Posted on 12/13/2010 11:30:20 AM PST by therightliveswithus
The 'worst movie ever' is a term often thrown around when terrible movies are released. The upcoming 3D film Yogi Bear takes its inspiration form a classic cartoon and apparently wrecks it. The acting seems staid and the jokes in the commercials are embarrassing. It could possibly be the worst feature film in history.
My personal favorite, of course, is Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece The Room. Yet at least The Room has some redeeming features, mainly the fact that it is so bad, it is good. For example, please enjoy this quick summary of the movie:
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True Grit isn’t a remake it’s another crack at the novel.
“I vote for Eraserhead as the worst movie of all time.”
That’s just silly.
A.I. may not have entirely worked but it was still ambitious and consumate filmmaking. And his best films have much better than simple dialogue.
Oh his best films have been very good, such as Jaws as was noted above. But AI was a colossal stinker. An indecipherable script which rambled from scene to scene never coming close to a coherent plot. Incredibly boring and it went on forever. There were at least three points where it could have ended and I did think it was over, but no, it kept going and going. The production was terrible and in once scene towards the end you could actually see the boom microphone in the frame onscreen. The fact we know that Spielberg is capable of incredible film making is what made this mess all the more puzzling.
When you see the boom mike onscreen that’s the fault of the projectionist who did not frame the film properly. Films are made to bleed off the screen. The novel structure of A.I. made it that much more interesting for me. Big budget film this artful don’t usually get made. You can respect it without liking it.
I agree. I kept wishing that the blue fairy would bring the film to life.
But Spielberg had final say on editing and that scene (or any other scene for that matter) could have been snipped without affecting the "qualilty" of the movie one bit. All leaving that scene in did was to add poor prodcution to the extensive list of flaws connected with this embarrasment to the Speilberg cannon.
Utterly dreadful. It's enough that I was rooting for the main characters to just die already, but then periodically it would -- bizarrely -- switch to showing us Karen Allen and a couple of other people being rescued from some random boat that had nothing whatsoever to do with the main plot. I don't think "these unconnected events also took place on Earth at the same time" is a good enough reason to include scenes in a movie. You could get the same effect by taking a movie like 'The Fugitive' or 'The Sixth Sense' and inserting several scenes of a random person having their car break down & getting it towed.
AI failed miserably in the story telling department. Speilberg didn't seem to know what words were needed to project the ideas he wanted to beam into our minds via the dialog. AI as a film or story idea REQUIRED this more literary projection to work. He did not have our fears and preconceptions to manipulate as he had so deftly done in earlier films. Reducing complex ideas to dialog we can all understand is a talent in and of itself, no less than the talent Speilberg demonstrated in “Jaws”. Speilbergs great talent is very deceptive. The “simple” dialog, scenes, editing etc of his early films has convinced waaaay to many aggressive, intelligent but ultimately un talented people that THEY could be story tellers too. I think Speilberg, hands down, the most imitated Director in film history. Few people walked away from a Jimi Hendrix show saying “I can do that too!”. A LOT of people have walked away from a B.B. King show thinking “I can do that too”! They were of course wrong. Speilberg knew what he wanted to do in AI but he failed to pass that on to us.
Yogi Bear IS Howard the Duck II
Alternate ending. Booboo kills Yogi...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r-ScEG4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
All films have the boom mike just off the frame. That’s the way they are made. They have to be framed properly so you can’t see it.
But as cinema it was often breathtaking. Sometimes just plain old virtuosity is fun for its own sake. Like a great pianist playing flawed music but playing it really well.
I think you’re the first person to ever agree with me. :)
It was interminable!
I'm aware of that. But there's nothing that would have preveted Speilberg from editing out the frames where the cameraman screwed up. That's what film editors do.
The cameraman did not screw up. Films are made that way. It’s intentional. Projectionists are supposed to frame them properly.
But I have to wonder: who thought Dan Ackroyd was still able to attract an audience?
And if you do go with Ackroyd as the voice of Yogi, wouldn't you want someone compatible to read Boo-Boo's lines?
Would you really go with Justin Timberlake if you've already made the decision to get Ackroyd?
I think I give the edge to "Hitler's Brain" for pure "badness" because it is almost impossible to follow, and is sort of two different movies interspliced together. At least Plan 9 had a plot, ridiculous as it was, that could be followed.
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