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Most awful movies (in celebration of Hollywood's fourth declining revenue year in a row)
9/28/05 | ltn72

Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice

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To: pittsburgh gop guy
WORST MOVIE EVER: Dangerous Minds good song by coolio though.

An ever better Weird Al parody.

41 posted on 09/28/2005 9:26:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: dfwgator

Right before Platoon, Stone made a movie called Salvador with James Woods as a leftist journalist who's a real jerk. It may be his best film.


42 posted on 09/28/2005 9:27:19 AM PDT by Borges
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To: pabianice
because movie quality has objectively continued to decline



I don't agree. There has not been a year without a plentiful crop of bad movies. There will always be bad movies; there have always been bad movies. 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.
43 posted on 09/28/2005 9:27:32 AM PDT by macamadamia
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To: LilDarlin
Class 3 - The Babe Ruth Story starring William Bendix

That movie has some unintentionally funny scenes, such as when Bendix orders a glass of milk (!) when he enters a bar. My personal favorite, "Sue baseball?"

Let's also not forget that truly awful "Safe At Home" where Mantle and Maris tried acting. Their bats had more personality than they did in that flick.

44 posted on 09/28/2005 9:27:41 AM PDT by Clemenza (Giuliani endorsed Clinton and Cuomo)
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To: pabianice

The worst of all-time that I actually paid to see in a theater was "Speed 2." Two hours of my life that I'll never get back.


45 posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: martin_fierro

Even Die Hard III: With a Vengence?

"The Mission" is good, IMO.


46 posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:24 AM PDT by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: pabianice
Class 3. Horrifyingly bad movies you simply leave, dragging yourself up the aisle with your arms because your legs have gone numb from shock.

Only one winner possible here: Battlefield Earth

47 posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:32 AM PDT by tx_eggman (If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs ... if we had some eggs.)
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To: pabianice
Let me add a class 4: Movies that were completely misrepresented by their trailers. Examples:


48 posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:38 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Political looters" should be shot on sight)
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To: pabianice

The really really REALLY bad movies that I have seen I forget before I get home. No sense crowding the memory space with useless crap. The bad movies that some people love but I think were awful sometimes stay with me like Titanic.


49 posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:43 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: uncbob
Reducing to Pro and Con like that is a bit reductionist. It was an Aaron Sorkin play.
50 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:02 AM PDT by Borges
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To: LilDarlin

100% agreement.

Wife and I rented this. After half an hour we shut it off. I lost my last shead of interest in Oscars after this B-flick won best picture.


51 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:14 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Borges

I was just joking with a friend of mine that we must finally have the summer movie season. Usually in summer I'm at the theater every weekend, sometimes twice in one weekend. This year I went to see Fantastic Four (OK, about what I expected never having considered FF one of Marvel's more interesting titles) and then went to nothing until The Man (can't miss Eugene, funniest eyebrows in hollywood), then Corpse Bride (not as good as Nightmare but still impressive), Serenity will be this week and Wallace and Gromit next week. I finally got my July, just had to wait until September and October.


52 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:19 AM PDT by discostu (When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
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To: MplsSteve
I felt like shooting Philip Seymour Hoffman evertime he came on the screen in Twister: "COOL MAN!"

I thought the acting was mediocre (what is Helen Hunt's appeal anyway? Her best acting was when she threw herself out the window in a movie of the week). I also thought that it was merely a special effects sheep show. (Best "Men on Film" voice): HATED IT!

53 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:39 AM PDT by Clemenza (Giuliani endorsed Clinton and Cuomo)
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To: martin_fierro

Well, I liked it, I spent lots of time in Prague around the time they filmed it, and it gave a good look at the Prague spring when the Soviets invaded.

Plus, a naked Juliet Binoche makes any movie that much better.


54 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:42 AM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never pet a dog that is on fire)
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To: pabianice
Class 1. A bad movie you sit through because of peer pressure

I gave up Hollywood a long time ago. My personal ethics do not allow for any class..particularly this one.

My Mom-in-Law wanted to see Hanoi Jane in (I think it was Monster in Law) I cant remember..she tried to make me feel guilty for not taking her "that was years ago" she said (about Jane) that "I should get over it".

I told her to "get over" thinking I'd cross my own ethical line just to amuse her

My husband took her..he promised to keep his eyes closed..

55 posted on 09/28/2005 9:29:59 AM PDT by Iron Matron
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To: Borges

I thought "Wall Street" was good too. But he went downhill starting with "Talk Radio."


56 posted on 09/28/2005 9:30:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: Woman on Caroline Street

Agreed, Sid & Nancy was an excellent film!


57 posted on 09/28/2005 9:30:45 AM PDT by Jhensy
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To: pabianice

I thought Constantine was the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm not brave, though - I don't even try to see movies where Hollywood tries to preach to me, so I've never seen "American Beauty" or it's ilk.

I like really stupid movies with good special effects. I do have to understand whats going on, though.

The best is when a movie gets really panned and you see it anyway, and find you like it.


58 posted on 09/28/2005 9:31:09 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: kevkrom

And then there is the class of movie where all of the good parts of the film are featured in the trailer. Case in point, Men In Black.


59 posted on 09/28/2005 9:31:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: americanMel

I couldn't agree more! You could be a purple, three headed, lesbian, Marxist and I would still feel a kinship with you because of your reaction to this movie. It was the most gut wrenchingly awful piece of garbage I've ever seen in my life. It literally made me feel physically sick. And sadly, every time I see Haley Joel Osment in anything I can't shake the image of him as that little robot. It's like a virus. It ruins every other movie that he's in for me too!


60 posted on 09/28/2005 9:31:22 AM PDT by Syco
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