Worst Movie ever

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 02:48 AM

Dinner for Schmucks was painful. Dusk 'til Dawn shows just how bad Tarentino can be. How about Van Helsing?

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 02:24 AM

Nah, Con Air was Cages peak. "Give me the bunny!"

Don

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 02:10 AM

I think Raising Arizona was his peak....

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: J-boy
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:41 AM

"Raising Arizona" didn't suck,though.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: J-boy
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:34 AM

He's good in "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Honeymoon in Vegas." Perhaps he should stick to movies with Vegas in the title.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:18 AM

Any movie with Nicholas Cage in it.....he can turn a great movie into a poor one in nothing flat....watched 8mm last night and with anyone else it would have been so much better....

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: J-boy
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 12:31 AM

Guys you haven't suffered until you've seen that Kevin Costner piece of crap "Message in a Bottle." Tami (ranger1) dragged me to that movie only because much of it was shot in her hometown of New Harbor,Me. But it was kind of fun to hear her exclaim "I know the guy who owns that lobsterboat!"

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: DonMeixner
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 01:07 AM

Ah "Dune". That was pretty poor wasn't it. It didn't go bad from the start tho'. I think it went south about half way through when they realized it was a bigger book than the time frame allowed. I like the Redux better when Sci Fi television ran a European version of the book over several days.

Don

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: beeliner
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:52 AM

Gone With the Wind...is supposed to be an all time great mind blowing epic but it left me wondering why I wasted 2 hours (or it seemed like that) sitting through it...

GWTW was a lot longer than two hours - if it seemed like two hours to you you might have enjoyed it more than you are letting on!

Before it was licensed for TV, GWTW used to be re-released to theatres every five years or so and I resisted seeing it for a long time, thinking that it was probably a good film, but it couldn't be THAT good.

Eventually I saw it - it was THAT good plus, and of course I've seen it several times since on TV.

Is ANYONE in GWTW other than Ann Rutherford still living?

My own personal worst - Dune. Excruciating. I have no doubt that it has a loyal circle of fans.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:20 AM

In my youth, I saw a western called "Run Home Slow", which makes me wish with every fiber of my being that I didn't have such a good memory. There are no sympathetic characters. There is nothing to like about it, just grim and gloom.

In college I saw a movie about Edward Munch, two and a half hours about people dying of tuberculosis, in Norwegian. Yunga shunga smunga hunga, coff coff coff! I would have enjoyed missing that one too.

Then there was the French film called "Lancelot" with the knights of the round table in period costumes, and the peasants in modern clothes. Ok, it wasn't a great film. But I had a friend in college who was a confirmed movie talker, and it was the first movie in MONTHS I'd seen without her. I enjoyed it immensely for that reason alone.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:48 PM

Here's a Mel Gibson parody, that pokes fun at his anti-semetism and
Braveheart.

Mel Gibson Parody

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 12:30 PM

2012 wasn't as good as I expected it to be. I think that a great
movie would have to be Gran Torino. I really liked that movie.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: DonMeixner
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 09:13 AM

"Second worst film is "The Great Escape", if only because,at the time of the real-life escape,there were NO AMERICAN prisoners in that particular camp--so just WHO was Steve McQueen supposed to have been, then ?? Eh ?? "

George harsh and Nick Nichols(The inspiration for Steve McQueens character in the film) would argue strongly with you. Nichols and Piglett Lamond actually perpetrated the Mole Escape as shown in the movie and George Harsh was in the X organization as the designer and head of the Ferret warning system.

Harsh had an early number in the escape list until it was discovered he had severe clasutrophobia.

Both men were members of the RAF, Nichols was an American Eagle but both men were decidedly American and both were involved in the escape plan. Whether or not they went up the tunnel is Hollywood selling a film and inconsequential to the actual history and the brilliance of the effort.

You still don't have to like the movie but........

Don

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Ref
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 09:07 PM

I think a bad film should be defined as one that does not live up to its promise. The C and D grade flicks are therefore beyond consideration, like today's "straight-to-video" losers. "2012", for example, is a bad film because of all the pretentious crap about Mayan prophecy and the promise of coherent special effects that didn't come close to panning out.

Let's be honest here. Songcatcher (with a nod to Mr. Don) is an appallingly bad film wrapped around a good soundtrack.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 06:46 PM

Was Tom Hanks playing the Queen?

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 06:00 PM

Just saw the Queen.

pretty bad. But ANY Tom Hanks makes me want to gag.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 04:04 PM

I saw "2001 - A Space Idiocy" twice when it first came out (it was in a theater on a Navy base and only cost me 50cents each time, but it's still a dollar that I'd like back), and I didn't get it. My older brother explained it to me, and I still didn't get it. Years later, a co-worker explained it to me, but I still didn't get it. Then I sat down and watched it on TV - the TCM channel - and, guess what? I still didn't get it. And since they've decided that Jupiter is probably composed of liquid gas, there's a good chance no one will be landing on it anytime soon, so it all seems kind of pointless now. It's on my private list of bad movies, but I'll respect anyone's right to consider it a classic, since so many people do. And don't try to explain it to me. When it comes time to die, I'll probably want that time back.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 04:01 PM

Literalism. A little more of it and there'd have been no Shakespeare.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: bubblyrat
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 02:40 PM

I quite liked "McQ",as I admired Clu Gulager,if only for A) having such a weird name, and B) being totally unintelligible in every word he uttered. I thought perhaps JW's character was called "McHugh ", as in the song (" Follow Me Up To Carlow",so now we ARE a music thread !), and the title "McQ" was just being trendy ??Who knows ??
    Hope I haven't upset anyone re-"The Great Escape"......I know that there were,indeed,American POWs in that camp, but, crucially,they had all been transferred by the time of the "Escape" ( in which Steve McQueen rides a BRITISH motor-cycle, or so I believe !!).

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 01:44 PM

Pretty Woman - more-or-less encouraging such-like to prostitute themselves until they meet a filthy rich capitalist.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 01:39 PM

I'm genuinely looking for a watchable un-cut bootleg DVD
of Val Guest's long lost pile of shite

"Life is a Circus"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051863/


no.. seriously...


I've only ever seen it once on an afternoon broadcast on UK TV
about 30 years ago;
probably the only chance anyone ever had to get a VHS copy..

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Lighter
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 01:37 PM

I haven't in years. It's cheaper and more interesting to take a nap.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 01:18 PM

What is your reason for attending these class c-d movies?

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: ollaimh
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 12:36 PM

well nothing equals"they saved hitler's brain". with a cheesey privatedective style anouncer recordinghis search forhitlers brain.itbwasspiritedaway by nazi's for cloningandlater imlant.

the sets were so bad the camera occasionally verred off set and you could see the gaffers.   really reallyfunny.

the canadian film "revenge of the land" was also a howler. with every cliche about settling thepraries. the evil gran company, the evil railroads ,the plucky little farm boy and a child almost dying atthe climax so they are all forced to work together.again so bad it was funny.

i also hate those action films thathave the overpowering soundtracks so you know when to be excited, and nothingbutaction action action. dark knight--battman, awfull. inception--so predictable and "oh now we are goingdeeper thatanyman has gonebefore intothedream state" we never saw that comming. and the over powering music.

but nothing compRES TO THEY SAVED HITLERS BRAIN

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 11:14 PM

I walked out on Amadeus. If Salieri was still alive, I would help him file a lawsuit for libel. This is fiction carried too far.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 07:47 PM

2012. I saw some of it, and will finish it soon. I like the part with
Charlie Frost.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Hovering Bob
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 04:23 PM

I agree about 'Alice' a missed opportunity.
As for worst ever movies, either 'Matrix.' All that money on effects, shame they couldn't spare the price of a cup of coffee on a script writer!
BobH

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,Allan C
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 03:45 PM

"re Billy Elliot - can't seem to decide whether it's supposed to be set in the 1970s or 1980s"

Set in the mid 80s during the miner's strike. The big brother is a big Marc Bolan fan hence the T.Rex 1970s sound track

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,AndyC
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 03:34 PM

This might be a controversial choice, but my most hated film is 'Billy Elliott'. Maybe not the worst ever but surely the most over-rated - poor acting, can't seem to decide whether it's supposed to be set in the 1970s or 1980s, and a ham-fisted and simplistic portrayal of English working people as a group of knuckle-draggers who are unable to appreciate any form of culture or want the best for their children.

I know from a newspaper article a few years ago that at least one well-known reviewer agrees with me.

Watch Brassed Off, the Full Monty or Kes instead...

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Lighter
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 02:41 PM

If you can stand to watch it all for any reason at all, it isn't the worst movie ever.

That's just common sense.

Go here for the "Bottom 100" as voted on by thousands of online critics:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

Glad to see that my three picks are conspicuous.

Note: no GWTW!

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 09:56 AM

Old dubbed Godzilla films but worth seeing for the comic value. The plot and storylines are hilarious and the effects so basic (men dressed in rubber monster suits). The one I got for my kids way back had Godzilla saving Tokyo from total destruction by some monsters from another planet. At the finish Godzilla wins and he heads back to Monster Island with a final wave before he goes. Can't remember what it was called though.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,CW
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 08:23 AM

Marley and Me
The Break Up

... but my worst ever ...

The Happening

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Stu
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 06:29 AM

I saw 2012 the other night.

Complete.Utter.Crap. x100

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 06:04 AM

On the other hand, you can play "spot the boxer shorts under the kilt" in Braveheart.

Historical accuracy more often than not goes out of the window. The classic case is "Cromwell", starring Richard Harris as the Protector, who came out with a string of quotations most of which were said by other people than Cromwell, and at least one was said by someone on the other side.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,Allan C
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 05:31 AM

"As a Scot, I'd have to say that, apart from most Hollywood remakes of European films, the worst film I've ever seen was "Braveheart""

Aye some of it is naff to say the least. I know folk moan about the historical inaccuracies with the likes of the blue face and the liason with the Princess but those don't bother me at all. The basis of the story is Blind Harry's poem or rather Hamilton's later version of Harry's poem - and the blue face is present in the poem as is the liason though it is with the English Queen rather than a Princess. Folk moan about the anti-Englishness though to be fair to the novel and film that aspect is actually toned down. A big gripe is often the Brigadoon tartan aspects of it. That part of the army raised by Wallace was raised in and largely operated in the southern and central Lowlands and the army would probably have not looked much different from any army raised in England so the Highlandism of the film really skews the picture. Though I suspect a modern audience in the large North American market would expect to see tartan on Scots so the film makers would give them what they expect.

One bit that irritates me is the pan-Celticism of it. In the film when the Irish army in the service of the English actually come face to face with Wallace's Scottish army - they throw down their weapons and they all hug each other in Celtic brotherhood - whilst Edward I whispers "bloody Irish" as an aside. In the poem though when Wallace catches up with the army of mixed Irish and Scottish Highlanders in the service of the English the outcome is rather different. As they are seen as kin the Highlanders are spared on condition that they join Wallace's army. On the other hand the Irish are massacred to the last man as they are seen as foreign invaders.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 02:27 AM

Oh come on, everyone knows the answer to this. Only one film has ever won two golden turkey awards. Ed Wood's "Plan 9" aka "Graverobbers from Outer Space".

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,andrew
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 11:23 PM

Just about all movies made in the last few years!
Latest Startrek,Get Smart,James Bond etc.
You have to have the sound turned right up to hear the words,that's if they're worth hearing!
The camera jumps all over the place so you can't really see what's happening.
Much too much action, and not enough story. People shouting at each other. Smart arse characters.
It's all meaningless to me.
There are some good TV shows.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 09:55 PM

"Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren - PM
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 10:17 AM

I totally agree with you about Gone With the Wind. It is supposed to be an all time great mind blowing epic but it left me wondering why I wasted 2 hours (or it seemed like that) sitting through it just to hear Clark Gable say 'Frankly I don't give a damn.' Left me thinking huh? is that it?"

I don't know you, Guest/Patsy Warren, but it strikes me that you have never seen Gone with the Wind.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 09:47 PM

Firemaidens from Outerspace Staring Zsa Zsa gabor and Eric Fleming I think. The Killer Shrews with Ken Curtis (Festus Hagen) The Massacre at Marble City (the musical theme after the massacre was The Party's Over)The Beginning of The End with Peter Graves, all bad but good bad Saturday afternoon instead of mowing the lawn bad.

Don

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 08:49 PM

None of you has even seen "Bugs" or "The Night of the Lepus" I take it.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 08:25 PM

You guys haven't seen enough movies.

The title of "Worst Movie Ever" is a dead, dead heat among scores, maybe hundreds, of films.

Try, for example, "The Wild World of Bat Woman" (1966). Or "Fire Maidens from Outer Space" (1956). If war films are your cup of woe, go for "The Starfighters" (1964) starring future Republican Congressman Robert Dornan.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 07:51 PM

Crow sister,

Am I to take then that the United States efforts in WWII were cowardly and stupid?

Don

Songcatcher: Not much of a movie wrapped around some fabulous music.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Ref
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 07:41 PM

Too late!

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Ref
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 07:41 PM

Can we keep the thread here if I join Spaw in nominating "Songcatcher?"

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 07:21 PM

As a Scot, I'd have to say that, apart from most Hollywood remakes of European films, the worst film I've ever seen was "Braveheart".

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 05:20 PM

If you were a young girl of 12, watching GWTW for the first time, on a big screen in downtown Denver, with your big brother lending his shoulder for all of the tears, and you had an ounce of idealism/romanticism in you, it was the most stupendous movie of all time. Of course, I've grown up, but I still love it. And, just to get Rhett's last line correct, it is "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

I agree with Spaw re' Songcatcher. I'd also add True Grit, the worst western ever, imo. I can't stand any of the John Wayne movies anymore; he seems like a caricature.

As to The Great Escape...join netflix and catch a video of Eddie Izzard commenting on the Americans being in it, etc. Hilarious and spot on! I can't remember which one, but I think it was the one he did in NYC and I think it was called Circle.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: PHJim
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 04:51 PM

How about VIXEN.

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 04:43 PM

Are they all watching Twilight?

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 04:02 PM

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: radriano - PM
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 03:51 PM
What has this got to do with music?
Please move this to the non-music section.


Don't panic! Moderators will be here by sunrise!

Subject: RE: Worst Movie ever
From: Skivee
Date: 20 Jul 10 - 03:56 PM

Bert, that was the movie.