Posted on 04/21/2022 8:56:18 AM PDT by algore
Despite all the talk about disney, Hollywood, media, war, biden, putin, Rihanna, slapping, masking etc
Maybe we can have some fun today
What is the worst movie you ever watched?
I can agree some movies are so bad that they are funny, certainly you can include those too.
I was a comic collector before it was a “thing”; Detective and Batman were my two most numerous titles. (I had scattered issues going back to 1945/WWII.)
Of big-budget productions, Batman and Robin certainly deserves concerted castigation.
I also found the Duke’s “Surely this was the Son of God” - spoken with his habitual drawl - embarrassing in The Greatest Story Ever Told.
A funny but not true legend came out of that one line.
When John Wayne rehearsed that line the director told Wayne to say it with awe. So Wayne said this on the first take “Awe, surely this was the Son of God”.
“A man marries a pig. Yes, a pig.”
I didn’t think the harpies on the View swung that way.
The Accountant is my favorite Ben Affleck movie (not a big fan generally, although I found him better than I expected as The Batman).
I considered his portrayal pretty realistic for a high-functioning autistic person. As a nutritionist, and as a math/science nerd, I have interacted with autistic persons, have gotten along with them well, and have gotten to know some of their common traits. (I also thought Please Stand By, with Dakota Fanning, pretty realistic; some autistic viewers certainly thought so.)
I discovered I really like Anna Kendrick with that movie. (I worked backward to Scott Pilgrim.) My opinion is: If you want great comedy, then get a great actor. I think she is a legitimately serious actress who often happens to be funny.
The common passion for arithmetic analysis humanized Affleck’s character; he actually became briefly spontaneous with her, and did not react negatively when she slugged him in the arm in camaraderie.
“A funny but not true legend came out of that line”: That’s tellin’ it straight, pilgrim.
As I recall, we would never have had John Wayne as we know him - with his idiosyncratic step and speech - if not for the suggestions from Harry Carey, Sr.
I have to admit to this movie being a movie that I watch and enjoy; but, I have to agree that it is a horrible movie. I can't really explain why I like it. Great cast, though.
While I don’t remember many of the details, I just recall as I was watching it thinking that it was one of those movies where I felt like I could have written a better script.
That movie (Golden Pond) was on TCM a few weeks ago. As I had never seen it, never even had a desire to see it, I did think I would give it a try.
I turned it off after 30 minutes. Pure crap.
Nawww! Napoleon Dynamite is one of my whole family’s favorites! We’ve seen it countless times.
A little known cartoon movie - “Tarzoon, Shame of the Jungle” - has to be the worst movie of all time. It was crudely hand-drawn and colored, with Johnny Weismuller, Jr. voicing Tarzoon. Weismuller Jr. was mentally impaired and was coerced into making the movie, resulting in a lawsuit and it being yanked from public view soon after release.
John Belushi made a weird guest appearance as a teenage guru.
The villain, Queen Bazonga, had 2 rows of breasts up and down her chest and had an army of penis monsters that would vibrate and shoot gobs of goo at people.
I laughed in spite of myself, but the whole thing was horrible and should not have been made.
“The English Patient”
Awful. And actually lengthy, not just seemingly lengthy.
Yup, but the vehicle was kinda cool.
Ark 2 without the jetpack.
And pre Airwolf. thanks
The English Patient.
Horrible.
Wouldn’t that qualify as officially the worst movie ever made? It’s so bad that people make fun of it, keeping it going for 45 years.
I give him a pass for “Fargo”. I loved that movie.
“Dune”
Many Dune fans anxiously awaited the release of the movie for years. We were greatly disappointed when we saw it.
My kid has recently become fairly obsessed with Batman and Spider-Man. He asked me what was worst Batman movie (he hadn’t seen all of them yet).
Without hesitation I told him of “Batman and Robin,” and we watched it. Even he couldn’t get through twenty minutes of it.
Even if they were going for camp, they missed the mark by miles.
Just a dreadful entry into the series.
A case could be made for that.
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