Really? :eek:
I haven’t watched enough science fiction movies of the dreckful variety to make a valid list, so I just came in here to mention my surprise that “The Black Hole” hasn’t been mentioned here yet.
I was planning to list that one as all five of the five worst.
Pretty much all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen have been on episodes of MST3K, sso I don’t know if they count. But Pod People was truely, wonderfully awful.
Really. An idiot plot of first magnitude.
Star Wars episode 1
Star Trek 5
Mission to Mars
Transformers Revenge of the fallen
American Godzilla
All big budget movies which should have been better.
Plan Nine From Outer Space.
Nuff said.
I haven’t seen a lot of the movies people are talking about in this thread, but I just want to say that I could not possibly improve on this list. Nice job.
Nitpicking in sci-fi and fantasy is retarded. If it was a biopic or something those criticisms might be valid but this movie features a fucking space monster jumping out of someone’s stomach. A wizard did it.
But having an idiot plot doesn’t make it one of the five worst you’ve ever seen, does it?
This, to me, is proof nobody is watching the movies produced for the SciFi channel (now SyFy…).
Mosquito
Mimic 2
Jaws 3
Alien Vs Predator
Squirm
It really wasn’t. Though it pains me to admit that. The dialogue was horrible but I think it had a really cool concept.
Species 2
The Faculty
The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Battlefield Earth, Matrix 3, Teenage Caveman (2002), Wing Commander
Exacty. How are we defining “bad” here? The absolute WORST are on that channel. Grade Z. Compared to Snakehead Terror, or Raptor Island, the Star Trek prequels are Citizen Cane.
Reality and Steve have covered Plan 9*. I know there is a certain camp surrounding Ed Wood, but please. The fact that in a sea of badness he was the worst, well, is not an excuse.
Agree with Plan 9 and advance another from that same period…“Robot Monster.”
*Yes, I did see it. Even video taped it. Then halfway through asked the question “Are you ever going to access this again.” And stopped taping.
But I DID sit through it just to say it was done…once.
I thought The Matrix was pretty rubbish.
No, that’s not so. Good sci-fi takes one idea and traces out all the implications, including the way that people react to it. If they don’t react believably, that makes it bad sci-fi. Likewise, if the screenwriter pulls something out of his rectum to resolve the plot, with no groundwork laid earlier, that would make it bad sci-fi.
Sci-fi is just as subject to the rules of good writing as any other genre.
Mmhmm, and no true Scotsman puts sugar on their porridge.
Starcrash. Anyone who doesn’t have that on the list has never seen it.
Also, any sci fi movie you like is terrible. (That’s how these threads always turn out. “I hate these popular movies.” “Well, I hate these immensely popular and successful movies more, so I get top snob cred!”)