Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
LOL... Sounds like Sling Blade would have been another good choice.
The Hulk. Daredevil.
My most recent contribution to a bad movie list is "Crash." Like "American Beauty," critics have fallen over each other in praising this piece of simplistic tripe.
The movie's message? Everybody's racist, and racism is bad.
I loved Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
But if the catagory is movies you won't admit to liking, then by definition, how can we admit to liking them?
So I will just say, in this catagory for me is tons of disaster movies. My secret passion. Especially the "movie of the week" type ones I used to watch when I was a teenager.
I will admit to Gidget Grows up, which was an awful UN movie, but had Karen Valentine and Paul Lynde.
Oh, the North Ave. Irregulars. My kids loved that, and I watched it with them. I loved when Cloris Leachman broke her nails.
For me it really made the movie about 'mr. glass', that did not happen until you found out what he had done..
That movie is the absolute worst piece of trash I have ever seen. I fell asleep halfway through it and my husband woke me up because he wanted me to see what I had wasted my money on (I rented it).
The scene with the child Alexander wearing an incredibly bad blonde wig had me laughing my butt off though.
Nightfall. Outstanding science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov w/ Robert Silverberg, an expansion of one of Asimov's old short stories. A movie was made of it that was literally unwatchable.
Nope--he was in "Aliens"--one of the best movies ever made. Even he was good in it.
The movie "Easy Rider" was an important movie for the anti-war generation. I was probably about 11 or 12 when it came out, and all my brothers' hippie friends, like a lot of the early Baby Boom generation, thought it was absolutely the most poignant, right-on statement's of repressed youth versus the staid Establishment ever filmed! Then, about 15 years later, I was over at the home of a lot of those same ol' hippie pals to watch it on video. Everyone was so excited to see it, to relive the legend, to get back to basics! ....... We all settled down in the living room after dinner with wine and great anticipation. And the movie was SO EMBARASSINGLY LAME! It was such a sucky, stupid, vapid, ridiculous flick!You could see a kind of crestfallen look on everyone's face! I kind of snickered a bit, but kept it under my breath out of respect for those who sat there in shock; I was, after all, just a baby sis ... best and kindest to keep quiet while they absorbed the shock of total disillusionment ...!
Another time, in the mid '80s, I went to an Art Theatre, patronized by the very Hip, to see a screening of the ol Marlon Brando classic, "The Wild Ones." You know the movie: black and white, counter-culture hero Marlon Brando is the leader of a young motorcycle gang that takes over a small town, and enlightens the youth as to the futility of their present state, and the total hipness of rebelling against parents and rules.
The movie was way before my time, but it was a classic and there wasn't much else to do that night. The crowd was mostly the very early hippie and old Beatnik generation, looking grim and earthy.
The movie started. As it went on, it became more and more disturbing ... because Marlon Brando looked like a total GEEK, I swear, really! It was the way he was dressed, in Levis with the pantlegs rolled up!! And his sappy lines, and his stupid hat ... it was chilling. No one spoke; everyone in he audience pretended that he was just as seriously relevant as ever. I was attending with a friend, and in our usual tradition, we had snuck in with "hand grenades" (those mixed cocktails in cans that fit very nicely into large purses) and were getting a pretty good buzz.
My friend was about five years younger than me, into Cyndi Lauper and the whole New Wave movement and way too young to have any decent respect for what Brando represented to the gray-bearded, salt-and-pepper-pony-tailed rebels in the audience. She squirmed, tried to behave, and then she just couldn't hold back any longer. She leaned over to me, giggling, and whispered a little too loudly, "Look at his pants!"
You could have heard a pin drop! The audience was scandalized ... for about 20 seconds. Then you could hear other people snickering under their hands throughout the audience, and it remained that way for the rest of the movie. My friend had utterly broken the spell! She RUINED it for so many .. they looked broken and sad when the movie finished. It was hilarious!!!
I thought Mars Attacks wss brilliant satire of the Dems and the Clinton Administration. I particularly enjoyed Martin Short doing Stephanopoulis (Sp.?) Laughed through the whole thing, especially Nicholson doing the "Can't we all just get along" bit. Also loved the satire on Clinton done by Jack Lemmon and James Garner as the two ex-presidents the Gore character was trying to kill. The critics tried to bury both of them because of they are basically knee padders.
"They got it about half right."
Well, this doesn't really fall into your categories, but when I bought a DVD player, the manufacturer included a DVD... The movie version of "Lost in Space." You know, the one with Matt Lablanc...
Anyway, I put it in and was watching it, and as it went on and on, I was watching it sort of the same way you feel you have to watch a train wreck. I remember telling myself that "there's no way it could possibly get worse..." But it did!
In the end, I did watch the entire movie. But I was quite angry. Somebody owes me for the nearly two hours they stole and wasted in my life!
Mark
Well, I don't know... There was that "Die Hard" movie where he had the worst german/austrian accent! He was one of the most ridiculous and funniest villans I've seen in a long time!
Of course I'm sure they didn't intend for Irons to be the comic relief...
Mark
Oh, fine! Ruin the movie for the rest of us!
Well, I'm going to ruin a movie for you! You know the movie, "Titanic?" Yeah, well the ship sinks!
So there!
Mark
Better version by Weird Al, though! And Coolio seems to have gone nuts over it!
I love "Living in an Amish Paradise!"
Mark
Good pick.
WHOA, that was painful!
Dan
There's an entire class of movies... Well two additional classes...
Bad Movies that are still fun to watch... A few examples that come right to mind would be Bruce and Mila in "The Fifth Element," and "Starship Troopers." Any movie with aliens, gunfire, and semi-nekkid women get special consideration.
Then there are those movies that are SO BAD, you just have to love them. Like "Mars Attacks" (although a lot of people would say this belongs in the previous category). And all three Evil Dead movies ("Evil Dead," "Evil Dead II," and "Army of Darkness.")
Mark
"Take the Money and Run" and "Sleeper" are masterpieces. The "playing cello in the marching band" and bank robbery scenes are hysterical (from TtMaR).
Mark
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