The silliest science fiction and fantasy movies of all time

Caveman 1981 staring Ringo Star and Barbara Bach, The silly stop motion dinos stole the show in this one. :D
 
Previously mentioned...

The Beastmaster: Singer is silly. "Codo and Podo." Roberts is scrumptious. Torn is silly. But the best lines of the movie come from John Amos. "'Splain nis!" "Nah, dis ain't co from no slave gull." John was fresh from Good Times and he forgot to leave the Chicago projects accent behind.
Krull: This could have gotten off my list of silliness if the script hadn't been so stooooopid. After failing to defeat the enemy, the wizard says, "There is another way." After failing at the new way, the wizard says, "There is another way." After failing the second way, the wizard says, "There is one other way." After failing on their third attempt, the wizard says, "There is one more way." Now either this shows idiocy on the part of the wizard who should have just selected the proper method in the first place or a lack of editing beyond fifth grade english.
Hawk the Slayer: This is about as awful as you can get and still be awesome. Jack Palance is the biggest named heavy in my list of silliest fantasy movies.
Caveman: Ringo. Who doesn't like Ringo?!?! Bach is yummy. Matuzak is just Matuzak. Don't forget, Matuzak played Sloth in The Goonies.

Not yet mentioned...

The Barbarians 1987
The Paul brothers film legacy to the world. In my estimation, it is their magnum opus. Forget swords and sandals... they made mullets and mallets.

I've never seen Space Mutiny, but Myster Science Theater 3000 blasted it. You can find the best of the insults on youtube's MST3K - Space Mutiny - The many names of David Ryder. Run McSwiftfast, Punch Rockgroin, Dirk Hardpec, Gristle McThornbody, Big McLargehuge, Roll Fizzlebeef.

Speaking of Reb Brown (aka David Ryder), he was the lead in Yor, the Hunter from the Future.... (trailer) which I took every precaution to miss. I was one of the lucky ones.
 
Boaz said:
Previously mentioned...

The Beastmaster: Singer is silly. "Codo and Podo." Roberts is scrumptious. Torn is silly. But the best lines of the movie come from John Amos. "'Splain nis!" "Nah, dis ain't co from no slave gull." John was fresh from Good Times and he forgot to leave the Chicago projects accent behind

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Speaking of Reb Brown (aka David Ryder), he was the lead in Yor, the Hunter from the Future.... (trailer) which I took every precaution to miss. I was one of the lucky ones.
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Oh come on, Singer was pretty yummy man-crumpet in Beastmaster. And please don't deny yourself the pleasure of Yor: it is a fantastically brilliant crap film.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Oh come on, Singer was pretty yummy man-crumpet in Beastmaster. And please don't deny yourself the pleasure of Yor: it is a fantastically brilliant crap film.
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They did two forgettable sequels to Beastmaster.
 
I give you (with a majestic score of 2.1 on IMDb)....


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Tower75 said:
Iron Skies. Started out as a spoof film about invading Nazis from the Moon, then 2/3 of the way through the film the director seems to get thrown through a window and wakes up with a personality change, as the film turns very quickly into a political, serious film about humanity's hunger for resources and destruction.
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And they've done a sequel .
 
Cat-Woman on The Moon 1953 The title alone speaks volumes. The film itself is silly beyond imagining , but entertaining.:D
 
The Man who could work miracles was as I recall, based on HG Wells (Welles?) story, & had the gods killing time by messing with this poor guy. One gave him omnipotence, but did not bother to tell him about it. He slowly realizes his power, and his ambitions grow.
At the end, he has all Earth's leaders and such gathered together, & demands an end to war. But there is money to be made in war & sickness, etc., & they tell him its a bad idea. Like a spoiled kid, he becomes angry & does a Joshua miracle, killing all life on Earth except himself, whom he earlier had wished to be invincible. So the Earth immediately stops rotating, everything is flung around, as he forgot to make it all stop together. "Sun, stand thou still, & moon do likewise." :whistle:

As far as that film goes for being silly, Topper with the same guy as the title character seems silly. Carey Grant, though reckless driving kills himself & his female companion, who, upon realizing they are dead, decide to mess with this guy.

There are quite a few films from the 1930s & 1940s with the life after death theme, & any of them could well be considered silly by today's standards.
 
Jeffbert said:
The Man who could work miracles was as I recall, based on HG Wells (Welles?) story, & had the gods killing time by messing with this poor guy. One gave him omnipotence, but did not bother to tell him about it. He slowly realizes his power, and his ambitions grow.
At the end, he has all Earth's leaders and such gathered together, & demands an end to war. But there is money to be made in war & sickness, etc., & they tell him its a bad idea. Like a spoiled kid, he becomes angry & does a Joshua miracle, killing all life on Earth except himself, whom he earlier had wished to be invincible. So the Earth immediately stops rotating, everything is flung around, as he forgot to make it all stop together. "Sun, stand thou still, & moon do likewise." :whistle:

As far as that film goes for being silly, Topper with the same guy as the title character seems silly. Carey Grant, though reckless driving kills himself & his female companion, who, upon realizing they are dead, decide to mess with this guy.

There are quite a few films from the 1930s & 1940s with the life after death theme, & any of them could well be considered silly by today's standards.
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Topper also inspired a tv series in the 1950's and some years back they did a Topper tv movie which was an attempt at a tv series .
 
Curt Chiarelli said:
I want to also add Zardoz to this all-stellar line-up, but it goes beyond silly, exceeds the absurd and lunges full-tilt boogie into the realm of the incomprehensible. (Perhaps the most incomprehensible part is how they railroaded Sean Connery to star in this film
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If I remember correctly, he was desperate for any roles that would prevent him from being typecast as James Bond forever. And money. The director said something once about offering Connery a limo to drive him to and from the set, but Connery said how about they paid him the limo fee, and he'd drive himself :).

You have to remember that Zardoz was made in the 1970s, when no-one had any clue about what they were doing after the 60s. I've always thought their society was something like a low-budget Dancers At The End Of Time.

Which leads in to one of my favourite silly SF movies: The Final Programme. It's another movie from the 70s where you have to wonder what they were smoking.
 
Edward M. Grant said:
If I remember correctly, he was desperate for any roles that would prevent him from being typecast as James Bond forever. And money. The director said something once about offering Connery a limo to drive him to and from the set, but Connery said how about they paid him the limo fee, and he'd drive himself :).

You have to remember that Zardoz was made in the 1970s, when no-one had any clue about what they were doing after the 60s. I've always thought their society was something like a low-budget Dancers At The End Of Time.

Which leads in to one of my favourite silly SF movies: The Final Programme. It's another movie from the 70s where you have to wonder what they were smoking.
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Ive nothing good about the Final Program.

By the way have you ever seen the the 1969 film The Monitors? Silly doesn't even begin to describe it.:)
 
I thought Looper was the height of stupidity.

I know Time Travels movies are awkward and often poorly done but this one took the biscuit.

The specific scene I am referring to is when a man is running away as "time" runs out and he loses all of his body parts but still managed to make the run... it is just so ridiculous and ignores almost all forms of cause > effect.

TERRIBLE SILLY FILM.
 
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