Posted on 09/13/2005 11:31:27 AM PDT by Houmatt
Just for fun, what is the WORST film you have EVER seen? And why?
I know a lot of you will be inclined to insert a Michael Moore film, but I am talking about films that are supposed to be fiction.
To begin, here is my personal pick: Ron Howard's The Grinch.
Surely we all remember the classic story from Dr. Seuss. Very simple, all about the spirit of Christmas.
Now, we get to the film. To begin with, the Whos are portrayed as the exact dead opposite of what they are in the story: They are quite materialistic.
Then, there seems to be something happening concurrent to the X-mas celebration. Just what the hell is the "Whobilation?" The audience is never told.
And there's the Grinch. The story says nobody knows why he hates Christmas. So, naturally, he is given a back story that rather implies he should be hating the Whos, or at least certain Whos, but certainly not Christmas. AND he is given a love interest (played by Christine Baranski).
Considering the target audience of the book (and therefore the film), there is some humor and a particular dress worn by the aforementioned Baranski early on (accented by a camera angle) that is just not suitable for that audience. So why have it? Heaven only knows.
Finally, when we get to the stealing part of the story, we see the Grinch predicting some very upset Whos. Now we all know what happens in the original story. But guess what? In this version of the story, the Grinch is proven right. In fact, it takes one of the Whos to talk the others into believing Christmas is more than just toys and trees.
I was shocked when I saw this film upon its release in theaters. Was it true Theodor Geisel's widow actually approved of this? How could she, when it absolutely violated everything her late husband was trying to impart with his beloved masterpiece in children's storytelling?
Whatever the truth was, one thing was certain: This film was an abomination. It was not merely bad; it was offensive. And I have never been so angered by a film like that to this day.
It is worth mentioning, as an aside, the film went on to make $250 million dollars domestic box office, making it perhaps the most profitable Ron Howard directed film to date. However, about three years later, when they decided to repeat or at least further the insult with another Seuss classic, Cat in the Hat, people saw right through it and gave it the b*tch slap it deserved.
....I can watch over and over again....
I got to the movie late and dozed and then thought It was where I came in and left..... I missed two thirds of the movie.
Never saw the movie, but I have the soundtrack around somewhere.
Manos, Hands of Fate
City Slickers
The River's Edge
I never saw this film, but saw a promo film of it on the Sundance Channel. It was enough to make me sick. The film is "Buffalo Soldiers," not to be confused with the TV film about the real Buffalo Soldiers made back in the 1990's. This "Buffalo Soldiers" film was made several years ago, and purports to show a unit of the United States Army in Germany in 1989, at the end of the Cold War. The film was based on a novel by some college professor who does not know the first thing about the United States Army. It was produced in Germany by some America-hating German. The American soldiers in the film are shown as drug users, criminals, and high-school dropouts.
The film is America-bashing and military-bashing at its worst. I know it's a bunch of lies, because I was serving in Germany on my fourth tour when the Berlin Wall fell. The young soldiers I had the honor to lead at that time were well-educated, drug-free, and honest. To list everything that was wrong with the film would take a couple of weeks at least.
The film was a success in America-hating Europe, but when it was released in the United States in the summer of 2003 it bombed very badly. The director, an Australian named Gregor Jordan, has since stated that he regrets ever being involved with the film.
My personal feeling is that every DVD of "Buffalo Soldiers" should be taken downrange at Fort Knox and dealt with accordingly. Not only did the film slander modern American soldiers, it hijacked the historic nickname of a proud group of American fighting men.
"The Island of Dr Moreau"--another incredibly bad Brando stinker of a film.
Anything else by Oliver Stone that was not Wall Street. (Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Gotta love that.)
Actually, maybe they all were.
Those f-cking Hobbit movies were overrated. Vigo Mortenson is as good an actor as Ted Kennedy is a teetotaler.
Death and Transfiguration is my favorite. I want it played at my deathbed.
"The Island of Dr Moreau"--another incredibly bad Brando stinker of a film.
I forgot about that Brando bomb. Boy he was in some incredibly bad films.
And the movie weren't no good, neither. ;)
Gigli
Leonard Part 6
Battlefield Earth
Showgirls (yeah, I know, it's got nice-looking women but it's still horrible)
Darn near any movie with a colon in the title
And the all-time worst movie on IMDB: "Manos The Hands Of Fate". MST3K did that one proud :)
I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who watched that piece of filth. Absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever. After watching it I felt like I needed a hot scalding shower and therapy. I actually had to watch it for a course I was taking on postmodernism.
That is my all time fav vampire movie! Chris Sarandon is great! IMHO
"THREE WOMEN"...an mid 1970s movie by Robert Altman, that is soooooooooooooooooooooooo dreadful, that my husband and I almost walked out in the middle of it; we should have.
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