# What are the five worst science fiction movies you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832 "2009-07-22T06:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/81 "2009-07-23T19:34:39Z")
Oh, and Flight To Mars has some really really short skirts and sexy high heels. I don’t remember any high heels in Starship Troopers. So there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/82 "2009-07-23T19:47:53Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Star _Trek_ prequels? Must be from the same universe where there was a movie about Charles Foster Cane. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/83 "2009-07-23T21:33:59Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > I have to defend Rocketship X-M. Sure it was made on a budget; sure a lot of the science isn’t correct; and OH MY GOD it’s in B&W. > > But it does have some good ideas (atomic-ravaged Martian civilization), a proto-feminist lady scientist (more competent than the chief scientist), and a perfectly marvelous ending. Compare that to Starship Troopers, which doesn’t have a single idea in its vacuous little head. Oh, I just used that as an example. Some of the '50s sci-fi movies are watchable (even the B&W!) but some were ‘meh’ cheapies made quickly to capitalize on the space race. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/84 "2009-07-23T22:31:53Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Oh, and Flight To Mars has some really really short skirts and sexy high heels. I don’t remember any high heels in Starship Troopers. So there. 😛 But there was a pretty unexpected (and lovely) shower scene! 🙂 _Zardoz_ was so horrifyingly bad, I’m surprised that Connery ever got another film. Seriously- it’s that bad. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/85 "2009-07-23T23:06:51Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > **Wing Commander** : For many years this has been my gold standard for bad movies. ie. If I saw something like Independence Day I’d say “At least it wasn’t Wing Commander.” Where to start? There’s a scene were a damaged fighter is pushed off the flight deck into space. Upon being pushed off the deck it immediately falls in the same manner as pushing a modern plane off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. What takes the cake is the scene where a space ship is using what appears to be a sonar device. Fans of the movie will handwave this away but it was really goddamn stupid. Add to that the story wasn’t interesting and you’ve got a really really bad movie. Yeah, they would’ve been much better off if they’d just stitched together the cutscenes from the PC games and threw in some CGI space battles to take care of the stuff that happens during gameplay. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/86 "2009-07-24T00:00:33Z")
Has no one here seen “Spaced Invaders”? Oh how I envy you - this movie had an amusing trailer, and not one of the lines from the trailer appeared in the movie ( **I’m pretty sure that different actors provided the voices in the trailer than in the movie** ). It was horrifyingly bad. [Spaced Invaders - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_invaders) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/87 "2009-07-24T00:26:39Z")
“Species” was pretty craptastic. A cynical ripoff of Alien, only this time with boobs. But it wasn’t at the bottom of the barrel either. “Species II” is the worst movie I ever saw in a movie theater. Just horrible, horrible, horrible, from start to finish. I mean, super-horrible. I can’t believe people are mentioning “The Matrix” or “Aliens” or even “The Phantom Menace” when movies like “Species II” are around. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/88 "2009-07-24T00:28:48Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Must be from the same universe where there was a movie about Charles Foster Cane. Didn’t he participate in some kind of mutiny? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/89 "2009-07-24T01:04:14Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Didn’t he participate in some kind of mutiny? On the HMS Bounty, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/90 "2009-07-24T03:11:42Z")
Alien 3: Yeah, let’s just piss all over James Cameron’s masterful Aliens and pretend it never happened! Alien Resurrection: A lost cause. Independence Day: I felt insulted by this movie. Few films actually make me angry in the way ID4 did. Matrix Reloaded: Without a doubt the worst movie-going experience of my life. I’ve largely blocked-out the third one, but Reloaded was just dull and pretentious. Terminator 3: What’s with sequels to James Cameron films? Do they have to suck by law? I’m sure there are worse movies out there – I’ve actually got Star Crash waiting here to be watched – but the above five are big “event” movies that were terrible. A far greater crime. That said, I love Flash Gordon, the Star Wars prequels, Starship Troopers, etc., so what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/91 "2009-07-24T03:29:49Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Didn’t he participate in some kind of mutiny? No, no. You are thinking of The Caine Mutiny. That is when Michael Caine actually took 2 weeks off from making movies… ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/92 "2009-07-24T05:33:53Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > I have to defend Rocketship X-M. Sure it was made on a budget; sure a lot of the science isn’t correct; and OH MY GOD it’s in B&W. > > But it does have some good ideas (atomic-ravaged Martian civilization), a proto-feminist lady scientist (more competent than the chief scientist), and a perfectly marvelous ending. Compare that to Starship Troopers, which doesn’t have a single idea in its vacuous little head. [spoiler]Isn’t that the one where they were trying to land on the _moon_, and went to Mars…because their _aim was off?_ “Um…mistakes were made?” 😃 [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/93 "2009-07-24T10:09:27Z")
**Humanoids from the Deep** : Guys is fish costumes raping girls on the beach. **The Neptune Factor** : Close-ups of aquarium fish passing as sea monsters with a bathtub sub and Ernest Borgnine. **Runaway** : The most boring “robots” in human history and Gene Simmons. **Phase IV:** Close-ups of common ants somehow taking over the world. **Tentacles** : A never seen giant octopus and Shelly Winters. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/94 "2009-07-24T10:22:23Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Mmhmm, and no true Scotsman puts sugar on their porridge. Er, what? 😕 How is what Rocketeer said, a ‘true Scotsman’ fallacy? You claimed that SF movies are exempt from certain rules of good film construction, **Rocketeer** explained that they weren’t. If Rocketeer had claimed to define ‘SF movies’, it would be a NTSF, but he was claiming to define ‘_good_ SF movies’. The statement ‘no _good_ Scotsman puts sugar on their porridge’ may be snobbish and opinionated, but is not fallacious. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/95 "2009-07-24T15:31:47Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > [spoiler]Isn’t that the one where they were trying to land on the _moon_, and went to Mars…because their _aim was off?_ > > “Um…mistakes were made?” 😃 [/spoiler] Well, they did start out for the moon and end up on Mars, but it was due to an unforeseen disaster, compounded by a bad calculation of fuel mixtures done by exhausted scientists. (There’s also a hint that it might be divinely ordained. :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/96 "2009-07-24T16:09:53Z")
> [@vandal](#): > > Most of the ones already mentioned, plus… Timecop Your Honor, I rise in defense of _Timecop_, which was actually a silly, fun movie with a nifty concept, a hissable villain (Ron Silver), a very tasty damsel in distress (Mia Sara) displaying her charms in a hawt sex scene, and a totally oogy end to the aforementioned villain. Move to dismiss. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/97 "2009-07-24T16:37:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Your Honor, I rise in defense of _Timecop_, which was actually a silly, fun movie with a nifty concept, a hissable villain (Ron Silver), a very tasty damsel in distress (Mia Sara) displaying her charms in a hawt sex scene, and a totally oogy end to the aforementioned villain. Move to dismiss. It’s got Jean-Claude van Damme in it. Motion denied, and the court sentences you to forty hours of community service cleaning the floors of the local porno cineplex after a double feature of _Cheerleaders in Heat_ and _Gay Caballeros at the Bar Nothing Ranch_. Adjourned for lunch. Regards, The Right Honorable Shodan, LL.B, J.D., BYOB ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/98 "2009-07-24T17:06:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Your Honor, I rise in defense of _Timecop_, which was actually a silly, fun movie with a nifty concept, a hissable villain (Ron Silver), a very tasty damsel in distress (Mia Sara) displaying her charms in a hawt sex scene, and a totally oogy end to the aforementioned villain. Move to dismiss. Sloane starkers? :eek: That’s going on my DVR alert list. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/99 "2009-07-24T17:08:35Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > Er, what? 😕 > How is what Rocketeer said, a ‘true Scotsman’ fallacy? You claimed that SF movies are exempt from certain rules of good film construction, **Rocketeer** explained that they weren’t. If Rocketeer had claimed to define ‘SF movies’, it would be a NTSF, but he was claiming to define ‘_good_ SF movies’. The statement ‘no _good_ Scotsman puts sugar on their porridge’ may be snobbish and opinionated, but is not fallacious. It is exactly interchangable with no true Scotsman. You must not understand the word “true” in the context of the fallacy. It’s not about foreign spies posing as Scotsman. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832/100 "2009-07-24T17:29:00Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > It’s got Jean-Claude van Damme in it. Motion denied, and the court sentences you to forty hours of community service cleaning the floors of the local porno cineplex after a double feature of _Cheerleaders in Heat_ and _Gay Caballeros at the Bar Nothing Ranch_. > > Adjourned for lunch. > > Regards, > The Right Honorable Shodan, LL.B, J.D., BYOB 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-five-worst-science-fiction-movies-youve-ever-seen/503832.md?page=6)