Worst Sci-Fi Ever.
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UPDATED: Friday, January 31, 2025 09:07
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It's a tie between The Fifth Element and Independence Day.
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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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Dark Star is my favorite movie of ALL TIME! I am being 100% serious--I've watched this countless times, and cannot express my love for this film strongly enough!
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I think we can safely add AvP and pretty much every else Paul W.S. Anderson has done.
Arawaen
P.S. Sadly AvP might still be better than Alien Resurrection.
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For most of his movies I'll agree, but I still maintain "Resident Evil" was LIGHT YEARS better than anything else he's done... whenever they play "Soldier" on the Sci-Fi channel, I just start laughing uncontrollably.
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Babylon 5: First season sucked ass.
Star Hunter: Every episode was shitorrific.
Space Island One: (Watched it for the cute ladies only.)
Voyager: All eps not pertaining to Borg/Jeri Ryan sucked big time ass.
STNG: All eps not pertaining to Borg were s--t.
Andromeda: All eps after season two were awful.
Star Wars 1 and 2 were bad. Should've killed Jar-Jar-Stinks. Guy playing Darth in second movie was badly miscast.
Alien Resurrection: What the Hell happened with this one?
Matrix, third movie was crap.
Enterprise: How could I have forgotten this turd!!
Lost in Space: B-A-D!!!
The Fifth Element: I recently heard this was supposed to be a comedy...can anyone confirm this? Anyway, too late to get my money back on this one.
I gotta stop there before I jump off a bridge!!
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Well, so far I can't see that anyone has mentioned my personal worst movie-going experience (that I actually paid for, anyway):
STARSHIP INVASIONS, starring Robert Vaughn. (What can I say, we were all "Man From U.N.C.L.E." fans.)
OMG, what a piece of go se. I think they used tin pie plates for the flying saucers, and you could see the strings in every shot. And this was the same year "Star Wars" came out!
I also have to put in a vote for the original movie version of "Dune," which was one of the most disjointed, poorly-directed messes of all time. Although I have to say we really enjoyed turning the opening-night theatre experience into our own private MST3K party, answering back to the screen whenever the dialogue was too unbearable. By the end of the film we had the whole audience doing it. We laughed so hard on the way home we almost cried.
And yeah, "Event Horizon" blows bigtime.
-Mrs. Embassy
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I'll vote "Armageddon" or maybe the movie of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Unless "From Hell" counts as sci-fi. Oh, well, they're subsidizing Alan Moore.
I think the actual worst is a movie called "Tammy and the T-Rex" starring Denise Richards. Or "Night of the Lepus" with Deforrest Kelley. But these and "Battlefield Earth," I mean, they're trash and they're going to be trash. You know this. "BE" especially, I mean, I doubted L. Ron went off to be the messiah cause he was a good writer.
I'll also vote for a "Star Trek" novel that ended with the stars forming themselves into a face and talking a to Picard and Worf. It also contained a creepy double entendre about Worf's medal collection and the size thereof, and it had Worf and a female Klingon badass rip off "the we have to take off 800 weapons before we can have sex" scene from "In the Line of Fire" Surrealistically bad. Of course, I haven't read Newt Gingrich's alternate history novel. So judgements can always be remade.
I've never really watched many T.V. sci-fi shows outside of TNG and "Firefly" Hm, how about "Homeboys from Outer Space?"
Dan
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Just FYI, The Starlost was not really Harlan Ellison's creation. All he did was suggest the idea and the studio took it from there. If you read some of Ellison's books, there are stories about his life in them, some of which deal with The Starlost. He basically says that he was sorry it had his name attached to it.
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Originally posted by MrsEmbassy:
Well, so far I can't see that anyone has mentioned my personal worst movie-going experience (that I actually paid for, anyway):
STARSHIP INVASIONS, starring Robert Vaughn. (What can I say, we were all "Man From U.N.C.L.E." fans.)
OMG, what a piece of go se. I think they used tin pie plates for the flying saucers, and you could see the strings in every shot. And this was the same year "Star Wars" came out!
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-Mrs. Embassy
OMG, I'd forgotten about that wretched piece of crap! I actually sat through it in an Army theater in Germany in 1977 because I had nothing better to do that evening! Geez, what a no-budget turkey that was! Of course, it had Christopher Lee in addition to Robert Vaughn in it, which only proves that even name stars can sometimes make tragic mistakes.
Let's see, I may be repeating some titles that have been mentioned already, but here's some that stand out for me:
Logan's Run-- notable mostly for Jenny Agutter's semi-nudity (yippee!).
The pilot of Buck Rogers as a theatrical release (we got the weirdest crap at Army theaters in the '70's)-- I walked out.
Armageddon-- ANYTHING by Michael Bay stinks like warp-nacelle bilge oil, but this takes the cake.
Space Mutiny-- another low-budget godawfulness, but a scream if you can get a hold of the MST3K rip on it.
I have to stop now, becuase over 47 years I've seen a lot of bad sci-fi and the memories are making me queasy....
Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!
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This is hard, I could go on and on about the crap I've seen lol!
OK worst Sci-fi show ever...Andromeda, I have watched a few episodes, but to be honest even the pilot was confusing, and the acting is horrible, It always reminded me somehow of Star Trak, which is another horrible, boring sci-fi show (maybe not the original but most of the spin-offs have sucked)
I watched maybe 5 minutes of Buck Rangers, it was just so stupid
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