Worst Science Fiction Movie

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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Can’t remember much about the movie except that it had a villain who had this mechanical pincer-thingy instead of a hand, and it flipped out of his arm kind of switchblade-like, but he never did anything with it – in fact, instead of pinching/tweaking/goosing you to death, it squirted goop at you. Deadly goop, mind… 🤷
 
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There were several reasons Star Wars succeeded. One of the big ones was Williams score. Around that time it seemed every movie he scored, scored. (Jaws, Superman, ET, Starwars).

Tom A.
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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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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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Really? Just curious, about what year did you see it? I ask because for its time, I thought it was very unique.
 
Once again my standard canned answer of Event Horizon. While not technically a bad film it has one of the most disturbing, possibly even evil endings of any movie I have seen. I got sucked into buying a ticket from a promo puff piece on HBO, while I was in the D.C. area for business, about a month before it came out. It looked like an interesting haunted house in space movie a la Alien … but it went way beyond Alien in terms of the gore and generally disturbing themes.
 
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Dune. I was SO annoyed at the heroes running around the desert with their long hair blowing in the wind, while they were meant to be wearing Still Suits which hugged the head, leaving a bit of face showing.

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.

The movie Dune only touched on so many things that I think if I had not read the books I would have been totally non-plussed by the sketchy plot.
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Yes this was a lousy movie version of a great book. The sad thing is it had a big budget, but a director and screen writer with no vision or sense of the book. Where was Peter Jackson when you needed him? There was a Dune mini series out on syfy channel that had a fraction of the movie’s budget but it was much more faithful to the book.
 
Someone mentioned previously the “Lost in Space” movie - I have to agree that stunk. I felt really let down. It just failed to capture any of what I loved about the TV show. Maybe because the TV show was kinda goofy, and they didn’t feel like they could put out a goofy movie in 1997 or whatever. But as I recall the movie ended on a real upbeat note like they (the director/producer) thought they hit a home run and this was going to be the start of a big franchise. Not quite…

Another one that I recall really wanting to like but just couldn’t was the “Planet of the Apes” with Marky Mark Wahlberg circa 2002. Even with a cameo by Charleton Heston. It was just too much of an action movie. Not nearly as clever as the original movie. Although on that subject, the original series took a really deep dive with “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”.
 
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To parallel the current thread of Favorite Science Fiction Movie - what’s your LEAST favorite? Preferably name one that is otherwise thought to be good - don’t name “CHUD” or something like that that is obviously and inherently inept and crummy.

For me it’s Blade Runner. Insufferably dull. I fell asleep. One of my friends who is a huge fan said it’s because I saw the version with the voiceover. But I don’t think it was the voiceover. I just thought it was kinda muddled and confusing.
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Agreed on Bladerunner. I never got what the fuss was all about even though I saw it more than once. Totally overrated.

Ice Pirates would fall into the category with CHUD, but its worth watching if you are up for a laugh or two.

Avatar stunk it up, as did the second Transformers movie, and all of the Star Wars prequels. Those really disappointed me as they could have been amazing with the right decisions.
 
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At least it was better than the contrived interactions between Padme and Anakin.

😛 More like the deep reget you feel when you realise that was two hours of your life you will never get back.

Agreed, although V for Vendetta ruined my esteem for Portman’s acting talent.

There’s probably some truth in that. Ironically, Guiness hated the series.
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Lucas was in awe of Guiness, which is why Lucas listened to him. Of course, having James Earl Jones voice Darth Vadar was another great choice. By the time of the prequels Lucas was so full of himself and so infatuated with CGI that he stopped paying attention to the characters. ALL were strangely flat.
 
A number of years ago, the “Empire Strikes Back” was digitally remastered and released to movie theatres.

DH (back then boyfriend) took me. I kept thinking, “Yoda sounds so familiar” (He’s Grover from Sesame Street.

I think about 30 minutes in I fell asleep. :o I think it was when Luke Skywalker was training with Yoda to become a Jedi. Perhaps it’s a good film, I just couldn’t stay awake. :sleep:
 
I’m interested in why so many people think Avatar is bad. Would you share your reasons with me?

It is my favourite sci-fi, and I could wax lyrical about it for pages, but this is the Worst thread.
 
Falco said:
I’m interested in why so many people think Avatar is bad. Would you share your reasons with me?

It is my favourite sci-fi, and I could wax lyrical about it for pages, but this is the Worst thread.
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Personally, I wouldn’t even call it bad, but it was predictable. As pointed out earlier, it has a very similar plot line to Pocahontas, and I think even closer to Fern Gully.

It looks beautiful, but didn’t make sense, scientifically. Sorry, I know that most SF movies fail here, but the McGuffin (unabtainium) so scraped against my scientific knowledge that it affected my enjoyment of the story. (Also, why, in a world of six limbed creatures, the natives are four limbed? Are the not truly native to the planet? But I digress.)

The evil corporate masters and the army is evil cliche’s didn’t help the picture.

But, as I said, the movie wasn’t bad, just not very good, except visually.

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I never could watch Dune. I had seen the first few minutes of it before I got so so bored with it! lol. I like Avatar simply cuz of its computer animation which was brill. I can’t stand gory movies like Alien or even Event Horizon.

Now I will what is one of my favs. And that is Predator!! So cool. I like Blade Runner cuz simply for Harrison Ford, being one of my fav actors. 😃
 
Time Bandit’s…all time worst scifi movie of all time.
Zardos…I think that’s the name of it. Can’t even make it through the opening credits
Fifth Element. They lost me with the Dr Who Type Aliens in the begining
Dune…1980s version…worst rendition of a book I’ve seen
2001 A Space Odessey…Can’t make it past the monkeys in the begining
Riddick Conicles… worst sequel ever seen
Space Balls…not funny I’d recommend Ice pirates instead.
Prometheus…Overblown, too long, silly story, pretentious, the engineers…who cares the aliens are jerks. The monster aliens who only get 2 minutes of screen time are far more interesting…Watch Aliens VS Preditor insead.
The Watchman…I found this movie boring, pointless and morally offensive
Martrix (2 and 3) Still scratch my head wondering what they were thinking. Just stop at the first one still one of the best scifi movies ever made in my Humble opinion.
 
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Martrix (2 and 3) Still scratch my head wondering what they were thinking. Just stop at the first one still one of the best scifi movies ever made in my Humble opinion.
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They were thinking $$$ 😃 But seriously, the only thing that makes them somewhat watchable are the theories that were going around the internet that
SPOILERS either the humans were machines themselves, or that Zion was itself another layer to the Matrix. In the word of Keanu Reeves, whoa. SPOILERS

I think the re-remake of The Thing, from a couple years ago, was pretty bad. I didn’t even finish it. The gore was so disgusting I gave up. It’s a shame because the prequel idea was cool.

I like bad sci-fi movies that are cheesy or just bad without being offensive or disgusting. One of my favorites was a movie called Tangents, aka Time Chasers, that was on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was a pretty basic time travel plot, but watchable. I also like low-budget flicks set in the Middle Ages.:cool:
 
Five Million Years to Earth
1967 Hammer Films of England

Subway workers find a spaceship buried underground.
After what seems like weeks of talk among the huge useless cast, the alien finally appears for a few minutes at the end of the film, lurks over everybody and is destroyed somehow. I forget how.

The ridiculously long cast shows you how boring this film must be to have so much uselss talk talk talk. I guess a lot of has been actors wanted their fifteen minutes.

James Donald … Dr. Mathew Roney
Andrew Keir … Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Barbara Shelley … Barbara Judd

Julian Glover … Colonel Breen
Duncan Lamont … Sladden
Bryan Marshall … Captain Potter

Peter Copley … Howell
Edwin Richfield … Minister
Grant Taylor … Police Sergeant Ellis
Maurice Good … Sergeant Cleghorn
Robert Morris … Jerry Watson
Sheila Steafel … Journalist
Hugh Futcher … Sapper West
Hugh Morton … Elderly Journalist
Thomas Heathcote … Vicar
Noel Howlett … Abbey Librarian
Hugh Manning … Pub Customer
June Ellis … Blonde
Keith Marsh … Johnson
James Culliford … Corporal Gibson
Bee Duffell … Miss Dobson
Roger Avon … Electrician
Brian Peck … Technical Officer
John Graham … Inspector
Charles Lamb … Newsvendor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Bennett … London Transport Official (uncredited)
Bette Bourne … Second Electrician (uncredited)
John Bown … TV Interviewer (uncredited)
Simon Brent … Orderly Officer (uncredited)
David Crane … Institute Attendant (uncredited)
William Ellis … Journalist (uncredited)
Mark Elwes … Second Technician (uncredited)
Harry Fielder … Possessed Man (uncredited)
Joseph Greig … Pub Customer (uncredited)
Walter Horsbrugh … Messenger (uncredited)
Alastair Hunter … Institute Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Elroy Josephs … Black Workman (uncredited)
James Payne … Man Running from Station (uncredited)
Michael Poole … Older Workman (uncredited)
John Rutland … Second London Transport Official (uncredited)
David Savile … Army Officer (uncredited)
Albert Shepherd … Loader (uncredited)
Leslie Southwick … Journalist (uncredited)

Gareth Thomas … Other Workman (uncredited)
Brian Walton … Journalist (uncredited)
Ian White … TV Announcer (uncredited)
 
I don’t know if any of you remembered this movie which I think is the worst. Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Oh, no wonder some kids are scared of clowns!! lol.
 
Lost in Space the movie. Terrible.
and Invisible Man with Kevin Bacon. They missed a real opportunity to make a good movie there. I hated Starship Troopers. The book was so good. The movie stunk.
 
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