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

[jdavis]

The bottom 100 movies from the IMBD.

http://us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films

 

[Hand of Evil]

I will keep it simple because there are so many and I can't remember them all.

Last year...Ploto Nash and Rollerball.

 

[King_Stannis]

That sequel would be Ator the Blademaster, AKA Cave Dwellers. For my money, one of the 5 best MST3K parodies ever. My favorite part was the long, drawn-out flashback to all the events of the first film, as the old wise one tells his daughter the whole backstory. Or as Joel and the bots put it, "This is the part of the film we like to call, 'She HAD to ask.'"

Oh yeah, I still have fond memories of when Joel and the bots pointed out that one of the bad guys was wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses.

To this day, "Cave Dwellers" is the only movie I've ever walked out of....and I was 14 at the time with nothing to do. That's how bad it was...

 

[KnowTheToe]

Sci-fi: Dark City and Star Trek 5 (Where they look for god). There are so many I it is hard to pick.

Fantasy: It would be easier to list the 3-5 good ones, but I will go with D&D the movie as the worst. Not only was the movie bad, but it had the worst title ever.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Another vote for the D&D movie.

But for sci-fi, I doubt it gets any better than Dark Sun. The highlight of the movie is (quite appropriately) a talking bomb. I've only seen the highlights, and even that is too painful to repeat.

 

[Gizzard]

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.

Ooops, you are right. I've mentally combined my bad SF movies that begin with the letter "F".

Somehow I transported Jagger into Fortress, which was the one I was mainly thinking of. Still, I dont remember Freejack being very good either. I think it probably says something that my brain has just lumped the two of them together to save space. ;-)

 

[Taboo]

I've narrowed it down to the animated LOtR and Battlefield Earth. I have to agree that Fortress was pretty bad too, and I really like Christopher Lambert!

We (my D & D group just had a discussion about the book Battlefied Earth and if you've read it, the movie is even worse since it butchered the book so badly. Apparently the movie was supposed to be a trilogy, but was so bad that it didn't have a chance!

 

[Claude Raines]

The worst Sci-Fi movie I ever watched was Lost In Space. That I actually sat through the whole movie shows how much I needed to punish myself.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I feel so old. For sci-fi, Barbarella. There's so much else out there that's absolutely laughable, though.

For fantasy, I'm less sure. It's not a full-length movie, but all of you who think Bakshi's animated first half of LotR should be forced to sit through the follow-up that Christopher "I hate my father and am the antithesis of everything good in literature" Tolkien sold the rights to Rankin & Bass to produce. I mean, they did a decent 30-minute run through for the hobbit, so they should be able to do a pretty good Return of the King, right? Oh. My. God. "Frodo of the Nine Fingers...and the Ring of DOOM!" The voice actor of that freaking bard should be laughed out of any actor's union. Forever.

 

[Azure Trance]

I feel so old. For sci-fi, Barbarella. There's so much else out there that's absolutely laughable, though.

AH!

!BARBARELLA!

I forgot about that movie. It's so ... so ... well, it would be bad if it weren't so funny. Possibly the one line which was repeated the most by the people I know who saw it (even a poor soul who sw it x5 in one week) would be:

I know nothing of that / this / it