RE: Worst movie you've seen
September 4, 2014 at 9:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2014 at 9:15 pm by vorlon13.)
Nightfall
Supposedly based on Isaac Asimov's greatest short story of the same name, the movie was beyond bad, and not even unintentionally funny.
The plot of the short story:
A civilization on a planet in a star system with (IIRC) 6 suns only experiences 1 nightfall every 1000 years. Some scientists realize their planet has seen numerous rises of civilization, and they always end in mass fires all across the planet. They do more research and realize nightfall is coming. They realize if they can put some people in a safe place with artificial lighting, those people can survive the night, while everyone else goes crazy in the darkness and burns everything they can get their hands on to make light.
The scientists attempt to photograph the sky at night, holding onto their sanity as long as possible, and hope to get pictures of the theoretical distant stars that might be visible at night.
Little do they realize their world is at the center . . .
Go read the short story. Miss the movie.
BTW, I was one of like 3 people in the entire country to pay to see Nightfall in a movie theater. It really sucked. I have no idea what the plot was, it had nothing to do with the short story, despite claiming to be base upon it.
I really hated the first Star Trek 'reboot' movie a few years ago, if you want me to list a movie in this thread you've heard of. Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated it.
Really. Didn't bother to see the second one.
Supposedly based on Isaac Asimov's greatest short story of the same name, the movie was beyond bad, and not even unintentionally funny.
The plot of the short story:
A civilization on a planet in a star system with (IIRC) 6 suns only experiences 1 nightfall every 1000 years. Some scientists realize their planet has seen numerous rises of civilization, and they always end in mass fires all across the planet. They do more research and realize nightfall is coming. They realize if they can put some people in a safe place with artificial lighting, those people can survive the night, while everyone else goes crazy in the darkness and burns everything they can get their hands on to make light.
The scientists attempt to photograph the sky at night, holding onto their sanity as long as possible, and hope to get pictures of the theoretical distant stars that might be visible at night.
Little do they realize their world is at the center . . .
Go read the short story. Miss the movie.
BTW, I was one of like 3 people in the entire country to pay to see Nightfall in a movie theater. It really sucked. I have no idea what the plot was, it had nothing to do with the short story, despite claiming to be base upon it.
I really hated the first Star Trek 'reboot' movie a few years ago, if you want me to list a movie in this thread you've heard of. Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated it.
Really. Didn't bother to see the second one.
