Worst Science Fiction Movie

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Becca3 said:
I will tell you another movie that is really the worst! That is Total Recall. I did watched the whole thing so I can find out what happened at the end but the plot was terrible. I don’t think this movie made box office at all.
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The original or the remake?
 
Bobby_Jim said:
Another movie that deserves a mention here is “Battlefield Earth”. I’m pretty sure they were going for high concept, big budget, and so forth; they didn’t set out to make garbage. And yet they did. Or so I’ve heard; I never actually saw it. And not many other people paid to see it either…
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I was scrolling through the thread in amazement that no one had mentioned Battlefield Earth until I got to your post.

Probably because no one saw it.

I only saw five minutes of it.

Many say it is the worst movie ever made.
rottentomatoes.com/m/battlefield_earth/
The reviews are hilarious.
 
Morwenna said:
Baelor, you are truly a gentleman and a scholar, and I think that we do indeed agree, based on what you’ve written above. Thank you for a fine and cordial discussion … I enjoyed it immensely! :tiphat:
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The feelings are mutual!😃
 
Becca3 said:
I will tell you another movie that is really the worst! That is Total Recall. I did watched the whole thing so I can find out what happened at the end but the plot was terrible. I don’t think this movie made box office at all.
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Haven’t seen the new one. The original was slightly interesting with the question of whether the whole mars (and most of the movie) was really just in his head while in the memory shop.

The movies are based on a little short story by Phillip K. Dick, and found it on google, (hope this works, my network is having problems and half of the sites I try to get to don’t respond) english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Dick_Wholesale.pdf

The movie just doesn’t capture the short story. (maybe the remake does, I don’t know.)

Tom A.
 
I think the worst one I’ve seen recently was John Carter. It was apparently based on a really old book. Terribly unfocused movie, though. I felt like there was a lot of potential that was completely ignored. This is a story in which immortal beings are manipulating all of the civilizations on Earth and Mars for their own mysterious purposes, and yet they don’t explore their motives or nature at all, they just focus on the generic love story between the leads and lots of fighting with swords. Which is OK, mind you, but I really wanted to know why immortal beings were building and destroying nations willy-nilly. 🤷
Falco said:
The Dune series of books are the only ones that I sold instead of keeping. They were so dense with characters, a specialised vocabulary and history, that I needed a study course to get through it with understanding.
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I thought Dune was awesome until I got to the last five pages and realized how it ended. I was so mad. Unless there was some great and wondrously symbolic meaning behind all of the annoying stuff that Paul does right at the end, I’m still mad.

I have no doubt that I was actually just too dense to “get it”, but I was mad just the same.
 
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Back when Blockbuster gave refunds for bad movies, that one tempted me to bother requesting one. Battlefield Earth isn’t in the same league of boring. (Yes, people exist who have seen the *entire *movie).
 
PrayHarder said:
Not a big fan of the original Alien. I just found it boring. It just felt like a generic “there’s a monster/murderer killing us one by one” movie, except in space.
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The plot is almost identical to the 50’s B horror movie “The Thing” except set in a space station instead of an Arctic research station.
 
Kamaduck said:
I think the worst one I’ve seen recently was John Carter. It was apparently based on a really old book. Terribly unfocused movie, though. I felt like there was a lot of potential that was completely ignored. This is a story in which immortal beings are manipulating all of the civilizations on Earth and Mars for their own mysterious purposes, and yet they don’t explore their motives or nature at all, they just focus on the generic love story between the leads and lots of fighting with swords. Which is OK, mind you, but I really wanted to know why immortal beings were building and destroying nations willy-nilly. 🤷
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I actually liked that one, but then I read all the John Carter books (they were written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who also created Tarzan) and always wanted to see them done. Burroughs’ Carter was the model for Flash Gordon, Star Wars, etc.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
I actually liked that one, but then I read all the John Carter books (they were written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who also created Tarzan) and always wanted to see them done. Burroughs’ Carter was the model for Flash Gordon, Star Wars, etc.
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Like I said, it wasn’t so much bad as a waste of potential. I think they could have done more with it, but it certainly wasn’t painful to watch. 🤷
 
october_baby said:
dune,the black hole, and star trek the motion picture. :eek:
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Oooh, the Black Hole - that is one of my earliest memories of going to the movies as a child, I was maybe 3 or 4 years old at the time. I don’t actually remember anything about the movie, I’ve since heard it was a rather high profile bust, but at that age I mostly remember dumping JujyFruits in the popcorn and trying to fish them back out while avoiding the black ones. Whoever thought black licorice belonged in an otherwise fruity candy??
 
I haven’t seen anyone mention Transformers 2, which I can only take to mean that nobody on here saw it. It’s not only the worst sci-fi movie of all time, it’s hands down the worst waste of celluloid in cinematic history. Aside from the acting, directing and writing, you had the two racist robots and the other one with the giant testicles. It was truly a crime against humanity. It made people I know change their stance on capital punishment and call their congressmen insisting that it be expanded to include people involved in truly awful movies (although that might have just been me). To be clear, it’s the movie that kept Indiana Jones 4 from being declared the worst movie Shia Lebouf ever made.
 
Gordon_Sims said:
I haven’t seen anyone mention Transformers 2, which I can only take to mean that nobody on here saw it. It’s not only the worst sci-fi movie of all time, it’s hands down the worst waste of celluloid in cinematic history. Aside from the acting, directing and writing, you had the two racist robots and the other one with the giant testicles. It was truly a crime against humanity. It made people I know change their stance on capital punishment and call their congressmen insisting that it be expanded to include people involved in truly awful movies (although that might have just been me). To be clear, it’s the movie that kept Indiana Jones 4 from being declared the worst movie Shia Lebouf ever made.
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Indiana Jones 4 was a crime not a movie, Im a huge Indy fan and I refuse believe that film exists, for me its still a trilogy, it wasnt made lol, I cant really think of my worst sci-fi film though, theirs loads of them, I dont know if transformers counts as sci-fi does it?
 
Aaron780 said:
Indiana Jones 4 was a crime not a movie, Im a huge Indy fan and I refuse believe that film exists, for me its still a trilogy, it wasnt made lol, I cant really think of my worst sci-fi film though, theirs loads of them, I dont know if transformers counts as sci-fi does it?
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As bad as Indy 4 was, it was still worlds better than Transformers 2. I’d sit through Indy being nuked in the fridge 1000 times before watching Transformers 2 again. That said, I don’t know why it wouldn’t count as sci-fi. Incomprehensibly bad sci-fi, but sci-fi nonetheless.
 
Gordon_Sims said:
As bad as Indy 4 was, it was still worlds better than Transformers 2. I’d sit through Indy being nuked in the fridge 1000 times before watching Transformers 2 again. That said, I don’t know why it wouldn’t count as sci-fi. Incomprehensibly bad sci-fi, but sci-fi nonetheless.
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Both were shocking, but Indy 4 for me was worse because you shouldnt expect it to be that bad, I was truly dismayed on how they completely stuffed it up, I mean Aliens in a Indy film, are you serious??! and dont get me started on the fridge scene lol, I walked out of the cinemas a shattered man after that, How can they go from “Raiders of the lost Ark” to that rubbish, I could of wrote a better script! So for me Indiana Jones is STILL a trilogy…

Tranformers 2 I saw at the imax, we were the last in and we had to sit in the front row, all I remember seeing was shapes and colours and we all walked out with a massive headache, Micheal Bay needs to relax with his close ups lol…
 
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