Bullwer-Lytton. :smack: I swear I haven’t been watching any Warren Beatty movies…
Hey, I went to high school with the woman who played the Chief Space Whore in BBtS (who was also a Penthouse Pet of the Year) so … um … yeah!
(Actually, that’s probably where I got that “girl next door” “looks like a whorehouse resident” thing going that** Balle_M** is on about.)
All I remember about BBtS is the skeevy subplot about the organic sentient spaceship being in love with John-Boy.
Especially if you “Eat the leaf.”
That wasn’t armor, they were metallic, interstellar turtles dreamed up by Orr.
I would say the worst SF movie I’ve ever seen, bar none, including all the ones listed here, which are very, very, very bad is Galaxina. Galaxina wasn’t just bad, it was repulsive. It starred a Playboy Playmate and also Avery Schrieber. It’s like the people who made Freddy Got Fingered wrote an SF script about a hot babe, and hired Ed Wood to direct.
Dark City was science fiction but it’s really the worst movie of all time. Outdoing everyone’s choice of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Plbbtttt on Proyas.
Regarding The Last Starfighter :
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“Starfighter” was the gunner’s job description.
The space ship itself was called a “Gunstar”.
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Regarding the PBS broadcast of The Lathe of Heaven :
Oh.
I must have thought it was armor, because the aliens just stood there and never moved a millimeter, ever!!
Goddamn, man! First Firefly, now Dark City? What science fiction do you like?
Dr. Shrinker,
Dr. Shrinker,
He’s a mad man with an evil mind.
Dr. Shrinker,
Dr. Shrinker,
He’s as crazy as you’ll ever find.
Let’s not forget, ElectroWoman,and DynaGirl.
Only because you asked me.
Not in any particular order.
Childhood’s End. Some Ted Chiang stories. A Wrinkle in Time. Haldeman. Bears Discover Fire. Dune. Babylon 5. The first three seasons of Farscape but definitely not the recent miniseries. The PBS version of The Lathe of Heaven which made LeGuin palatable. I’m glad that I only came across the Asimov anecdote today otherwise I would’ve been soured on it. Alastair Reynolds. Bruce Sterling. There’s more but I’m late for dinner and I am not fat enough as it is. I read a lot of anthologies. Skimming over the definitions and entries over at Orion’s Arm is a lovely pastime but in a universe full of wormholes, plancktech and reactionless drives I think it’s really silly to say “OMG NO FTL SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY BOYS AND GIRLS!!!”
These aren’t science fiction but I guess they may fall into that category by some stretch of the imagination. The Night We Buried Road Dog. Earth Abides.
I’m not particularly fond of Orson Scott Card, Ursula LeGuin or William Gibson.
Go ahead and pronounce your judgement, Dopers.
Take “FIRE MAIDENS OF TITAN” -a British -made POS from the 1950’s-a bunch of Brit astronauts fly to Titan aboard an old surplus German V-2 rocket. On Tian, they find:
-a breathable atmospher-a bunch of sexy human females, wearing skimpy togas/stolas, and worshipping the ancient greek gods
-an old evil man, who hates the earthmen
-greek temples
So why do humans who travel o other planets automatically encounter hese copies of ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc.?
-and why all the nubile big-boobed females (who are hot to have sex with humans)?
Finally, nobody seems to think that very advanced civilizations would probably spend their time playing advanced video games (which include sex), rather than venturing into outer space!
I actually like both. I might be the only one, though. 
Yeah, but I don’t think that’s by choice. I just don’t think she could come up with any interesting details on the process of creating the monster, so she just glossed over it. It was originally a short story that was later expanded into a novel.
Was it Jason of Star Command?
Nobody has yet mentioned AI, which stank like a dead walrus - let’s build a robot child so lifelike it’s indistinguishable from a human, and then make it really stupid, like an android Ralph Wiggum. Hah! I laughed when she dumped the dumb little bugger in the woods.
Oh, and Minority Report: basically a Jean Claude Van Damme movie with a higher budget and undergraduate metaphysics instead of kickboxing.
The kicker, though, has to be Johnny Mnemonic - any resemblance to William Gibson’s short story was purely coincidental. Ice-T? Dolph Lundgren? HENRY ROLLINS? Boy, Keanu sure can pick 'em.
:eek: Novelizations of films that depended mainly on visuals and didn’t do a great job (though I saw it once and it was fun afaicr) are normally the LAST place I look for good novels. Wow.
Why, yes. Yes, I *do * mean Fred Ward.
Duh. :smack:
*Mom and Dad Save the World * shouldn’t really qualify for this list, because it never took itself seriously enough to be anything more than a so-stupid-it’s-funny comedy. Sort of like The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space. Remember that one?
Oh, I remember that. I called it Ark 2 – I don’t believe that was it’s actual title, that was more or less the name of the RV thing and “Ark 2” was said loudly during the opening credits like it was important. It was on TV Saturday morning close to Jason of Star Command and Shazam. I did come across a site about it on the web somewhere awhile back when I was looking for Space Academy. I’ll see if I can find it.