Did you not see my post above, or were you just ticked off because I didn't come up with DeForest Kelley's name off the top of my head and failed to look it up?
What are your Choices for Worst Science Fiction , Fantasy films and Horror Films ?
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Did you not see my post above, or were you just ticked off because I didn't come up with DeForest Kelley's name off the top of my head and failed to look it up?
Not sure if this one has been mentioned.....but the movie Legend with Tom Cruise from 1985. I still remember how embarrassing this movie was.
I agree. After the original vampire-werewolf trilogy, anything Kate Beckinsale does is good, even if it's bad.
I have now watched the worst sci-fi movie I've ever seen. (Watching it on Mystery Science Theater made it better, but dear, sweet baby Jesus it was painful.) I'm not sure if it was meant to be funny, but if it was, that might make it better. Maybe... Anywho. Starcrash (1979)
Sidney J. Furie's The Entity is one film I was so morally sickened by that I took it out of the Blu-Ray player about an hour in. Utter trash.
A-FRIGGIN'-MEN!....LOL
Thanks, I considered mentioning that one.
Food of the Gods 1976 based on the novel by H G Wells. They took Well great book and turned into a crapp B movie cheese fest. In this film, you have giant bugs that look like bad props and there is an attack by giant rats that harkens back to the the 1972 film Night of the Lepus .
- Horror: Tusk (directed by Kevin Smith, starring Justin Long and Johnny Depp) (2014)
- Sci-fi: Slipstream (starring Bill Paxton and Mark Hamill) (1989)
- Fantasy: Outcast (starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christenson) (2014)
The general consensus seems to be that it's a film, "based on a wretched central idea." Very true. And I've watched the whole thing. But damn, Barbara Hershey! It's hard for me to fathom that she'd do anything without merit.
I'll have to give this some thought.The Horror of Party Breach 1964 this one got the Mystery Science 3000 treatment and deservedly so. In this film silly looking atomic Monsters ravage a beach with beach goers
The Crawling Terror 1964 aline monter is sent to earth to get sample of people by eating them. The entire film narrated because they lost the film sound track . Having the sound track would not have made this into a better film. The alien looks like something the special effects cobbled together at the last moment.
The Green Slime 1968 A space station gets infested with tentacled aline monsters that look like actors in very bad alien costumes. It's a very cheesy stuff.
The Crawling Terror 1964 aline monter is sent to earth to get sample of people by eating them. The entire film narrated because they lost the film sound track . Having the sound track would not have made this into a better film. The alien looks like something the special effects cobbled together at the last moment.
The Green Slime 1968 A space station gets infested with tentacled aline monsters that look like actors in very bad alien costumes. It's a very cheesy stuff.
The Underworld films are not great films, but they are very entertaining.
As for the main character Selene, she's cool 
Star Wars saga: Too much Fiction, not enough Science......started off as great mindless entertainment in 1977 and went downhill fast in the 'Science" Department
Star Trek franchise: Started out as a great "Lets Explore the Unknown" series, with a Starship exploring the mysteries of space.......over the decades, it morphed into a soap opera with as much "Give 'em what they want!" obligatory Starship battles as can be squeezed in
Its for these reasons these top my list of worst Sci Fi over any B-Flick MST3K can dig out.................
Star Trek franchise: Started out as a great "Lets Explore the Unknown" series, with a Starship exploring the mysteries of space.......over the decades, it morphed into a soap opera with as much "Give 'em what they want!" obligatory Starship battles as can be squeezed in
Its for these reasons these top my list of worst Sci Fi over any B-Flick MST3K can dig out.................
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought it was just me. I love sci-fi and I've tried to watch it several times, but I just can't get past the first 30 or so minutes (which is probably just the opening sequence...or that's what it feels like).
How it's supposed to be a 'classic' I'll never know, but at least now I do know I'm not alone in receiving the Veronica Cartwright/Donald Sutherland/end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers treatment.
No! Take it away! My kryptonite! Getting...weaker...
If, okay again if, the Star Wars line of films are B listers, what pray tell is on your A list?
If, okay again if, the Star Wars line of films are B listers, what pray tell is on your A list?
I definitely like a balance of "Science" and "Fiction" in my Science Fiction. Of course, Im OKay with Creative License (Sure, I can ignore the fact that The Death Star would have had gravitational effects on Yavin and its moons -- that would be NitPicking......but large battlecruisers on fire in the vacuum of space is where I draw the line...Also, the fact that Ive read Asimov's "Foundation" series and recognize where a bunch of ideas in Star Wars were shamelessly lifted from didnt help its cause with me)...
Its one of the reasons why I read more than watch movies (especially movies based on a great book with the exact same title but the screenplay is only mildly based on characters and plot of the original book)........
As far as movies themselves that I would put on my A-List (not in any order) of Sci Fi that i have not read any associated book, here are several off the top of my head that I can think of (had to Google the years):
"Pi" (1999)
"Soylent Green" (1973)
"The Island" (2005)
"Cube" (1997)
"Silent Running" (1972)
"Exam" (2009)
low budget "Dark Star" (1974) is a guilty pleasure
"Europa Report" (2013) was slow, but good and one of the few "found footage" films i liked
"Inception" (2010)
"Gattaca" (1997)
"Primer" (2004 - imo, best Time Travel movie ever)
"Interstellar" (2014) is a movie I didnt care for plot-wise but the "Science" was good
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