AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 883 times:
As a counterpart to the "most favorite SF film" thread, this topic asks that you list your least favorite SF film.
I'll start, offhand:
1. Zardoz
2. Solaris (by reputation only)
3. Swamp Thing (seems kind of fakey from all the clips I've seen of it); admittedly, this is barely science fiction, and might actually be horror. Fakey horror, that is.
AvObserver From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 2430 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 873 times:
Good list, ASF, turkeys all, although you likely mean the recent George Clooney Solaris remake. I've heard, the original 1971 Russian version was quite good. Well, let's see: 1966's "Zontar, The Thing From Venus" was a real stinker, as was "C.H.U.D" (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers-enough said!). "Cthuhu, Beast Of The Amazon", with frequent B-movie queen (and later co-star on Fred McMurray's CBS series, "My Three Sons"), Beverly Garland, was doubly bad because the 'monster' was a cheat, it turmed out not to be real. "Monster On The Campus", where college professor Arthur Franz devolves into an ape-man, was similarly abysmal. I'll never get Roger Corman's seminal 1954 stinker, "Monster On The Ocean Floor", made for a reported $12,000., out of my head, either. Also notoriously bad, although lots of hokey fun, was 1958's "Fiend Without A Face", where disembodied brains with spinal cords tried to suck the brains out of living victims. So many REALLY bad 50's and 60's SF flicks, it's hard to know where to begin.
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 870 times:
Quoting AvObserver (Reply 3): Good list, ASF, turkeys all, although you likely mean the recent George Clooney Solaris remake.
Thanks, and yes, that's the one. I haven't any knowledge of the Russian original, though from what you say, it might be worth a viewing.
I'm with you that so many of the Grade B (or worse) black-and-white SF movies of the 1950's and 1960's are now pretty much unwatchable, except as camp fare. Many of them were meant for drive-ins, where a number of teenagers had other things in mind than simply the movie.
A notable exception that comes to mind, other than the good ones that have already been mentioned in the counterpart thread, is The Day the Earth Stood Still. (If it was already mentioned in the other thread, I apologize.) A perennial favorite, that one is.
TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30 Reply 5, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 869 times:
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Awful. Fortunately Lucas managed to save the series by a good Revenge of the Sith. If only they had killed Jar Jar in Episode 3, but you cannot have everything, I guess.
Star Trek 1, 5, 9, 10. Especially 2,4 and 6 are great. But 1,5,9,10 are just awful.
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 850 times:
TheSonntag, they're not making any more Star Wars or Star Trek movies, are they? I like ANH a lot and also TESB. Those are kind of the best two of the bunch.
Well, since Enterprise was such a horrible series, I guess the whole Star Trek universe is in a deep crisis right now... However, lets hope they will recover, maybe they should buy some of the authors of Battlestar Galactica or Firefly...
WhiteHatter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 840 times:
Quoting AerospaceFan (Reply 7): TheSonntag, they're not making any more Star Wars or Star Trek movies, are they?
yes, one more Star trek movie in the pipeline for a couple of years time. Patrick Stewart was approached but is proving hard to land.
Quoting TheSonntag (Reply 8): However, lets hope they will recover, maybe they should buy some of the authors of Battlestar Galactica
Where do you think Ron Moore came from?
Quoting AerospaceFan (Thread starter): As a counterpart to the "most favorite SF film" thread, this topic asks that you list your least favorite SF film.
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 829 times:
Quoting WhiteHatter (Reply 9): yes, one more Star trek movie in the pipeline for a couple of years time. Patrick Stewart was approached but is proving hard to land.
AerospaceFan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 826 times:
Quoting Petertenthije (Reply 11): What happened to the Babylon 5 movie that rumours keep coming up only to dissappear again. I would love to see B5 on the big screen!
I know that they've done TV movies, but I haven't heard much about a theatrical release. I would look forward to such a movie, provided that JMS is given free rein on story, characters, dialogue, and casting.
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