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To: chesley

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.


105 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:09 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
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.

All very well, but it does for me. And frankly, my opinion is the only one that counts for me. Sure, I can recognize the production values, and the artistic values, the good acting, whatever. But I'd rather watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" a dozen times than sit through "Seven" again.

And after all, it's just an opinion. The only thing that make it important to me is that it's mine. I hated "The Wild Bunch", too, for that matter. I guess it depends on what your aesthetic is, but mine hates both those movies, and wishes I had my money and my time back.

130 posted on 01/06/2010 10:26:53 AM PST by chesley (Lib arguments are neither factual, logical, rational, nor reasonable. They are, however, creative.)
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