10 dumbest moments in sci-fi movie history

Discussion in 'SciFi & Fantasy' started by CounslerCoffee, Jul 15, 2004.

  1. Thanks guys, not Skynet knows what to do, we're in trouble now.....
     
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  3. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe skynet could not track the anscetry that far?
     
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  5. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    What if Skynet used the movie to find her...
     
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  7. Gifted World Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    Why not send a squad of Terminators after them?
     
  8. Starthane Xyzth returns occasionally... Valued Senior Member

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    Comic-book stories notwithstanding, the power requirements for temporal displacement may have been too high to send more than one terminator (or man) at a time. And, if you recall, Kyle said that humans captured Skynet's laboratory complex just after the first terminator (and the T-1000) went through.
     
  9. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    terminator 3 that was such crap, we are not even talking about that one, it does not belong with the other two!
     
  10. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Maybe the great, great, great grandmother was one of those travelling prostitutes/bums that live in the twilightzone of society. And so did the rest of her grandmothers, mothers, until finally a decent Conner was born. One that could be traced.
     
  11. Janus58 Valued Senior Member

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    If you remember, in the first movie, the terminator didn't even know which Sarah Conner he had to kill. Skynet only knew her name and the city she lived in. He had to rip a page out of the phone book and systematically kill every Sarah Conner listed. So tracing her ancestry was a little out of the question.
     
  12. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    yes...totally true, stupid me.
     
  13. dexter ROOT Registered Senior Member

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    Imperial walkers attack the rebels
    "The Empire Strikes Back"

    Why it's so dumb: So, the same company that brings you the dark side of the force and the death star decides that tall, slow, off balance elephant thingies with laser beam-shooting tusks are the best way to ferret out the rebels from their underground fortress? Darth Vader may have been a patsy, but we all know he wasn't that stupid. If ever a huge planet destroying technology was the appropriate choice, this was it.
    Why we don't care: Seeing the walkers come into focus in the rebel binoculars was the moment when "Star Wars" fans realized that "The Empire Strikes Back" might indeed be cooler than the original. That scene alone could be the reason we paid to see four more.


    goddammit, it worked didnt it. as much sense as it doesnt make, the empire won that battle.. so obviously they knew what they were doing. what doesnt make sense is why darth vader looks like a black penis. whats george getting at? we are all scared of the black cock? or the giant ball that destroys planets. or the X and Y wing. (chromosomes, it doesnt make sense to you, but it does to me) If the empire was really as evil as george portrayed it, they would have cut down the ewoks forest and built a walmart. but no, they saved it, causeing their own demise. If only we would do that to iraq, we would be good. People just dont know how to deal with these things.

    Dexter for president
     
  14. Starthane Xyzth returns occasionally... Valued Senior Member

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    So you're saying Star Wars is all about sexual innuendo, Dexter? Same applies to the Alien movies' monster: its larval stage is a scrotum with legs, the parsitic chest-bursting stage is a penis with teeth, and the adult is just a bigger version of the same.

    The cast of the movie Human Traffic were saying that Star Wars is all about drugs: with names like Chew-Bacca; Jabba smoking what looked like a giant bong, Han Solo smuggling illegal "spices" for him; Yoda, who was once tall & handsome before 900 years of drug abuse; the red-eyed Emporer, "king crackhead of the galaxy," who could surely only have funded something as big as a Death Star with drug money.

    Bottom line: you can take it any way you like. Some might even say that Lucas was just trying to tell an escapist story.

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  15. chunkylover58 Make it a ... CHEEEESEburger Registered Senior Member

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    Heh...take a look at some of HR Giger's artwork (the artist who designed the aliens in Alien ... also did Cil in "Species.") His work is over-the-top sexual (also, with none-too-subtle undertones of Satanism). I have a book of his work made for various movies, much of which was never used because it was so overtly perverted. There is a film that he directed and designed called "Killer Condoms." The killer condoms are very similar in design to the alien chest burster (just no legs). From my recollection, the killer condoms came first and were the inspiration for Bursty.
     
  16. Starthane Xyzth returns occasionally... Valued Senior Member

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    I don't suppose you can scan any of those pictures and post them here, Chunky? Moderators permitting, of course.
     
  17. chunkylover58 Make it a ... CHEEEESEburger Registered Senior Member

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    I don't have a scanner, unfortunately. Here's a site with much of his work: http://www.fred-katrin.de/

    Can give you an idea of where he's coming from. Some are pretty eerie. Some are quite wicked. Others are really perverted. Most of them are quite beautiful. Amazing what one man can do with an air brush.
     
  18. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    im not sure if anyone posted it but... remember the moive Contact HOW did the religous nut smuggle in that much exsplosive or any exsplosives for that matter on to such a big government project o.0
     
  19. DeeCee Valued Senior Member

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    One of my favourite sci-fi cliche's is the inevitable fate of the unknown federation crewman. These sorry individuals lead quiet unassuming lives as botanists, geologists, xenoethnologists or they follow some similar 'soft' science career. After years of hard work, never once having an adventure or even being seen on screen, they reach the dizzy rank of 'ensign' and find themselves standing on a transporter pad with Worf Data and John Luc for a supposedly easy away mission studying the unusual rock formations of Staphaureus Prime.

    So guess who gets eaten by the plastic phallus shaped rock monster within five minutes of beaming down the gravity well?

    The Moral?
    Never share a teleport pad with characters more popular than yourself.
    Dee Cee
     
  20. a more simple world, pre-9/11. be Vegan, bee vegan, OMMMMMMMMMMMMMmm
     
  21. Dhusk Registered Member

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    I'm surprised no one's mentioned the worst scene in Return of The Jedi, where supposedly elite equipped and trained stormtroopers get their asses handed to them by teddy bears with spears. They Imperials let the forest growth reach almost to their backdoor, they never notice these creepy little furry things cutting down and moving all these multi-ton logs within 500 yards of the most important base in the Empire for what must have been months to set up those traps, and when the fight does come, they break and start panic-firing within 30 seconds, despite having superior firepower, armor, and numbers. Hillbillies with flintlock muskets could have conducted that fight better.

    Oh yeah, there also: "I finished the Kesel Run in 12 parsecs!" or whatever the exact quote was. Lucas could have at least asked someone what a parsec was.
     
  22. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    WHAT!!?!?!? You think that the impire would want to harm cute little fuzzy worthless teddy bears... No they want to find a way to mutate them into ugly things so they could kill them. That was the whole purpose of the base. i don't get why people get this confused
     
  23. onewiththeuniverse onewiththeuniverse Registered Senior Member

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    Don't you know that the deadliest thing in the universe is an Ewok on steroids. AVP would have ended in the first five minutes

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