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.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is one of my all time favorites.
Aside from No Country for Old Men, what would you consider a good movie?
The God Father. I like The Sixth Sense, too.
Almost any movie based on a Saturday Night Live sketch(is “Stuart Smalley Goes to Washington” in production yet?), additionally, Adam Sandler’s “Little Nicky” and “Don’t Mess with the Zohan” are virtually unwatchable, as is almost anything tagged with “National Lampoon’s...” (again, since 1980), and I almost forgot “I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry”...
There is so much more to choose from, of course “An Inconvenient Truth” should be near the top, Fahrenheit 9/11, or anything by the “Triple F” (Fat F-— of Flint), and the Hollywood versions of the War on Terror, for the most part...
The worst thing I saw in the theater was called “Baby Boom” with Diane Keaton. I was on a date, and the woman I was with (who is now my wife) thought it sucked, too. It was so bad, it couldn’t even be a chick flick! (Apologies to all female Freepers)
I loved every minute of “The Thin Red Line”. One of my favorite films of all time.
And Eragon ripped off Star Wars.
Indeed, Birth was bad. The viewer had so much hope for it, believing it would turn out like 6th Sense or some other supernatural thriller ... nope, just some kid pretending.
I refuse to call a movie horrible just because it wasn’t as good as the book. If that were the case, most of them would be horrible.
For something like Dune, I have to forget the book and watch the movie on its own. About the only movie where they’re equal is 2001, because the script and book were written together.
“RAYMIE” Released in 1960: Raymie (David Ladd), an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda know as Old Moe...” After fifty years I still feel the horror of its mind numbing stupidity, its total boredom. One actually sat slack jawed and glassy eyed unable to move. One could not even get up to leave the theater.
” 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.”
Great! Now you ruined the ending for me.
Predator 2
Dirty Dancing
Dune
Reservoir Dogs
Adams died just before production finished - hence his face appearing right at the end in tribute. Deeply involved in the script, it was done as he intended. Oops. Only saving notion is that dumbing down the H2G2 series enough for a general-audience US movie was the cause, shifting blame from him to the audience.
David Lynch, the director, is so embarrassed by Dune that he refuses to discuss it in interviews.
I believe you are correct. It’s been so long since I’ve seen an episode I even miss Gypsy and Cambot.
“At least we got Terre Haute....”
Fandango had that great skydiving sequence. That is about all I remember about that movie.
Favorite mst3k line from “Diabolique”:
“I hurl my skinniness at you!!”
(my skinny son hurls himself to this day) http://www.cinemaisdope.com/news/films/dangerdiabolik/dangerdiabolik.jpg
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