The Most Unsatisfying Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Disappointing Tv or Movies

[JD]

The only thing that bugs me with the new Omen show is the timeline. Damien is supposed to be in his 20s, but they are using the original movie as backstory. If Damien was 5 in 1976 when the original movie came out, assuming it was also set in that year, then he should be about 45 in 2016.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You think Galactica 1980 was bad? Then don't read the comics' re-imagining of it. Imagine what a "nuG1980" would have been like...

Spoiler: nuG1980

Basically, Dr. Zee orders THE INVASION OF EARTH. And they DO it. linky

As for some of the other things on this list? I thought the Stallone Dredd movie was awesome (then again, I've never read the comics, so that probably is a factor), and the prequels were my favorites out of all of the SW films.

Guess if we all thought the same things about everything, life would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK using the list at the start of the thread which I had forgotten about Here's my votes

Attack Of The Clones, Phantom Menace
Fantastic Four Reboot, Elektra
Speed Racer
Prometheus
Catwoman
Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Cloverfield
Joel Schumacher Batman

 

[eyeresist]

I really didn't care for Batman Begins. It was a bit too long for my liking.

Yeah, I might have voted for that if it was on the list. I'm a Batman fan, and I found Nolan's Batman dull.

 

[theenglish]

I was more disappointed in The Dark Knight than Batman Begins. The Dark Knight was just so unrelentingly bleak it was depressing.

 

[Kor]

Try watching schlock like "Battle Beyond the Stars." You will long to watch any of the movies listed in this poll.

Kor

 

[tomalak301]

I was more disappointed in The Dark Knight than Batman Begins. The Dark Knight was just so unrelentingly bleak it was depressing.

At least Dark Knight was a batman movie. The Dark Knight Rises didn't feel like a Batman movie to me, and I would probably put that as my second choice behind Voyager's Endgame.

 

[Greg Cox]

Try watching schlock like "Battle Beyond the Stars." You will long to watch any of the movies listed in this poll.

Kor

Hey, I remember liking BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS back in the day!

Granted, I haven't seen it since it first came out . . .

Now GALAXINA, that was truly dreadful. And, unlike some, I never quite saw the appeal of ICE PIRATES . ...

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Hey, I remember liking BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS back in the day!

Granted, I haven't seen it since it first came out . . .

Now GALAXINA, that was truly dreadful. And, unlike some, I never quite saw the appeal of ICE PIRATES . ...

Space Herpes. I too loved Battle Beyond the Stars but I also haven't seen it since I originally saw it. So all I have is my fleeting memories of it, John Boy on a ship with beasts.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Try watching schlock like "Battle Beyond the Stars." You will long to watch any of the movies listed in this poll.

Kor

The only thing I like was the huge ship the main villain had. It made me laugh because the way it was designed looked like a huge flying toilet seat.

Oh and I still love ICE PIRATES!

Borderlands stole their trucks

 

[Marsden]

Try watching schlock like "Battle Beyond the Stars." You will long to watch any of the movies listed in this poll.

Kor

I have Battle Beyond the Stars on tape and I've seen it.... a lot. I think it's good. It was the Magnificent Seven Samurai in space. Lot of good actors and a hero ship with a great rack, what more could you ask for?

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I dunno about "all-time"; but the ending that frustrated me the most in recent memory was NuBSG. I just felt they never knew what to do with Baltar after his acquittal and the twist were they just summarily dumped the fleet to be very unconvincing.

They also completely screwed themselves over with the WHAT A TWIST gimmick of Earth not being our Earth, even though when they were in the tomb of Athena seasons earlier, it showed the 13th tribe Earth with our constellations. If it's not the same planet, folks, it can't have the same constellations visible from its surface. Hell, 40 000 years in the past or whatever, and the stars would look different even if it was the same planet. You fail.

Also, they did what the Dexter books did, too: changed the genre from semi-realistic (or at least attempting to) scifi to A WIZARD DID IT fantasy at the end. No wonder the fans felt cheated.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

And the whole Starbuck is an Angel BS. Baltar is now an Angel too. BS

 

[CommanderRaytas]

With no explanation whatsoever. We didn't even get an A WIZARD DID IT! It made me furious when I watched it.

 

[Captain Craig]

I feel some of the groupings are a bit too presumptuous.
I hate Phantom Menace and while I have issues with the other 2 prequels I find gems in them.
I'm indifferent on Batman Forever but hate B&R
I like X-Men 3 and despite it's flaws it doesn't deserve to be lumped in w/Elektra or god's sake nuFF reboot

I voted for Green Lantern, Catwoman and my hate for TPM had me go ahead and vote for the SWprequels.

Place me in the camp that doesn't fully get the hate for IJ:KotCS. The movie has some issues and I'd prefer a few things be done better, I admit. However, the film follows the inherent core homage of what the series is about. It's the 50's, so nukes(Atomic Age), jungle adventure(Tarzan), aliens. I'd even say the large fire ants are a bit of an homage to films like THEM! Nothing in the film is any more "out there" or "beyond believing" than safely landing in a raft from a plane. More out there than a "fiery box of vengeance" or diamond stones that bring nature back to life. The vitriol on Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is really over the top.

 

[Ethros]

And the whole Starbuck is an Angel BS. Baltar is now an Angel too. BS

The real Baltar? erm he wasn't an angel...

Unless you're talking about Head-Baltar who appeared to Caprica Six, just how Head-Six appeared to Baltar.
And Head-Baltar first appeared in Season 2, so you're can't really have a go at the final episode or season for that.

I also always find it amusing how what Head-Six was revealed in early Season 2, "I'm an angel of god sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you." yet people complain about Season 4. And go back and watch Season 1, almost every other sentence Head-Six saysthrough the season is about God.

nuBSG wasn't Star Trek. It tried to do something different to other shows. I don't know why some folk can't fathom that. If you didn't like it fair enough, but don't knock it for not being something like Star Trek Voyager.



Also I found the Starbuck vanishing thing no diferent than what happened to Cordelia in Angel's 100th episode "You're Welcome." In fact it's pretty much exactly the same. And fans love that episode, everyone got it, and were fine with "the Powers That Be did it" to be honest. No answer is every given through the whole Buffyverse as to what the Powers That Be specifcally are, just like "God" in BSG. Not every single thing has to be answered with some technobabble bollocks like in a lot of Star Trek

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I don't agree. The show fell victim to the Chris Carter effect, had no plan, and the people who made it just crapped out an ending that made no sense and contradicted established facts. I loved nuBSG up until the mutiny plot - I did. After that, though, the "whatever, our viewers don't think shit through, so why should we" attitude just got too much. If a show gets scientific things wrong but is still a) entertaining and b) doesn't insult my intelligence, I'm cool with it. Like the whole red matter gig in ST 2009. I don't care about that, because the film is compelling enough on a character-driven and a technical level. It's a competent film with a coherent plot that makes an effort to be entertaining. The nuBSG people didn't even try, so in the end, the story failed on a narrative level, a scientific level, and an emotional level. Nothing made sense. It was too stupid to be enjoyable for me. That's the problem: it didn't satisfy on any level, and that's what makes the series finale fail.

But that's just my opinion.

 

[Ethros]

Oh yeah, it's not perfect. In retrospect that "and they have a plan" at the start of every episode kinda sticks out like a sore thumb when you rewatch it Obviously the Cylon stuff had to be made up along with the way, but I think the final thing about Earth was always there. A lot of clues in the Season 1 finale I noticed, Opera House etc

I just think as an episode, with or without how you feel about Starbuck and the angels and the tech, Daybreak is still a tour de force for a lot of the characters and has a tonne of fantastic moments. When I see people mentioning in the same breathe as things like Endgame or These Are The Voyages I really do just think that's silly.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

You have a point and I agree. I for one love Mark Sheppard in anything and was very happy to see him in this. The "how much does this offend me"-level depends on how it affected you emotionally, and I was just really frustrated about how they didn't wrap up a lot of things they set up earlier. Truth be told, this episode annoyed me more than Endgame because I was more invested in nuBSG than VOY at that point (except for Tom and Banana, who are awesome, but pairing Space Barbie and Chuckles at the last moment was just one final fuck you to the fans imho ), but it wasn't nearly as insulting and plain mediocre as There Are The Voyages. Daybreak did have good moments, but the series didn't fulfill its promise as a whole, which I guess is most people's problem with it.

I still shed a tear during the final Adama/Roslin scene. That was good.

 

[JD]

I had no problems with the ends of nuBSG or Lost. I thought both worked well tying things up for the characters, and the overall arcs. I know Lost, at least, didn't give answers to every mystery introduced on the show, but I thought we got enough big answers to the most important mysteries that I was happy with it.
I really don't have to many specific memories of how BSG ended, the only thing I remember bothering me was Starbuck just disappearing, but I think there is enough of an answer to it that it's not that big of a deal for me.