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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Anyone ever see Darkstar? *shudders*
"don't taunt happy fun ball."

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Now, now...Dark Star was a college student film in the early 1970's, PRE-Star Wars, and made by John Carpenter (Escape From New York, Halloween, They Live) and Dan O'Bannon (Alien). In fact, the basic plot of Dark Star was reworked by O'Bannon into a movie he called "Star Beast." The studio didn't like the title, though, so they renamed it. You might have seen it, a little-known flick that might have slipped past you...called 'Alien.' Everybody's gotta start somewhere, right?

Of course, you might also have seen a little independent film that came out in the late 1970's called "Within the Woods" that was the prototype for a movie called "Book of the Dead." The studio didn't like THAT title either, so it got renamed. Anybody ever seen "The Evil Dead"? Made by a guy named Sam Raimi...of Spider-Man fame. Hey, like I said...everybody's gotta start somewhere.

Don't forget, Joss' first "Buffy" prototype was simply horrible...and the movie made from his original script was terrible. If somebody had judged him based on a first work, then there would be no 'Firefly.' Judge not, lest ye be judged, or kicked in the head by somebody. Your choice.

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Originally posted by MrsEmbassy:
Well, so far I can't see that anyone has mentioned my personal worst movie-going experience (that I actually paid for, anyway):

STARSHIP INVASIONS, starring Robert Vaughn. (What can I say, we were all "Man From U.N.C.L.E." fans.)

OMG, what a piece of go se. I think they used tin pie plates for the flying saucers, and you could see the strings in every shot. And this was the same year "Star Wars" came out!

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-Mrs. Embassy

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Originally posted by Haplo721:
Just FYI, The Starlost was not really Harlan Ellison's creation. All he did was suggest the idea and the studio took it from there. If you read some of Ellison's books, there are stories about his life in them, some of which deal with The Starlost.

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Originally posted by Haplo721:
Just FYI, The Starlost was not really Harlan Ellison's creation. All he did was suggest the idea and the studio took it from there. If you read some of Ellison's books, there are stories about his life in them, some of which deal with The Starlost.

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And just guess which studio took the idea and ruined it???

C'mon, one guess ...

Yup. Fox. HAHAHAHAHA!

Ben Bova's name also appeared on this piece of drek because he signed up to be a science advisor and then couldn't get them to take his name off it. Later he wrote a novel fictionalizing his & Harlan's experience with this nightmare of a show, called "The Starcrossed." It's really hilarious, especially if you've ever seen the show!


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Originally posted by mrskborg:
the single worst SciFi I have ever seen ( now I'm not sure it was ever aired in the States) was on the good old Beeb. It was a Gerry Anderson production and was called "Space Precinct"

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Originally posted by BlueSunWorshipper:
Sardonica,

I learned a very important lesson from that movie: don't piss off the beach ball, and don't jump into a vat of liquid nitrogen...it's very dangerous.

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Originally posted by robinhood:
WHAT.......THUNDERBIRDS CRAP...CHEAPNESS. Think before typing. Thunderbirds was created in 1965....thats like....... 35 years before Farscape and Jim Hensons sock puppets arrived. DOH!!!!!!! Special effects with models for big screen SciFi movies were little better than these at the time and Thunderbirds was made for TV remember. Strings to hold up the models were all they had. No computer graphics touch ups then. The partial solution was to paint the strings the same colour as the backgrounds.
As for the puppets, so what, it was a kids show. Did latex even exist in 1965?
One more point....Andromeda. Does anyone actually watch that.

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Originally posted by maugwai:
The characters on that show are not good or evil. There are so many gray areas and internal conflicts, and our hero is often wrong. I stand by my support.

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Originally posted by Quicksand:
What is the WORST Sci-Fi you've had the displeasure of witnessing, in its entirety? Entirety meaning, you can't vote for Star Trek: Voyager if you've only seen 10 minutes of one episode (and how could you stomach any more?). Specific film, movie, or book examples, please.

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Originally posted by TheGreyJedi:
An MST3K number called Space Mutiny. It includes Battlestar Galactica rip-offs! And it's terrible! A lot!

"And these three remain: Faith, Hope, and Love. And the greatest of these Love."

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Originally posted by CapnRahn:
but as a wise man once said - "Opinions vary" - heh, now where is that line from? I know, do you?!

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Originally posted by Joe:

Battlefield Earth is classed as a religious film, since it was made by a Scientoligist, for Scientoligists and is just as fucked up as a religion.

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