Worst SF Movies

[Adora]

C'mon, name em. Apart from Battlefield Ass.

[Cool Hand]

We're gonna need a bigger thread.

Cool Hand

[Ymir's blood]

Worst in what way? It's hard to compare crap like Deep Star Sucks (six) to cult films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, but both are undeniably bad. Plan 9 is just enjoyable at the same time.

[Dingfod]

In that other thread:
My favorite sci-fi fillums of all time:
Space Hunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Tremors
Short Circuit
Damnation Alley
Armageddon
Star Wars IV: Phantom Menace

[Megatron]

Hmm,

The Tremors sequels
Predator 2
Cube
...and of course, those dog-fucking-awful Star Wars prequels.

[livius drusus]

Gotta say amen to the Star Wars prequels, but Warren, the first Tremors was great. I think there was much tongue in cheek in that movie.

[Dlanod]

The worst is judged by the difference between one's expectations and the actual experience of viewing the film. Expectations can be influenced by source material, director, theme, actors, etc.

For me the very worst SF movie was The Postman. While I have never been a fan of Kevin Costner I thought that not even he could mangle such a well written story. All you had to do was turn the pages and film what was written.

I couldn't have been more wrong. I became more depressed with each passing scene as I realized how truly awful this movie was. The worst part was the realization that I would never see a good film version of this story because Kevin Costner had tainted the original. Books that have been turned into bad movies rarely get a second chance.

It still makes me cranky thinking about it.

A bad SF movie that I had no expectations about was Lifeforce from the mid 1980s. A weird mish-mash of SF, Vampires, Horror, and bad acting.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Star Wars 1 and 2, Starship Troopers, Omega Doom, Armageddon, Independance Day, Logan's Run......You know, it would be easier to put the ones I like. Here they are; 2001:, Jurassic Park, I Robot, Timeline and The Abyss.

[livius drusus]

There's a like thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=785) too. Great call on Startship Troopers. What a idiotic sham that was.

[beyelzu]

Star Wars 1 and 2, Starship Troopers, Omega Doom, Armageddon, Independance Day, Logan's Run......You know, it would be easier to put the ones I like. Here they are; 2001:, Jurassic Park, I Robot, Timeline and The Abyss.
I agree with you all the way to Logan's Run,

Logan's Run rocks, I own it on dvd, what dont you like about it?

[beyelzu]

There's a like thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=785) too. Great call on Startship Troopers. What a idiotic sham that was.
The movie is even worse if you have read the book.

[Farren]

Hackers. Utter. Fucking. Shit.

[viscousmemories]

Star Wars 1 and 2, Starship Troopers, Omega Doom, Armageddon, Independance Day, Logan's Run......You know, it would be easier to put the ones I like. Here they are; 2001:, Jurassic Park, I Robot, Timeline and The Abyss.
I agree with you all the way to Logan's Run,

Logan's Run rocks, I own it on dvd, what dont you like about it?
Yeah that's bizarre to me. I think Logan's Run is classic SciFi. In fact I might have to head over to that other thread and post about it there.

And really I thought the Abyss was abysmal. :P

[Dingfod]

Hackers. Utter. Fucking. Shit.Hackers was Sci-Fi?

[Scotty]

Hackers. Utter. Fucking. Shit.Hackers was Sci-Fi?

It wasn't based on reality, that is for sure.

-Scott

[Dingfod]

Hackers. Utter. Fucking. Shit.Hackers was Sci-Fi?

It wasn't based on reality, that is for sure.

-ScottSo, that makes it fiction. Where was the science part?

[wade-w]

There's a like thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=785) too. Great call on Startship Troopers. What a idiotic sham that was.
The movie is even worse if you have read the book.

Yup. The book won both a Hugo and a Nebula for best SF novel of the year. And deservedly so, imo. The movie bore almost no discernable relation to the book other than there was a war on and a couple of character's names.

[Adora]

Oh, I just remembered.

The Species series.

[Scotty]

Hackers. Utter. Fucking. Shit.Hackers was Sci-Fi?

It wasn't based on reality, that is for sure.

-ScottSo, that makes it fiction. Where was the science part?

I got nothing. It was just crap.

-Scott

[pzmyers]

Total Recall. Philip K. Dick has some real mindtwisting games in his work, and that movie just threw them all away for cheesy brainlessness.

Mission to Mars. Sweet jebus, but that movie had some idiot's version of biology: a mangled portrayal of how DNA works that could have been corrected if they had hired a 6th grader as a technical consultant, a conclusion that was such a travesty of evolution that it had me snarling in my seat -- people had moved away from me earlier when I'd started weeping and barking, so fortunately there weren't any bodies nearby, or I might have committed manslaughter. And it took the Face on Mars seriously. That movie was to biologists what The Core was to geologists and physicists.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I have a new one to add to the list... Demolition Man. :lasergun: Oh, and Water World

[Dingfod]

Waterworld? "I want to do a remake of Road Warrior, but have it be on the water instead." "Good idea, Mr. Costner, sir. Who will we get to play the lead role? Perhaps you would be interested, Mr. Costner, sir?" Flopping ensues.

[Dingfod]

Demolition Man? Aw, come on. I loved Taco Bell being the haute cuisine in the future. And, Ford supplied real futuristic show cars for the cars of the future, great stuff. The rest of it pretty much sucked though.

[livius drusus]

You can see Stallone's cock if you freeze frame during the cryospooging sequence. He's pretty well hung.

[Adora]

Considering he was a porn star before he started in crap movies, no surprises there.

[Dingfod]

You can see Stallone's cock if you freeze frame during the cryospooging sequence. He's pretty well hung.That was a sock he stuffed in his flesh colored G-string. You know it was.

[livius drusus]

Considering he was a porn star before he started in crap movies, no surprises there.

One softcore movie does not a star make. Kitty and Stud was probably better than Demolition Man though, now that I think of it. The hippy slang alone was worth the rental price.

[seebs]

Total Recall. Philip K. Dick has some real mindtwisting games in his work, and that movie just threw them all away for cheesy brainlessness.

I will always have a soft spot for that movie, because it gave me one of the best headfucks of my life.

Trivia point: In 7th grade, I read nearly every science fiction book in the tolerably well-stocked school library.

In college, I had a friend who had pretty much all the Schwarzenegger movies, and we watched them all.

One day, my parents, who were Piers Anthony fans, brought home a book called "Total Recall". I read it. It was a book about memories and implanted memories and impossible memories. It was very disturbing, because I was sure I had read it before, but the copyright date was too new.

A few months later, my friend showed me this movie, and I was really confused, because I was sure I'd seen it before, but I knew I hadn't.

I eventually pieced it together. The movie is based on a short story which I'd read in 7th grade, and the new book is a novelization of the movie.

But... What a FUCKING CREEPY movie to have that happen with!

[Shake]

Event Horizon. What a load a' crap!

Oh, and The Black Hole, late 70s cheese.

[viscousmemories]

Oh, and The Black Hole, late 70s cheese.
The Black Hole?! I loved that flick. Okay granted I was probably like 10 when I saw it, but I thought it totally rocked. I'll have to see it again now.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Oh, and The Black Hole, late 70s cheese.
The Black Hole?! I loved that flick. Okay granted I was probably like 10 when I saw it, but I thought it totally rocked. I'll have to see it again now.

I advise that you don't. If you have a good memory of it you might want to leave it that way; it's that bad. I've seen a few GI Joe episodes within the last few years and they are not as good as I thought when I was a kid.

[viscousmemories]

Oh, and The Black Hole, late 70s cheese.
The Black Hole?! I loved that flick. Okay granted I was probably like 10 when I saw it, but I thought it totally rocked. I'll have to see it again now.
I advise that you don't. If you have a good memory of it you might want to leave it that way; it's that bad. I've seen a few GI Joe episodes within the last few years and they are not as good as I thought when I was a kid.
But, but, I had never heard the name Maximillian before! How cool is that?

Hehe. Okay I'll take your word for it that it sucks. To be honest I felt the same way about the Chronicles of Narnia when I went to re-read them as an adult. I loved them as a kid, and read some of them 2 or 3 times. As an adult though I couldn't get past the first couple chapters of The Lion/Witch/Wardrobe.

[JoeP]

Hehe. Okay I'll take your word for it that it sucks. To be honest I felt the same way about the Chronicles of Narnia when I went to re-read them as an adult. I loved them as a kid, and read some of them 2 or 3 times. As an adult though I couldn't get past the first couple chapters of The Lion/Witch/Wardrobe.
OT though this is, that's because the Narnia series is very uneven. TLTWATW is a barely-matched collection of barely-imaginative standard scenes. Read The Silver Chair or The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for unparalleled imagination and (epic quest) tension, for a children's book. Most of the others are pretty good too, but avoid The Last Battle as it's too messy in plot terms (and not by coincidence the heaviest in terms of Christian allegory after TLTWATW).

[viscousmemories]

OT though this is, that's because the Narnia series is very uneven. TLTWATW is a barely-matched collection of barely-imaginative standard scenes. Read The Silver Chair or The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for unparalleled imagination and (epic quest) tension, for a children's book. Most of the others are pretty good too, but avoid The Last Battle as it's too messy in plot terms (and not by coincidence the heaviest in terms of Christian allegory after TLTWATW).
Interesting point, Joe. The Voyage... was one of the books that I read twice when I was younger, and I remember really liking The Silver Chair too. I think the only other one I read twice, though, was Prince Caspian. Perhaps one day I'll give 'em another go.

[HarryLime]

Alien v. Predator was a giant pile of ass. Considering how brilliant the first two Alien flicks were, this bitterly disappointed, but did not surprise me.

Will

[THX1138]

"Moontrap" with what-his-name who played Chekov in Star Trek.

What a gowdawful movie! It's not just a bad sci-fi film, but a horrid film period. Seeing is believing! :eek:

J

[Nathan Poe]

The whole Critters series pretty much blew chunks, IMHO.

Way too many unnecessary sequels. I consider it the Police Academy of Science Fiction.