What is the most crappy scifi ever?

[Brad]

Why do all people forget "Battlefield Earth"... :lol:

The "Horror" of Battlerfield Earth.... I had forgotten how terrible it was... now that you mention it, it will probably take me another decade to force it from my memory.

 

[Notebook]

Why do all people forget "Battlefield Earth"... :lol:

Because L Ron Hubbard was an amazing director.

N.

 

[Ghostrider]

Because L Ron Hubbard was an amazing director.

I wasn't aware that Roger Christians was Hubbard reincarnated.

 

[Notebook]

With a name like that, you couldn't make it up.

N.

 

[NukeET]

All in all, I think the hardest part of reading a scifi book or watching a movie is suspending my disbelief and general knowledge of physics long enough to actualy enjoy it without picking it apart while doing so.

That's probably why Larry Niven is one of my favorite SciFi authors. He goes to great lengths to make his work as scietificly accurate as possible even when dealing with "gee-whiz" drives and other technology.

Just about any Niven book is going to be a good read for an Orbinaught.

" What can you say about chocolate covered man-hole covers ? "

"Don't get it sandy...It's the only thing on this world that we know we can eat."

 

[pattersoncr]

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. At least look up on IMDB to ensure the right names.

Max Von Sydow was a good choice for that particular role, and a great actor, to boot.

But ... Jurgen Prochnow was the Captain in Das Boot.

You misunderstood me. I was listing three actors I liked (four if you count Good'Ole Jean-Luc Picard), I know Max von Sydow didn't play Leto nor was he in Das Boot.

 

[dougkeenan]

Max was in The Ultimate Warrior with Yul Brynner. That was some pretty crappy scifi.

 

[jedidia]

Just about any Niven book is going to be a good read for an Orbinaught.

In general, I would agree...

He freaks me out with his reactionless thrusters and stasis fields, though. Niven books are good SF in the way that they are cosistent and that he actually thinks on the impact an invention would have. Still, there's a good lot of handwavium present. I find myself enjoying Clarke more, and I think I will love the earlier works of Heinlein if I finally get my hands on them. (Not easy getting "Space Cadet" and "the Moon is a harsh mistress" in english over here... I'll have to order them).

In general, I found myself enjoying near to middle future SF alot more than distant future. I stumbeled over that book "the Wreck of the river of stars" by Micheal Flynn lately, which takes place in a populated solar system with an absolute minimum amount of handwavium (allthough I am afraid that the "hobartium" he used for his fusion drives falls into the cathegory of unobtaniums...), and I enjoyed it a lot more than e.g. the Ringworld...

 

[n122vu]

Yet another gem. The Dark Side of the Moon. Been a while since I saw it, but if I remember, there are signals or something coming from three points on the moon (?) and the triangle formed by their locations is the exact size & dimensions as the Bermuda Triangle. There's a ship that gets stranded, some crew members die, and then they find out the signals were being sent by.....the devil.

Someone get me a hammer please so I can bash this one out of my memory....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/plotsummary

 

[Belisarius]

Don't think anyone's mentioned this stinker yet - SATURN 3 starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett. I haven't seen it actually, but consider that it was nominated for 5 Razzies in the first year of the awards (1980), beating out all opposition as the Turkey of the Year. Just the trailer is enough.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Saturn 3

EDIT: I just noticed that they refer to Saturn as "the sixth planet around our sun". Have I missed something?

 

[jedidia]

"This is my partner"

I wouldn't have thought that such stuff can get any worse thatn Barbarella...

EDIT: I just noticed that they refer to Saturn as "the sixth planet around our sun". Have I missed something?

This, however, would be correct... Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

 

[Urwumpe]

Max was in The Ultimate Warrior with Yul Brynner. That was some pretty crappy scifi.

Max von Sydow also played in the first Dune movie - but as planetary scientist Liet-Kynes, not Leto.

 

[chourave]

I like Starship trooper, beacause aliens kick ass a big and powerfull confederation. And the point of view is different. In this movie we seen the looser point of view.

According to me the worst sci fi movie I known is : Stargate (the original movie) and Highlander 2.

It's not a question of handwavium it's a question of Suxxinium.

 

[willy88]

I like Starship trooper, beacause aliens kick ass a big and powerfull confederation. And the point of view is different. In this movie we seen the looser point of view.

...While entirely missing the point of the original book.

FYI: necrobump.

 

[autopilotman]

I don't know about the worst sci-fi but red dwarf is easily the best

 

[Brycesv1]

armageddon IS the worst sifi movie. zenon, girl of the 21st century also takes the cake. because now everyone knows that in a rotating wheel station the gravity is exactly the same as earth and that ejecting half of the station doesnt disrupt anything whatsoever.

it also showed that nobody would notice a deteriorating orbit until 2 weeks before reentry and whoever the captain was, was an idiot that though jettisoning half the station would be a good way to save it

 

[Andy44]

Well my vote goes to Armageddon, and I'll explain.

- Armageddon is not the worst science I've ever seen, but it is the worst I've seen in a movie that was billed as being scientifically and technologically accurate. There was an article published in Smithsonian Air & Space magazine prior to the movie's release that hyped it up as being a realistic depiction of an asteroid disaster and a manned rescue mission. They claimed to have NASA personal consulting on the film and all that. All that turned out to be BS.

- Armageddon is, in addition to being full of bad science and tech, just a very bad film. The story was silly, the script-writing was awful, the acting was awful (can you say "Ben Affleck?), and the music was horrible, TV movie music. The pacing of the story, with it's multiple false endings, made me want to stab myself in the eye with a pencil. The only reason I didn't walk out is because the people I was with liked it. Which brings me to...

- The wrong people like this film for the wrong reasons. They think it's realistic, and they love the flag-waving patriotic hero crap. These are the kind of people I just can't identify with. They always use the excuse, "It's just a movie." By that standard there are no bad movies at all, because they are all just movies.

It's just a bad movie. It's the Michael Bolton of movies. Everybody knows it sucks, but somehow it still has lots of fans.

 

[DaveS]

They claimed to have NASA personal consulting on the film and all that. All that turned out to be BS.

Not quite! Alot of the scenes in the move was actually shot on location at various NASA centers, like JSC and KSC.

For example: The scene where the X-71 orbiter vehicles are showed for the first time, was shot in the real VAB transfer aisle!

Another example: When they're arguing about Ben Affleck marrying Liv Tyler, pause the film and take a close look in the background. You'll notice a couple of white-dressed techs near a landing gear. That's actually the left MLG ofthe real Atlantis! If you look even more closely, you can make out the individual tiles!

 

[Star Voyager]

Also, Gerry Griffin was one of the flight directors.

 

[Andy44]

Well, sure, they had NASA people around and filmed part of it at the Cape, but it's very clear that whatever the real engineers told Bay about spaceflight he wasn't listening.