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A movie called "Day of the Triffids"--walking corn stalks that were eventually defeated by, I think, spraying sea water on 'em.

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Originally posted by dbell46:
No one has mentioned the theatrical release of Dune staring Kyle Mc...something. I do not mean the cable
release, but the other one.

They changed the story so much it was unrecognizable. I'm glad it bombed. the director/producer should never get another nickle to waste film ever again in life.


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No one has mentioned the theatrical release of Dune staring Kyle Mc...something. I do not mean the cable
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They changed the story so much it was unrecognizable. I'm glad it bombed. the director/producer should never get another nickle to waste film ever again in life.


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While the movie wasn't nearly as good as I'd hoped it to be I didn't think it was terrible. Bad yeah, terrible nah.

And to give it it's due, I loved the soundtrack for it. Very nifty stuff.

Now if you want to talk bad Sci-Fi all I have to say are the dreaded words..."Jar Jar".

I mean I loved Star Wars, saw it the day it opened in a drive-in, saw the original trilogy more times than I care to admit to but...the prequels made me want to drive to California and shake George Lucas like there was no tommorow.

I saw the Phantom Menace in the theater because it was new Star Wars after so many years, saw Attack of the Clones because I thought to myself it had to get better...The third one, not getting my money. I'll wait till it's on cable.

Besides all my '05 summer movie money is going to The Big Damn Movie.

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I agree with you there, I despised Attack of the Clones, it was lame, boring and emotionally un-engaging. "The hills are alive with the sound of Naboo" pretty much sums it up for me.

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I agree with you there, I despised Attack of the Clones, it was lame, boring and emotionally un-engaging. "The hills are alive with the sound of Naboo" pretty much sums it up for me.

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well, okay that really WAS the worst
(Lucas is single handedly dismantling his own franchize!)

But I really REALLY hated 'Dreamcatcher'
it started out as disgustingly over the top horror
but then it turned into lame Sci-fi
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BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!! Was the most disappointing Sci-fi movie event ever for me. I read the book for the first time about 20 years ago and loved it!

The book had a special centre insert that talked about the soon to be made movie.. (A movie based on this book!! Soon! WOW!)

Well.. I waited and waited and every few years I would re-read the book and again see the advertisement for the "soon to be made movie" and get all excited again thinking about how good this movie is gunna be, and how it must be close now! its been a few years.....

By about the 6th time i'd read the book and there was still no movie I started getting a little skeptical...

A few more years passed..

Finally! The movie "Battlefield Earth is a reality!! I was STOKED! couldnt wait!
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Man that movie sucked...

It would probably have had to be pretty damn good to live up to 20 years of expectation. Still..

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Originally posted by Calhoun:
BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!! Was the most disappointing Sci-fi movie event ever for me. I read the book for the first time about 20 years ago and loved it!

The book had a special centre insert that talked about the soon to be made movie.. (A movie based on this book!! Soon! WOW!)

Well.. I waited and waited and every few years I would re-read the book and again see the advertisement for the "soon to be made movie" and get all excited again thinking about how good this movie is gunna be, and how it must be close now! its been a few years.....

By about the 6th time i'd read the book and there was still no movie I started getting a little skeptical...

A few more years passed..

Finally! The movie "Battlefield Earth is a reality!! I was STOKED! couldnt wait!
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Man that movie sucked...

It would probably have had to be pretty damn good to live up to 20 years of expectation. Still..

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Now admittedly some of the "Expanded Universe" novels and whatnot are beyond contempt, but the sad thing is to me the prequels are as bad if not worse than most of it.

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... Er Spaceballs anyone remember that?

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A movie called "Day of the Triffids"--walking corn stalks that were eventually defeated by, I think, spraying sea water on 'em.

Mal-licious

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"Battle Beyond the Stars"

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Originally posted by dbell46:
No one has mentioned the theatrical release of Dune staring Kyle Mc...something. I do not mean the cable release, but the other one.

They changed the story so much it was unrecognizable. I'm glad it bombed. the director/producer should never get another nickle to waste film ever again in life.

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Okay which version? The 1962 version where they wind up in Spain. Or the BBC miniseries from 1981 which probably sticks closer to the book than the 1962 version.

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...And until last year, had a thread-bare Revenge of the Jedi T-shirt. That was going to be the movie's name before Lucas, et. al decided that Jedi are not vengeful. True to form, I wore it instead of saving it as a collectors item. All my cash will go for viewing and re-viewing Serenity.

And yeah, the Dune movie was a mess, but I kinda liked it.

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I can't remember the name of the show but it was a cross between ER and DS9, really awful. I think it was on UPN and thankfully it didn't last very long.

Trekkie,Browncoat,Leaper,MSTie

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... Er Spaceballs anyone remember that?

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Dude, Spaceballs rocked!

Lone Star: "Great.. she's a Druish princess."
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What was the show with Mandy Patenkin (sp?) as an alien cop on Earth? Sour milk was an intoxicant for his race, I think.

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I guess I'm showing my age but y'all are missing a movie that is widely considered not only bad sci fi but also the worst movie ever made.

This movie is so excrable that it is hailed as a low mark and actually still screened at midnight movies as a bad example of movie making.

I speak of the immortal Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space".

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Now I'm not a rabid Lucas hater, I mean the man made movies that defined my childhood. But to paraphrase a Good Movie,"The King has lost his way."


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the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
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Will not talk about good movies and kings, will keep to thread, will resist ...the precious.

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If we were doing Movies, I would definitely throw "Tremors" into the ring. Kevin Bacon meets Giant Worms That Eat People. Ugh. It was so bad, I thought Steven King wrote it.


For bad Sci Fi series, though ... I did see a couple episodes of Earth: Final Conflict that were awfully lame, but I don't know enough about the series as a whole to make any pronouncements.

Farscape was just dumb. A sexy priestess with mind powers who is actually a plant-based lifeform? Ugh. Every time they described her character, they talked about how sexually evolved she was ... and yet she never once had sex with anyone, the entire time. Even worse, the central driving goals and desires of the characters seemed to change every week, depending on what archetypes they needed for that week's lame skit. Rigel was actually the most consistent of them all! (Although the Earther wasn't bad; he seemed to evolve as he gained experience, instead of simply changing at random to fit that week's plot.)

What was the show with Mandy Patenkin (sp?) as an alien cop on Earth? Sour milk was an intoxicant for his race, I think.

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I can't remember the name of the show but it was a cross between ER and DS9, really awful. I think it was on UPN and thankfully it didn't last very long.

Trekkie,Browncoat,Leaper,MSTie

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I recall the show, as well, but can't remember the name either. I think that's because the show didn't last long enough to GET a name...

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Originally posted by insight spinner:
...And until last year, had a thread-bare Revenge of the Jedi T-shirt. That was going to be the movie's name before Lucas, et. al decided that Jedi are not vengeful. True to form, I wore it instead of saving it as a collectors item. All my cash will go for viewing and re-viewing Serenity.

And yeah, the Dune movie was a mess, but I kinda liked it.

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Actually, "Return of the Jedi" was originally entitled "Revenge of the Jedi" and was changed, not because of Lucas' psycho-family-friendly value system, but because "Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan" was ORIGINALLY "The REVENGE of Khan"--and was released at or near the same rough time as "Jedi"--the studio balked, saying it was too close and needed to put a buffer zone.

But either way, the two new "Star Wars" movies are like watered down Coors (which is already watered down swill)...

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I can't remember the name of the show but it was a cross between ER and DS9, really awful. I think it was on UPN and thankfully it didn't last very long.

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Farscape was just dumb. A sexy priestess with mind powers who is actually a plant-based lifeform? Ugh. Every time they described her character, they talked about how sexually evolved she was ... and yet she never once had sex with anyone, the entire time.

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Originally posted by spikeandjezebel:
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the worst sci-fi film of the last decade - MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. I really thought that no movie last year would out-do Hulk for sheer awfulness, but I was sadly mistaken.

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

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Lone Star: "Great.. she's a Druish princess."
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ok i'll give you that one, in retrospect that wasn't half bad
ok but babylon 5 was weak

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