Worst Sci-Fi Ever.
POSTED BY: Quicksand
UPDATED: Friday, January 31, 2025 09:07
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Howdy,
Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but there's a truly, truly horrific movie called "Space Mutiny" that sits at the very top of my list of the worst science fiction movies of all time. This movie is SO bad, that they used the special effects from Battlestar Galactica...of the GALACTICA herself...but played BACKWARDS so that the BACK of the ship is the FRONT. The interiors are shot in a brewery. The shuttle cars inside the ship are golf carts. The costumes are by Ronco. 'Nuff said. I kid you not, this is bad. Worst. Sci-fi. Ever.
Okay, rounding out the list of the Top Ten:
Space Mutiny (natch)
Creature (the one with Klaus Kinski)
Star Wars Holiday Special
The Roger Corman Fantastic Four Movie
Star Command (A really bad American series made by a German company)
Lexx (God, I hate Lexx)
Cleopatra 2525 (Sorry, Zoe!)
Galactica 1980 (Except for the Starbuck episode...that ruled.)
Ark II
Anything from the second season of Buck Rogers.
I defy ANYONE to beat Space Mutiny.
- T
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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Anyone ever see Darkstar? *shudders*
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Now, now...Dark Star was a college student film in the early 1970's, PRE-Star Wars, and made by John Carpenter (Escape From New York, Halloween, They Live) and Dan O'Bannon (Alien). In fact, the basic plot of Dark Star was reworked by O'Bannon into a movie he called "Star Beast." The studio didn't like the title, though, so they renamed it. You might have seen it, a little-known flick that might have slipped past you...called 'Alien.' Everybody's gotta start somewhere, right?
Of course, you might also have seen a little independent film that came out in the late 1970's called "Within the Woods" that was the prototype for a movie called "Book of the Dead." The studio didn't like THAT title either, so it got renamed. Anybody ever seen "The Evil Dead"? Made by a guy named Sam Raimi...of Spider-Man fame. Hey, like I said...everybody's gotta start somewhere.
Don't forget, Joss' first "Buffy" prototype was simply horrible...and the movie made from his original script was terrible. If somebody had judged him based on a first work, then there would be no 'Firefly.' Judge not, lest ye be judged, or kicked in the head by somebody. Your choice.
- T
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I don't think it qualifies for Sci-Fi, but my own personal least favorite move of all time is
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
I think the cast were all family members and friends metamorphosed into wooden puppets. I collect bad movies and cheesy dialog and even I could not stomach that one.
Debs
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I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but I just remembered a little gem from 1989: Moontrap staring Walter "Chekov" Koenig. Terrible. Embarrassing low-G wire fu, space strippers, and Walter Koenig playing a tough guy. Just terrible.
HKCavalier
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I'm a massive Farscape fan. I like it more than Firefly. I repsect your opinion and all but surely you must've seen something worse? Another question have you seen all of the episodes? or are you basing this on a few minutes of viewing? After all the original poster asked for worst scifi you've seen in it's entirety in which case I hope you have seen it all.
One of the best aspects of the show for me was the fact that all the characters weren't black and white, they were grey so to speak. For example the main bad guy for most of the series, actually seems like he's doing what he's doing for the good of others and not just taking over worlds and crap like that. You also see the main good guy doing really questionable things, which make you think "hey isn't he meant to be good?"
I actually thought the dialogue was brilliant. There are some really weird episodes which I don't think have been done in other sci-fi shows, for that alone I wouldn't class it as worst sci-fi ever because at least it tried to be different, it was innovative.
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Please, oh please, let me list what I consider the worst fantasy movie of all time (and boy, are there some doozies)!
ATAR THE FIGHTING EAGLE!!
The "monster" at the end of the movie was very obviously a giant plastic spider - front half only - on a hydraulic arm. It came half way out of the cave, then came to an abrupt halt at the end of the hydraulic arm. Our Hero then stabs it, and several liters of what looks exactly like BEER come gushing out! Goddess, it was awful! And then I heard, there was a SEQUEL! (Or was Fighting Eagle the sequel?) At any rate...AAUUGGHH!!
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To keep going with the book mentions, I wish I could remember the name of the worst fantasy book I ever read, but I seem to have blocked it out. It was pretty much crap most of the way through, sub-standard meathead soldier gets roped into protecting weakling priestess who can't actually use her powers, b/c they exist only to be transferred to the magician who takes her virginity. They run from evil wizard who wants to sleep with her b/c it will make him the most powerful being ever, blah, blah, blah. But what really cut it for me was that, in the end, when evil wizard has captured them & has her locked up in his tower, she talks him into turning off all of the alarms so she can have a night of privacy before 'giving in to him.' So what does our girl do, with all of the surveillance turned off? The answer you want to hear is 'run the hell out of the tower, since nothing's watching her!' Unfortunately, the answer is 'sleep with the meathead, since her magic is non-transferrable to his non-magical sort, thus 'freeing' her from her magic/virginity & pissing off evil wizard.' Then he lets them go and they, having got together for no apparent reason, 'romantically' ride off into the horizon together, with dialogue determined to set up a sequel.
I read it when I was in junior high, and I was so pissed off I threw it across the room. Given how seriously I treat books, this indicated major anger. And then I sold it to a used bookseller, at an age when I kept every single book I read.
Man, that book still pisses me off!
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I was home sick today. Kept running into something that certainly should be mentioned here -- the Buck Rogers TV show. The horror! Bad acting, bad sets, bad effects, bad plots, bad... everything. The two things I don't understand: how this series ever got to air, and how Jamie Lee Curtis ended up as a guest star for an episode.
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I disagree with every one. Andromedia with what's his name, played Hercules, YETCH, rotten.
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Originally posted by evilmike:
I was home sick today. Kept running into something that certainly should be mentioned here -- the Buck Rogers TV show. The horror! Bad acting, bad sets, bad effects, bad plots, bad... everything. The two things I don't understand: how this series ever got to air, and how Jamie Lee Curtis ended up as a guest star for an episode.
Seared into my brain forever is the awful Buck Rogers episode where they rescue a deaf slave girl, and Buck still remembers a bit of ASL fingerspelling from his pre-future days. He managed to get out "o-k" with enormous difficultly and it was painful to watch.
Second to that for visual pain was an episode of ST:TNG where an alien spoke in ASL through a "chorus" that manages to get killed at some point, requiring Data to become an instant translator.
That's when I learned that Data must have a psychic chip in his head, as he was managing to interpret things BEFORE the deaf alien guy actually SAID it!
Cheers,
Annik
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