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RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:43 pm
by Terminus
All three films are HORRIBLE!!!
Are you going to say that Bullit was good as well?
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:47 pm
by Mike Scholl
ORIGINAL: ezz
Spaceballs
Any movie where people jump from height and go ' WHHHOOOOOAAAAA' [ basically lethal weapon 1-4 ]
I thought SPACEBALLS was a hoot. The "We Brake for Nobody!" bumper sticker alone was worth the admission.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:49 pm
by Terminus
Hysterically funny, along with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.[:D][:D][:D]
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:50 pm
by marcusm
ORIGINAL: Terminus
All three films are HORRIBLE!!!
Are you going to say that Bullit was good as well?
Let's put it this way. There is no way someone like you could appreciate Bullit.
Fair enough? Toilet humour ala Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein seems more like your fare.
Nevermind trying to grasp advanced concepts like 2001
.
Obviously Steve McQueen was a crap actor compared to your hero, Jean Claude Van Damne?
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:27 pm
by Arctic Blast
Wow, maybe I'm just tired, but, seriously, marcus, if your self importance grows much more, you're at serious risk of exploding.
Anyway, back to the point...I had forgotten how truly awful Windtalkers is until somebody put it on during an extended break at work. Actually, Nicholas Cage, period, tends to star in movies that are dreck.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:38 pm
by marcusm
But seriously Arctic. Slamming 2001? Stanley Kubrick? Steve McQueen. How can anyone be taken
seriously after that. This is the result of being grown up with junk culture, I can see no other explanation.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:51 pm
by Arctic Blast
I dunno, I seem to fall in the middle. I like 2001, and I also like Blazing Saddles.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:01 pm
by anarchyintheuk
Except for the fact that it inspired the first scene in History of the World Part I, 2001 belongs in the steaming pile category.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:03 pm
by marcusm
ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
Except for the fact that it inspired the first scene in History of the World Part I, 2001 belongs in the steaming pile category.
Yeah and such unimportant things like HAL
.
Kubrick is one of the greatest director ever, everyone with even the tiniest knowledge of movies knows this. If you don't then you simply haven't focused enough.
2001 is one of the few actual <b>Science</b> Fiction movies made. It has inspired thousands of real actual scientists. How many movies can brag about that?
I Have come to the realisation that this is probably an age thing. Some people are brought up with Star Wars and thought that was Sci Fiction. I read the books instead. 2001 is one of the few movies that pays attention to real physics but still has a compelling visionary story to tell. To understand the impact HAL had one has tobe somewhat older.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:23 pm
by anarchyintheuk
ORIGINAL: marcusm
ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
Except for the fact that it inspired the first scene in History of the World Part I, 2001 belongs in the steaming pile category.
Yeah and such unimportant things like HAL
.
Kubrick is one of the greatest director ever, everyone with even the tiniest knowledge of movies knows this. If you don't then you simply haven't focused enough.
2001 is one of the few actual <b>Science</b> Fiction movies made. It has inspired thousands of real actual scientists. How many movies can brag about that?
I Have come to the realisation that this is probably an age thing. Some people are brought up with Star Wars and thought that was Sci Fiction. I read the books instead. 2001 is one of the few movies that pays attention to real physics but still has a compelling visionary story to tell. To understand the impact HAL had one has tobe somewhat older.
I thought he was a very hit and miss director. I never saw much of his early work, but I loved Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon (I'm not sure why actually), The Shining, Clockwork Orange . . .
Was ok with Dr. Strangelove.
Hated 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut (its only saving grace was full frontal nudity) and Lolita.
Don't know any of his other movies offhand.
My enjoyment of a movie is not directly related to the number of scientists inspired.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:32 pm
by marcusm
Barry Lyndon is a favorite of mine too, it takes up an era almost never shown before on movies.
Good battle scenes too.
It shouldn't be but since it was a Science Fiction movie I felt it had some relevance.
Like I said. Probably an age thing. Most in my generation that I spoken to, love his movies.
AI was his last movie but it was actually finished by Steven Spielberg. It is the only Kubrick
movie I have some issues with. Lolita wasn't my thing either but mostly because the subject matter
is a bit disgusting (I know the book it's based on welll).
Guess there's not much point in mentioning my personal greatest director favorites. De Sica and Fellini.
Italian Neo realism is in my book the best cineastic art there is.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:57 am
by SemperAugustus
How about Force 10 from Navarone? I thought it was terrible.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:43 am
by ilovestrategy
ORIGINAL: SemperAugustus
How about Force 10 from Navarone? I thought it was terrible.
I hated that movie! Just awful!
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:17 am
by Brigz
ORIGINAL: SemperAugustus
How about Force 10 from Navarone? I thought it was terrible.
Good call. A horrible movie.
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:57 am
by cdbeck
It was widely proven by MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) that
Manos: The Hands of Fate was the worst movie ever made. I never saw it, or the MST3K episode, but apparently you lose sanity after seeing it.
I'm a huge fan of of B-grade horror though - which are so "bad" they are "good," particularly Lovecraft based ones.
Such as:
- The Dunwich Horror (Lovecraft based movie starring Quantum Leap/Battlestar Galactica's Dean Stockwell with an Afro).
- Evil Dead Series (admit it, they are so bad, they are good)
- Re-animator (Something about Lovecraft films) - This film has the most twisted scene with a reanimated severed head that you can imagine
- Phantasm - we literally laughed our butts off - a gateway to Jupiter, revived corpses, gravity making them dwarves?
- Dagon - Suprisingly good... Lovecraft with NUDITY!
But to answer the question. The worst movie ever was undoubtably, due to its complete lack of continuity, severe disappointment, and the fact it was "written out" of the series, was
Highlander 2. Wow... it takes a lot to make a sequel be officially IGNORED as part of the canon of a series. Aliens... Spainard/Egyptian/Immortal/Sean Connery... the sun scorching the earth... not much to like here!
SoM
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:54 pm
by SemperAugustus
B movies are a bit too easy to rack down on though, e.g.
MAC and Me - ET clone meets product placement
Pulgasari: The Legendary Monster - North Korean Godzilla clone made by kidnapped South Koreans
Anything with a skull marking in bad movies
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/
Or pretty much any movie with David Carradine in a leading role from 1980s and 1990s
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:21 pm
by HansBolter
Thin Red Line....one of the MOST boring war movies EVER made!
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:49 pm
by mdiehl
MST3K did a very good job identifying stinkers. I can say from viewing that Manos: Hands of Fate is the sort of movie that could lead to insanity if one did not have beer and Mike Nelson to make light of it. It's alot like Plan 9, except, well, alot worse. I once heard it described as a "UCal undergraduate cinematography class project that ran out of money halfway through."
Another stinker that MST3K brought to the surface was "Mitchell" (starring, quite believably, Joe Don Baker).
RE: worst movies ever!
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:39 pm
by Arctic Blast
ORIGINAL: mdiehl
MST3K did a very good job identifying stinkers. I can say from viewing that Manos: Hands of Fate is the sort of movie that could lead to insanity if one did not have beer and Mike Nelson to make light of it. It's alot like Plan 9, except, well, alot worse. I once heard it described as a "UCal undergraduate cinematography class project that ran out of money halfway through."
Another stinker that MST3K brought to the surface was "Mitchell" (starring, quite believably, Joe Don Baker).
Aaaah, Mitchell. I love the ridiculous 'debates' in that movie...the one between Mitchell and some kid on a bike, and the other, between the crime boss and his butler (played by Merlin Olsen, oddly enough) over whether Olsen can cook or not.
Well, last night at work, some 'genius' threw in Bad Boys 2. I knew this movie would be bad...it was worse than expected. Ugh.