Well, the early 80’s were a hotbed of bad sci-fi flicks, such as:
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (in 3-D!)
Yor, Hunter from the Future
Sadly, I have seen all of these movies.
Hell, I can trump that:
Highlander 1.
Hah! I have you all beat!
Zardoz!
Zardoz is one of the best movies ever – what the hell are you talking about?
Okay, it’s not Arthur C. Clarke.
But it’s a very, very satisfying film.
Especially if you’re high.
Really high.
Really, really, really high. “Look! Connery’s in a diaper!”
And I’m the first to mention the absolute worst of the lot: Solarbabies, with the flying glowing sphere thingie. Christ, but that movie was pure anus.
Hey, I read that. Definitely painful, though the ending was kinda cool. Forward’s books are almost all like that.
Some thus-far unmentioned candidates:
Tron
Tank Girl
Independence Day
Mom & David Save the World - or some such cheesy title like that, starred Jon Lovitz and Teri Garr (who deserved better).
Chopping Mall
Something’s Wrong on Saturn-3: Farrah Fawcett-Majors actually quit the most popular television show on the air at the time to star in this debacle! (Granted, she left “Charlie’s Angels”, but still…
To stoke the fire a bit more:
Space Truckers- Stephen Dorff and Dennis Hopper run an intergalactic shipping service. Ok. No problems there. The cargo? Genetically modified “square” pigs (for easy stacking). Picture row upon row of pink boxes with Jim Henson puppet pig faces. Remove tape. Return to store. Demand refund.
Howard the Duck- A duck from outer space? Ok… I guess… Aduck from outer space that hooks up with a reasonably cute girl on earth, and she actually wants to be his girlfriend? Produced by George Lucas? Eh?
Sphere- A big ball at the bottom of the ocean that… does… something… zzz… dustin hoffman… zzz … sharon stone… keeps clothes on… ball bad… fish…
And I didnt mind Alien Resurrection that much, but those little cubes that Dan Hedaya had, that you put into a little machine that shot a laser into the cube and turned it to liquid (whisky in this case) , what the f…
I was actually referring to the TV show. I had enough common sense to not even bother with the movie, so I’ve never seen it. Although, when I nominated the TV show, I wasn’t taking into account the ‘camp’ factor, since it wasn’t intended to be tongue-in-cheek when it was first broadcast. And to further vindicate it, as Merijeek pointed out (although he was referring to the film), anything that does have scantily clad babes in it really can’t be all that bad, and therefore isn’t deserving of being nominated to be at the absolute bottom of the detritus pile. I humbly retract my nomination.
One of my favorite movies. I rent it occasionally when I need a good laugh.
Sure the SF wasn’t that great, but it wasn’t meant to be.
Read it. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it.
Odd that while Ed Wood himself has been mentioned, no one has mentioned any of his films. Sure theyr’e great campy fun, but they weren’t meant to be.
You all just don’t understand. The Eye Of Argon was already mentioned. It wins, even against Santa Claus vs. The Martians.
see also: Blalock, Jolene as T’Pol in Enterprise.
Although, Jeri Ryan was remarkably good in VOY – I actually found her boobs to be distracting from her performance.
Oh, man - that was lame. The worst was the planet that paralleled the USA except the commies were in charge and they were forbidden to read the Constitution. There was a cursory explanation given at the beginning as to why the planet was the same as Earth. As the Enterprise approached, they said something about so-and-so’s “theory of parallel planet development”. At least I think it was that episode. Anyway, it was way stupid. Having all the planets look like Earth was probably a lot cheaper than alien makeup and set-building.
Oh, and let’s not forget the king of all bad science fiction - Frankenstein. Hmmm…lets sew a bunch of dead body parts together, hit 'em with a bolt of lightning, and make 'em come to life. Yeah, that’ll work. :rolleyes:
Gack! I forgot abour that, I think I mentally blocked it out (Loved the book, hated the movie). Thanks for the memory.
And if anyone here ever gets a chance to watch Macross 7–don’t. I watched it through to the end. It was bad. Horrible. Good music and art, but the plot sucks. The other Macross shows are worth watching though.
ST: Voyager was alright. Except for the episodes questioning if the Doctor was a person. Got a tad bit tedious.
IIRC, the book doesn’t actually make any mention of lightning bolts or stitched together corpses. The actual process of creating the monster is never explicitly described.
On the other hand, the monster does learn how to speak English by over-hearing a French peasant teaching the language to a run-away Arabian princess in a barn, and later how to read by stumbling across a trunk full of turgid philosophical treatises, so there’s still plenty of :rolleyes: to go around.
Apparently they, or stories about them and the rest of her anyway, were distracting to her husband in his Senate campaign as well…
Oh, Kari can do “wholesome” as well as “sexy.”
J’reiterate: The Eye of Argon. I challenge anyone on the board to find a worse piece of sci-fi than the following snippet:
Eh. Frankenstein (“that’s Frrronkenshteen”) was a product of the literary Gothic era. All of the above is dime-a-dozen in the Gothic universe.
Heheheheheehee…
I love Argon! It’s like someone threw Herbert, Howard and Bullworth-Lytton in a small room together and started pumping in aerosol aphrodisiacs…