Worst Sci-Fi Ever.
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UPDATED: Friday, January 31, 2025 09:07
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Originally posted by Haplo721:
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.
And just guess which studio took the idea and ruined it???
C'mon, one guess ...
Yup. Fox. HAHAHAHAHA!
Ben Bova's name also appeared on this piece of drek because he signed up to be a science advisor and then couldn't get them to take his name off it. Later he wrote a novel fictionalizing his & Harlan's experience with this nightmare of a show, called "The Starcrossed." It's really hilarious, especially if you've ever seen the show!
-Mrs. Embassy
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Originally posted by MrsEmbassy:Quote:
Originally posted by Haplo721:
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.
And just guess which studio took the idea and ruined it???
C'mon, one guess ...
Yup. Fox. HAHAHAHAHA!
Ben Bova's name also appeared on this piece of drek because he signed up to be a science advisor and then couldn't get them to take his name off it. Later he wrote a novel fictionalizing his & Harlan's experience with this nightmare of a show, called "The Starcrossed." It's really hilarious, especially if you've ever seen the show!
-Mrs. Embassy
I heard Ben Bova refer to Starlost in an interview once. He said something like "And people keep blaming me for 'Starlost'."
Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
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Moon 44 was the worst SciFi movie I ever watched all the way through. Though the sheer hilarity of the stupid crap they pulled in the movie... lets see...
An acutal quote of the dialog.
"They've attacked moon 47, moon 46, moon 45, and where do you think they will attack next...? MOON 44."
They had good guys flying around a canyon in suped up helicopters on moon 44, but they needed guys back at base to guide the pilots around the trench (one per 'copter).
The aliens decided to send robot drones to attack them. But instead of just sending robot ships, they actually built a robot to fly the ship.
There is more, but it is so painful my mind won't release it from the space it is walled up in.
Yeah, Moon 44 real damn bad movie.
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Yeah, but isn't Chekhov in it?
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"Yeah, but isn't Chekhov in it?"
Nope. Chekhov was in MoonTrap.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097911/
Also a bad movie.
Actual fact about MoonTrap:
They spent so much of their budget on the cast and special effects that they didnt have any money left over for music. They gave the Composer job to a Special Sound Effects guy named Joseph LoDuca, who went on to do very well for himself in TV shows. They didnt pay him for both jobs. The payment for composing music for this great piece of cinematic work? His name in the Credits.
Moon 44 starred Micheal Pare of "Streets of Fire" fame. Yet another stinky movie.
I call her "Vera"
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Good memory. I'm humbled, good sir.
I knew there was a reason "Moon 44" was familiar, though, so had to go look it up... and yep, there it was: Directed by Roland Emmerich. Yes, THAT Roland Emmerich. Independence Day. The Patriot. The Day After Tomorrow. And... lest we forget.... Universal Soldier.
You'd think we would have seen this coming.
........ I haven't seen either "Moon" movie, but I did see "Moontrap" also had Bruce Campbell in it. This should push the movie up in Cool Factor, shouldn't it? Merely having the Chin gives any movie street cred... I would think.
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Well here goes.... (these are ones I have seen that I would like the time back from - I havent seen a lot of what other's have hated - I trust I would have to agree with most)
Farscape
Darkman (anything after Liam Neeson sucked)
Mission to Mars (only movie i ever WALKED OUT ON)
Lost in Space
Andromeda
Max Headroom
Roswell
Alien Nation
TV Series I miss watching -
Firefly
John Doe
Space Above and Beyond
Pretender
Highlander
Seven Days
Please feel free to agree disagree etc
I really do not give a sh!t cause its only my opinion, and everyone is entitled to one
fox
firefly playa-haters
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Some of the above I like - Farscape and SG1, some I know I really dislike - Highlander 2 and the others, but the single worst SciFi I have ever seen ( now I'm not sure it was ever aired in the States) was on the good old Beeb. It was a Gerry Anderson production and was called "Space Precinct" I'm quivering at the thought of it. It was truly awful and had some bloke in it from dallas or dynasty or some damn thing can't remember what his name was though. No story, wooden acting, well more like plastic acting, terrible prosthetics, terrible effects. In fact it was just terrible............
I also remember Crime Traveller - see, that makes me shudder too.......
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Sometimes it's tough to rate something "the worst ever," because some shows are so bad they are incredibly funny, while others aren't quite bad enough to be funny. There are other movies or TV shows that were good at the time, but seem dated now.
I would save "worst ever" for stuff that was so bad it was painful to watch, but not bad in the right way to be hilarious.
Now, I have only watched one episode of Andromeda, but it was absolutely so bad, without being funny, that I actually felt physical pain.
The TV show Buck Rogers was probably bad (haven't seen it in 20 years) but I loved it at the time. A few episodes of ST:NG were so terrible I wanted to shake the actors or writers really, really hard (but there were some really good episodes in later seasons).
Anyone seen the Disney movie Black Hole? That was terrible.
Several of the movies that folks have mentioned were ones I liked, even though they had occasional flaws. I really liked The Fifth Element, despite the corny ending. I thought AI had some really powerful moments (and Jude Law was great), despite the corny ending. I thought that the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie was funny, despite not being impressed with the actress that played Buffy. I wasn't particularly impressed with much of Matrix 2 & 3, but they were watchable. I felt a bit let down with Episode I and II of Star Wars because I had such high expectations, but I still enjoyed them.
I should learn my lesson from Episode I and II and not have stellar expectations for Serenity. But I can't help it! The teaser was so awesome, and I have faith in Joss, and that Joss will have creative license to do the movie right.
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Quote:It aired in Canada for a while.
Originally posted by mrskborg:
the single worst SciFi I have ever seen ( now I'm not sure it was ever aired in the States) was on the good old Beeb. It was a Gerry Anderson production and was called "Space Precinct"
I though it was Canadian, actually. Was it a BBC production, or did they just air it? I'd hate to think the one I saw was a remake.
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