What is the most crappy scifi ever?

[Coolhand]

Serenity was ok, but it's far from the best example of acting or script writing. At least it was better than alien ressurection, which was also written by Joss "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Wheedon. Really, the script and acting isn't any better than the worst of the Starwars film but at least Starwars was doing it way before. Serenity was a lot of fun though, more fun than about half the 'wars films, i wouldn't describe it as classy either though.

Chronicles of Riddick was also poor, in its own right and esp as a sequel of sorts to the excellent Pitch Black.

 

[Pilot7893]

The show "Firefly is great because they actually remembered to have no sound in the silence of space. So did "Day after tomorrow" (in the ISS shots). The worst movie? Armageddon. Why? Some kid in my school actually thought it really happened, so when I was talking about the Atlantis launch of STS-122, he said "Nu-uh, Atlantis was blown up in like, 1998." I say "that was just a movie, dumba**", then he goes "Nope, there was a documentary 'bout it in theaters my mom told me 'bout. Called Armageddon"

 

[jholley309]

That godawful remake of "Rollerball."

Oh, jeez...somebody remade "Rollerball"? :blink:

You know, "Space Cowboys" has to make this list somewhere, I think. And the new Battlestar Galactica, too...it started sucking hard after the first few episodes. The cylons certainly got sexier, though... :huh:

Ah, heck with it. I'm going back to chasing Hubbell around with a space shuttle while watching DS9 reruns.

Cheers!

Jim

 

[Ghostrider]

then he goes "Nope, there was a documentary 'bout it in theaters my mom told me 'bout. Called Armageddon"

Did you allow him to live? I hope not.

 

[Brad]

Buck Rogers - 1980's Gawd Awful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4szGxaKF8Qw

 

[pattersoncr]

Buck Rogers - 1980's Gawd Awful.

"Bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-dee O.K. Buck"

That reminds me, what about Flash Gordon? Man that was bad. It did have the fairly good Queen soundtrack going for it though.

 

[Andy44]

Space 1999. Great effects, camera work, etc., absolutely stupid premise. A nuclear waste dump goes critical and ejects the Moon from earth orbit and sends it hurtling across the stars. Put down the crack pipe already.

 

[Coolhand]

Flash Gordon was awesome, bat**** insane plot, totally camp and overdone, massive rock soundtrack and some great production values for the time, great psychedelic plasma tank backgrounds and everything a bright shade of some primary colour... A really mental film that wouldn't get made today. it's a classic, more a fantasy than a scifi film though. you've got to admire it for doing it's own thing and apparently having no regard for logic or the trend in big budget scifi films at the time, which was far more serious and grungy. As for buck rogers, it was redeemed by Erin Grey in a skintight flightsuit. biddi-biddi-biddi.

 

[pattersoncr]

Flash Gordon was awesome, bat**** insane plot, totally camp and overdone, massive rock soundtrack and some great production values for the time, great psychedelic plasma tank backgrounds and everything a bright shade of some primary colour... A really mental film that wouldn't get made today. it's a classic, more a fantasy than a scifi film though. you've got to admire it for doing it's own thing and apparently having no regard for logic or the trend in big budget scifi films at the time, which was far more serious and grungy. As for buck rogers, it was redeemed by Erin Grey in a skintight flightsuit. biddi-biddi-biddi.

I didn't say that I didn't enjoy Flash Gordon. You're right, being massively overdone was part of it's charm. My point is that it was dumber than a box of rocks.

 

[fresh squid]

Bad TV Sci-Fi award has to go to any episode of the "six million dollar man" that involves bigfoot or aliens.
Bad Movie Sci-Fi award goes to Lifeforce. Its about space vampires. terrible movie with a really hot chick. http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Lifeforce/Lifeforce7.jpg
I still have to give it a poor review.

WARNING..PICTURE CONTAINS NUDITY..

 

[Coolhand]

I didn't say that I didn't enjoy Flash Gordon. You're right, being massively overdone was part of it's charm. My point is that it was dumber than a box of rocks.

yeap, if you didn't enjoy flash gordon, there's something ing wrong with you.:beach:

For really bad movie i recommend Moon Trap, Mr Chekov from startrek (sporting a fantastic hobo haircut) and Bruce Campbell (who's always awesome) take an old apollo and fly to the moon to fight recycling conscious eco-friendly robots from an ancient human civilisation. A must for all spaceflight fans, you'd be amazed how much Delta-V there is in an Uzi.

 

[pattersoncr]

yeap, if you didn't enjoy flash gordon, there's something ing wrong with you.:beach:

For really bad movie i recommend Moon Trap, Mr Chekov from startrek (sporting a fantastic hobo haircut) and Bruce Campbell (who's always awesome) take an old apollo and fly to the moon to fight recycling conscious eco-friendly robots from an ancient human civilisation. A must for all spaceflight fans, you'd be amazed how much Delta-V there is in an Uzi.

I love Bruce Cambell. In the UK, do they play the Old Spice comercials he did? Man he's funny.

 

[sputnik]

Space 1999. Great effects, camera work, etc., absolutely stupid premise.

I have long suspected that the only reason I "liked" Space: 1999 as much as I did is because I grew up in the 70's, I had NO standards, and, TOS reruns excepted, there was NOTHING ELSE ON.

I've been watching them again recently, and I'd forgotten how bad they were. The science is so bad, so made-up on the spot and inconsistent, I literally can't follow the plot. It's completely incoherent.

Oh, and the acting is mostly so poor that the series could be materially improved by switching back to the Animatronics marionettes that Gerry Anderson previously used.


Still, love the models and effects. So while I certainly won't put 1999 among the very worst, it does rate an honorable mention for badness.

 

[Kyle]

Oh god, I know now, This has to be the worst. It was a movie called Earthstorm with Stephen Baldwin. Oh god, the CGI Was so poor, and the acting made you vomit, and the plot was Gay to say. My lord, they launch a Space Shuttle in a Hurricane in Houston.
Everything was poor about it. I say 0.5 Stars, for trying.
Heres what IMDB says about it, the comments alteast. its god awful.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491764/usercomments?start=0

 

[Andy44]

To whoever said it: +1 on the Erin Grey note. Without her, watching Buck Rogers would have been impossible.

But then again, I know some of us only watched Star Trek: Voyager to look at 7 of 9, and Enterprise to look at T'pol...you know you we..er...you are!

 

[Biscuit]

I really liked "Space:1999" ... until they got the shapeshifter. Scientifically incorrect in a couple of places (*ahem*) ... but the Eagle is such a wonderful looking ship design.

Another source of pain: "Laserblast" ... the only thing that made it watchable was Mike and the bots sitting in the front row ripping on it. (Actually, I think about 95% of the stuff MST3K ripped on was pretty much unwatchable without them ripping on it.) Although, they did "This Island Earth" in the movie, and I liked that one.

 

[80mileshigh]

Easily the worst science-fiction film I have ever seen is Stranded, made in 2001 and featuring Ice-T as some kind of NASA hitman (?!). In fact it may be very near to the worst film I have ever scene in any cinematic genre. IMDB page.

Don't confuse it though with Stranded, made in 2002, which is one of the better science fiction films I've seen. IMDB page.

 

[willy88]

Oh god, I know now, This has to be the worst. It was a movie called Earthstorm with Stephen Baldwin. Oh god, the CGI Was so poor, and the acting made you vomit, and the plot was Gay to say. My lord, they launch a Space Shuttle in a Hurricane in Houston.
Everything was poor about it. I say 0.5 Stars, for trying.
Heres what IMDB says about it, the comments alteast. its god awful.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491764/usercomments?start=0

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-IV459qBo"]YouTube - Earthstorm 2006[/ame]

Agh, my brain!

 

[Ghostrider]

Easily the worst science-fiction film I have ever seen is Stranded, made in 2001 and featuring Ice-T as some kind of NASA hitman

NASA can afford hitmen? Did they get their budget suddenly tripled? Hitmen - good ones - are quite an expensive commodity.

Oh my. Michael "American Ninja" Dudikoff! That guy is partly responsible for creating the whole Ninja craze in the '80s, along with Sho Kosugi. See that shuriken-induced damage on my wall? That's their doing.

 

[Kyle]

YouTube - Earthstorm 2006

Agh, my brain!

Trailers a lot better than the movie. Its just like Armageddon.