Just a TV movie

[RobertScorpio]

What is your biggest example (not including Star Trek movies) where you went to see a movie, scifi, and it was so bad you thought to yourself "This shit should have been, at best, on the scifi-channel..not even a major network" !

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Hermiod]

The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

 

[ClayinCA]

Never saw that one, but the first X-Files movie is also a contender for this.

 

[Vendikarr]

What is your biggest example (not including Star Trek movies) where you went to see a movie, scifi, and it was so bad you thought to yourself "This shit should have been, at best, on the scifi-channel..not even a major network" !

Rob
Scorpio

Jumper. The thing felt like it was meant to be a series pilot. And not a very good one.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Never saw that one, but the first X-Files movie is also a contender for this.

Umm..yep. I havent seen the second one, but the first one did seem like a TV show. The recent horror movie 1409 with John Cusak and Samual Jackson seemed like a TV movie with A list stars.....

Rob
Scorpio

 

[John Picard]

The Last Chase. Saw it on HBO and couldn't believe it was released in theaters.

 

[Greg Cox]

"Steel" looked like a tv-movie from the seventies.

 

[RobertScorpio]

"Steel" looked like a tv-movie from the seventies.

Oh god that movie was soooooo bad...steel...yikes...

Superman 4; The Quest for Sleep looked pretty TVish too..

Rob

 

[Bishbot]

Blade Trinity. I enjoyed the first two but that was a piece of shit. When it finished I said it should have been "straight to DVD", but the principle is the same.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Never saw that one, but the first X-Files movie is also a contender for this.

Umm..yep. I havent seen the second one, but the first one did seem like a TV show. The recent horror movie 1409 with John Cusak and Samual Jackson seemed like a TV movie with A list stars.....

Rob
Scorpio

I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Also, it was called 1408.

I could come up with a pages-long list, but I'll try to limit myself...

Steel
Supernova
Lost in Space
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
The Time Machine (Simon Wells)

 

[crouteru]

Highlander: Endgame may have fared better as a TV movie, because it was mostly based on the tv show and had little to no relation with the previous 3 films beyond Connor MacLeod and a couple of cameos from characters of the first film.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Robo-Cop 3
John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
John Carpenter's Vampires
John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars
Supernova (which i actually saw on Sci-Fi so...)

 

[AviTrek]

Day After Tomorrow

 

[Kirkman1987]

Well, Gettysburg feels like a TV miniseries, but that is because it was one. It was thought to be so good that they just released the whole thing as a 4 hour film.

I also agree about superman IV, which is just awful, outside of some unintentional laughs and the heart put in the project by Reeve.

 

[Faldor]

The Matrix Reloaded.

 

[Data Holmes]

The star wars prequels.
Death Race was fun but it felt like it should have been a Direct to DVD or pay cable.
Hell Boy II