Everyone has a bad day, and so do science-fiction writers. The Telegraph has collected some of the worst bits of the genre on screen, leading off with something that has always troubled me:
1: Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi: “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine…”
No you won’t. You’ll crumble into mouldy old dust in your child-molester robe, and from then on appear only as an ethereal ghostly form whose two functions are to dish out spiritually inane guidance and to hang out with his mates as they pop their clogs one by one - by the end of Episode VI, there are almost enough dead Jedi Masters for a barbershop quartet.
Quite. That line was an early indication of what was to come a few decades later from GL: ideas that seemed like a good idea at the precise moment they occurred to him, strung together rather unconvincingly into a loose narrative set in a universe that made less and less sense.
Don’t even get me started on the similar process by which the Matrix sequels seem to have been made…