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What is the worst film you've ever seen?
on the other hand - i jsut saw movie Donnie Darko... has anyone seen it?
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One of the worst movies I've seen (and no one I've ever mentioned this to agrees with me) was 'Rushmore.' Ugh ugh ugh.
Chalk me up as one more disagreement. Cult classic for a reason... it's hilarious, though certainly not for everyone.
'A Knight's Tale' comes in at a close second.
This is the one I've resigned myself to being an outcast with... Most everyone I speak to hated it, but I laughed long and hard when I saw this one in the theaters.
New addition to the list for me:
Death To Smoochy.
Rented it last night, and it joined the very short list of movies I couldn't even watch all the way through.
I *love* both Robin Williams and Ed Norton, but I don't know what Danny DeVito was thinking with this one.
>>...bad predictable formula plot (5mins into it, you knew the whole story),...
Gotta Agree,
The most overhyped movie ever made - ever!
5 mins into the book you DO NOT know the whole plot.
Yes the scenery is good, yes visually and costume wise it is very good but what about the story? characters? script? All extremely poor. Didnt even stay true to the book!
Citizen Kane - What a pile of &^$*, possible the most over rated film ever - I almost fell asleep watcing this.
Most "action" films with glover or Bruce Willis or Stallone or Schewernegger whatever his name is - pointless
Dead Poets society - left wing liberal claptrap
90% of those that win an Academy Award for Best Picture or nominated. - You are almost assured that you will fall asleep
Some movies however are so bad they are good.. and sometimes made to be:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
(Something?) from Outer Space
Any Star Trek Movie (I never ever "got it")
Reefer Madness and any number of the marijuana/lsd scare films of the 1950s
Add me to your list. In my mind it was almost as unwatchable as The Matrix.
But then I find myself in a very small minority of people who thing The Matrix is one of the most stupid movies ever made. I mean, come on guys: computers so stupid that they need to use humans a batteries. Who wrote that script? Bill Gates?
Most "action" films with glover or Bruce Willis or Stallone or Schewernegger whatever his name is - pointless
For the most part I share your sentiments with the Stallone, Van Damme, Steven Segal, and Swarzenegger testosterone fests but...
As for Glover and Willis, I must disagree. They've both been in their share of horrible films, but they both have a number of outstanding ones to their credit as well...
Bruce Willis:
Pulp Fiction
12 Monkeys
Four Rooms
The Player
Danny Glover:
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Color Purple
Witness
(Something?) from Outer Space
That would be... Plan 9 From Outer Space. Brought to you by the infamous Ed Wood. ;)
90% of those that win an Academy Award for Best Picture or nominated. - You are almost assured that you will fall asleep
My short list of Best Picture winners that, whether you like 'em or not, could hardly put anyone to sleep:
Braveheart
The Silence of the Lambs
Gladiator
Godfather
Godfather II
Platoon
American Beauty
The Bridge On The River Kwai
The Sting
The Deer Hunter
Rocky
Patton
Midnight Cowboy
And of course, while it didn't win Best Picture... it did walk with 6 other Oscars:
Star Wars :)
As far as your best films that also won academy awards, I see your point. Some good ones do slip through all the political correct voting system that generally results in mediocre middle-of-the-road stuff. I also notice that these are generally older films, before the whole voting system became so much of a hollywood insider popularity contest. There have been some great hollywood movies for sure, but they are very overrated compared to the European offerings that are often ignored and generally have much more depth.
Disclaimer: All people should ignore my preferences. I havent had time to watch movies for about 10 years, and those i see are usually on an airplane...
Thanks for reminding about that wonderful Plan 9 movie. Now if you could only identify those ones i couldnt remember on the "Best" thread. Ive noted down your ist post.. you sound like you have the same sort of preferences as me, and if i ever get to watch movies without a meal tray in front of me with tinny headphones on a bumpy plane, I will remember them!
Funny you mentioned Star Wars. Nobody else belives me except my partner at the time, but that really did physically put me to sleep! Had been working very hard for that week and as soon as i saw that plush seat I just went all drowsy after 10 mins and woke up 10 minutes before the end, looking at people who were laughing and pointing at me...
I rather liked Gladiator, too, and Independence Day was fairly watchable if you turned your brain off. Thanks for the warning on Ghosts of Mars, I was thinking about renting it...
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Well I guess I did'nt understand the books then, only read LOTR twice. :P
The film failed hopelessy to capture the essence of the books which is why I found it such a dissapointment.
Just cos the characters and scenery match the book pretty well doesnt mean anything unless the story and script AND directing are of the same qaulity.
Going way back to Dune - that movie was relatively faithful to the book, which probably made it incomprehensible to the average guy who stumbled into the theater...
I've loved those books for a long time and they were the first books that got me really excited about reading. I remember looking at them and saying "phew- they're really big!". A couple of weeks later I had finished them after abandoning my social life completely.
The films, on the other hand, were just a waste of time. All the characters and locations were there but there was none of the atmosphere and excitement which made the books so special. Thats not a problem for me, I didn't ever think the films could live up to the books anyway, so I really am not that bothered about that so much. But I do think that the attempt to convey the wonder of the book on film should have been half decent- it wasn't. It was boring with a capital B and I really wish they hadn't bothered. Just because you can wow people with special effects doesn't mean that its a good movie.
my sentiments exactly! I was actually glad when I heard the were cutting the scene with Tom B!
I dragged my wife along expecting an engrossing adventure - like the book. Instead all I got was a special effects extravanza and a poor script.
A more recent dog of a movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau. Just awful; made no sense at all. The one thing that makes it interesting, however, is the truly bizarre performance by Marlon Brando, which is worth the cost of a rental.
Then there are the movies that are so bad they fun to watch -- well, at least watch once. Has anybody seen Nice Girls Don't Explode? How about Assault of the Killer Bimbos? The latter is notable for having one of the longest "deaths" of any movie I've seen. Like a monster in a horror movie (or the dog in The Omen) who just doesn't die no matter how many bullets are pumped into it, a normal human goes through this for at least 10 minutes. There's also Amazon Women on the Moon, which is a spoof of these sorts of bad movies with lots of unrelated skits, from those wonderful folks who brought you Kentucky Fried Movie, that yet ends up being terrible itself.
Well, thanks for helping me waste some time this morning!
Example:
"What's this? Is this a shifting car? Do I have to shift gears? My car is a Luxury car: Cadillac Eldorado, that's my car. It shifts itself, it shifts itself. Luxury car, do you understand? I don't have to shift it. LUXURY CAR!"
Every scene in the film is like that, where the main character goes off on some wierd self-indulgent tirade. It's amusing if you watch movies while consuming cheap beer. It's Ed Wood-esque in its execution, except the scenes are consistent with regards to time continuance (no day/night/day in the same scene).
The worst film I have EVER seen has to be Life Flight. There's 5 storys about people who have accidents from various activities, and then the principal characters end up doing something that "The Good Lord" doesn't want them to, and end up in the Hospital. There is an interesting Altman/Tarantino type plot twist that is executed horribly, making you groan. (Life Flight was made in 1987.)
Example:
[Hot rodders in the shop working on a hot rod]
"I think I'm going to go all out and advance the cam 14 degrees."
"Isn't going past 9 asking for trouble?"
"Only if you're scared"
"The Good Lord doesn't want you to go past 9 degrees adv-."
"The Good Lord isn't racing tomorrow. I am."
[they go to stock footage of a hot rod blowing up at the drag strip, and the driver getting life flighted to the hospital.]
Sad part is, i made my girlfriend rent it cuz it had ice-t in it, and i liked most other movies ice-t was in.
this one was stinkaroo, tho.
ET (horrible movie)
Contact (Boring)
2010 (Silly)
Spiderman (Really boring)
Godfather III (I and II were the best, III was stupid)
Richard Lowe
Some would call this blasphemy, but I hated Titanic.
One detail that bothers me the most: The Dime that Kate Winslet gives DiCaprio is a Roosevelt Dime. Roosevelt wouldn't have even been president for another 20 years when Titanic went down, much less have his head on currency.
the matrix
not so much because it sucked (it may not have without kanotact reeves) but because the concept had everything it needed to truly be an epic film, they could have made it amazing, instead they made it crap. kinda like windows.
ill think of more later im sure
Fear and loatheing in Las Veagas (saw 30 mins in the service and left it sucked)
Tremors
Arnold movies
Van damme movies
Stalone moves
Best in show
Any movie where by in the first 10 minutes the movie can be over with the use of a shotgun. Mainly horror movies.
Fear and loatheing in Las Veagas (saw 30 mins in the service and left it sucked)
bah, Fear and Loathing is one of those big idea stories. Hunter S was rather brilliantly portrayed by johnny depp (who does rather well in messed up roles, anyone see dead man?) - all in all it's a disturbing movie, but necessary.. much like a clockwork orange.
but again, much like a clockwork orange, many people dismiss out of hand as self indulgent and pointless (or perhaps that if it had a point, it shouldn't need to be made with images of violence or depravity... but that's the filmmakers choice.)
anyway, that was remarkably off topic.
suckiest movie ever: Urban Legends II the final cut.
it was actually filmed at my university while I went there, my old residence room is in it... but that doesn't stop it from being one of the biggest piles of cinematic crap to ever pass by my eyes.
"We made an exact replica of this computer, but we have no way of finding the backdoor. Help us Neo-One Kenobi, you're our only hope."
I refuse to watch the sequels when they come out.
Another Stinker: The Fast and The Furious. The only cool part of that movie was the special effects during the first race. Apart from that, there's no reason to watch.
The sequels are not really sequels but 2nd and 3rd installments. Like star wars or Lord of the Rings (only a lot better than LOTR :P)
But hands down, the worst movies that I've ever seen were Seven and Legends Of The Fall.
However, the movie I would least like to see again is............ Gone with the Wind.
I cannot believe people actually like that movie, it is a long tedious love story which is interrupted by the Civil War. Man I hate that flick, I would rather shave my head with a cheese grater while chewing on tinfoil than watch that thing again.
