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MarchBadness

March Badness returns! Sort of! Two years ago, I set out to determine once and for all what was THE WORST SCI-FI FILM OF ALL TIME. It was a dangerous task that nearly left me a gibbering vegetable, but dammit -- someone had to take the chance so that others might be spared!

Rather than simply pick and choose and argue over which film sucked more, I pulled together a list of "worthy" contenders and forced them to compete against one another in a single elimination March Madness-style bracket, with the "winners" chosen by vote.

The contest ran from March to May of 2005 with pool of voters that included friends, geeks, scientists, cartoonists, fanboys, and utter strangers who had read about it online and wanted to participate. Recently I got a couple of requests to repost the results -- including my running commentary on each head-to-head fight and the PDF of the bracket -- so here once again is MARCH BAAAAAAAAAAAAADNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

You've been warned.

The Hunt for THE Worst Sci-Fi Movie of All Time

1. Introduction 
2. Round 0: The Wildcard games
3. The Bracket: in Flash
                        in boring old print
4. Handicapping the matchups

5.  Round 1
6.  Round 2 
7.  Round 3 Preview 
8.  Round 3: The Suck 16!
9.  Round 4: The Awful 8! 
10. Round 5: The Fatal 4 + THE FINALS
 
11. PDF of the brackets leading into the Fatal 4

 

Comments

[Joseph H.]

Looks like it was a dirty job that someone had to do.  Thanks.  Hope you recovered ok from the brain damage.  ;)

[Geology Byotch]

hey, I liked event horizon! what was that idiotic movie with angela bassett where they had sex in zero gravity? oh yeah--supernova! omygod, what the hell was she thinking? what was james spader thinking?

[defelton]

Whoah, you're giving me flashbacks to when VHS was new and my hippy aunt rented ZARDOZ and she, my sister, and I watched it at my grandparent's in Durham one Christmas.  I'm sure she was on drugs the first time she saw it, and I hope she had gone outside and smoked a big fatty before that viewing.  I was about 12 and mainly remember being rather 'uncomfortable' during the scene where Connery's character is having his physiological responses tested.  That is one baaaad movie.  March Badness is freaking hilarious.  Nice work. Good to see you out the other night. Cheers.