Worst Costumes and Props
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electric jay
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Zardoz was actually a good movie...if you couldn't actually see it.
Laffo
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Darth Detori
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I'd probably have to vote worst prop as the PS2 controller flight stick/steering wheel in Men in Black 2. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Yeah, let's take one of the world's most recognizable controllers and put it in as a steering mechanism. No-one will notice.
Robot Monster
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Does that count when it was meant as a joke.
SSgt Burton
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So the PS2 controller was supposed to be alien technology all along? Like when they said the microwave oven was really alien tech?
Kevin
altername
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And the winner is.....
Whoa, this picture gets my vote.
The Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver, also used to kill Sam Spade's partner in "The Maltese Falcon". It is a recoil operated weapon, which is why you saw Sean Connery cock the revolver by pushing back on the barrel, because blanks didn't produce the force to operate it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley-Fosbery_Automatic_Revolver
David.
darienvader
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This gets my vote for the worst costume: David Bowie in Labyrinth
Seriously now, did we really need to see him in tight spandex showcasing his crotch? "Dance magic, dance" . . . yeah, we know what he's really singing about.
This poor child:
And check out SweatPantsErection.com if you're feeling brave. It's work safe, and pretty dang funny.
Seriously now, did we really need to see him in tight spandex showcasing his crotch? "Dance magic, dance" . . . yeah, we know what he's really singing about.
This poor child:
And check out SweatPantsErection.com if you're feeling brave. It's work safe, and pretty dang funny.
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Jayn
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THANK you!! I despise those costumes..
And THANK YOU for all the Connery pix..:love
(I'll be in my bunk now..)
Nothing wrong with string vests
:eek
They would never let this show air in the United States today
as mostly all Americans have Boob Phobia :eek
and their sphincters slam shut when they see them
along with chanting Hide your eyes..... Hide your eyes :lol
blownhemi
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I've never seen nor heard of this show, but I have to ask: did it really show that much skin? I thought we were getting more progressive, but now I think maybe not so much.
And to add to the topic, if we're counting costumes, then I nominate Roger Corman's Fantastic Four. Hopefully the reason for it being so awful is that the rumor about it being made to hold the license is true. It would wound my poor widdle soul to think that it could possibly have been an honest effort.
GrenadeKing
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For some reason unknown to mankind, the VHS of that is in the VCR in one of the break rooms at work.
I thought it was some horrible 70's B-Movie at first. Then I realised it was just horrible and turned it off to save everyone. :lol
I thought it was some horrible 70's B-Movie at first. Then I realised it was just horrible and turned it off to save everyone. :lol
Well, she is wearing large pasties.
Ham Salad
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Hmmm...I hadn't thought about that. I suppose it all depends on how well disguised it is. The le mat is too obvious, the mauser less so.
I remember on THE OUTER LIMITS they took a .38 snub nose and put a scope on it, that wasn't really the best idea in the world.
Yeah, I guess you're right about that...
It bothers me when I see powder fired, brass cased slug throwers in the future just in general. When they are designs that are anachronistic in the present it makes it worse.
It doens't take that much to at least dress the weapon: look at how long it took people to figure out the blade runner pistol. Or you could at least modify the concept: I remember in DR. WHO in THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI they had some neat firearm concepts: they used Mac 10's, but they dressed them with little pressure tanks and called the 'gas guns', implying the propulsive force was provided by pressurized gas instead of cartridges. It made the mac 10's a lot easier to swallow.
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Raffles
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I think thats what a lot of people found hard to swallow about Firefly.
Yeah some props and costumes were given the full treatment (mal's pistol, Vera, mal's coat etc.) but a lot of stuff was just roughed up and used.
As for their low tech historical firearms, it was set in the poorest part of the universe. A pistol can be cobbled together for a few dollars and will kil a man just as dead as a million dollar laser.
Bad props? Yes, in part. Worst props? Not by a long shot.
Witness the cardboardy terror of Starship Troopers 3 -
That sound you hear is Robert A. Heinlein spinning in his grave.
Ps. I actually like Firefly.
Yeah some props and costumes were given the full treatment (mal's pistol, Vera, mal's coat etc.) but a lot of stuff was just roughed up and used.
As for their low tech historical firearms, it was set in the poorest part of the universe. A pistol can be cobbled together for a few dollars and will kil a man just as dead as a million dollar laser.
Bad props? Yes, in part. Worst props? Not by a long shot.
Witness the cardboardy terror of Starship Troopers 3 -
That sound you hear is Robert A. Heinlein spinning in his grave.
Ps. I actually like Firefly.
I think thats what a lot of people found hard to swallow about Firefly.
Yeah some props and costumes were given the full treatment (mal's pistol, Vera, mal's coat etc.) but a lot of stuff was just roughed up and used.
As for their low tech historical firearms, it was set in the poorest part of the universe. A pistol can be cobbled together for a few dollars and will kil a man just as dead as a million dollar laser.
Bad props? Yes, in part. Worst props? Not by a long shot.
Witness the cardboardy terror of Starship Troopers 3 -
That sound you hear is Robert A. Heinlein spinning in his grave.
Ps. I actually like Firefly.
Remember, one reason given was that the Alliance was keeping the tech level rather low on the outer worlds. As for old firearms, a computer operated, and connected machine shop could copy any firearm in the data base easily, it could be done now. Old weapons would be easy to make, and probably cheaper, plus many have proven reliability.
I believe that you will see firearms used for a long, long time to come, they are just too efficient, and inexpensive to drop. Plus, unlike what one episode showed, you can fire a firearm in a vacuum, and even underwater.
I remember that "Outer Limits" episode, S & W snub nose .38's with tv silencers, and a silver tube above the cylinder. At least they tried, one episode had a dressedup dart gun for a laser pistol. :lol
David.
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