What's the worst sci-fi/fantasy movie you've ever seen?

[Mistwell]

Worst Sci-fi I ever saw...has to be a tie between Ice Pirates and Starcrash. Mindnumbingly bad.

Worst fantasy is much tougher. DnD movie, Bakshi's LotR, too many others to count.

Icepirates BAD? Take it back you heathen scum!

 

[Dave Blewer]

I loved Ice Pirates and have fond memories of Howard the Duck...

Worst Sci Fi movie: Probably Phantom Menace but it could also be some Terminator clone as well...

Worst Fantasy movie: D&D, Animated LotR, and The Seventh Curse, a Chow Yun Fat movie that veers into so bad its good territory...

 

[Whodat]

There was a smelly little pile of celluloid from the ‘80’s known as Megaforce.

If your "friends" ever dare you to see this film, run. Run far and run fast. Change your name, and get new friends.

The movie was about a futuristic commando team equipped with flying motorcycles that fire rockets, and “battlefield dune buggies”.

IIRC, I think all of the commandos from this elite fighting force ran around the battlefield in tight jumpsuits and wore bandanas, rather than body armor or helmets.

I had the feeling it was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek action farce, but the movie was just… wrong.

It was so bad that I wouldn’t watch it again, even if Mystery Science Theater 3000 lampooned it.

 

[Furtive Noise]

Hercules vs. the Moon Men... or maybe it was Hercules & the Moon Men... I often like movies so bad they're good but even I was in awe of its worthlessness.

 

[John Smallberries]

There was a smelly little pile of celluloid from the ‘80’s known as Megaforce.

Back in the Internet's halcyon days (circa 1997), I ran a web page dedicated to all things Megaforce (and it's intrepid hero, Ace Hunter). Ah, youth.

DEEDS NOT WORDS!

 

[Azure Trance]

Worst SciFi Movie:

Star Wars Holiday Special
I caught a part where ... Chewbaccas child was captured by Imperial Soldiers and had his toys broken. Then, he turned on a how to fix it video which showed us, STEP BY STEP FOR THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES how to fix it. Then the tape broke.

Unfortunately, it was only a copy (the original is too valuable to bring; someone might burn it)

 

[WayneLigon]

Fantasy: I've never seen Warriors of the Lost Kingdom, so I can't comment. About the worst that comes to mid right off, in a sword and sorcery vein, is either Ator: the Fighting Eagle or it's sequel. And I'm too lazy to go to IMDB and look it up. The giant spider... oh my god.

SciFi has to be Screamers. God, it was spitting bad, where you walk out of the theater spitting to get the bad taste outta your mouth. A close second is Aliens 3. Yeah, let's kill off the two nice characters from the second movie, AND let's get a director that heretofor has only done second-rate music videos.

My three all time crapazoid films have to be Mortal Kombat II (I was a very nice film, so the sequel being so bad hurt even worse), Batman and Robin (Way to kill a franchise, dude) and Screamers. Generally, I don't look at the truly low-budget films for this kind of consideration. They tried, on some level, most of them. But these.. either big budget, or an ace director, or coming on the coattails of a successful film.. they had no excuse. None, whatsoever. It's always said that no-one sets out to make a bad movie, but... sometimes you have to wonder.

 

[WayneLigon]

Star Wars Holiday Special

I have only heard vile and hideous rumors of this.. thing.

 

[Ashwyn]

Quest of The Delta Knights. David Warner owes me an apology.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Ator: the Fighting Eagle or it's sequel. And I'm too lazy to go to IMDB and look it up.

That sequel would be Ator the Blademaster, AKA Cave Dwellers. For my money, one of the 5 best MST3K parodies ever. My favorite part was the long, drawn-out flashback to all the events of the first film, as the old wise one tells his daughter the whole backstory. Or as Joel and the bots put it, "This is the part of the film we like to call, 'She HAD to ask.'"

A close second is Aliens 3. Yeah, let's kill off the two nice characters from the second movie, AND let's get a director that heretofor has only done second-rate music videos. [/B]

Wow. I actually thought, in retrospect, that picking Fincher was a visionary choice. I didn't like Alien 3 very much either, but I thought his directorial stamp was all over that film in a very good way. And I LOVE everything he's made since.

For my 2 cp, worst fantasy film is anything with Marc Singer. Truly cringe-worthy. Worst sci-fi is a little something stinky called Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, starring once-and-future Minnesota Governer Jesse "The Body" Ventura. It's about ... oh, I can't even get into it. Go to IMDB if you gotta know. Just, don't watch it.