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No, it must be worse: it's got a Baldwin in it!
What is the most crappy scifi ever?
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No, it must be worse: it's got a Baldwin in it!
Andy44
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Yeah, but Armageddon's got Ben Affleck. I think that beats your Baldwin.
Belisarius
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That surely was a steamin pile of hooey - no wonder I never heard of it.
Notice they saved on special effects there by having the "meteor rain" on TV be the stock NASA footage of the Delta 2 blowing up at JSC.
Another stinky one which I remembered just now - Silent Running. I know it has great ecological intentions and all, but Bruce Dern really is a terrible actor.
Notice they saved on special effects there by having the "meteor rain" on TV be the stock NASA footage of the Delta 2 blowing up at JSC.
Another stinky one which I remembered just now - Silent Running. I know it has great ecological intentions and all, but Bruce Dern really is a terrible actor.
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Please don't tell me ANY writer would be stupid enough to let a fighter jet chase an asteroid near ground... :huh:
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But Ben Affleck did "Chasing Amy", and that flick was cool.
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The same Ben Affleck starred in "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back", which is an awesome movie.
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I liked "Silent Running". The eco message was over the top, but given when it was made, and comparing it to a lot of todays movies, I thought it was pretty good.
Mister Kite
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I forgot the title of the worst very quick, but what about "Barbarella" as opposed to 2001?
Also liked "Dune" from Lynch.
(There are talks about a remake for both of them.)
Also liked "Dune" from Lynch.
(There are talks about a remake for both of them.)
Greg, I've only just noticed your post here.
I can easily understand your point of view. Armageddon and that bunch aren't exactly movies that invite a lot of mental processes on the part of the viewer. That's exactly why I like them though, it's nice sometimes to watch somethign where you can switch off and enjoy a big bunch of explosions and canned one-liners (James Bond: I'm looking your way).
But I do think they aren't good for people to watch in isolation, you need a bit of variety in what you see. That's the problem in my view (and, seemingly, yours) - people watch these movies but not anything else. It gives you a very distorted view of the world. Same way that watching Hollywood WWII movies makes you think that the US was alone in the war
As for contact, we'll just have to disagree on that one. It probabl doesn't help that I can't stand Jody Foster. Don't know why but she really puts me off watching things.
I can easily understand your point of view. Armageddon and that bunch aren't exactly movies that invite a lot of mental processes on the part of the viewer. That's exactly why I like them though, it's nice sometimes to watch somethign where you can switch off and enjoy a big bunch of explosions and canned one-liners (James Bond: I'm looking your way).
But I do think they aren't good for people to watch in isolation, you need a bit of variety in what you see. That's the problem in my view (and, seemingly, yours) - people watch these movies but not anything else. It gives you a very distorted view of the world. Same way that watching Hollywood WWII movies makes you think that the US was alone in the war
As for contact, we'll just have to disagree on that one. It probabl doesn't help that I can't stand Jody Foster. Don't know why but she really puts me off watching things.
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Last year there was a movie in the cinemas called "Sunshine" (it may have been a British production :blush
. I didn't see it, but the synopis would indicate that it could easily make the cut for crappiest-ever candidate:
The sun is dying (for whatever reason), and a crew of intrepid space adventurers is sent off to deposit and detonate a nuclear bomb in its core to kickstart it back to life...:blink:.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to detect the teeny flaw in the plot. For comparison: the sun's energy output is about 4e26 J/s. The most powerful hydrogen bomb to date (according to google) produced 2.4e17 J. Not even I can suspend my disbelief quite that far.
. I didn't see it, but the synopis would indicate that it could easily make the cut for crappiest-ever candidate:The sun is dying (for whatever reason), and a crew of intrepid space adventurers is sent off to deposit and detonate a nuclear bomb in its core to kickstart it back to life...:blink:.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to detect the teeny flaw in the plot. For comparison: the sun's energy output is about 4e26 J/s. The most powerful hydrogen bomb to date (according to google) produced 2.4e17 J. Not even I can suspend my disbelief quite that far.
I have to agree that the Sci-Fi Channel originals are about the bottom of the barrel. I just watched one last week as a matter of fact. Asteroid. Oh my God. I hope someday I can unremember this one. An asteroid is headed toward Earth, and they decide to divert it by firing lasers mounted on three different aircraft - - that's right, I said aircraft. One of the jets flies through a hurricane on climbout from Miami and his laser doesn't work, so the other two shoot it. HELLOO???? Shooting a laser from within the atmosphere at an object thousands of miles away? Shoot me in the face, please. And the "star" of it all is Coffee, the psycho Navy guy from The Abyss. Nice to see his career has taken off....
I can't believe no one has mentioned this. The absolute top, and I mean top, of the list has to be anything written or produced by Sandy Frank. Fugitive Alien, Fugitive Alien 2, Time of the Apes. I mean, come on, talk about ripping off ideas. The FA series of movies were just a Japanese tv show strung together. I have to laugh at the Backus 3 every time I see it. Loved when MST3k ragged on them.
Ok, I have mixed feelings about even writing this, but as much as it hurts, I have to say that one of my all-time favorites belongs in the worst sci-fi category. The Last Starfighter. The cheezy 80s acting, the bad premise, and the fact that there's only one scene in the whole movie that actually shows starfighting:
http://io9.com/345125/the-only-scene-in-last-starfighter-that-shows-starfighting
There are others on my list, but too many to list now. I will add more later.
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n122vu
Saw that Silent Running made someone's list. Good movie but I agree about Bruce Dern.
I can't believe no one has mentioned this. The absolute top, and I mean top, of the list has to be anything written or produced by Sandy Frank. Fugitive Alien, Fugitive Alien 2, Time of the Apes. I mean, come on, talk about ripping off ideas. The FA series of movies were just a Japanese tv show strung together. I have to laugh at the Backus 3 every time I see it. Loved when MST3k ragged on them.
Ok, I have mixed feelings about even writing this, but as much as it hurts, I have to say that one of my all-time favorites belongs in the worst sci-fi category. The Last Starfighter. The cheezy 80s acting, the bad premise, and the fact that there's only one scene in the whole movie that actually shows starfighting:
http://io9.com/345125/the-only-scene-in-last-starfighter-that-shows-starfighting
There are others on my list, but too many to list now. I will add more later.
Regards,
n122vu
Saw that Silent Running made someone's list. Good movie but I agree about Bruce Dern.
eveningsky339
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What the hell? What... what just happened? Where am I?
Looks like the director smoked too much pot in high school.
jholley309
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Thou shalt not allow physics to intrude upon Hollywood's bubble of reality...
Besides, aren't all nukes magical engines of destruction that will eventually swallow the entire universe? Maybe that's why they're so bad...
Cheers!
Jim
Kyle
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Yep, I saw it once, I lost a few IQ points. The acting is At most a D-
Graphics are at most a D+. This is likely to be the official worst.
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This beats Buck Rogers for crap factor.
eveningsky339
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If you guys keep posting clips from these movies, I'm going to urinate blood.
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