Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
Hun,
I'm ANCIENT!
I mean the 1966 Monkee's movie :)
'cept I didn't see it until about 4 years later, but you get the drift.
Good point. "AI" was one of those movies that ended 10 minutes after it should have. Another in that genre of recent note was "Unbreakable", I think it was called, with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Willis played the guy who was in all kinds of accidents but never was injured.
Danny Kaye was a genius with words and dialogue.
"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true."
"Nooo! The flagon with the dragon has the pellet with the poison. The vessel with the pestle is the brew that is true."
"The Court Jester" is one of my all-time favorite movies! "The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true ...."
Just remember to lock the door. Cause nobody #$%$ing knocks anymore. ;-)
SD
'Shakespeare in Love' wasn't written by a Hollywood type but by Tom Stoppard. Who doesn't need any help to be high brow. It was a very witty and intelligent script.
I thought about this and here goes:
Cat 1: The Sound of Music (stop SINGING my head is gonna explode)
Cat 2: Cujo (Damn, I can't believe I saw the whole thing. What was wrong with me.) And all of the Star Trek movies, ALL OF THEM, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Cat 3: Too many to submit...but I'm fascinated by movies this bad. Just saw Hercules and the Moon Men. Yikes!
We recently rented 'Alone int the Dark' with Christian Slater and Tara Reid. It was supposed to be a sci-fi thriller about an alien creature that gets awakened and wreaks havoc on mankind. The special effects were laughable, plot lame (a rip-off of every alien movie ever made) and of course acting atrocious. It wasn't even worthy of the Sci-Fi channel. It could have been some film student's mid-semester project, and yet it was out in theaters! My husband and I actually sat through the whole thing because it was so bad that it was worth a few laughs. We just kept wondering how much worse it could get.
Another stinker was 'Constantine'. I made it through only 20 minutes of that before turning it off and going to bed.
Ok... am I strange in saying that I liked this movie? I thought it was one of the best pieces of science fiction (as opposed to SciFi/Space Opera) to hit the screen in ages -- the premise of: what would be the social effects of introducing this type of technology.
It's the best movie I've seen in the last few years. It broached so many interesting subjects like: the persistancy of love, the question of whether it was better to love and lose than to never love, whether we can change or if we will fall into the same patterns of behavior.
Brilliant. Of course, you need to see the end first in order to understand the beginning.
SD
A poster after my own heart. However, we are talking bad movies today.
AoD would fit in the Best Underappreciated Movie Ever.
BTW, I have Bruce Campbell's autobiography. He signed it, "Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun" - - Bruce Campbell
And, NO, I won't sell it.
Agreed. One of the greatest anyway.
People of a certain generation grew up watching the Pirate Movie on HBO. Director Ken annakin is still alive in his 90s and Lucas named Darth Vader in his honor.
Class 3. Horrifyingly bad movies you simply leave, dragging yourself up the aisle with your arms because your legs have gone numb from shock.
Four Weddings and a Funeral. Didn't see it at the movies; my wife and I rented the video. Starts off with a word I would never say in the presence of my wife. Then the word is said again. And again. And again. Over and over. We look at each other and I said "Do you want to keep watching this." She said no. So we rewound it and took it back to the video store. I have no idea what the movie was about and have no interest in knowing.
It may have been scripted and in production pre-9/11, but it didn't come out until 2002... which makes it even worse, in my book.
==" American Beauty (Rose?)
Just god-awful...all of it. And "stuckonstupid-wood" gives oscars for this piece of trash! "==
This was the movie that made me almost completely stop going to movies. I went directly home and took a shower, just like I did after walking out of that Burt Reynolds porn flick.
"The Sixth Sense" was the same year, and it was the real class of the field.
Well WOTW was a commercial blockbuster so...anyway Science Giction is no more written for scitnists then Ghost stories are written for ghosts. you can pick up apart just about any fiction in that matter if that's what you set out to do. It's pedantry imho.
"Johnny Guitar" was the worst movie ever made. I nearly got my ass kicked over that movie.
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