Posted on 01/06/2010 9:42:42 AM PST by ctdonath2
In the spirit of the current thread "Best Films of all Time?", I just have to ask for the other end of the spectrum.
I don't mean "Night of the Lupus", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", or other standard bad/forgettable films. I don't mean just box-office flops. I want to see tour-de-force bad.
Until you reminded me of it I'd successfully blocked it from my memory...oh, the horror!
Now I'm going to have to find a therapist...I hope you're happy.
And I liked "Playtime," too. I like the Tati films in general.
2.) Everybody else LOVES it and I feel it is over-rated. A good example of this sort of film is Quentin Tarantino's recent Inglourious Basterds. I just don't see what so many people saw in that film (or, indeed, most of Tarantino's films).
" The plot involves a constantly put-upon young man's discovery of a laser cannon, his ensuing rampage after continual exposure to the weapon's radiation mutates him into a wild, destructive lifeform, and his eventual death at the hands of the aliens who left the cannon behind on Earth in the first place."
Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t make it the worst. You need something truly horrible, with horrible script, acting and production values.
Manos: Hands of Fate is a good example. That movie has absolutely no redeeming value. It’s hard to watch even on B-movie night, whereas Plan 9 is bad but fun to watch.
But low budget isn’t the sole reason. The high-budget Battlefield Earth also had no redeeming value, making it among the worst films ever. The plot, script, acting, costumes, makeup, sets, cinematography, all horrible. I even liked the book and like John Travolta as an actor, so it’s not an anti-Scientology thing.
Sister Act. They managed to film a whole movie in a convent without a single utterance of the word “Jesus.” How’d they do that?
Yentl. I almost chewed my foot off, so overbearing it was. Awful.
Spaceballs. Love Mel Brooks, but I walked out after ten minutes.
I've not seen the movie, but I've heard that the ending had nothing to do with the book.
The story isn't bad. Good summer afternoon read...sex, monsters, and a plot that doesn't bog you down with a lot of details.
I just put it on my Netflix queue last week, but if I remember correctly, even before viewing it again, I nominate “I Spit on Your Grave”.
Was half way through when whatever drugs you were on wore off?
What about “They Saved Hitler’s Brain.”
We can’t forget Kevin Costner’s trifecta:
Waterworld,The Postman,and Robin Hood.
Ultraviolet. Milo Jovovich couldn’t save this piece of garbage. Has to be in the top 5 of most improbable, asinine movies I’ve ever scene.
Clue
Firestarter
Anything produced by Hallmark
Speaking of her, I couldn’t stand “The Fifth Element.”
Two words: Alec Baldwin.
...and “Last Action Hero”-starring Governor Ahnold!
I nominate Last Action Hero with Arnold as the worst big budget movie I ever saw.
It was a pretty entertaining movie until the ending.
I can’t emphasize how utterly miserable (and moronic) that ending was. It was basically Frank Darabont giving the finger to anyone who bothered to sit through his movie. I don’t think an ending could be any worse than the ending of “The Mist”.
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