Max Headroom Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Bella was in it! Bask in the high techiness of Ed Wood's masterpiece http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Du2ukRYsYPmo Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_hopkirk Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 (edited) Sci-fi has a copious amount of previous in the bad movie division, one of the reasons I suspect it looked down as a genre by many. Marty... Edited July 10, 2013 by marty_hopkirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Well, coming up to date a bit more, NONE of them are as bad as the 'recent' Thunderbirds movie. NO craft in that I would ever want to model or even look at twice. I mean, FAB 1 - Just about 'THE' most famous movie/TV car in history (apart from the Batmobile?) and they make it a FORD???!!! Roy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Roy It's because RR wanted nothing to do with it. Did you ever see James May driving it in the real world? Traffic jams everywhere! Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Roy It's because RR wanted nothing to do with it. Did you ever see James May driving it in the real world? Traffic jams everywhere! Trevor No wonder R/R distanced themselves from a movie full of kids..... James May driving it was the best use the car ever had. I also gather Beaulieu 'politely declined' to have the car in their 'Cars of TV and screen' collection...... Hopefully it ended up in a breakers yard. Roy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetboy Posted July 10, 2013 Author Share Posted July 10, 2013 Well,chaps a new low was found last night,Laserhawk,less said the better,the ships were not too bad,it was just the rest of it,...enuff said cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 (edited) The worst SF film I ever saw was a piece of drek called Starflight One. It was a TV movie but released commercially in the UK. I was on holiday in London and had a couple of hours to spare so went to see this. There were *three* other people in the cinema... I make no apologies for giving away the plot here. It's about a suborbital airliner which, er, accidentally goes into orbit and can't come back because it doesn't have a heat-shield. Now it's flying from LA to Sydney so it's going against the rotation of the Earth, which means it has to go even faster than usual to achieve orbital velocity. Retrograde orbits are possible (Israeli satellites use them so they don't have to launch over hostile territory) but it does take more fuel than normal, which makes an accidental orbit even less likely, This had nothing to do with the plot so I don't know why they chose that particular route - just sounded good, I suppose, and they didn't realise the scientific consequences. So anyway, because the airliner can't re-enter they have to use the Shuttle to bring the passengers down, a few at a time. Unfortunately there's only one Orbiter available so they have to (wait for it) send it up multiple times and refurbish it for another launch each time it lands. Towards the end of the film they manage to turn it around in *two hours*. (It takes longer than that just to move the thing from the VAB to the pad, never mind all the other work that needs done!) When the first batch of passengers transfer from the airliner to the Orbiter, they do so through a long flexible tunnel like a vacuum cleaner hose. The makers didn't even try to simulate weightlessness here - the passengers are *walking* along with the material below their feet springy like a trampoline! At the end there's only time for one more Shuttle launch and too many people left aboard the airliner to bring down all at once. It's at this point that somebody remembers that the Air Force has a sekrit unmanned shuttle in orbit which could re-enter with the airliner following in its wake so it's protected from the re-entry heat. So there's a happy ending... To be honest it was many years ago that I watched this thing and some details may have blurred over in my mind, particularly as I was watching the last half hour or so between my fingers but you get the idea. I went to the cinema again later the same day and saw a far more realistic film - Airplane II ! Edited July 10, 2013 by GordonD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 (edited) In terms of unrealistic plot devices, I had to laugh at the new 'Die Hard' movie. McLane and son (and the baddies) all end up in Chernobyl which in the story, is still so incredibly radioactive, all the baddies have to wear complete radiation suits, masks, etc - oh, except the 'heavies', who wander about in vests, flexing their muscles. But then, they get into a bunker full of weapons grade plutonium - still 'infected' by the radiation mind you, and the baddies trot about, spraying garden weedkiller packs of some chemical that miraculously neutralises all the radiation! Now, no suits, breathing gear etc needed....... The fact that 5 minutes earlier they were saying the whole area for 100 miles will be waste land for a 1000 years is irrelevant. Oh dear...... Why don't the world governments use this 'miracle-fix' on all the nuclear waste we have problems with? Why don't the locals of Chernobyl use it, and then move back home? Job done! Roy. Edited July 10, 2013 by roymattblack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngstROM Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 HI,WELL according to the blurb on the box containing this vile piece of work,it says bella died before the script was written,work that one out? cheers Don They had a script...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonhoff Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 I also gather Beaulieu 'politely declined' to have the car in their 'Cars of TV and screen' collection...... Hopefully it ended up in a breakers yard. Roy. If my memory isn't playing tricks on me, I seem to recall seeing the 6 wheel Thunderbird stored round the back of the Heritage Motor Collection at Gaydon, back in 2006 when I did a Lombard Rally that started from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Saturn 13... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetboy Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 HI,the trouble with starting this thread,its original function,was for the absolute rubbish films,that had some good models in,never mind the storyline, The trouble is i now feel obliged to watch some real bad movies,Well last nights efforts were dire,i couldnt watch them all the way through,,though there was a couple of good designs for aliens,in one of them,anyway i cannot believe i actually paid for these?. first off was Invasion,i thought a remake of the one with pods from the fifties,but no,it was just a soft porn movie with a new title?probably,the alien was a lump of ginger in a flowerpot,? so fed upwith that one,i stuck Area 51 on,good premise,but dire,i wouldnt even consider it for worst alien rip off,ever seen,it had a few good aliens in it,but wasnt worth watching just for that, So not having a good viewing night,final try was..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? cheers Don Saturn 13... HI,JOHN,i dont recall that one,is that good? cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I think John may mean Saturn 3. Farrah being it's only redeeming feature. I'd like to nominate almost any Sci Fi movie with the word Time in the title. Major exception being Time Bandits (Sci fi ish) As I think it's brill. And any film with, They Came From, in the title. You could try, Planet of the Vampires, Barry Sullivan 1965. But you'll wish you hadn't. And, finally, there is a French Zombie movie called, They Came Back. I wish they hadn't bothered. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetboy Posted July 15, 2013 Author Share Posted July 15, 2013 HI, just had Men in White on,as background,now that is bad........ cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 And the winner is (Or could be) Warbirds made in 2008 B29, female crew, flying lizards/dragons, secret mission, special weapon. It has it all, and yet, the acting & dialogue & situations are sooooo bad Amazon has this on sale (From zoverstocks) for 1p + 1.26 postage. That's how bad it is. You have been warned Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Lambess Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 i agree the dreadfull remake thinderbirds movie from 2005 is the absolute pits....... its so bad its bad..... my favorite so bad its good movie is the 1950s classic INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN in which alien cabbage heads who have detachable hands (with hypodermic fingernails) and ALCOHOL in their veins, terrorise a bunch of small town american teens at their favorite necking spot..... the teens then go on a drunken rampage through the town , getting blamed by the adults for their bad behaviour , the teens take revenge on the lil cabbageheads after discovering that they can be melted by Car Headlights ! then theres DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS the worlds only 1950s Scottish SF film , where a leather clad dominatrix with a big robot terrorises a Pub , and depending on wether its the original scottish accent or the american re-dub , the Devil girl proclaims That "aye i,ham frum Mharssssss" in a Connery style accent.......... love it to bits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetboy Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 HI,NEIL,I can honestly say,ive not seen any of them?is that good or bad?...I watched Spiders last night,from the same team that did spawn,pulp fiction,vampires,wishmaster etc,i thought it cant be that bad then.....Well it starts off ok stock footage of a shuttle mission,ok i thought,looking ok.....then i8t just dissolved before my eyes,,,the shuttle.Solaris,youd have thought my seven year old had made it,and he probably would of made a better job of the shuttle crash,than this lot did.? After that it descended into another alien movie,only with giant spiders,and gory spider births from various human carcasses...i should have realised when the shuttle payload was called code name ....wait for it.....Mother in Law cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_hopkirk Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Well, coming up to date a bit more, NONE of them are as bad as the 'recent' Thunderbirds movie. NO craft in that I would ever want to model or even look at twice. I mean, FAB 1 - Just about 'THE' most famous movie/TV car in history (apart from the Batmobile?) and they make it a FORD???!!! Roy. Yes, I agree it is a poor film. However, I do know that swapping out of the pink Rolls Royce was because RR refused to give permission to use it. At least that bit was not down to the film makers per se. But they are making a new series that is reputed to be closer to the original. http://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/05/commence-countdown-to-thunderbirds-tv-remake-launch/ Marty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 This sounds fun...... Attack of the 50 Foot Woman http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Woman Personal pet hate; 12" = 1 foot, 24" = 2 FEET, so pedantically it should be Attack of the 50 Feet Tall Woman. Just saying. Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Maybe she has lots of legs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Maybe she has lots of legs... That would make it Attack of the Fifty Footed Woman! Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Just saw the Trailer for "Enders Game". Having read the book around 30 years ago and considering ot one of the best SF novels ever written, I am already preparing to be disapointed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetboy Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 Just saw the Trailer for "Enders Game". Having read the book around 30 years ago and considering ot one of the best SF novels ever written, I am already preparing to be disapointed... HI,JOHN, sorry who wrote that one,my effort to watch lastnight,for my sins....Last line of defence...sounded ok ,on the box,,,started ok,some nice ariel combat scenes,with a flight of stealth fighters,against,a u.f.o.,which looked ok,would look good modelled on a Airfix twin stand?,but after that...it descended into a predator on a shoestring movie.... my oh my ,whats next? cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Don, Orson Scott Card. I too enjoyed the book & wonder how or if, the film will differ. BTW, Oblivion, Tom Cruise. 2013 Having watched a film named after a certain satellite of this planet a year or so ago, I guessed. It's not so dissimilar in circumstances. There, I don't think that gave too much away. Having said the above, It wasn't a bad film. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Maybe she has lots of legs... Dear God, imagine how many pairs of shoes she must have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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