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Subject: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:04 AM Do you have the nerve, the grit, the courage, the sheer stamina...to watch this unbelievable film from beginning to end? Few do. Are you among the chosen few who can last till the final reel? Will you be able to process, comprehend, take in fully what you have seen? Do NOT open the link below unless you are prepared to *"go the distance"! (* Sylvester Stallone quote) Like Rocky, you must take all this incredible movie can throw at you and still remain standing until the final bell! No wimps please! Roll it! The Beast of Yucca Flats - worst movie ever made? Judge for yourself! Do not be misled by the opening scene of the girl who has just taken a shower...it has little or nothing to do with the rest of the film and makes no sense in terms of either plot or timing. Why did they put it in? Who knows? They must have thought it was brilliant, I suppose...and she does have a sort of interesting face. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,number 6 Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:08 AM Good Gawd !! thanks for sharing this gem L.H. .... :-0 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Bill D Date: 20 Jan 11 - 12:38 PM http://www.badmovies.org/movies/yuccaflats/ Google informs us that the rabbit "just wandered in" at the end, and the "beast" improvised that scene. Terrible...but worst? Naawwwww.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Jan 11 - 01:22 PM I think it may really be the worst movie ever, Bill. That's saying a lot, going out on a limb here...but I think it just might be. Most of the user reviews on IMDB.COM give it one star. But there's one review that raves about it. As follows: This film is one of the most complex films in the history of cinema. There are many subtle yet overflowing layers to this film inter-weaved articulately yet not interfering with one another, only bolstering around the present story of a man changed and monster-like. There is a tip of the iceberg on social commentary to this film, the man in the helicopter shooting the other man tells us the danger of technology, how it dehumanizes situations without feeling, only augmented in the fact that the shooter was in the armed forces, just a slave to orders, the machine-like orders of life. And very deep philosophical elements to humanity such as the continuous mention of the word "progress" especially on the boys who enjoy life and aren't caught up in the world of working. As well current events to the film of the Cold War situation at its hottest point in '61 with the Cuban missile crisis which Coleman would later flesh out even further in Red Zone Cuba and the spiraling dangers of the heating conflict matched to the dangerous escaping spree of the convicts (but that's another analysis for the other film), "flag on the moon" and the peering question of how it appeared, only through progress and conflict could it happen. The scene with the man succumbing and a rabbit appearing has multiple dimensions to it. The only non-human thing doesn't fear the "monster" which was created by humans themselves and feared by them, only acceptable by nature, animals just see another creature in our world of life. And how technology continues to do more harm than good on humanity overriding the one factor that makes humans, humans, they are able to feel not only learn like cold-calculating machines. There's countless Freudian elements like the mother's hopeless search for her sons and Platoic and Lockian ones too on the message of the capitalistic government of ours run by as shown sheriffs brought up as the holders of it though their war and transformed home version of the sheriff upholding their view with force oblivious to the darker aspects of their sociology. A cinematic masterpiece. Hmmm! Food for thought there, eh? ;-) Either we have a reviewer with incredible powers of insight writing the above...or it's a fine piece of tongue-in-cheek satire. But the possibility exists that "The Beast of Yucca Flats" is actually an artistic masterpiece subtly masquerading as a hopeless pile of valueless dreck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST, topsie Date: 20 Jan 11 - 01:29 PM As for sitting through to the end of the film ... I didn't even make it through to the end of that review. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Bill D Date: 20 Jan 11 - 01:41 PM "I think it may really be the worst movie ever, Bill. That's saying a lot, going out on a limb here...but I think it just might be." Scholars |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: olddude Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:17 PM Wow, that is destined to be a classic, I couldn't get through 5 minutes, kinda like the "English Patient" LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:20 PM I watched about 15 minutes and may finish off later. This may be a true classic in the so bad it's good category! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,kendall Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:48 PM Almost as bad as the Man from Planet X |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,number 6 Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:51 PM I agree GUEST,Jon .... this truly could be a classic. Certainly better than Avatar and all it's cheezy new millennium effects. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Donuel Date: 20 Jan 11 - 04:36 PM Milieu Buick Buick Europe sounds of me throwing up |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 20 Jan 11 - 04:53 PM Hmm... I sat through Star wars Attack Of the Clones the other night. It bored me to tears and the only thing it did stir was a strong desire to puke at the romance between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can you sit through this one? From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 20 Jan 11 - 04:54 PM A Clockwork Orange got 4 Oscar nominations and won many other awards. Worst damn movie that I ever paid to see but I sat through it! Sorry LH but never will I subject myself to such torture again! :-} PS. I wasn't very impressed with Planet Of The Apes either,but keep that to yourself because Chongo may feel offended! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: gnu Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:57 PM A Clockwork Orange... thanks for reminding me! Unreal shite. As for the OP, I realized after I heard the first 15 seconds of the music score that I could not go on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Jan 11 - 07:00 PM Yes, the music is formidable in "The Beast of Yucca Flats", and so is the narration. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:22 AM Unfortunately I wasn't able to take a look at the link but as films go the reasons mostly for me not being able to sit through something has to be the duration anything that lasts over 2 hours without a decent plot or script will not hold me there. Reservoir dogs gave me feeling for walking out and throwing up while watching the scene when the screaming young cop's ear is being sliced off and doused with petrol. I had to get out and head for the ladies room ruining the whole thing for me. The film itself is alright and I still attempt to watch 'that' scene when it comes on but it still makes me feel that way. Tried looking away, it didn't work either I could still hear the screams. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:13 PM There isn't anything even resembling a decent plot or script in "The Beast of Yucca Flats", Patsy. You have to go into a sort of Zen-like state to get through it from beginning to end. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:33 PM I'll have to watch this gem later, Little Hawk, but I wonder, if it is as bad as you say, does Florence Foster Jenkins contribute to the sound track? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: SINSULL Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:48 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst Even Wikipedia hated it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: JHW Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:50 PM No |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,999 Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:55 PM I figured if any people anywhere would understand the art in this film it would be Mudcatters. Geeze, I give up. Next we`ll be hearing that Plan 9 From Outer Space (which won the prestigious Golden Turkey Award) was a poor movie. Fie on all of you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Jan 11 - 08:01 PM The odd thing is that "Howard the Duck" appears on Wickipedia's list of the worst films ever. I find that sad, because I loved "Howard the Duck". I loved it so much that I went back to see it AGAIN at the local theatre for a second time during its very brief showing in Orillia. Only I and two other people were in the theatre. The local yahoos didn't get it. Neither did millions of other yahoos. I would go to see it again anytime. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: BrooklynJay Date: 21 Jan 11 - 08:45 PM Little Hawk, I have just recovered from a serious fit of laughing my ass off! (I'll reattach it later.) I NEVER in a zillion years thought that you - or anyone else, for that matter - would have the cojones to try and persuade anyone to sit through that "film." Especially after what I wrote in that other thread! As far as being in a "Zen-like state," well, all I can say is that thar ain't enuf alcohol or drugs in the free world that could ever make that opus into anything other than what it truly is - 54 minutes of compost! If there ever was a film that should have been shot on nitrate stock, this was definitely it! Nitrate burns so well, or will decompose into a wonderful toxic jelly - which, come to think of it, sounds like a great plot for another bad Grade-Z Sci-Fi flick. I am literally sore from laughing so much. But I still can't watch that movie a second time! Jay |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:06 AM I was hoping you'd open this thread... ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Will Fly Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:51 AM Excellent! Very educational - and I'm being serious. It's actually interesting to see this kind of thing and see how they put it together, probably on a budget of -$3. For example, clips initially shot without sound, and then all sound added later. (I'm also speculating that the opening shot has just a hint of necrophilia, but perhaps that's just my warped and twisted mind...) And the wuvvly wikkle wabbit at the end - perfect. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:17 PM Yes, it could hardly have worked out better if they'd planned it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:38 PM OK, so I had some zillion-megabyte files to copy onto a stick drive, takes forever, bored just sitting here, what's happening over at the Cat, hmmm lousy film, ought to be good fer a laff... But I went back to watching little file icons fly through the air. Far more interesting. (Surely the girl-in-the-shower scene is a nod to Psycho ?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:46 PM Yeah, it's a nod to Psycho fer sure. So how long did ya last before ya bailed out, Bonnie? I sat through the whole damn thing once...but it was to win a bet, see?...and I had a bottle of whisky to kill at the time which kinda helped for gettin' through the slow spots, meanin' the last 50 or so minutes of the film. - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:47 PM SRS, don't you dare diss FF Jenkins! (I am her equal in the shower). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:49 PM Hey, no fair, whisky's cheating! I wussed out after only about 6 minutes... felt like 6 hours... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:10 PM I knew a gal once who made noises just like Florence Foster Jenkins. But not while she was onstage, y' see...she only performed in private. Yeah, that movie does seem to take forever, don't it? The whisky helped, but it still seemed like days had gone by before it was done. I am glad they didn't have the fat guy bite the little rabbit's head off at the end, cos that would've been in bad taste. Pretty dynamite finish, wasn't it? I felt off kilter for about a week afterward, sorta like the aftereffects of receivin' a slight concussion. - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Charmion Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:27 PM Can you sit through this one? No. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Amos Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:29 PM I could not either. It is a crime to foist such a piece of work on an unwitting audience! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Jan 11 - 04:25 PM I can rarely bring myself to sit through an entire movie, even a good one. Almost all of them are too long. One thing I enjoy about DVD's is that I can take a break between sessions or fast-forward through the chase scenes to the happy ending. I'm basically all about happy endings. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Jan 11 - 07:14 PM How can you properly appreciate the happy ending if you don't know what preceded it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 24 Jan 11 - 04:20 AM So how does it end? I lost the will to live and bailed out after the girl in the car gets it. Quite an accomplishment to be strangled to death by a stranger from behind and remain expressionless. A happy ending to a murderfest, hmmm... wait, let me guess... all the victims come back as zombies wearing X-Files T-shirts and form a conga line while they sing Good Morning Starshine and dance across the screen and off into the sunset... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: SINSULL Date: 24 Jan 11 - 09:15 AM I will watch the MST version and let you know. ust sat through The Crawling Eye, another senseless turkey not to miss. Can anyone explain to me why the eye kept sending people to kill the girl psychic? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM "How can you properly appreciate the happy ending if you don't know what preceded it?" That's a fair question, Little Hawk. The answer is that I usually skip from a point 83% through the movie to 96% through the movie. That's when they wreck the most cars, blow up the most trucks, etc. I don't need to watch all that. (Did I mention that my husband is a great fan of Jackie Chan?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Movies: Can you sit through this one? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:28 AM You gotta watch "Cobra" with Slyvester Stallion, leeneeia. It is exackly like you say about the, like, point from 83% to 96% of the way throigh....MAJOR flippin' bloodshed and werekige in that part, eh? Holy flip! That is my kinda movie. But the thing is, there is MAJOR flippin' mayhem through mosta the rest of the film too, eh? Never a flippin' dull moment. I tried countin' the people that got flippin' wasted by Stallonge but I lost flippin' count after about 50... |
