What's the worst sci-fi/fantasy movie you've ever seen?

[Gizzard]

I ran across Beastmaster 2 on cable the other day and thought it was both a terrible SciFi movie and a terrible Fantasy movie. Here's what happened:

Flipping around the channels, I find some loinclothed he-man and his pet tiger being attacked by someone in a rubber monster suit. One of them is attacking via some sort of orangey eye-ray that looks like it was scribbled directly onto the film with crayon. I watch in disbelief, trying to identify the film. I give up after a few minutes because I cannot stand the pain of watching.

Ten minutes later, I have completed my cycle of the channels and have returned to the once mighty KRON (for Bay Area people.) I find some sort of police-future thing going on, again the acting and production values are so horrible I, again, fail to ID the film before giving up.

Later, I find out this was not two separate films, it was one single entity called Beastmaster 2. Somehow the terrible SF police thing connected to the horrible Fantasy tiger-rubber monster thing. I can't even believe it.

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Of stuff I actually paid to watch (and therefore watched the whole thing) Freejack was pretty darn bad. Mick Jagger and Christopher Lambert in some sort of futuristic penal colony. Gah.

 

[Black Omega]

Freejack? I think you are talking about a different movie. Freejack had Anthony Hopkins, Jagger, and Emilio Estavez. No Lambert or Penal Colony. Though I think The Fortress has Lambert in a prison.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Hey there, Black Omega!
Nice to see you again.

I got to admit, that Star Wars Holiday thing sounds pretty bad.
I don't think I want to watch that tape ...

The worst fantasy film?

Well, I can't say! I'm so embarassed I watched it in the first place, that I am not willing to say the name! (this is NOT meant as a joke, but is the truth.)

The worst science fiction film?

I cannot give a specific film.
But I can give some scenes from various films:

A ship taking off from Earth, but it has no real propellent (nor any substitute), and they comment cavalierishly about how rough the takeoff was because it shook slightly (in fact, considering what just happened to the Columbia, that is not bad ... it is outright offensive.)

Any film that features trained NASA women fainting dead away because they see an alien.

The scene from Flash Gordon where the tiger attacks his girl (it LEAPS on her, this thousand pound white tiger), and she is unharmed, and Flash Gordon then proceeds to strangle it to death with his bare hands (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

Hmmm ... gotta ruminate on this one. Gotta remember the truly bad moments in Sci Fi. There are certainly enough of them.

 

[Mallus]

One word - Zardoz.

The subject of Zardoz came up in conversation over drinks last week. Rather, conversation about "that movie w/Sean Connery in a diaper, all those sleek half-naked Eurotrash women, and the flying stone head that vomitted up rifles"...

Needless to say, I found a lot of brilliant moments in Zardoz. I can't quite argue that it isn't a failure, but its an ambitious one, with some startling imagery. And at least its an attempt at real sci-fi {however muddled and pretentious}, a bit like The Time Machine crossed w/Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time.
With Sean Connery in a diaper. I have to give some props to any director {in this case, John Boorman, who did Excalibur}, who is willing risk absolute ludiscrousness in order to realize their idiosyncratic vision.

At any rate, its certainly better than Battlefield Earth or the D&D movie. If only for all the stylish nudity...

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Worst Sci Fi - "Hardware"

Worst Fantasy - "Yar, Hunter from the Future"

 

[jdavis]

Watching Zardoz sober is a mistake, but it is no Battlefield Earth, and there is much worse out there than Battlefield Earth in B movies. It seems that a lot of SCI FI/fantasy movies are done on $50 budgets and shot "in the desert" somewhere. Hell Comes to Frogtown jumps to mind (pardon the pun).

 

[Mallus]

Watching Zardoz sober is a mistake

Funny you should say that... the first time I saw it all the way through I had severe viral bronchial infection for which my doctor could only proscribe Tylenol w/codeine...

 

[Assenpfeffer]

For fantasy I'd have to say Beastmaster 2. I did see the second Gor movie, which was dreadful, but I hate Beastmaster 2 more, since I liked the original.

For Sci-Fi, hands down: Battlefield Earth. Possibly the worst movie I have seen of any kind. Makes Showgirls look good.

Parked just above Travolta's Folly is a tie between Star Wars: The Flatulent Menace and Star Wars: Attack of the Clowns. No doubt Episode III: More Butt Lint From Uncle George will fall somewhere around here.

I adore The Ice Pirates, though. It's (intentionally) hilarious, and has nods to almost all of the great Sci-Fi of the past, down to using some of the stock footage from Logan's Run and Silent Running that's been seen in many a cheap film.

I don't think Zardoz is so much bas as incredibly weird. Megaforce is a movie I really, really wanted to see when I was about 13. When I finally saw it at about 18 I was horrified at its badness.

 

[Sagan Darkside]

I tend to avoid these kind of threads since people will just insult movies I like, but I could not resist the temptation to add my own:

Plan 9 from Outer Space

SD

 

[jdavis]

I tend to avoid these kind of threads since people will just insult movies I like, but I could not resist the temptation to add my own:

Plan 9 from Outer Space

SD

I think Plan 9 is so bad that most people assume it is the worst movie ever, of any genre, but it is funny. In a similar vien was Robot Monster, the alien (Ro-Man) was a guy in a gorrilla suit wearing a diving helmet and his futuristic lair was a kitchen table with a bubble machine on it in a cave.

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