Black Omega
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I confess I still have Barbarella on tape. It's bad, but in a very entertaining, 'so bad it's good' way. Unlike the DnD movie, which is simply unwatchable.
What's the worst sci-fi/fantasy movie you've ever seen?
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orbitalfreak
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Worst sci-fi movie ever? Godzilla vs. King Kong. It had two guys in rubber suits looking worse than I've ever seen, even from this era of film (60's, b/w). It was complete with Japanese actors in black facepaint trying in vain to portray African natives in Kong's homeland. 'Zilla's son was in the movie too, I think, just learning how to use his breath weapon. So cute, and so stupid.
Still, when you see it at 2:00 a.m. after not sleeping for two days, it's hillarious in its ineptitude.
Worst fantasy film? I haven't seen too many to make a qualified judgement, but I agree that D&D was an abomenation.
Still, when you see it at 2:00 a.m. after not sleeping for two days, it's hillarious in its ineptitude.
Worst fantasy film? I haven't seen too many to make a qualified judgement, but I agree that D&D was an abomenation.
Omigod. Here is my Supernova story:
We went to see Toy Story 2 in the theater. The first preview came on, for something like Scream 2. "Hmm, thats not very kid friendly." Next was Pitch Black. "Definitely not kid friendly".
Then Toy Story starts. There are no titles, just a kinda junky looking spaceship drifting across space. "Whats that?", says the GF. "Maybe its Buzz Lightyear's ship?", I respond, trying to make sense of this thing.
Then people come on the screen. Real-live people, not Toy Story animated people. Some are hanging out in their cabins, some are strange robots wearing a WWI aviators scarves and goggles. Some are passionately engaged in carnal acts against the wall of the med lab. Ooops.
Distraught parents leap from their chairs to find the theater management. "Maybe this isnt Toy Story?" Turns out its Supernova. It took them a few minutes to shut the movie down, but that few minutes was more than enough.
Azure Trance
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Black Omega said:
Hmmm ... for a second, I thought you said the DVD Movie. What a great Valentines day present!
Azure Trance
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Black Omega said:
Hmmm ... for a second, I thought you said the DVD Movie. What a great Valentines day present!
Lurks-no-More
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Armageddon is a horrible, horrible movie. I've watched it twice, first time when immoderately drunk (and hating it; the movie, that is), the second time sober just to see if it was as bad as I thought.
Yes, it was, and worse.
Now Barbarella, which has been mentioned a couple of times, is very very very silly (what with her pink boxy spaceship and its cabin carpeted with artificial fur, the walls and all, plus more) but it's fun fun fun! I mean, if you take it in a correct mood, it's hilarious, like the part where Barbarella's going to be executed... with a flock of budgies! And her comment? "This is much too poetic a way to die."
Yes, it was, and worse.
Now Barbarella, which has been mentioned a couple of times, is very very very silly (what with her pink boxy spaceship and its cabin carpeted with artificial fur, the walls and all, plus more) but it's fun fun fun! I mean, if you take it in a correct mood, it's hilarious, like the part where Barbarella's going to be executed... with a flock of budgies! And her comment? "This is much too poetic a way to die."
WizarDru
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Well, personally, I think some folks are really judging on some sort of bizarre curve. Zardoz is an embarrasing cultural artifact, for example, but it's not some horrid, unwatchable piece of filmwork in the same category as, say, "MetalStorm 3D: The Destruction of Jared Syn", which is still a category higher in production values than, say, a Puppetmaster movie.
Picking a worst film is, of course, a personal choice, and there is no wrong answer. However, I think there are different scales of 'bad'. A film like "Megaforce" was, quite simply, well-produced and throughly terrible: but it was made to appeal to pre-teen males who neither wanted nor cared to be burdened with complicated issues of politics or realistic combat. A film like "Zardoz" may have had a reach that exceeded it's grasp, but it wasn't full on awful in the same way as, say "Cherry 2000"...yet another in a long line of "all alien worlds look like the Nevada desert" movies. And that's not even counting some of the horrible, horrible things that Sci-Fi Channel has produced in it's time.
ANd for the record: Rankin Bass' "The Hobbit" clocks in at a hefty 77 minutes, and is pretty darn faithful, while also being suitable for an all-ages audience. The greatest sin of their version of "Return of the King" was that it was produced in the same way, intending to be a tale for children on broadcast television...it's not that it's bad, it's just a unfaithful, simplified version (and the song "Where there's a whip, there's a way" is a classic, IMHO).
The worst fantasy film? That's a toughie, as there are so many to choose from, but many of them are guilty pleasures. For example, I truly enjoy "Krull" and "The Sword and the Sorceror", even though I freely admit they're pretty campy stuff. If pressed, I'd probably choose "Hawk the Slayer", which is pretty damn bad.
Picking a worst film is, of course, a personal choice, and there is no wrong answer. However, I think there are different scales of 'bad'. A film like "Megaforce" was, quite simply, well-produced and throughly terrible: but it was made to appeal to pre-teen males who neither wanted nor cared to be burdened with complicated issues of politics or realistic combat. A film like "Zardoz" may have had a reach that exceeded it's grasp, but it wasn't full on awful in the same way as, say "Cherry 2000"...yet another in a long line of "all alien worlds look like the Nevada desert" movies. And that's not even counting some of the horrible, horrible things that Sci-Fi Channel has produced in it's time.
ANd for the record: Rankin Bass' "The Hobbit" clocks in at a hefty 77 minutes, and is pretty darn faithful, while also being suitable for an all-ages audience. The greatest sin of their version of "Return of the King" was that it was produced in the same way, intending to be a tale for children on broadcast television...it's not that it's bad, it's just a unfaithful, simplified version (and the song "Where there's a whip, there's a way" is a classic, IMHO).
The worst fantasy film? That's a toughie, as there are so many to choose from, but many of them are guilty pleasures. For example, I truly enjoy "Krull" and "The Sword and the Sorceror", even though I freely admit they're pretty campy stuff. If pressed, I'd probably choose "Hawk the Slayer", which is pretty damn bad.
Larcen
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WizarDru said:
Sword and Sorcerer rocked! The old-timers at our gaming table to this day use one-liners from that movie.
Oh yeah, speaking of Jared Syn, it reminds me of another movie I DID like: "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" Am I the only person that actually LIKED that movie??
But this is a thread of worst movies, so here are my picks:
Fantasy: There are so many. Today what comes to mind is "Hercules". You know, the 1983 one with Lou Ferrigno. ACK, this was bad.
Sci-Fi: How can anything be worse than Plan 9?
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