Moonfall, because it is still top of mind.

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A tornado over water picks up a whole bunch of sharks and then goes around the land raining sharks on people.

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Doesn't count when it is intentionally dumb

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Or sci-fi....

A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

nvm

Rocagnante said:

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I'll go with Signs. An alien species travels across the universe hell bent on conquering the Earth, a planet predominantly covered in water, only to get defeated by…..wait for it….


Water

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this one makes me mad... I actually liked the movie up until that point and now I can't get around how stupid it is for beings that created space travel to not put on any sort of suit of some sort and to go to a planet that is mostly comprised of the thing that will kill them. It's like us going to Venus and stepping out of the spaceship naked.

could have fixed it very easily with water mixed with something, anything that doesn't naturally happen in nature.

Lost In Space.

Not 'SciFi', but GRAVITY was dumb.

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Battlefield Earth

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Poor execution is different from a bad idea. This book/movie isn't all that different from many other sci-fi novels in its plot.

Author's best idea is making up a fake religion and then having millions take him seriously. A brilliant scam.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?

The real hero.

How about humanity using a computer virus to defeat an alien invasion?

First you've got the speaking/written language differences, then you have human vs alien differences - those would be just unimaginable to overcome in a short time, and then you have hardware and software differences.

But somehow they get past all that and are able to identify some security vulnerability in alien software...in what - a day? Yeeeeaaahhhhh right.

Actually, the most believable sci-fi is probably Jurassic Park. I can conceivably see how bringing back dinosaurs like that is close to being possible. Now feeding them and keeping them (and you) healthy might be another matter altogether!

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses

Enough said.

Champ Bailey said:

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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Oh this definitely falls in the category of sounds dumb, but it's actually awesome.

javajaws said:

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How about humanity using a computer virus to defeat an alien invasion?

First you've got the speaking/written language differences, then you have human vs alien differences - those would be just unimaginable to overcome in a short time, and then you have hardware and software differences.

But somehow they get past all that and are able to identify some security vulnerability in alien software...in what - a day? Yeeeeaaahhhhh right.

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I remember the theory that all of our computer, etc. technology was based on the original Alien ship they recovered in Roswell. That discovering the ship in 1947 and stealing its technology jump started our innovations. So they would be based on each other.

Champ Bailey said:

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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This one is brought up a lot, but I honestly don't think it's that crazy. I don't think training an astronaut to drill would be all that much easier than training a driller to be an astronaut (setting aside piloting the ship, etc). Obviously you need a mix of both astronauts / drillers, but I really think people are underestimating how difficult it is to learn and conduct sensitive drilling operations. It really is ridiculously technical and damn near like conducting operations in space.

Full disclosure: I'm not an engineer, but regularly represent both clients involved in drilling operations and aerospace.

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Surprised Moonfall isn't in here.

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It is. Top of the page.

Quad Dog said:

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javajaws said:

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How about humanity using a computer virus to defeat an alien invasion?

First you've got the speaking/written language differences, then you have human vs alien differences - those would be just unimaginable to overcome in a short time, and then you have hardware and software differences.

But somehow they get past all that and are able to identify some security vulnerability in alien software...in what - a day? Yeeeeaaahhhhh right.

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I remember the theory that all of our computer, etc. technology was based on the original Alien ship they recovered in Roswell. That discovering the ship in 1947 and stealing its technology jump started our innovations. So they would be based on each other.

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It was more than a theory. It was apparently one of the clips cut from the final version. So they actually filmed it and everything. (It might be on the DVD.. I don't own it so I don't know) I wish they would have left it in. I think that would have been an awesome reveal. That basically all of our modern technology is based off alien technology.

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Quad Dog said:

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javajaws said:

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How about humanity using a computer virus to defeat an alien invasion?

First you've got the speaking/written language differences, then you have human vs alien differences - those would be just unimaginable to overcome in a short time, and then you have hardware and software differences.

But somehow they get past all that and are able to identify some security vulnerability in alien software...in what - a day? Yeeeeaaahhhhh right.

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I remember the theory that all of our computer, etc. technology was based on the original Alien ship they recovered in Roswell. That discovering the ship in 1947 and stealing its technology jump started our innovations. So they would be based on each other.

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It was more than a theory. It was apparently one of the clips cut from the final version. So they actually filmed it and everything. (It might be on the DVD.. I don't own it so I don't know) I wish they would have left it in. I think that would have been an awesome reveal. That basically all of our modern technology is based off alien technology.

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I never knew that! That would make a lot more sense.

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tk for tu juan said:

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aTmAg said:

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Contact was great at first, but the end sucked. Not the part with the dad, but the whole Congressional hearing part. The notion that they would accuse her of lying or that nobody would believe her when light was glowing out of the thing and it pulled a ship towards it is prosperous. No way could that be kept secret.

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Maybe you should watch the end again, they are not accusing her of lying. They present it in the hearing as a final elaborate hoax by SR Hadden and that she was an unknowing actor in the hoax.

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Maybe you should watch it again. They were ridiculously aggressive with her when James Woods calls her delusional and the another says her story "strains credibility". Then people in the crowd tell her "we believe you". The notion that Hadden could make her "dream" that whole sequence despite him being dead, and her having a 100 doctors around her is ridiculously unbelievable even in that fictional world. Either explanation that she was 'delusional" or a liar would be so preposterous that only the most idiotic conspiracy theorists would ever think it.

I realize they were trying to bring it back to "faith", but God it was stupid.

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Woods didn't believe what he was saying, he was toeing whatever political / party line that forced him to discredit the trip. His smirk / nod of acknowledgement when asked why there was 37 minutes of static showed that he was playing a part.

javajaws said:

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How about humanity using a computer virus to defeat an alien invasion?

First you've got the speaking/written language differences, then you have human vs alien differences - those would be just unimaginable to overcome in a short time, and then you have hardware and software differences.

But somehow they get past all that and are able to identify some security vulnerability in alien software...in what - a day? Yeeeeaaahhhhh right.

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They cut the scenes where all of our computing is reverse engineered from them.

Edit: i see someone beat me to the punch.

For some post-apocalyptic reason cities are now rolling around all the time and kinda eating each other?

I remember seeing the preview for this and thinking it looked like one of the dumbest movies I'd ever hear of.

Never saw it but it got terrible reviews.

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aTmAg said:

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tk for tu juan said:

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aTmAg said:

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Contact was great at first, but the end sucked. Not the part with the dad, but the whole Congressional hearing part. The notion that they would accuse her of lying or that nobody would believe her when light was glowing out of the thing and it pulled a ship towards it is prosperous. No way could that be kept secret.

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Maybe you should watch the end again, they are not accusing her of lying. They present it in the hearing as a final elaborate hoax by SR Hadden and that she was an unknowing actor in the hoax.

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Maybe you should watch it again. They were ridiculously aggressive with her when James Woods calls her delusional and the another says her story "strains credibility". Then people in the crowd tell her "we believe you". The notion that Hadden could make her "dream" that whole sequence despite him being dead, and her having a 100 doctors around her is ridiculously unbelievable even in that fictional world. Either explanation that she was 'delusional" or a liar would be so preposterous that only the most idiotic conspiracy theorists would ever think it.

I realize they were trying to bring it back to "faith", but God it was stupid.

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Woods didn't believe what he was saying, he was toeing whatever political / party line that forced him to discredit the trip. His smirk / nod of acknowledgement when asked why there was 37 minutes of static showed that he was playing a part.

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I agree. My point is that nobody would fall for it. That it would be such a preposterous claim that politicians wouldn't try to sell it to the media or public.

The Matrix

bagger05 said:

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For some post-apocalyptic reason cities are now rolling around all the time and kinda eating each other?

I remember seeing the preview for this and thinking it looked like one of the dumbest movies I'd ever hear of.

Never saw it but it got terrible reviews.

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When I see that I think Waterworld...without the water.

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gggmann said:

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The Matrix

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Champ Bailey said:

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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And then, when every pound is critical in a space mission, they equip the rover with a .50 cal M2 heavy machine gun.

But what if the asteroid was hollow and being driven by some aliens towards Earth, but you didn't know about the aliens until you got to the asteroid. I bet you'd be real happy then to have the 50cal

gggmann said:

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The Matrix

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2001 a space odyssey
Mostly a boring documentary on the life of space astronauts
Good part with HAL trying to kill them
Then what can only be Kubrick lacing something with LSD that Clarke ate and you get that ending that made no sense to absolutely anyone including Kubrick and Clarke

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Champ Bailey said:

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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Oh this definitely falls in the category of sounds dumb, but it's actually awesome.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Champ Bailey said:

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A giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, and with civilization on the line, the US decides the smartest option is to train a bunch of roughnecks to be astronauts, instead of teaching a bunch of astronauts to be roughnecks.

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Now do Gigli, Bennifer...

The whole premise of using humans as batteries is ridiculous. There are far more efficient ways to produce usable energy. If they needed an animal why not use cattle or something that wouldn't need a virtual reality?

By the time the war got to that point I'd guess a lot of animal life on Earth had been killed or was in the process of dying because of lack of plants (no sun). Humans were the only choice available and it allowed the machines to enslave their enemy.