Most awful movies (in celebration of Hollywood's fourth declining revenue year in a row)

9/28/05 | ltn72

[Wicket]

Leaving Las Vegas - I normally enjoy Nicholas Cage, and perhaps was hoping for a modestly more upbeat ending than where it seemed to be headed. It followed its own perverse logic to the very bitter end.

I cannot believe I wasted two hours of my life on it. Friends don't let friends see this movie.

[Woman on Caroline Street]

I think what struck me funny about that scene, was that while Mr. Blonde was slicing this poor guy's ear off, he's telling him to "Hold still". You had better believe, if someone was cutting off ANYTHING of mine, I'd be squirmirm like a redworm on a maribou jig.

[Sloth]

while the general public may laugh at old technology, those in the field have respect for the pioneers and wouldn't laugh. today's computer-gaming designers continually deal with getting the most out of their current hardware, and they know how limited early computers were.... here's an analogy - maybe the general public might laugh at a film of old Model-T cars or Wright-brothers type planes, but professional car-designers or plane-designers never would.

This was one of the most jarring things in 'Deep Impact.' Robert Duvall plays an old Mercury-era astronaut who goes along with a crop of current astronauts because he's familiar with some old equipment they're using in order to blow up the asteroids or whatever. Anyway, the young crew pretty much dismiss the guy as a feeble old has-been who belongs in moth balls.

I'm pretty sure that real contemporary astronauts would just about worship one of those old 'Right Stuff' pilots.

[Question_Assumptions]

I'll grant you that the themes were ambitious but I tend to write off the narrative sprawl and ambiguous ending as bad writing/directing. Given the big bucks spent to make it, the beautiful special effects, and the excellent acting all around, there are structural reasons why this movie is on almost nobody's "must see" list.

[W1_hooyah]

"Good movies are a rarity. But most of all, mediocrity rules. The mediocre ones drive me up the wall. The stinkers are kind of fascinating in a way."

Well stated.

The Piano is absolutely the worst movie ever made.

[wideminded]

"... And a vial of in-soo-lin ..."

[LS]

That was a bad one, but it at least lets me demonstrate some aspects of Hellenistic combat to my students, so it has a little redeeming value.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I know this is reaching from the movies to television. But one of my favorite Star Trek episodes was when the Enterprise went back in time to old Earth space and had to transport aboard an Air Force fighter pilot whose jet was torn apart by the Enterprise's tractor beam.

The point of my post was that the Enterprise crew treated him with respect.

[Betis70]

"You gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"

[colorado tanker]

I'm with you. The Piano was dreadful. I was cheering for her to drown along with that stupid piano at at the end.

[LS]

Sorry, thought it totally sucked.

[rlmorel]

I have noticed a preponderance of disdain for "AI" on this board. Is there an age thing going on here?

I can think of much worse movies than that, but they are older. There are two movies I watched that were so bad or weird that I had to get my brother to watch them with me again, because I needed someone else to confirm that I wasn't living on another planet.

One was "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (bad) and the other was "Eraserhead" (weird)

My brother has never forgiven me for asking him to watch them with me the second time.

"Autumn in New York" still rates as the most inanely bad movie. At least "Killer Tomatoes" was bad and not only knew it was bad, was actually trying to be bad, and "Eraserhead was just...the most bizzare thing I had seen on screen, ever, and was, I believe, trying to be that way.

"Autumn in New York" was really trying to be a good movie! GACK!

[Wicket]

If you like Gary Sinise, you should rent "The Stand" by Steven King - it's an End of the World As We Know It movie, but good and Sinise is great in it. And Apollo 13 if you haven't seen yet.

[rlmorel]

ARRGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I FORGOT ABOUT "THE PIANO"!!!!!!!

AAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I take my posts back. "Autumn in New York" comes in as a distant second to "The Piano".

Thanks for bringing back to me something I had worked so hard to block from my consciousness!!!!

[PigRigger]

There's one main reason I don't enjoy many of Spielberg's movies, it always seems to come down to an innocent child saving the world from malicious non-believing adults.

To me, many of his movies are very immature and very predictable. But that's just me....

I really hate (fiction) movies where I can figure out the ending.....I can usually figure out where Spielberg is going early on....

[Sensei Ern]

Of course I did. I lost count how many times I listened to the commentary...almost as many times as I saw it without commentary. I especially enjoyed learning how he had to act most of the windmill scene backwards.

[Sensei Ern]

I hve Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2. The commentary on one of those is very interesting.

[latina4dubya]

Like he'd grow up to be a child molester.

no way! i didn't see him as perverted... he saw right through his freaky cousin Rico... his dance at the end to save Pedro was fantastic... very giving... i probably laughed a total of six-ten times throughout the movie (not a lot)... and not gut-aching laughs... but there were just all these little things about it that made me like it... it was all so silly... but not in the "Tommy Boy," "Dumb and Dumber" sense... now those are movies i find absolutely revolting... i do appreciate that you have a different opinion about Napoleon Dynamite...

[Puzzler]

Sergeant Bilko. Excruciatingly bad.

[uncbob]

Agreed, and it portrayed Marines as vacuous automatons

Yep see my reply #326 to a freeper that disagreed with me