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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:51 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Phoenix: As for Napoleon Dynamite, you really almost have to have lived in a town like that...

I've lived in Dacono, Colorado. You want to talk about a place where nothing happens? Town didn't even have its own school. The largest business was a gas station. It sucked there. Such a concept is not an entertaining one, and not everything is funny just because it's some sort of ironic rip on reality.
Look, the voices used in this film caused me physical pain, which was compounded by the hideous boredom. I would have walked out after twenty minutes if I hadn't been on a date with someone who didn't want to leave. Had I known how torturous it would become, I would have left anyway, and just sat in the lobby. I hate this movie. Its appeal will forever baffle me.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:39 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

I'm not sure why I did this, call it "work avoidance," but here are clips from most of the nominees... yes, it was painful to find them, you all have great taste in bad movies.

Howard the Duck

The Henderson Monster - sorry, it's so bad there's no clip

Xanadu

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

Battlefield Earth

Napoleon Dynamite

Ishtar

Natural Born Killers

Speed 2

Twilight

Requiem for a Dream

Galaxy of the Dinosaurs

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:25 AM

BYTEMITE

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You want to talk about a place where nothing happens? Town didn't even have its own school. The largest business was a gas station. It sucked there.

Back when I lived in Twin Falls Idaho, "downtown" was a cluster of business buildings about a block long.

We did have schools though.

Huh. Well, I don't know then. I always thought it was funny because it spoke to my life experience, the utter boredom of a rural town and always trying to find something to do.

Maybe it's because your town was even more extreme, maybe it hit too close to home? Like maybe you have friends or family who still live there, and you feel sorry for them. I could imagine that being painful. Napoleon Dynamite does riff on some kinda depressing themes, like people being stuck in a nowheresville with little chance of going to college or personal advancement, and they have this ridiculous popularity hierarchy at school when it doesn't matter at all.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:35 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Xanadu was horrific. Highlander 2 (or "The Film That Shall Not be Named") I prefer to forget ever happened or to merely think of as a bad dream brought about by a dinner of bad shellfish.

Have to say "Howard the Duck" was the worst film I have ever seen. Not one redeeming quality to that waste of film.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:56 AM

STORYMARK

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Highlander 2 (or "The Film That Shall Not be Named") I prefer to forget ever happened or to merely think of as a bad dream brought about by a dinner of bad shellfish.

At least it was well shot. Highlander 5 (The Source) makes 2 look like a masterpiece. Man, that POS is terrible.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:22 AM

ZEEK

I'm going to go with Episode I. That movie was just full of terrible moments. The only redeeming quality of the whole film is the lightsaber dueling which was really the best of all the star wars movies. Everything else was awful.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:59 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Maybe it's because your town was even more extreme, maybe it hit too close to home? Like maybe you have friends or family who still live there, and you feel sorry for them.

No, it's not the old family homestead or something. I just don't think something that sucks that hard is movie fodder. Reflecting and exaggerating the dullness of life to the point where actors don't change facial expressions and speak in grating monotone? Not entertaining.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:20 AM

STORYMARK

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Originally posted by Zeek:
I'm going to go with Episode I. That movie was just full of terrible moments. The only redeeming quality of the whole film is the lightsaber dueling which was really the best of all the star wars movies. Everything else was awful.

Ill agree wholeheartedly that it was the wrost of the series. Maybe even from an emotional standpoint, I could agree its the biggest filmgoing dissapointment ive had. But objectively, I still find it a better constructed film overall than dreck like Transformers 2 (I skipped 3) or more recently, Green Lantern.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:27 AM

BYTEMITE

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Reflecting and exaggerating the dullness of life to the point where actors don't change facial expressions and speak in grating monotone? Not entertaining.

Ah. See, that's part of what I thought was good about it. They took that theme of dull small-town-ness and applied it to everything. I felt it was artistic and fitting, and it was so exaggerated it added an element of the ridiculous and surreal to everything about the movie.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:37 AM

BYTEMITE

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Ill agree wholeheartedly that it was the wrost of the series. Maybe even from an emotional standpoint, I could agree its the biggest filmgoing dissapointment ive had. But objectively, I still find it a better constructed film overall than dreck like Transformers 2 (I skipped 3) or more recently, Green Lantern.

Ignore Jar Jar, the pod races, and the accidental space station destruction thing in Episode one, and it's watchable.

There's probably an edit out there somewhere that tones down the problem parts, and I bet that'd be pretty good.

The kid playing Anakin did a decent job all considering (better than Hayden anyway I think), but I also think it couldn't have hurt to get an older actor to play the same part all three movies. And it would have been fun to see an older Anakin intentionally sneak out on a fighter and take out the space station, instead of the comedy sequence we got for that. But that's somewhat more difficult to just edit in.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:38 AM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Ill agree wholeheartedly that it was the wrost of the series. Maybe even from an emotional standpoint, I could agree its the biggest filmgoing dissapointment ive had. But objectively, I still find it a better constructed film overall than dreck like Transformers 2 (I skipped 3) or more recently, Green Lantern.

I skipped both Transformers 2 and 3. So, I can't comment on those. Transformers 1 was bad enough, but still not to the level of Episode I. As for Green Lantern I didn't think it was nearly as bad as the reviewers claim. It was a standard super hero movie.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:44 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
As for Green Lantern I didn't think it was nearly as bad as the reviewers claim. It was a standard super hero movie.

I agree. Trite script, pretty clean direction, good standard FX. I had fun with it.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:58 AM

TATERTOT

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
No, it's not the old family homestead or something. I just don't think something that sucks that hard is movie fodder. Reflecting and exaggerating the dullness of life to the point where actors don't change facial expressions and speak in grating monotone? Not entertaining.

Rose did you know that there is going to be an animated Napoleon Dynamite show on fox? :P

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:23 PM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

The Lost Tribe is the worst. www.imdb.com/title/tt0811124/

It is because of Firefly that this is my worst movie. The Lost Tribe is a remake of Jewel Staite's The Forgotten Ones www.imdb.com/title/tt1308169/

The producer of both these movies, Mohit Ramchandani www.imdb.com/name/nm1186058/ was so proud of his concept of shipwreck survivors running from man-eating troglodytes that he made the movie twice.

What was Ramchandani thinking? No one knows, but he did complain when Jewel Staite wouldn't break her contract with Stargate Atlantis and return to work for him at reduced salary on movie version 2.0. So he showed Jewel who was boss and recast her part. Ramchandani was rumored to have announced his executive decision: “Jewel, now everyone is fired except for the guys in the monkey costumes!” (He was referring to the stuntmen.)

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:34 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Ah. See, that's part of what I thought was good about it.

Yes, I did understand that. I was stating why I disagree. Making a deliberately sucky movie about something that sucks isn't clever, and it isn't funny. For example, a film that tried to make a point about social isolation by having all the dialogue in it be, "Uuhhhhhhhhh... uhhhhh... uhhhhhh." would not be entertaining on any level. There are better ways to do that sort of thing than deliberate suck-ness.

I stand by my stance that Napolean Dynamite is the worst film I've ever seen. My second vote would probably go to Jonah Hex (which I did walk out of, having learned my lesson.)

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:39 PM

BYTEMITE

Well, I dunno, there's these whole tropes about Kafka Comedy and Stylistic Suck, and works made using one or both can be pretty entertaining. But it depends on the person. Someone else might find such a movie offensive, depressing, or annoying.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:37 PM

DREAMTROVE

Okay. Questions:

Was that Bond girl Tanya Roberts riding an actual zebra?

Xanadu looks so cheesy it almost makes me want to see it. Almost. What's holding me back is the previewer is clearly avoiding showing me any of the actual film. Still, it can't possibly be as atrocious as "Fame."

Oh, the Henderson monster isn't entertainly bad, it's just really truly unbearably boring. Take the seventies contemplative nothingness movie and square it. Another good example is "Q: The Winged Serpent" but Q is actually mildly entertaining because there is an actual dragon, and the characters have a whimpering pansyfest argument about whether or not to fight it as it eats the characters. Alas, it's the 70s, and the monster is both cheesy and pricy, and so gets mercifully little screentime.

I used to read Howard the Duck comics as a kid. Of course, like everything, the movie was a disappointment. I have yet to see the bound-to-disappoint tintin, which I was fonder of as a kid. Still, howard is decent cheesy 80s fare. Which reminds me, did I mention in the B-movies thread, one I adore: Earth Girls are Easy.

I've actually seen all of these except Xanadu, Twilight and Galaxy of the Dinsosaurs.

Speaking of which: Among "Movies that don't live up to their titles," the troma team, in particular "nymphoid barbarian in dinosaur hell" and "teenage catgirls in heat." Even "cannibal amazons in the avacado jungle of death," which does much better, I don't think the amazons themselves are ever actually cannibals.

Twilight actually looks halfway decent, if mockable. it's got a cool theme. Speaking of mocking, have y'all seen the Taylor Swift NSL skit "Firelight" ? I was unable to get it but I got this nifty STOP SOPA effect
http://www.snotr.com/video/3316/SNL_Digital_Short_-_Firelight
It wasn't here either
http://vodpod.com/watch/2545043-firelight-with-taylor-swift-on-snl

Anyway, I can see that Galaxy of the Dinosaurs would be worse in a different way, but of the ones I've seen in these videos, I think the worst was Speed 2 by a healthy margin.

Oh, I also haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite. Looks worse. Has the look of a story of a kid who is picked on as written by the person picking on him.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:21 PM

BYTEMITE

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Oh, I also haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite. Looks worse. Has the look of a story of a kid who is picked on as written by the person picking on him.

No, I wouldn't say that. The movie is pretty fair in distributing the amount of fail. Yeah, there's bullies, but they come off as mostly pathetic. Napoleon himself is merely a dork, and actually wins out over the bullies in the end. I guess it's more Kafka-lite than a straight Kafka comedy, it's got a surprisingly optimistic steak in it despite the setting and the themes.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:00 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

The thing about Napoleon Dynamite was that it made no sense. Dead end charactors in a dead end town and then he dances at the end. I think my dislike of it was heightened by the fact that it was so popular. If it hadn't been then I still would have thought it was lame, just not as lame.

So there were Howard the Duck comics? Bizarre. DT a chara, I bet you haven't seen Afghan Knights, if you do you will no doubt add it to your worst movie list. Of course my hatred of it was partly because of the summary sounding all good and Genghisful and then the movie sucked and they didn't time travel and I was pissed off.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:17 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Well, I dunno, there's these whole tropes about Kafka Comedy and Stylistic Suck, and works made using one or both can be pretty entertaining.

Yeah, I frequent tvtropes, too. Stylistic Suck is a trope applied specifically to shows within a show, often for the purpose of making sure the main event doesn't look worse when compared to what its characters are watching. A good example (though I know you didn't personally watch Angel) would be the sitcom Cordelia was shown acting on during one arc of Angel, which featured ludicrous plots and poorly written dialogue. It was vaguely amusing in context, but not anything I would want to watch a full episode of. As shows within shows, Stylistic Suck is often done in very small doses, and so it rarely reaches the point of eye-gouging-ness, because it's just briefly played for laughs. If Napolean Dynamite had shown semi-interesting characters in a boring small town sitting around and watching the teeth-grinding dullness of the actual film and saying something like, "Wow, is that how we seem to people?" that could have been funny Stylistic Suck.
Kafka Komedy is about everything going terribly wrong, not everything being terribly dull. I don't tend to find Kafka Komedy all that funny, because I get tired of things going wrong and characters being villainized for no good reason, but it can least be dynamic and entertaining. This trope does not apply to Napolean Dynamite because things don't go horribly wrong due to the good intentions of the characters. In fact, there's not a whole lot of things going horribly wrong because not a lot happens in general.
You might be thinking of "So Bad, It's Good," but my impression of that is of things that are so hammily overacted they become hilarious, or special effects so fake-looking they're funny, or plots so ludicrous they're laughable. I rarely find such things entertaining, personally, but sometimes the over-the-top nature of someone's Ham And Cheese will amuse me. Also, "So Bad, It's Good" seems to be categorized as an entirely unintentional trope, much like Narm.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:06 AM

BYTEMITE

Hmm, I guess I thought stylistic suck was more just doing intentionally something bad for the laughs, not that it absolutely had to be a show within a show. But I guess the tvtropes page does say otherwise.

Kafka Comedy was the closest approximation I could find to the fail, but maybe what I'm really looking for is The Comically Serious, or So Unfunny It's Funny.

Anyway, who knows. It's one of those movies that appeals to some people but not others. I still postulate that that growing up in Backwardsville USA has a large impact on whether someone will like it or not.Also possibility familiarity with Mormon culture, which contributes to backwardness.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:02 AM

WISHIMAY

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:

At least it was well shot. Highlander 5 (The Source) makes 2 look like a masterpiece. Man, that POS is terrible.

#1-So YOU were the other person that rented that. Hubbs loves Highlander and I wouldn't let him waste his time watching that.

#2 for me was Borat. Gross.

#3 I'm not going to try to convince anyone else of how bad I thought it was, because I know some people liked it, but The Tale of Desperaux. It made me want to commit suicide. IT is the movie that shall not be named in this house. Condescending narration, depressing, painfully slow- I have never before went to a kid's movie looking for a nice time and came away worse than I went in. Sometimes I see a figurine or a book of the movie at a flea market, and it damn near sends me into epileptic fits...

Just one of those things that struck a bad personal chord with us...

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:49 AM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I saw Highlander the Source on TV when it premiered on syfy, because I really enjoy Highlander stuff so I was excited, quite disappointing. Never saw Despero, it looked vaguely cute in the previews but my little brother doesn't really like movies that much, getting him to sit through one is a challenge, so there are lots of kids movies that you'd think I would have seen because of his presence in my life but I haven't.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:45 AM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
#1-So YOU were the other person that rented that. Hubbs loves Highlander and I wouldn't let him waste his time watching that.

LOL. Yeah, except I didn't rent it.... I friggin bought it.

Knowing how bad it was.

Sometimes, it sucks to be a completionist.

Baaaaaah.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:29 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Okay, so my dad saved Galexy of the Dinosaurs for me to watch this weekend. And I loved watching it, so I can't call it the worst movie I've ever seen because it was way too much fun. I love movies that look like someone made them in their back yard. And the Planet of the Apes reference made me happy and it was funny.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 23, 2012 5:26 AM

GORRAMGROUPIE

Meet the Hollowheads. It was so bad I've blocked it from my memories. I won't even look for a trailer or clip, if you have that much time and curiosity, go ahead. But don't say I didn't warn you.

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
Police Squad

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Monday, January 23, 2012 5:41 AM

BYTEMITE

Wait, wait. I know which is the worst movie I've ever seen. "Uncle Eddie's Island Adventure."

Don't look it up. Just don't. On a scale from -5 to +5, where the higher it goes it's entertaining for the right reasons, and the lower it goes it's entertaining for the wrong reasons, that one is a perfect zero of not entertaining at all.

I read badfic for fun. I've seen The Star Wars Holiday Special and thought it was weird and awkward but watchable. But I couldn't take more than ten minutes of this made for TV garbage fest.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:56 AM

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same

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Originally posted by piratenews:

Wholely SHIT Batman, THAT must be where they got the idea for John Carter's costume! (& yes, I did throw up in my mouth a little bit, again)

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

YTonTw1tt3r

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Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:28 PM

OONJERAH

Mostly when I see an awful movie, I quickly forget it.
Problem there is I may try to watch it again in a couple of years.

I cannot recall the worst movie I've ever seen.

Flesh Gordon, 1974
Alien Resurrection, 1997

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Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:56 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Hands-down, No-contest.

Cloverfield
Seriously, watching a bunch of vapid, shallow, clueless little cretins whom I thorougly despised from the moment of their introduction run around like headless chickens for some contrived reason in a city being supposedly wrecked by an unseen monster who at no time ever seems to present a credible threat to anyone with half a lick of sense... and being forced to watch this abominable offense against nature via some halfassed shaky-cam supposed to imitate the effects of a cheap handheld and failing badly ?

It was an endless, bottomless abyss of suck so vile it drained the life from the whole monster movie genre for ages to come, and made the slimy drivel which pours sideways from the corroded mush between Uwe Bolls ears look like masterpiece theatre by comparison.

-Frem

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Saturday, December 8, 2012 9:03 PM

JO753

rezident owtsidr

I coudnt make it past 15 minits for napolean dynamite.

A few more seriously louzy moviez: Johny Mnemonic, Saturn 3, Hardware, The Generals Daughter, Top Gun.

I haven't seen most uv the epic flops, such az Ishtar and Heaven's Gate.

My personal choice for wrst ever iz Akira. Its like sum idiot trust fund punk met sumbody who wuz developing a new animation teknique, got excited about it and sed 'just start making kool scenes! we'll figure out a story az we go along!" so it dragz along for about 9 hourz. They get to a point where they cant even finish a sentence! I sat thru the whole thing just to feel like I beat it insted uv it wearing me down. Even so, I coudnt help contemplate my limited lifespan and wut percentage wuz just stolen frum me.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 12:53 AM

OONJERAH

The General's Daughter, 1999, truly sucked so bad, I'd blotted it out
of my mind.

There Will Be Blood, 2007, won 2 Oscars! It's good if you enjoy greedy,
hateful characters and being depressed. I just want my 3 hours back.

Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings, 1978, was an insult:
production values? No, there are none. Too lame to be called a disgrace.

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A man's gotta know his limitations. ~Dirty Harry

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 5:43 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

There's a lot that can go into making a really bad movie.

Ridiculous plot, bad acting, pathetic writing, cheesy sets and wardrobe... so it's tough to sort out from all the suckiness in movies I've seen to find which is the WORST.

I mean, some movies TRY to be bad, to inflate their camp value, so I hesitate to add those to the list of other movies which were being SERIOUS in their effort.

Clearly , Howard the Duck is horrific.

Halloween 3, made NO sense, what so ever. 'Michael' played no part in it, as I recall, and the story was about some evil scientist ?

Strange Brew - Now, I LOVED the McKenzie brothers, Bob and Doug, but man... what a horrific movie. And even as bad as it was, there were moments which were kinda funny. Well, funnier to the younger version of myself than they are today.

OK, I'm stuck in the 80's. I'm gonna need to think about this and get back to the thread.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 12:37 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings, 1978, was an insult:
production values? No, there are none. Too lame to be called a disgrace.

True that - but it did have one redeeming quality.
An exquisite soundtrack that due to licensing issues has been nigh unto impossible to find - and get this, for reasons inexplicable to me at one time they cranked out a cleaned up Blu-Ray version of it, which I got from the bargain bin of a third line reseller for about six bucks, JUST so I could cadge a high quality version of the soundtrack.
Cause, well, ain't this one of the coolest songs EVER ?

Mehehehe.

-Frem

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 2:05 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Quote:
Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Cause, well, ain't this one of the coolest songs EVER ?

The song's okay, but that's from the Rankin/Bass TV movie version of "Return of the King," not Bakshi's theatrical Lord of the Rings.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:17 PM

FREMDFIRMA

*doublechecks*
DERP! - yer right, got em confused cause they're right next to each other on the shelf, meh.
Which means Bakshi's product does in fact, have no redeeming qualities at all.

-F

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 8:14 PM

OONJERAH

Quote:
Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
*doublechecks*
DERP! - yer right, got em confused cause they're right next to each other on the shelf, meh.
Which means Bakshi's product does in fact, have no redeeming qualities at all.

-F

It has one: Job security for anyone willing to look for/watch
Even Worser Movies!

Myself am too blithered to recall possible nominees.

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Monday, December 10, 2012 2:46 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Generally not a fan of Rankin Bass animation. But Bakshi's version of LOTR... man, that was a weird combo of animation and real life overlayed w/ more animation. I guess it worked, here and there, but over all... bleh.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, December 10, 2012 11:50 AM

JONGSSTRAW

I agree with Chrisisall that 'Zardoz' is a masterpeice. It just needs a couple of viewings to be fully appreciated. Charlotte Rampling was so damn intense in it that most else doesn't really matter anyhow.

I usually like even bad movies the second time I see them. I've recently seen on HBO 'Another Earth', 'In Time', and 'Cowboys and Aliens'. Couldn't stand any of them at first, but have since found them to be not bad in their own ways. Next time they're on I'll probably love 'em.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:05 PM

OONJERAH

Quest for Fire. 1982
For about 5 years after I saw it, "Quest for Fire" was the movie I
loved to hate. Urbanites would often gush, "O! It was so great! So
authentic!" Maybe that was the thing I hated about it. My subtitle
for it was, "The Three Stooges Looking for a Zippo."

Now I read that it was a comedy, intended as a comedy! That's prolly
true, and so, it becomes a comedy I love to hate.
.......

I didn't see the following but stole them from YouTube, "The 50
Worst Movies Ever Made."

Firebird, 2015 A.D., 1981
Galaxy of Terror, 1981
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, 1983
Troll, 1986
Leonard Part 6, 1987

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A man's gotta know his limitations. ~Dirty Harry

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:17 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
Battlefield Earth

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

^THIS. With Speed 2 a close second. What other Highlander movies? Never heard of them. ;)

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:49 PM

HKCAVALIER

Battlefield Earth is unique in my experience in that it goes from being just plain bad, to so bad it's freakin' hilarious, all the way back to so bad I want to forget. The movie's like huffing glue. Although, the spectacle of John Travolta doing what he obviously thinks is staggeringly awesome acting never gets old.

He's out Nick Caging Nick Cage!

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Friday, December 21, 2012 3:20 PM

JO753

rezident owtsidr

Everything by M Nite Shamyalamam after 6th Sense.

The alien invader thing especially!

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:38 PM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Troll 2.

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:21 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

For me it's the remake of: Drum roll please........................

Miracle on 34th Street (1994) what drek!!!!!!

From my past:

The Passenger (with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, 1975). I fell asleep during the first half of this movie and left before it finished. I never thought of asking for a refund. It was supposed to be like Last Tango in Paris, but it was unwatchable. No chemistry between the 2 lead actors and the pacing was non-existent. Nicholson must have lost a bet.

SGG

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Sunday, December 23, 2012 9:42 AM

JO753

rezident owtsidr

S. Darko

A perfect example uv an exploitation movie. 'Donnie Darko iz popular, so lets cash in on the name!'

They attempt to fool the audience that its inspired, deep and thought provoking like Donnie Darko with disjointed scenes and odd acting, but anybody with more than haf a brain will realize that its just turdz uv pointless nonsense floating in a lame attempt to imitate the atmosfere uv Donnie Darko.

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Monday, April 29, 2013 2:07 PM

POUNDPUPPY29

Yeah but she is our witch cocks gun points it at him so cut her the hell down

South Park the movie but I don't watch the show so that's why I hated the movie my ex picked it he thought it was funny but I wanted to walk out of the theater

My Favorite SciFi/Fantasy T.V. Shows, Movies & Franchises & My Fav Ships & My Fav Characters, My Sports Teams & My Favorite Sitcom

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:14 PM

TRAVELER

So I'm the only one who has ever seen "Zeta One". The rest of you can count yourselves blessed to never have witnessed this pile of dodo.

If there is a god then this film would never have been made.

http://www.imdb.com/list/1pzry-tpdaI/

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