What's the silliest scifi scene ever?

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#1

Anyone have any nominees? Here is mine:

In “The Black Hole” (which I would nominate as the dumbest movie ever, period), there is a scene where they get too close to the black hole, and they are in a big glass ship (smart!), some debris shatters the glass (duh), and of course everything rushes out into the vacuum of space. Including the beloved robot. So, the humans hold onto the heavy metal robot to prevent him from being sucked out. I can only assume they had superglue on their shoes.

In another scene they run over a melting bridge without even getting their eyebrows singed, but I digress.

#2

Imma need a while and gather me thots.

Let’s start with a few of my favs:

Independence Day: defeating the aliens by infecting the aliens’ computers with a computer virus made on an Apple laptop. Totally feasible. :stuck_out_tongue:

Just about everything in Barbarella.

The cat milking scene in Lynch’s Dune.

#3

See, you lost me right there. Truth be told, I saw it when I was in 3rd grade and in my twenties bought a box VCR set which I have never watched, so effectively I have not seen it in 30 years.

However, dumbest scifi scene ever? I would ask that we clarify the parameters just a little bit…dumbest scene in an otherwise good film? How do we rank bad films? Do the Star Wars prequels count? Because if they do I nominate all three of them for this. :smiley:

#4

Jar-Jar Binks.

Game. Set. Match.

#5

I thot about that…I would describe those prequel scenes as painful (you know who you are! Yeah I’m looking at you Hayden and Natalie! Every single scene with the two of you in it). Silly I can sit through, even laugh. Those “romantic” scenes in the prequels were painful.

Also, is there a difference between silly and dumb?

#6

Well, if we’re going with Star Wars cringe worthy scenes my personal “favorites” are the whole waterfall scene in Attack of the Clones (which gets my vote for dumbest title on a mainstream film ever) and Alec Guinness’ one scene in Return of the Jedi. “Feel the resentment, Luke!”

Clicker’s original criteria made me think immediately of things like Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Wild Wild World of Batwoman, Prince of Space and other MST3K fare. I think that’s playing an unfair competitive advantage, perhaps. SO… hmm…I’m gonna have to go with the classic Battlestar Galactica episode “Fire in Space” where the friggin’ ship’s on fire and they can’t put it out. Did no one think of opening an airlock or two? Sheesh!

#7

How about the “9G burn around the back of the moon” in Armageddon?

Or the rotating Mir scene in Armageddon?

Or the “Asteroid the size of Texas” that splits in half to go around either size of Earth in… hmm… I’m starting to notice a trend.

#8

Ah, those three magic words, “I hate sand.”

Also, is there a difference between silly and dumb?

Yes. Being chased by a fish that’s eaten by a bigger fish is silly. Taking an underwater shortcut to the other side of the planet is dumb.

#9

I was thinking just dumb scientifically. There are bad movies, and I think we can all agree that is a list in itself.

So, basically anything that would send Sheldon up the wall, and Leonard right along with him.

And I’d like to exclude that whole “all aliens mostly look like us”, since that is just the studios wanting to use actors which are cheaper than animation.

I saw “Black Hole” as an undergrad (chem major, yup I was a geek b4 it was cool) and my friends and I laughed for WEEKS.

#10

Probably the silliest thing in all of sci-fi, IMO, would have to be the alien invasion in Signs.

Water is a deadly poison to these aliens, its merest touch burning their skin. And yet, they use their advanced technology to travel at least several light years to a planet that’s literally covered with the stuff. The entire ecosystem is polluted with it, every possible source of food completely tainted by it, and all of the potential slaves are constantly dripping it from every pore. Frakkin’ lethal poison falls from the frakkin’ sky with deadly regularity, in fact! And yet, they still decide to invade this planet that they couldn’t possibly use for any conceivable purpose. I mean, what did they think all that blue stuff coating ¾ of the planet was? If they were actually intelligent enough to make it to this planet, they would have to have been smart enough not to bother coming here in the first place.

Don’t even get me started on Independence Day…

#11

Are you guys familiar with that deleted scene from Star Wars Episode I when the Bongo surfaces in the river outside of Theed and they start drifting towards a waterfall at the edge of the river…after moving upwards through an ocean to get there? Does that even make sense?

Either that, or Kirk creating that makeshift gunpower. Its just a little bit implausible for me…

#12

Voyager’s Threshold comes to mind… but i am sure there are far sillier scifis than breaking the warp 10 and devolve with your captain into lizard looking Amphibians and have a bunch of lizard babies…

#13

They did it just took them 57.5 minutes to think of it.:smiley:

#14

That’s right. Frakkin MORONS!

#15

My vote for silliest scene in all of Sci Fi would have to be for the conversation Cat and Lister have at the beginning of an episode of Red Dwarf (the name of it eludes me at the moment) concerning the hotness of Wilma Flintstone.

…or is it cheating since it’s Red Dwarf?

#16

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backwards_(Red_Dwarf_episode)

#17

The aliens had to be a bit stupid, otherwise we poor humans could not have defeated them with a baseball bat!

#18

Howard the Duck…

Lucas’ finest hour before the trilogy. Oh man, the kissing scene…

#19

Human, warning Howard: “Duck!”
Howard: “And proud of it!”
BANG! Howard is hit by object.

This was, obviously, an early warning to observers as to what to expect in the prequels.

#20

I loved Howard the Duck as a kid and watched it everytime I caught it on TV. :smiley: