seems truer to the blue hands we know.
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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.
Mercy Point.
Saying it was really awful is insulting to the really awful population.
Now if they had adapted James White's Sector General Hospital stories, then i think they could have had something going.
Jaymes
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Originally posted by Skydance:
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.
Maybe you mistake sexuality with sex. Women can be sexual creatures, exude sexuality that will drive men crazy, but they don't necessarily have to have sex, or perform sex acts with others. I think it was demonstrated on the show that what she did was more of a spiritual and mental bonding than a physical act.
Jaymes
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*Island City
*Most of the 70-80s Italian zombie films
*Lawnmover Man 1&2
*Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
*Robocop 3
*Universal Soldier: The Return
*Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
*Space Mutiny
*Future War
*The Avengers(I'm not sure if it's the right name, it's coming from the telly and I can't really remember the english title)
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I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the worst sci-fi film of the last decade - MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. I really thought that no movie last year would out-do Hulk for sheer awfulness, but I was sadly mistaken.
"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb
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Originally posted by spikeandjezebel:
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the worst sci-fi film of the last decade - MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. I really thought that no movie last year would out-do Hulk for sheer awfulness, but I was sadly mistaken.
"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb
Thank you! I was gonna say Matrix Reloaded, because I didn't/won't see REVOLUTIONS. It was just here in my house and I only looked at the screen in passing and got to see our Gina's face -- it looked pained, and maybe a bit embarrased.
Anyway, in RELOADED, they lost me at the prayer service/political rally/orgy scene and it went downhill from there.
Gee...my typing has been awful today. Sorry to any perfectionists out there. And thanks to everyone for playing along -- this is a fun thread!
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Impostor-
It was so bad that it was delayed about 3 times before theatrical release and lasted about 20 minutes in distribution. I made the mistake of buying the DVD (Missed it in the theater) and felt like such a moron for watching it that I took a hammer to the DVD after watching it. I actually felt better after smashing it to pieces.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160399/
Starship Troopers- I dont think I would have hated it so much if they gave it a different title. I am a huge Heinlein fan and slitting my wrists with a dull butter knife wouldnt have taken away the pain caused by what they did to such a great story.
"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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... 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
You're kidding, right? Babylon 5 may have been produced on a shoestring budget, but it is one of the landmarks of '90s scifi. In fact, Firefly was the first series I'd ever seen which had the potential to have a stronger overall story than Babylon 5.
Sure, the dialog wasn't the greatest, and some of the actors could have been better. But the story.....the story was a work of genius.
Perhaps you just didn't see it properly? B5 is heavily arc-based, and watching random episodes could definately leave the wrong impression. Especially because the standalone eps tended to be the series' weak point.
There's a reason B5 won two Hugos and an Emmy, though.
Oh, about the Trek movies. Yeah, some of them were bad. However, I think ST2, 4, 6, and 8 were solid enough.
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I find "Stargate SG1" the perfect cure for insomnia, followed by "Enterprise" and "Andromeda". When they're gone, I'll have to count on any Sci-Fi Channel original movie to put me to sleep!
As for good sci-fi, gotta go with "UFO" from the late sixties.
"That's the buffet table....."
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