Hmmm...Carlman and I obviously have different tastes. I thought Dark City, the Crow, and Alien (1 and 2) were some of the best sci-fi movies made.
Well, don't get me started on Dark City. I HATE this movie - yelling at the screen, throwing-the-remote, frothing-at-the-mouth HATE it.
Of course, the reason that it is so horrible is that is was so close to being great - following in the Blade Runner tradition (probably my favorite sci-fi movie), and they set it up reasonably well. But then they insisted on ruining it with idiotic, moronic, stupid choices and decisions. Absolutely unforgivable. Awww, geez, I'm getting angry just thinking about it. arrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh.