10 Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema

[Sir Brennen]

Hello, did they even watch the film? Ripley does demand a quarantine, which Ash ignores. They even have a little spat about it later in the film, as Ash is examining the dead "face hugger" in the lab.

Read it again. They're not talking about the initial quarantine violation; just the wisdon of letting your buddy get up and walk down to the mess hall with everybody after a thing had a tube rammed down his throat for some unknown reason. Wouldn't you want to keep him under observation for a little while, at least?

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Read it again. They're not talking about the initial quarantine violation; just the wisdon of letting your buddy get up and walk down to the mess hall with everybody after a thing had a tube rammed down his throat for some unknown reason. Wouldn't you want to keep him under observation for a little while, at least?

I don't need to read it again. It's a stupid inclusion on the list. The quarantine discussion had already happened. To bring up the same issue again would hurt the pacing of the film. Now that Ripley (the only one who was for the quarantine the first time) was not the highest ranking officer on the ship, she is powerless to force Ash to quarantine Kane. And Dallas (the captain) never wanted a quarantine when Kane was comatose--why would he want one when Kane's is (apparently) fine? Since he is the ranking officer, there's no need to bring the issue up. In the "director's cut" (or "special edition" or whatever they call the one released last fall) Scott even added back the scene where Ripley and Lambert get into a fight because Ripley wanted to quarantine Kane.

There are no stupid moments in Alien. Of course, Ash didn't do a quarantine, or scan Kane when he woke up, or anything else someone concerned for the crew's safety would do. Heck, he probably *did* do a scan when Kane woke up, but told everyone Kane is fine. And even when the alien bursts out of Kane and Parker is about to kill it, Ash stops him.

In the context of Ash's motives, there is nothing stupid about Alien--it's all very logical. We (the audience) just aren't seeing all of Ash's treachery up front, so the revelatons of Ash's secrets will have more impact.

But the list is right about one thing--Superman is the lamest Sci-Fi moment of all.

 

[John Crichton]

The writer's geek-fu seems fairly weak. Not clever and not a really amusing article overall. Meh.

 

[Ranger REG]

i didn't see the LotR anywhere on the list.

Good.

 

[Particle_Man]

Is the link in the first post dead? I keep getting an error message.

 

[Desdichado]

Is the link in the first post dead? I keep getting an error message.

Works fine for me.

 

[WayneLigon]

The writer's geek-fu seems fairly weak. Not clever and not a really amusing article overall. Meh.

Yeah, it's a fairly typical 'Hey, Mike, I want to run a funny piece on stupid stuff in SF movies; you got two hours before deadline' article. The Contact inclusion also shows some pretty sloppy thinking; the code is obviously done that way to see if people are smart enough to figure it out.

 

[John Crichton]

Yeah, it's a fairly typical 'Hey, Mike, I want to run a funny piece on stupid stuff in SF movies; you got two hours before deadline' article. The Contact inclusion also shows some pretty sloppy thinking; the code is obviously done that way to see if people are smart enough to figure it out.

Agreed. I dislike articles like this simply because someone actually more than casually knowledgable about sci-fi movies should be writing it.

This guy may be pretty knowledgable about the subject but it certainly doesn't show here.

 

[D+1]

And that's the reason I won't drag up one of the all time classics of bad remakes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078435/

Now, what's REALLY funny about this is below where it says, "If you like this title we also recommend Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Now that's what I call karma.