the worst movie you've ever seen

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RIONAEIRE

Monday, January 16, 2012 10:22 PM

Not as in the movie you love to hate, but the actual worst movie ever. I have two.

Howard the Duck: Jennifer made me watch this with her when we were in high school, she loved it when she was little so she wanted to show it to me, it was purely awful/stupid, made no sense etc. I don't know how they got Lea Thompson to be in it.

Afghan Knights: This movie had an amazing summary about soldiers going back in time and fighting against Genghis Khan but in reality it was about some soldiers who got stuck in a cave with these ghosts that come from these arrows and possess people's bodies and then eat them, only vaguely mentioning Genghis Khan and incredibly disjointed. I was so pissed off after watching it, and soooooo disappointed because the summary had been so promising, time travel and Genghis Khan in the same sentence and all. I wanted to smack someone.

Anyone else?

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

DREAMTROVE

Monday, January 16, 2012 10:29 PM

The Henderson Monster.

I was maybe 10, and it was the first thing I was allowed to stay up late to watch. Some lab assistant pours a failed experiment down the drain, and we watch it gurgle down and flow away, and then the movie is spent looking for it, covering up that it had happened and people arguing politics about responsibility, etc. There was no monster. I kept waiting for the monster, but it didn't happen. It's just the idea that there could have been a monster that had everyone panicking, which is what the movie was about. But if you want people to think about that in reality, you have to give them a monster in the movie. Otherwise they'll just be annoyed, and three hours later they're like "what was that?"

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.

OPPYH

Monday, January 16, 2012 10:45 PM

Tough question. I really enjoy low budget horror sci-fi, and fantasy films that are just plain bad. So a film like Troll 2 is perfectly OK with me. Movies from Ed Wood, amd Jim Wyrnoski are among my favorite cheese.

Big Hollywood movies are a different story altogether.
My worst film:
-Xanadu

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ECGORDON

Monday, January 16, 2012 11:34 PM

There are so many stinkers out there, but for now I'll go with:

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (1984), starring Tanya Roberts and Ted Wass, whose most memorable line in the movie is spoken to Sheena. "I love you so much it busts my heart." Wass is best known for comedy, but his attempt to deliver that line seriously is hysterical.

PENGUIN

Monday, January 16, 2012 11:37 PM

Battlefield Earth

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

RIONAEIRE

Monday, January 16, 2012 11:50 PM

I've always wanted to see Sheena, I should see if we can get it on Netflix.

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

YT

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:09 AM

I've given up on lots of movies (usually @my, or someone else's, home), but I can't rank those (eg can't say Harry Potter II was worse than I, as I gave up half-way through, once I realized that, notwithstanding better reviews, I still couldn't care less about any of the characters). Rarely do I give up on a movie au cinema (after all, I paid for it, & it's distracting to other patrons, who also paid for it); I sat through all of Phantom Menace, which has to challenge for the title of second worst movie I've ever seen

The worst, by a clear margin, is My Dinner with Andre . I actually walked out a few minutes before the end credits rolled (after sitting through an hour & 3/4 in which nobody had said anything memorable, or done anything @all), but don't feel I missed a thing, as I was able to tell my girlfriend (who stayed) how it ended:

Select to view spoiler:

with a pull-back camera move showing the restaurant had closed while they were talking

(concealed out of an overabundance of concern that some wanker might complain I spoiled for them the worst movie I'd ever seen [which came out almost a third of a century ago {but they still hadn't managed to get to ('though they were looking forward to it)}]. Well Guess What: SPOILING it, to the point where you'd avoid it, would be DOING YOU A FAVOUR! [Not to mention that the so predictable ending is entirely beside the point of the movie {I guess}])

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

YTonTw1tt3r

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
Battlefield Earth

I think I'd have to go with this.
American Hot Wax was almost as bad.

The laughing Chrisisall

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:59 AM

"Gee your hair smells terrific." I was very fond of Sheena.

Troll 2? Really? Okay, I can see that. Like Frogtown.

I enjoyed Battlefield earth as well, in the same sort of line.

I thought we were going for so bad its bad here.

Oh, I also kinda like Howard the Duck. In fact, this is the direction I like movies. Movies I can't stand tend to be mainstream hollywood movies. I guess my main question is does anything happen that is interesting, or potentially interest, or is anything set up that might happen that is potentially interesting, the idea content of the film. Ofter hollywood creates films that are an idea void. Usually those films star people as cops and lawyers and/or follow a path watching the degeneration of the life of some pathetic shmuck in a secular city-based reality.

Ooh! This reminds me: About Schmidt! And also Sideways! Those were two of the worst movies I have ever encountered. That said, I think About Schmidt is worse, maybe.

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.

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:04 AM

How you can like Howard the Duck is beyond me. But I actually liked About Schmidt, so you're probably thinking the same thing about my taste that I said about yours in regard to Howard. I didn't see Sideways.

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

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:05 AM

Napoleon Dynamite. What felt like an eternity of nothing happening, while everyone maintained the exact same facial expression and delivered the lifeless dialogue in monotone, making it dull on multiple levels. I badly wanted to walk out, and I wish I had.
My soul cried a little every time I saw a ing 'vote for pedro' shirt. There's no way that scrap of dull nothing deserved to launch memes.

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.

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:09 AM

Yeah Napoleon Dynamite was awful, I can't for the life of me figure out why it was so popular, its sucked, nothing happened. The only mildly humorous aspect of it was that it reminded me of someone I know so that was worth a smile, but other than that it totally sucked brick and now there's a show about it, go figure.

ETA: I love Highlander 1 3 and 4, there can be only one! But Highlander 2 and Highlander the Source were awful, especially The Source, it had no redeeming qualities aside from that it had Duncan in it.

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

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:28 AM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
The only mildly humorous aspect of it was that it reminded me of someone I know so that was worth a smile

See, and I've heard at least half a dozen people say that they really "related" to the movie because it reminded them, not just of someone, but of themselves. I find that totally unbelievable, because no single one of those people was nearly that irritating, awkward, or head-desk worthy. If that movie was nearly as "relatable" as has been claimed, the pain to my central nervous system upon interaction with the population would overwhelm me and I would go into a vegetative state to escape the lifeless, banal, monotone complaints and rampant stupidity. (And this is coming from someone who really doesn't like the general public, because I've worked with them. The general public often sucks, but they aren't that bad.)

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.

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:33 AM

Napoleon himself is a lot like my stepdad's son. I don't know why people related to the film personally in large numbers, that is interesting. I only know the one person who the film reminds me of and it certainly doesn't remind me of myself.

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

KWICKO

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:07 AM

Ishtar. Actually, it's the worst movie I've NEVER seen. I've actually TRIED to watch this one, three different times. I'm out within the first 20 minutes, because the film is so horrifically bad that it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up in embarrassment. I'm embarrassed for the actors, AND I'm embarrassed by the possibility that somebody might actually catch me trying to watch "Ishtar". I can't do it. Cannot pull it off.

Compared to this turd, Howard the Duck is an epic masterpiece, Xanadu a classic.

There are bad movies I kind of love. Showgirls is high on this pantheon, Waterworld not far behind ( I call it "Fishtar", but that's not fair, because I've actually been able to finish Waterworld! )

Sheena wasn't the worst thing ever. What was that Tawny Kitaen one after Bachelor Party? The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak? Never could get through that one, either. But at least Tawny was naked in a lot of it, so that automatically makes it ten million times better than Ishtar.

Loved About Schmidt and Sideways; can't wait for The Descendants to come to DVD. Love Napoleon Dynamite, too. Very different, very offbeat, and very "clean".

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:20 AM

Okay, I totally love Waterworld, it is one of my favorites, not even in a love-to-hate kind of way, in an honest "I adore this movie" way.

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

ISROUSRO

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:26 AM

Natural Born Killers.
I just pushed all the wrong buttons fir me.

passoniatetly indifferent

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Ishtar. Actually, it's the worst movie I've NEVER seen. I've actually TRIED to watch this one, three different times. I'm out within the first 20 minutes

Yeah, bad means NO interest whatsoever.
I hate Highlander 2, yet I actually sat through 2 different versions, so I can't say it's the worst ever.
I made it through Ishtar, but never again.
I *kinda* made it through Battlefield Earth, but only a generous amount of Romulan Ale made it possible. So actually, I really didn't see the whole thing. That's for the better IMO.

And I walked out of American Hot Wax 1/2 hour into it.
I made it through Forbidden Zone

in 1980 mainly because peeps in the local theatre were tokin' heavily, and a solid contact high confused me.

The laughing Chrisisall

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:28 AM

I nomiate ZARDOZ for your Consideration.

Idiocracy in the 1970s. But it did have boobies, something every movie should have.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
I nomiate ZARDOZ for your Consideration.

Frack you John, man, that was classic 70's head-trip groovy!!! Drop a lude, do some buds & lighten up on Lucy in the Sky-inspired masterpieces, DUDE!!!

The laughing Chrisisall

YT

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
I nomiate ZARDOZ for your Consideration.
Frack you John, man, that was classic 70's head-trip groovy!!! Drop a lude, do some buds & lighten up on Lucy in the Sky-inspired masterpieces, DUDE!!!

Roger that, Chris. I mean, the '70s were the bad-taste (drug-addled, now you mention it) decade; standards were different (ie a lot lower) then. As it is spoken in "a Child's Garden of Grass",

Quote:
There's a spot, inside your head, that tells you when something is good. And grass . . . exPANDS this spot

Although I also have to "Admit it...", just as PirateNews's poster proclaims

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

YTonTw1tt3r

MUTT999

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:19 AM

Speed 2

GWEK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:01 PM

Twilight.

I've seen probably 1000+ movies in the theater in my lifetime, and Twilight is the only one I've walked out on.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
Twilight.

I've seen probably 1000+ movies in the theater in my lifetime, and Twilight is the only one I've walked out on.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

Never saw that, because it was the worst book I ever attempted to read. Well, one of them. Didn't figure the film could be much better.

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.

LWAVES

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:39 PM

Twilight - Was kind of curious just to see what the fuss was about. I didn't pay to see it so that's some consolation. Even Dakota Fanning (an actress I admire) couldn't get me to watch the sequels.

Napolean Dynamite - A mate persuaded me to watch this saying he'd heard how great it was. He loved it, I didn't. I still say he owes me my two hours back.

Transformers 2 - I can't work out why I ever decided to watch this. I must have been doped up. I thought the first only had mildly entertaining value.

I could list Highlander 2 and Indy 4 but both of those have a couple of slightly redeeming features that keep them out of the dregs.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

GWEK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 5:00 PM

To the folk who are dissing Napoleon Dynamite: Consider giving it a second chance. I'm not saying that it's great (it's definitely not), but the pacing and tone is so... unusual... that I think it takes at least a second viewing to appreciate it. First time I saw it, I hated it, then through the years I saw various scenes from time to time when it was on cable or whatever. I eventually gave it a second chance, and while I didn't love it, I could appreciate some of the offbeat humor a little more.

First time, though: train wreck.

On the Transformers movies: I have the same feeling when I watch any of them. Trying to hold on to the plot is like trying to grab a giant fistful of sand. With the first two in particular, I found that I was literally forgetting what was going on as I was watching the movie. Still, some of the scenery is pretty. To paraphrase an insightful critic from a few years back: Michael Bay doesn't direct movies. Michael Bay directs MOMENTS.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:31 PM

Worst film I've ever seen is Requiem for a Dream.

It's not a bad film in the conventional sense and y'know in parts it has good music, camera work, and even a story in there...
However it's so melodramatic and simplistic it's like a soap opera on red bull!
It's frikkin ridiculous!
A more redundant and asinine piece of codswallop I have yet to see.
At least some bad films are bad to the point of enjoyment, Requiem for a Dream is just bollocks!

Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

PENGUIN

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:56 PM

I had forgotten about the other Highlander movies because THEY DON'T EXIST.

There can be only one...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

OPPYH

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:

Never saw that, because it was the worst book I ever attempted to read. Well, one of them. Didn't figure the film could be much better.

I read someplace that the author Stephanie Meyer was a true Buffy fan, and no doubt got a lot of her inspiration from the series.
Which makes it doubly bad that she is now a gajillionare because she is from a literary standpoint a no-talent hack.

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STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:59 PM

What kind of scale are we talking about? Ive seen some truely awful low budget stuff as festivals - but I have trouble holding them to the same standard as a huge multi-mega-millions flick like the Transformers garbage that is so very popular.

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

STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RionaEire:
Okay, I totally love Waterworld, it is one of my favorites, not even in a love-to-hate kind of way, in an honest "I adore this movie" way.

That's one of those flicks where the reality doesn't fit with the common narrative. People claim it was a massive flop that no one liked - and neither is true. It did make money, it got decent reviews, and many people enjoyed it.

But it's an easy punching bag, so it's often a go-to pick for people who can't think of anything else.

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

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by OPPYH:
I read someplace that the author Stephanie Meyer was a true Buffy fan, and no doubt got a lot of her inspiration from the series

I remember thinking that the plot sounded a lot like Buffy. I read some of it and thought it seemed a bit like Buffy without a scrap of girl power in it, and that it was terribly written. I've had a couple people accuse me of just disliking that it "stole" things from Buffy, but the fact is that I just don't like it. I think it's bad and I don't understand the success and fanatics it seems to enjoy. There are a lot of things like that, though, unfortunately.

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
To the folk who are dissing Napoleon Dynamite: Consider giving it a second chance.

Well, let me think abou... No.

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I'm not saying that it's great (it's definitely not), but the pacing and tone is so... unusual...

Sometimes unusual means interesting, or that something has some depth to it, but in this case unusual just means dead dull. I get what you're trying to say, but... No. Like you, I've run across scenes on cable, and they invariably make me want to gouge my eyes out. It's bad. It's grating. And it's already time that I can't ever get back, so there is no way it gets more time from me.

I actually haven't seen most of the other films listed. I must be doing something right in my movie selection most of the time.

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.

STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:34 PM

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I read someplace that the author Stephanie Meyer was a true Buffy fan, and no doubt got a lot of her inspiration from the series

I think this may be misremembered, as she's gone on record saying she wrote the books without seeing/reading any other vampire stories.

From an interview with her posted on Amazon.com:

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"Q: Were you a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What are you watching now that those shows are off the air?

A: I have never seen an entire episode of Buffy or Angel. While I was writing Twilight, I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She's a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did."

Her sister was a fan, not her.

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

PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
Twilight.

I've seen probably 1000+ movies in the theater in my lifetime, and Twilight is the only one I've walked out on.

Dang it Gwek! Now you've made me curious...

I'd like to suggest a secondary B Thread:
"Movies you've had on your DVR the longest that you've never been able to finish."

The Postman - I think it's been on there for over a year and I'm only a little over half way.

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

GWEK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:59 PM

Satisfy your curiosity if you must. At least you'll be doing it on DVD or cable rather than paying full theatrical price.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:50 PM

I thought Twilight was crap, but I can't really believe anyone who has been watching movies their whole life could really find it the worst ever. Simply on a technical level, it is a very polished film, and better made than a lot of what is released. The only way to say its the worst ever is if someone has an axe to grind.

Or, to put it another way - if it hadn't been so popular, I doubt anyone would hate it so passionately. But that's not about the quality of the film, and more a reaction to the fanbase - which is how the above claim reads to me.

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

OPPYH

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:

I think this may be misremembered, as she's gone on record saying she wrote the books without seeing/reading any other vampire stories.

Woops, your right. I was thinking of Charaline Harris author of the True Blood books.

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RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:29 AM

Yeah Speed 2 was lame, I had a hard time following it, but it wasn't my worst and I can't really add it to my worst list.

I actually liked Indi 4, to me aliens seemed like a natural next step after immortal knights and the Holy Grail. It wasn't as good as one and three, but I thought it was better than two.

The worst movie I never finished was Epic Movie, we actually walked out of the theater and asked for our money back, I've never had to do that before.

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

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:45 AM

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Howard the Duck: Jennifer made me watch this with her when we were in high school, she loved it when she was little so she wanted to show it to me, it was purely awful/stupid, made no sense etc. I don't know how they got Lea Thompson to be in it.

Ha! You're sure she's your friend? That one's kinda infamous. Not to mention what parent in their right mind would let a little kid watch that one?

Hmm, I generally don't go to see the really bad movies. Titanic and Pearl Harbor were really annoying. I saw Snakes on a Plane, kind of enjoyed it, but it wasn't as much as the snark-fest as I was hoping. I'm sure I've seen some completely insipid movies, I think I've even walked out of a movie for being brainless and boring, but I don't remember which.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:50 AM

Phoenix: As for Napoleon Dynamite, you really almost have to have lived in a town like that to really get the feel of that movie and understand why it was made. The humour is SUPPOSED to be completely dry, just as how nothing happens in the town. It's very subtle.

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MUTT999:
Speed 2

lol

Forgot about that one.

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.

GWEK

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
I thought Twilight was crap, but I can't really believe anyone who has been watching movies their whole life could really find it the worst ever. Simply on a technical level, it is a very polished film, and better made than a lot of what is released. The only way to say its the worst ever is if someone has an axe to grind.

Or, to put it another way - if it hadn't been so popular, I doubt anyone would hate it so passionately. But that's not about the quality of the film, and more a reaction to the fanbase - which is how the above claim reads to me.

Thank you for deigning to explain my opinion to me, Storymark.

Please believe me when I say that my opinion has nothing to do with the fanbase or popularity of TWILIGHT. It has to do with the fact that I found it so boring that I left the theater. You may feel it was a polished movie. I did not. I felt the acting was terrible, the script was weak, the set design, and even costuming was bad. I was so bored by the movie that I got so far as to examine the make-up and hair and found THAT wanting. From my point of view, there was no aspect of the movie that was not lacking.

Does that make it the worse movie ever made? No, certainly not. But I will say it was the "worse movie I've ever seen," and stand by that opinion because I judge movies on a sliding scale. As I said, I've seen probably a thousand movies in the theater--and 5-10 times that at home. If I rent a made-for-TV or direct-to-DVD flick, my expectations are lower, and I judge it for what it is.

If, however, a movie is good enough to be one of the relative handful to make it to the big screen? That kicks up my standards. Yes, Twilight is, empirically, a better movie than, say, Pinata: Survival Island (in which an evil, posessed pinata hunts and kills frat boys and sorority chicks). But based on relative budgets, expectations, etc, those thousand movies have to perform better than the 5000-10,000 for me.

You may disagree, which is certainly your right. Everyone judges art differently.

As for the idea that I must have "an axe to grind" in order to say it's the worst movie I've ever seen... No. Not at all. I like vampire fic and although I hadn't read the novels, I would have been happy to have another franchise to enjoy. (In fact, the commercials for the most recent movie almost make me want to re-visit the series.) Simply put, in 41 years, there has only been one movie that I've seen that has so bored me that I left the theater. That puts it in a neighborhood all its own, and it's not a good one.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:56 AM

Jennifer's parents policy was that she could watch whatever she wanted, they never said no and she was allowed to watch whatever they were watching. Even so she turned out pretty good, didn't rut until she was 19, was never violent, didn't/doesn't have a very dirty mouth, etc. I certainly wouldn't advocate using her parents' strategy for movie viewing, but she seems to have turned out fine. But yeah, Howard is disgusting.

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

TRAVELER

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:07 AM

Watch "Zeta One" and tell me it is not the worst.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:44 AM

My dad just called me to tell me that he just watched the worst movie he's ever seen. Bad Movie Police 1: Galexy of the Dinosaurs. Anyone seen it? It sounds like it was made badly intentionally. If I saw it I'd probably laugh through the whole thing and love to hate it instead of just hating it. He said he'd save it for me.

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

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:50 AM

Zeta One...that looks to be horrendous, yes, but still, hot girls, so no way is it "The worst."
Worst implies no interest whatsoever IMO.
Like, 'Blair Witch' disinterest.

The laughing Chrisisall

TRAVELER

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:52 AM

If I want to see hot girls I'll watch a porn movie.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
If I want to see hot girls I'll watch a porn movie.

Shame on you!

I just watch that Lt. Ellis clip you posted earlier!

Seriously, really bad is like a vacuum- ZERO interest. Even offensively bad provokes SOME interest, positive or negative.

The laughing Chrisisall

TRAVELER

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:11 AM

A fifteen minute strip poker game with no winner. That is the highlight of Zeta One. No plot. No dialog. No acting. At least Barbarella was silly camp with some humour. This had nothing.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
A fifteen minute strip poker game with no winner.

NO WINNER!?!?!?
Okay- I see your point.

The laughing Chrisisall

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:51 AM

Quote:
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.

PIZMOBEACH

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:39 PM

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

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:25 PM

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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.

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:35 PM

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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STORYMARK

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:56 PM

Quote:
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!"

ZEEK

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:22 PM

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.

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:59 PM

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.

STORYMARK

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:20 PM

Quote:
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!"

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:27 PM

Quote:
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.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:37 PM

Quote:
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.

ZEEK

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:38 PM

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.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:44 PM

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

TATERTOT

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:58 PM

Quote:
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

TWO

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:23 PM

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

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:34 PM

Quote:
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.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:39 PM

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.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:37 AM

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.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:21 AM

Quote:

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.

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:00 AM

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

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:17 AM

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.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:06 PM

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.

WISHIMAY

Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:02 PM

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...

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:49 PM

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

STORYMARK

Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:45 PM

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!"

RIONAEIRE

Monday, January 23, 2012 6:29 AM

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

GORRAMGROUPIE

Monday, January 23, 2012 3:26 PM

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

BYTEMITE

Monday, January 23, 2012 3:41 PM

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.

YT

Thursday, December 6, 2012 6:56 PM

Quote:
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

OONJERAH

Friday, December 7, 2012 3:28 AM

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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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, December 7, 2012 7:56 AM

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

JO753

Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:03 AM

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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OONJERAH

Sunday, December 9, 2012 10:53 AM

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

AURAPTOR

Sunday, December 9, 2012 3:43 PM

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. "

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, December 9, 2012 10:37 PM

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

ECGORDON

Monday, December 10, 2012 12:05 AM

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.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, December 10, 2012 5:17 AM

*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

OONJERAH

Monday, December 10, 2012 6:14 AM

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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AURAPTOR

Monday, December 10, 2012 12:46 PM

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. "

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, December 10, 2012 9:50 PM

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.

OONJERAH

Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:05 AM

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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FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:17 AM

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. ;)

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org

HKCAVALIER

Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:49 AM

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.

JO753

Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:20 AM

Everything by M Nite Shamyalamam after 6th Sense.

The alien invader thing especially!

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REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Sunday, December 23, 2012 2:38 AM

Troll 2.

SHINYGOODGUY

Sunday, December 23, 2012 8:21 AM

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

JO753

Sunday, December 23, 2012 7:42 PM

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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POUNDPUPPY29

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:07 AM

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

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TRAVELER

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:14 AM

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/