What is the most crappy scifi ever?

[willy88]

The Creeping Terror!

 

[Andy44]

Don't forget Red Planet and Mission to Mars. LOL, Red Planet has a complete nonsense computer interface featuring a bear on a Russian unmanned sample return mission!...SNIP

....Good stuff from my point of view, not mentioning the examples indicated by others, is The Astronaut Farmer (the rockets and capsule are realistic)

I would say you've got it backwards. Red Planet was hardly good science, but they did at least try a little bit, with zero-G, artificial G, etc. The fire extinguisher scene was good. Most of the rest was bad, I agree, like the fact that they managd to walk about halfway around the planet with no food or water, and then Val Kilmer managed to launch and rendezvous with a ship that by dumb luck happened to be in the perfect orbit to pick him up...but the basis of the story was okay.

Astronaut Farmer didn't try hard enough. The stupid failed launch scene was what nailed the coffin lid shut for me. I almost walked out of the movie after that scene. Other mistakes too numerous to list. The basis of this story was dumb. You can build and fly your own space vehicle, you just have to be a lot richer, Elon Musk is doing it. The evil FAA is not blocking him, it's helping him and Branson and others write the rules for civil spaceflight.

 

[Linguofreak]

I just saw Armageddon for the first time, because of all you guy's glowing reviews :thumbup:

"We're going to accelerate at 9.5 gees for eleven minutes"

What? WHAT?

I literally rewound 10 seconds to make sure I heard that right. I did. I grabbed my calculator. Did you guys know that:

9.5 g * 9.8 m/s/s/g * 11 min * 60 sec/min = 61 km/s

Plus there's the question of the physiological survivability of such a maneuver. I could imagine a small unmanned vehicle with an appropriately spunky and futuristic engine being capable of that and still being within the limits of the physically possible, but a manned vessel pulling 9 and a half gees for 11 minutes? You don't even see those kinds of gees sustained for that long in air combat. And I've never watched (or paid attention to) the whole flick, but as I recall, the crew are civilians, right? Not to mention that any vessel capable of both such delta V and such acceleration would have to have some sort of nuclear engine *and* be very, very, very light. Light means small, and not much radiation shielding. So you have a manned crew on a vessel with a nuclear engine, not much physical distance between the crew and engine, and not much lead in between either. Can you say "radiation sickness".

 

[T.Neo]

Can you say "radiation sickness".

That isn't a worry, since the X-71s are powered by a FX drive, which has an insane ISP and emits no harmful radiation whatsoever. :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

It's tough when you have so much knowledge in your head to turn a blind eye to the ignorance (my personal favorite being when a computer hacker turns the monitor on and blurts out the famous "we're in!")

Actually, once a hacker has physical access to a machine, his job is suddenly much easier. There are several backdoors available when you're actually sitting at a computer, not to mention several techniques you can use if you actually have the opportunity and the time to take a machine apart.

With that in mind, if the monitor this hacker is turning on belongs to the computer he's hacking, he is, for all intents and purposes, "in".

 

[Blacklight]

And I love how in those "hacker" movies that whenever you move/open/close/minimize/maximize/ or drag a window, it makes a "WHOOSH !!!!" sound ! :rofl:

Also, whenever they type, each key makes an annoying "Beep" (My computer doesn't beep when I push each key as I type:hmm. Also, you will often see them typing furiously as if they're going 100000 words per minute, but the screen just shows windows popping up, moving around, minimizing, maximizing (WHOOSH !!! WHOOSH !!! WHOOOOOOSH !!!) endlessly !:rofl:

 

[Kyle]

NASA had a better appearance in "Space Cowboys", which had almost half as large plot holes as Armageddon, but at least had the spaceflight part well done. OK, landing the Space Shuttle without the computers is a rather big plot hole, but well, it was fun to watch. It was a good old action scene and not this weak Michael Bay stuff that needs explosions for hiding the bad timing.

You could of course mention "Dune", but "Dune" was no sci-fi movie, it was more a fantasy movie.

I though that was awesome. Watching that movie I took SSU, named a Shuttle Daedalus, and tried to land at Kennedy Space Center with any fancy Auto FCS or w.e. I may have lost my APU's before deploying the gears, but damn it was fun, plus its Clint Eastwood, he's such a hardcore guy he can land a Space Shuttle without any computers. You ever seen The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly?

 

[Star Voyager]

"Marooned" the movie was HORRIBLE! Not Gene Hackman's nor Gregory Peck's best movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064639/

Although I have to say that the 1964 version of the novel is terrific (meaning very accurate)!

 

[Andy44]

Again I have to disagree, I thought Marooned was very well-done. Although it wasn't really sci-fi, since all the hardware in it was present-tech. Partly because of this movie, NASA always had a rescue CSM-Saturn I on standby in the VAB during Skylab missions. That 5-man capacity CSM remains the only non-expended Apollo vehicle in existence today.

 

[Ghostrider]

Also, whenever they type, each key makes an annoying "Beep"

Don't forget that you never see a cursor in a word processor so you wonder how the user knows where what they're writing will pop up, and they always use only the third key row. Wonder what language they're using that only needs the letters ASDFGHJKL.

 

[jedidia]

Yeah, seriously, with all the gun training, acrobatics training and swords training actors get for other movies, you should think that a typists class for actors in a computer-related movie wouldn't be too much to ask for... :rofl:

 

[n122vu]

"Marooned" the movie was HORRIBLE! Not Gene Hackman's nor Gregory Peck's best movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064639/

Although I have to say that the 1964 version of the novel is terrific (meaning very accurate)!

They did that one on MST3k. Only it was called "Space Travellers" for the show.

"Whooo Spaceship's got a red butt!!"

 

[Andy44]

At 7:22 of the video Crow calls it a "cable access version of Marooned".

 

[Star Voyager]

I thought "Marooned" could be considered sci-fi because there is no XRV or S-IVB laboratory. Besides, some of the behavior characteristics of the ground controllers are just off base (excluding the astronauts: they were lacking oxygen!).

 

[n122vu]

I thought "Marooned" could be considered sci-fi because there is no XRV or S-IVB laboratory. Besides, some of the behavior characteristics of the ground controllers are just off base (excluding the astronauts: they were lacking oxygen!).

So were the screenwriters, apparently...

 

[Graham2001]

So were the screenwriters, apparently...

Agreed, I've been trying to simulate this in NASSP. One major surprise, the ground tracks in the film are consistent for something in an 43º inclination orbit which I've never seen used in any NASA plan I've come across. The other surprise of course being since the film makers took the trouble to get that right they did not consider changing the consumable problem to a lack of LiOH...

 

[Star Voyager]

Another crappy sci-fi I saw is the new Avatar. I thought it was so boring that I left the theater after 2 hours. My dad and 2 sisters stayed for the remaining hour. I also didn't like how they portrayed the military as barbaric murders. Especially when you have military personel away from their families on Christmas.

 

[T.Neo]

Isn't the protagonist an ex-marine?

 

[Star Voyager]

Yes he was, and Jim Cameron wanted to make him look like he turned sane or something. There was really no point to all that, either.

 

[T.Neo]

I don't see what you are saying, since the movie practically portrays mankind as barbaric murderers.

Anyway...