Posted on 09/13/2005 11:31:27 AM PDT by Houmatt
Just asking, do you mean the 2005 silliness about "Ice age New York" or the,in my opinion, the chilling and accurate depletion of a post, large scale (1000's) nuclear exchange and it effect in Kansas?
It was better than another Heinlein movie attempt: The Puppet Masters. That was an abortion of a movie.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the second and third Highlander movies... took a great movie and played hell with the basic premise. idiotic.
Now that's not to say that many posters here, have not identified some real trash on this thread, but Battlefield Earth stands out in my mind. But then I sort of liked "Howard the Duck"
OMG, your right! I saw this flick with my (former) actress roommate at a SAG screening. Not so much a "bad" film in terms of acting, screenplay etc.. but a film that just wants you to close your eyes and stop hearing!.
BTW at a SAG screening, as a guest, you can't just leave (bad form for roommate) and there's no concession stand!. But you do get to sit in the cool producers lounge chairs during the movie.
I liked Last Tango. It was so bad it was kind of fascinating.
Strauss is supposed to have said on his deathbed, "It's just as I wrote it in Death and Transfiguration." How's that for an advertisement? :^)
The movie would've been ok if the pedophilia was removed. I took the DVD outside and bent it between my thumb and middle finger until it shattered. It made quite a mess.
"The Way We Were", "Beaches" and everything Robbie Benson was ever in.
The Singing Detective brought back an old western. I can't remember the name, even though I have it on video. It's one of the early John Wayne "B" westerns, where he plays a character named "Singing Sandy". As he's walking down the street to shoot the bad guy, he's singing about doing it. And it wasn't the Duke singing! And the lip syncing was terrible!!!
Ernest Saves Christmas. For that matter, any Ernest movie, except maybe the first one, Ernest Goes to Camp. Loved it when he whipped Lyle Alzado's butt.
Monster in-law sucked ( just because Hanoi Jane was in it)
The 2004 version which was nothing more than an attack on W.
The 2004 version, which was a thinly veiled attack on the White House. The evil defense conglomerate, can you say, Halliburton?
I rather doubt he was thinking of the one from 1952. Because, although I've never seen it, I'd be totally shocked if that one wasn't a classic, brilliant motion picture by comparison. The chance of two movies of the same name making my Top Ten Worst Movies of All Time list is much too remote.
What I saw of Fargo (1996) -- something close to half of it, I think -- was murderously stupid.
Yes, it has a user rating of 8.2/10 at imdb.com, which places it barely short of cracking the Top 100 movies of all time. Obviously, some people really, really like it. And, I really enjoyed O Brother, Where Art Thou?, another movie by the Coen brothers. (But, if not for the music, I doubt I'd ever give Brother a second viewing.)
So, perhaps I just need to see it from the beginning. But, unless I'm forcibly chained to an immovable object and made to endure it, I can't imagine that'll ever happen.
If that means I'm "nuts," no problem. :-)
If you're good you might get to see his return.
"If you're good you might get to see his return."
I am not good enough, but some Jewish Carpenter gave me a free fass to his next movie. Pretty cool huh?
Out of Africa
Becky
I had heard alot of good reviews about the Green Mile before seeing it, so Jenny and I went one night. I didn't really know what it was about before seeing it. All thru the movie I was thinking "what the heck is this" We almost left halfway thru, but stuck it out. Then at the end when they rolled the credits I finally caught that it was Stephen King. THEN it made alot more sense. I watched it again when it was shown on a cable televison and liked it alot better.
Becky
Yeah - It does help if you know it's a Steven King... ;~D
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