What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Deadite

That will be a strange conversation. Me naming films i think are worse on a film you consider the worst sci-fi you've ever seen. Where's it going to get us other than in an argument?

Defining the parameters of what you consider sci-fi might be a start. Is The Wasp Woman sci-fi for you? Virus? Congo? The 10th Victim? (not suggesting they are worse btw, just wondering where the line is drawn). It can be a very large genre under certain standards or quite niche if you only count spaceships 'n' lazers as sci-fi. Our definitions might differ and then the conversation is totally different.

Doesn't matter.

I'm guessing no one else has seen it, or at least can't be arsed to comment either way.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Doesn't matter.

I'm guessing no one else has seen it, or at least can't be arsed to comment either way.

Doesn't matter Dem's would just say Al Adamson,what ever he was arguing about.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Doesn't matter Dem's would just say Al Adamson,what ever he was arguing about.

Not really. I mean, Plan 9 is a far better watch than Pandorum in my opinion. I know it's Wood, but you get my point.

[Deadite]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Not really. I mean, Plan 9 is a far better watch than Pandorum in my opinion. I know it's Wood, but you get my point.

This i can agree with. Plan 9 is so bad it's good. Pandorum is so meh, it's not worth watching again.

[Dave Boy]

SUICIDE BATTALION (1958)

A handful of American soldiers fighting in the Pacific volunteer to take on a dangerous mission to blow up a Japanese base of operations...

American International Pictures more known to us for 1950's sci fi movies made quite a few war films.
When the names Arkoff and Nicholson appear on the opening credits you know that this will be low budget. It is....very.
Most of any action sequences are archive newsreel footage and the rest is studio based. The film does get off the ground okay for the first reel but then the group are given 72 hours r&r before the mission and the movie takes a dive in to soap opera land of love triangle and getting a GI married.
After dragging a woman reporter through the jungle, the film picks up a bit for the last reel but it is too late to save the movie. This is real B movie stuff and I went in expecting that but the film drags bad and is nothing like their sci fi gems.

[trebor8273]

Mop boy Melvin who lives in Tromaville, toxic waste dumping capital of the world is bullied by the patrons of the gym in which he works a bout of bullying goes horrible wrong and Melvin falls into some toxic waste. Horribly burned and disfigured he mutates and becomes new jerseys first superhero and sets up cleaning up his town from its corrupted Mayor and those that wronged him, along the way he finds love with a blind woman. A lot more gory than I remember. A better superhero movie than BvsS 7.5/10

Tonights viewings.

Drive
Satantic Blood aka Devils Rain

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Doesn't matter.

I'm guessing no one else has seen it, or at least can't be arsed to comment either way.

Nope, not seen it.

Incidentally the worst sci-fi film I've ever seen is Al Adamson's Blood of Ghastly Horror, closely followed by Jerry Warren's Frankenstein Island - both of which are featured in Nightmare USA I may add.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Doesn't matter.

I'm guessing no one else has seen it, or at least can't be arsed to comment either way.

I quite liked Pandorum. Never been overly concerned with watching it again though.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

No. I genuinely think it would be the bottom of the pile if i were to do a list of every sci-fi film i've seen. I've seen it twice and totally hated it both times.

It has no redeeming features whatsoever and zero entertainment value.

Name some of the worse films, Deadite, i'm intrigued to see what you come up with.

How about supernova or Robocop 3? Both those are far worse than Pandorum.
I thought it was okay-ish but like others here I've yet to feel the urge to watch it again.


Rings

Since the Vue started charging £4.99 admission I've been going to see a lot more films. It works out only a little dearer than some online rental I've seen and its literally £1.50 more than I used to pay back in the halcyon days of the local fleapit back in the 90's..
I have to say though even cheap this film is a f***** chore. It starts with a stupid plane crash scene that feels like some kind of jumbled mess before moving on to a professor buying a video recorder at a flea market. It seems in the decade or so since people began abandoning the format its already considered like some mysterious ancient technology (I feel old.)
It turns out that it has the samara tape on it and the curse begins again. We then move to some chick saying goodbye to her boyfriend who is off to college. Shes staying behind for reasons briefly explained and never referred to again. Something about a sick mother or something.... well it cant be that important/
Things are going swimmingly until some inexplicable drunken skype rant from a chick that miss whateverhername suspects her boyfriend is cheating with. Leaving in the middle of the night she heads to college and struggles to locate her BF. The college professor is a bit cagey so she follows him into a lift. Fortunately she nicked a key from her boy toys dorm because the film seems to have the logic of a point and click adventure game and it seem it gains access to the lift and the mysterious seventh floor. It seems prof has tenure or something as he's annexed an entire floor of the college and turned it into a hipster bar / lab to study the effect of the video. This idea is bonkers enough that it threatens to make the film interesting so its abandoned quickly. Instead she follows some chick to her house where shes killed by samara then runs into her BF who must have been wandering round campus and ignoring her calls for.... reasons. Then after actual evidence the story behind the tape is genuine the silly cow watches it. Fortunately shes not just thick but special and a new tape is discovered buried in the old one just for her. This allows her to retread the same plot devices as the previous films and learn more about samara. The whole special thing is contradicted directly in the film later on for no actual reason but the film gradually becomes more of a mess the further it goes on.
Rings is not scary. Anyone who thinks films like insidious are snooze fests will consider them to be classic horror after watching this turd. Seriously, a couple of cheap jump scares aside its just not scary at all or even remotely interesting. At one point it openly becomes a cheap rip off of don't breath. The plot is ludicrous and illogical and some of the acting is terrible. I would highly recommend missing this one TBH.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Real Steel (2011)

Take elements of Rocky, Robot Wars, A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave, Robot Jox, throw in Hugh Jackman, and allow to simmer for two hours and you have Real Steel.

Mindless, escapist fun with wow factor and a heart. I loved it.