Science fiction vehicles in films

[Pedronicus]

I was watching a bit of Timecop last night and was bowled over by the awful cars they had made for the film. (they had obviously spent f*ck all on the script, so I was expecting some of the left over budget to be spent on the look of the film)

by way of a reminder what it looked like, feast your eyes upon this pile of steaming shite;


It would appear that in the future, aerodynamics have been superseded by gluing old cereal boxes to a box, and looking out the window is an overrated way of passing the time during a journey.

Another film that made a right dogs dinner of the vehicles was "Total Recall" ($100 million budget roughly)


which other howlers have I missed out?

Also - post pictures of the good ones

[The Krel]

Naming any movie with good vehicles is the real test. And you're right in that big budgets don't equate to good design.

Ignoring those films that made no effort at all, like: Robocop, Terminator 2, Battle for the planet of the Apes and Mad Max.

Even those movies that tried to be imaginative, were blinking awful, like: Bladerunner, Pitch Black, Damnation Alley and The Fifth Element.

Indeed, you get all the way up to contemporary stuff like Minority Report and I Robot before anyone really puts some effort into vehicle design.

Personally, I think much more imagination was applied to vehicles used for TV. There's a whole raft of cool vehicles to be found in the various Gerry Anderson shows. So at least I can reccomend one movie as having some excellent vehicles - Doppleganger. (or Journey to the far side of the Sun - for those with no imagination!)

There is however one exception - but I don't know if this counts.

For the coolest of the cool, I say go see - TRON.

[InkL0sed]

[maasman]

I think the car will smith drove in I robot was pretty decent.

[anonymus]

actually i hope you mean this in a good way phone-booth is the way to travel in the future/past/present for sure! (any selfrespecting timelord knows this)

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[shieldgenerator7]

the vehicles in Star Trek were pretty decent, especially the magnetic wheeled bike Kirk rode. The enterprise looke sweet and the romulan ship menacing. Plus the Jellyfish was cool, although I don't know why it needed to have a spinning portion.

[anonymus]

ok,, RED DWARF 'nuff said, best vehicles EVER!

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[AAFitz]

not entirely sure this qualifies as sci fi, but the merc that Tommy drove in men in black certainly does