Worst Sci-Fi Ever.

POSTED BY: Quicksand
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BLUESUNWORSHIPPER

Sunday, October 3, 2004 3:14 PM

Sardonica,

I noted your affection for Dark Star, and I agree: the movie was ahead of it's time, very funny, and well-made on the cheap. I learned a very important lesson from that movie: don't piss off the beach ball, and don't jump into a vat of liquid nitrogen...it's very dangerous.

:)

- T

ROBINHOOD

Sunday, October 3, 2004 6:09 PM

WHAT.......THUNDERBIRDS CRAP...CHEAPNESS. Think before typing. Thunderbirds was created in 1965....thats like....... 35 years before Farscape and Jim Hensons sock puppets arrived. DOH!!!!!!! Special effects with models for big screen SciFi movies were little better than these at the time and Thunderbirds was made for TV remember. Strings to hold up the models were all they had. No computer graphics touch ups then. The partial solution was to paint the strings the same colour as the backgrounds.
As for the puppets, so what, it was a kids show. Did latex even exist in 1965?
One more point....Andromeda. Does anyone actually watch that. Kevin Sorbo is possibly the most colourless actor (if you can call him an actor) in the history of moving pictures. They could throw a chair in front of the camera instead of him...and nobody would notice the difference.

Yep..........................that went well!

SHINYLETO

Sunday, October 3, 2004 6:26 PM

Thunderbirds!? I used to watch that on TV, and I thought it was supposed to be a joke. It is, admittedly, pretty funny.

Event Horizon: Blegh.

Enterprise: I watched a few episodes and gave up, because it was awful.

The new Dune books: They're getting progressively worse with each book. I read the first one and I thought "All right, this is decent. Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson can't match Frank Herbert, but I'll read the next installment." So I read the next two, and they didn't sit well with me. They just didn't fit in with the universe. Then they put out the second trilogy, and I gave up. I read nothing but the summaries/covers, and I tell you they have trashed the Dune universe. Now, I'm not saying I know what Frank Herbert was thinking when he wrote about Dune's past, but I'm 85% sure it wasn't remotely like what's in those books. It's a damn shame.

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VECTREXER

Sunday, October 3, 2004 9:17 PM

As much as I liked the book,,, Solaris is just up there as my personal vote for the worst SFM ever. I mean really!! I just am bored to the point of vomiting or falling asleep when watching any version so far. You can ask my wife about my general love of foreign films. But for Solaris, The answer is just don't!!

For a recent TV series I would have to vote the later epsiodes of LEXX as just crapp!! Early LEXX, sexy and fairly cool. Later LEXX needs someone else than FOTB/FOOS writers, direction, FX, and well, just name it. Late LEXX=CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!. Okay, now that I have vented, there were a couple of cool moments, very few.

As for the previous comment about the Starlost, I did think that show was served with a big slice of cheese, but really no more so than Dr. Who of the same era. You have to get past the FX people. I do have to admit I did chuckle quite a bit at some of the supposed weapons they had.

Chris

GAVIDA

Monday, October 4, 2004 10:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BlueSunWorshipper:
Sardonica,

I learned a very important lesson from that movie: don't piss off the beach ball, and don't jump into a vat of liquid nitrogen...it's very dangerous.

:)

- T

I learned something else as well:
If you wear a space suit make sure you know how the communication works

Keep flying,
Gavida

MAUGWAI

Monday, October 4, 2004 12:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by robinhood:
WHAT.......THUNDERBIRDS CRAP...CHEAPNESS. Think before typing. Thunderbirds was created in 1965....thats like....... 35 years before Farscape and Jim Hensons sock puppets arrived. DOH!!!!!!! Special effects with models for big screen SciFi movies were little better than these at the time and Thunderbirds was made for TV remember. Strings to hold up the models were all they had. No computer graphics touch ups then. The partial solution was to paint the strings the same colour as the backgrounds.
As for the puppets, so what, it was a kids show. Did latex even exist in 1965?
One more point....Andromeda. Does anyone actually watch that.

You're right. I apologize. I should think before I type. I didn't mean to say "cheapness." I meant to say "CHEESINESS." Just because something is old doesn't mean it's off the hook for being crappy. And they did have special effects in those days. Remember the original Star Trek?

And as for Andromeda, it's won several awards and been number one in it's target audience several times over the past four years. Sci-fi wouldn't have added it to the line-up if it didn't have an audience. I'm surprised that so many people here hate it so much. The characters on that show are not good or evil. There are so many gray areas and internal conflicts, and our hero is often wrong. I stand by my support.

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CYBERSNARK

Monday, October 4, 2004 11:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by maugwai:
The characters on that show are not good or evil. There are so many gray areas and internal conflicts, and our hero is often wrong. I stand by my support.

You must be talking about Early Andromeda.

After about S3, the bad guys have been consistently written at the level of Power Rangers bad guys, and Dylan (a.k.a. Captain Super-Incredible) is never wrong. Ever. Even when all logic and rationality is against him.

The big internal conflict that they're playing up now is Beka vs. Dylan, which played out back in the first season.

They used to have Dylan vs Tyr, then Tyr got fired. They used to have big moral questions, but now they have Superhero Dylan versus the Bad Guys(tm). They used to have a Harper/Rommie/Dylan romantic triangle, but now Harper's the token comedic little horn-dog, Rommie's the ice-queen, and Dylan's boinking every female guest star they get.

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ROBINHOOD

Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:43 PM

I find it strangely ironic that the wooden puppets in Thunderbirds have more character than any of the actors in Andromeda. Like the Craig David lookalike. He's got the same comedy beard too. I have a sideboard that acts better than him. With a completely different cast it might have been worth me watching, but alas, Kevin Sorbo was the 1st and probably final nail in it's coffin for me.
Some people may find TBs crappy, cheesy, whatever, but it's been translated into dozens of different languages around the world. So, TBs must have its audience too, even 30 odd years on.

Yep..........................that went well!

CHANNAIN

Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Quicksand:
What is the WORST Sci-Fi you've had the displeasure of witnessing, in its entirety? Entirety meaning, you can't vote for Star Trek: Voyager if you've only seen 10 minutes of one episode (and how could you stomach any more?). Specific film, movie, or book examples, please.

Highlander 2, hands down the WORST thing I've ever seen. My brother and I actually sat through the whole thing, then spent the drive home tearing it apart.

I LOVE Michael Ironside, loved him in V. Totally not his fault that he got cast as a Kurgan wannabe. I mean COME ON! There is only one Kurgan, and there should only be one Kurgan.

Highlander 2 is a prime example of the film producers trying to recreate success. They even thought resurrecting Sean Connery's character, Ramirez, would help. HA!

Biggest mistake they made was trying to explain where Immortals come from. The storyline works much better when WE DON'T KNOW. Like not seeing the creepy crawly in a horror flick - same principal.

Don't get me started on 3 and 4. Although, with 4 I thought that Adrian Paul would help things a bit. He would have too, if they could have left Connor out of the mix and didn't treat the fans like morons...oh, right, I wasn't going to start. Sorry, my bad

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JOE

Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:47 PM

Did you know that Joss Whedon wrote the screenoplay for Alien Ressurrection?

The "government bought out by Wal-Mart" line wa a dead giveaway. I forget the actual line word for word.

The worst I've seen would have to be The Core.

Battlefield Earth is classed as a religious film, since it was made by a Scientoligist, for Scientoligists and is just as fucked up as a religion.

Lexx was pretty hokey.

Crime Traveler - was that the one with the ex-Eastenders star and the girl from series 7 and 8 of Red Dwarf? It wasn't bad for Saturday night TV fare.

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars has got to up there with the worst of all time. So, so poor.

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