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| benj clews |
Posted - 08/01/2010 : 00:21:13
Can't recall this ever having been discussed before, but even if it has there's no harm in revisiting it I reckon.
So... what's the worst film you can remember watching? I'm not talking about films you hate that everyone else seems to love or something that got loads of praise but you thought sucked. I'm talking about a true stinker of a film in every way possible- bad acting, script, camerawork... the whole shebang. Something with absolutely nothing of merit about it whatsoever.
Personally, I've heard pretty bad things about The Adventures Of Pluto Nash although I can't vouch for that as I've never seen it. The worst that springs to mind initially for me is that ill-fated Tom Green effort Freddy Got Fingered- a truly objectionable and offensive film in just about every way possible.
What about anyone else? |
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| randall |
Posted - 09/17/2010 : 02:52:18
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Originally posted by demonic
Something for those who've seen "The Room" - a very enjoyable waste of time:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307
Very, very funny. Thanks! |
| Sludge |
Posted - 09/17/2010 : 02:43:13
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
"They Live" which is so bad it's good ... has the longest, most drawn out fight ever filmed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZpdUUdd3I
Ha ha! Yeah, I saw this again not long ago, and not only is the fight long and drawn out, but is so incongruous to the story - they were buddies, to a degree. The guy who played the lead had been a wrestler in real life, and it was almost like there must have been something in his contract to say that there had to be a fight scene in there somewhere.
All very stilted,shit John Carpenter synth soundtrack, but a great plot.
I can reconsider Dark Star and hope some will re-think They Live. I view this as a genuine classic. I disagree strongly about the fight scene as it is at the core of the picture, and I don't think it was Carpenter just having the guy get in a fight. If he were exploiting the wrestling thing, the whole movie would be a series of these fight scenes (although Piper takes more than his share of falls and abuse).
Piper's character had been out of work and there's some politics around unemployment, factory closures, corporate bailouts and the Justiceville homeless camp.*
In terms of the fight scene, yeah, it's overdrawn for a fight about putting on glasses, but this is also about one person reaching through another person's denial. It is about society being snowed, sort of a flip side to 'Wag the Dog'. Keith David's refusal isn't about putting on glasses. As he says, "I don't want to get INVOLVED." He is fighting to preserve his blissful ignorance. Once the glasses are on, though, he has no choice but to take a stand against the aliens.
The manipulation of television and advertising make this a nice fictionalization along the lines of "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" and similar works. I've read some recent takes on They Live pointing out that the Money as God mistake seems appropriate to revisit today.
The soundtrack suffers from an extremely repetitive blues riff by John Carpenter. It is also a little self-indulgent of Carpenter to have one of the aliens, disguised as human, on a TV talk show criticizing violence in his films.
But overall, I think it was the right film for its place and time (like The Dude...). The special effects are cheap, yet I think he's weaved them into something worthwhile.
I like this perspective too.
Then there's a this (pulled from wiki):
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Richard Harrington, in his review for the Washington Post wrote, "it's just John Carpenter as usual, trying to dig deep with a toy shovel. The plot for "They Live" is full of black holes, the acting is wretched, the effects are second-rate. In fact, the whole thing is so preposterous it makes V look like Masterpiece Theatre".
I object to the toy shovel line. You could replace "toy shovel" with "hammer". I also disagree with negative assessments of Piper's acting in They Live.
I'm wondering what's going on with the remake. Anyone have IMDB Pro access?
*This was filmed in an open weedy area adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. I believe these were originally oil fields (later it became the biggest boondoggle of the L.A. Unified School District when they got the land, and ignored one bid that had factored in enviro remediation in favor of another that had not... resulting in the most expensive un-occupiable high school ever built). There is a real "Justiceville" a few block south of the movie set. I'm sure Michael Douglas is standing on the same site as Carpenter's encampment, on the DVD cover for "Falling Down".
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| demonic |
Posted - 09/17/2010 : 01:34:22
Something for those who've seen "The Room" - a very enjoyable waste of time:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307
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| GHcool |
Posted - 09/16/2010 : 21:37:19
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Originally posted by randall
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Originally posted by GHcool
I went to the Silent Movie Theater's monthly "5 Minute Game" in which the first five minutes of 12 of the worst films ever made are shown. The audience then votes on which film to watch in its entirety. The film chosen was Ben & Arthur. I saw The Room and at the time thought it was the worst of the worst. I think Ben & Arthur tops it. We had a blast.
Some movies, like MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE, just make you squirm because they're boring. THE ROOM actually has some entertainment value, not for incompetence's sake, but because of its utter, pervasive strangeness. As the Harper's article put it, it's the movie that an alien who has never seen a movie would make after having had movies thoroughly explained to him.
Yeah, Ben & Arthur doesn't approach the other-worldliness that The Room does, but it isn't boring like Manos either. I'm guessing the filmmaker of Ben & Arthur is not unlike Ed Wood in terms of the mixture of arrogance and incompetence. |
| randall |
Posted - 09/16/2010 : 11:36:20
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Originally posted by GHcool
I went to the Silent Movie Theater's monthly "5 Minute Game" in which the first five minutes of 12 of the worst films ever made are shown. The audience then votes on which film to watch in its entirety. The film chosen was Ben & Arthur. I saw The Room and at the time thought it was the worst of the worst. I think Ben & Arthur tops it. We had a blast.
Some movies, like MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE, just make you squirm because they're boring. THE ROOM actually has some entertainment value, not for incompetence's sake, but because of its utter, pervasive strangeness. As the Harper's article put it, it's the movie that an alien who has never seen a movie would make after having had movies thoroughly explained to him. |
| GHcool |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 21:23:03
I went to the Silent Movie Theater's monthly "5 Minute Game" in which the first five minutes of 12 of the worst films ever made are shown. The audience then votes on which film to watch in its entirety. The film chosen was Ben & Arthur. I saw The Room and at the time thought it was the worst of the worst. I think Ben & Arthur tops it. We had a blast. |
| ragingfluff |
Posted - 09/06/2010 : 16:39:33
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
"They Live" which is so bad it's good ... has the longest, most drawn out fight ever filmed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZpdUUdd3I
Ha ha! Yeah, I saw this again not long ago, and not only is the fight long and drawn out, but is so incongruous to the story - they were buddies, to a degree. The guy who played the lead had been a wrestler in real life, and it was almost like there must have been something in his contract to say that there had to be a fight scene in there somewhere.
All very stilted,shit John Carpenter synth soundtrack, but a great plot.
yes, Rowdy Roddy Piper .... and yes, the film has some funny moments and has what could have been a very interesting satire on corporate marketing if it wasn't wrapped up in a story so bad it's laughable. For a very funny piss-take on Rowdy Roddy Piper and the rest of the WWF crowd, see if you can catch the Robot Chicken skit that reimagines "Hogan's Heroes"
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| rabid kazook |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 21:58:05
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
This reminds me of Benjamin Buttom which left me considerably underwhelmed but I do have a small version of the poster on my fridge.
Funny you mention that... 
I've recently got excited by the trailer for M. Winterbottom's Killer Inside Me. It really looked great. I realized it's a book (by J.Thompson) and 'went on to read it. As I was going through the book, movie trailer painted the story imagery in my mind. Casey A. as Lou Ford, setting, beautiful cinematography, I soaked it all up. I really liked the book.
Than a few days ago I saw Winterbottom's film, and puff, exactly, I found it to be very weak. Too bad really I quite wanted to like it.
And ofcourse that I found that movie's poster one of the years best.
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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 01:15:06
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Originally posted by rabid kazook
Immensely love the movie poster though.
This reminds me of Benjamin Buttom which left me considerably underwhelmed but I do have a small version of the poster on my fridge. |
| rabid kazook |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 19:42:07
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Originally posted by demonic
Another in the defence for "Dark Star" - and for "Moon" too. Two great little low budget sci-fi's. But comparing them is a bit odd too
- one being a intense character study of loneliness and self-examination (and an acting tour de force) the other a bonkers comedy. 
It's mostly my grumble that when S.Rockwell does that gumpy thing with his mouth I can't find him very serious - hence that I found Moon a bit humorous. I even chuckle when the psychotic clowns chase him in Clownhouse.
I'm not saying that it's a bad movie, but (for me) rather unimportant.
Immensely love the movie poster though.
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| Improper Username |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 07:32:34
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Originally posted by demonic
Another in the defence for "Dark Star" - and for "Moon" too. Two great little low budget sci-fi's. But comparing them is a bit odd too - one being a intense character study of loneliness and self-examination (and an acting tour de force) the other a bonkers comedy. The best scene is of course when one of the astronauts tries to reason with a sentient (and depressed) nuclear weapon not to blow itself up.
My son and I liked Moon very much also. I have come to regard Sam Rockwell as one of the most interesting actors, with regard to his roles.
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Originally posted by Stalean
There was something very wrong about "Mr. Wrong" with Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman.
The very thought is off-putting. |
| Stalean |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 05:36:21
There was something very wrong about "Mr. Wrong" with Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman. I still haven't gotten over this bad film experience. I know I've seen worse--no I can't think of any. |
| Sean |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 00:41:41
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
... The Blob, which -- by the way -- is another favorite of mine.
Which version of The Blob, the 1958 or 1988? BTW there's a remake of a remake in progress, scheduled for release next year...
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 00:37:47
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by demonic
... the sight of piranhas "roaring" underwater brought to mind the roaring shark of "Jaws the Revenge", and that was utter bollocks.
Can't be worse than the screaming snake in Anaconda. 
I forgot about that snake!! It DID scream!!! Oh btw, say happy birthday, wildheartlivie. |
| Sean |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 00:34:38
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Originally posted by demonic
... the sight of piranhas "roaring" underwater brought to mind the roaring shark of "Jaws the Revenge", and that was utter bollocks.
Can't be worse than the screaming snake in Anaconda. |
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