Kari looks like the girl next door.
If you live next door to a whorehouse.
Seven of Nine. Come on people, has there ever been a more obvious ploy for ratings in the history of television? You can just hear the studio executives: “Yeah, yeah, the show’s great. Just great. I like the idea of a strong female lead. It needs something, though… I know! Get some blond with huge breasts, and put her in spandex. Now we’re talking good television.”
Don’t go rolling your eyes at me. What part of BBtS is good but flawed? It was a cheesy Roger Corman attempt at cashing in on Star Wars without actually putting any money into it. Take the Magnificant Seven (including Robert Vaughn in the same role) add cheesy FX, horrible acting, bad dialogue and laughable plot devices. It’s good for MSTing with your friends but it is a horrid movie.
Probably. I remember reading the Asimov incident in, I think, TV Guide.
Anyway, I can definitely get behind Evil Captor’s nomination of Ursla K. LeGuin as the author of really, really, really bad SF (however you define SF).
I don’t know why I ever watched Suburban Commando
I nominate Piers Anthony. His gains over generically bad fiction are (1) It’s a near miss. There’s a lot of good stuff in there that just gets squished by bad plot, bad sex characterization, and bad puns. (2) Prolific and popular.
That vulcan woman on enterprise? What was her name?
It’s kind of hard to make the case for “bad dialogue” in Battle Beyond the Stars when it was written by perhaps the best film scriptwriter working (John Sayles – and he’d already filmed Return of the Secaucus Seven at this point).
Yup, it was Star Wars Meets the Magnificent Seven. It made no bones about that, even casting Robert Vaughn. But given the exploitative nature of the film, it was a neat little entertainment, with some witty dialoge (e.g., “We always bring a spare”) and a nice sense of fun. Not a great film, but not a terrible one, either.
This is just typical Internet thinking: the concept that a film can have good and bad parts is just plain alien to most people.
Funny that it turned out she was also the best actor in the whole damn thing…
But dude - it had Carl McCoy - Carl “Neph” McCoy! Which made it required watching for all the Goths. And was directed by a South African, a fact of which I’m unreasonably proud!
Did you rent iy because of who played “Angry Bob”?
“Where’s the little man?”
I got nothing, but I second Voyager and Battlefield Eart.
Yes it was rented primarily for Angry Bob. It was the night before the Stooges reunion show is Detroit. So we had an Iggy party. We rented a bunch of movies with him in it and it was also the night that “iggy popov” was first used. We couldn’t decide which vodka to buy and it just kind of came out.
Yeah that’s internet thinking :rolleyes: I’m just a mindless drone. It’s not like I saw the movie (several times to be honest) before the internet existed. It sucked then too. If Sayles wrote the line “I’m Space Cowboy from the Planet Earth,” that cancels out Lone Star. He is also credited with Piranha, try to defend that. Just because he earned a paycheck for banging out a Corman script one weekend doesn’t make it art.
Looks like I’m the first to mention Heartbeeps.
Don’t you mean Fred Ward?
Shush, you!
Not that I think Heartbeeps was good. It’s just that I can maintain my denial that Bernadette Peters was ever in such a dog of a movie (or such a dog of a television series as “All’s Fair”) if I simply pretend it never happened.
Highlander.
I win, you can all go home now.
Although I can hear my co-worker now… “There was no Highlander 2. That was a myth.”
Ich.
I can believe that they made a TV series but it would be nice if they would make a sequel. I don’t know how they could, there can be only one.
Doesn’t anyone else find it significant that a considerable percentage of the films that made the IMDB’s list of The 100 Worst Movies of All Time were sci-fi? Included in this hall of shame are (to name a few):
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
The Giant Spider Invasion
Leonard Part 6
Baby Geniuses
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Santa Clause Conquers The Martians
…and those are just the ones I’m familiar with!
Damn right. My husband was so excited when he found the complete DVD set since we both used to watch this as kids. OMG, was this show ever awful. What happened between seasons 1 & 2? Season 1 takes place on Earth, but season 2 starts off with them all on a spaceship with several regulars missing, annoying new characters added (doddering, old scientist, murderous - but misunderstood - birdman), and no explanation. And, as impossible it is to imagine, an even more irritating voice for Tweeky. The fact that they sunk to exploiting midgets for laughs didn’t surprise me one bit.
I would forgive my husband for forcing me to relive this crapfest, but he did the same thing with Space 1999.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present “Space Precinct.”
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0108938/
It was only on one season, and had to be the worst low-budgeted sci-fi ever. Props to Gerry Anderson for a lot of things, but writing was never his series’ strongest points and this show proved that point in buckets.
The alien police force were all humans in cop outfits with big giant rubber heads. Who spoke in a strong Irish brogue. They had the standard bratty frat guy/capable female cop insulting each other with the faked sexual tension tacked on. The special effects were so bad you could SEE the painted cardboard hiding the wheel wells of the GMC van used as the flying cop car. The hero was one “Patrick Brogan”, ex NYPD, and every goddamn plot involved some alien baddie trying to kill his wife and/or his cute kid.
Mind you, this was made in 1994. I could do better special effects on my 9 year old Amiga 1000.
“Space Precinct”? Try Homeboys in Outer Space! How James Doohan ever got so involved in that mess is beyond me.
Bah! Comes nowhere near to being the worst sci-fi of all time – the plot was fairly intelligent, the Starfighter was a kick-ass ship, Centari’s flying car was 90% as cool as Marty McFly’s DeLorean, and it had Robert Preston in it. The Last Starfighter ain’t no Citizen Kane, but it was good enough to be made into a musical.
Though I recommend the novelization of the movie as a companion piece; it does a better job with the climactic space battle than the film does.