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Hi,
I was browsing some DVDs wondering what to buy when I spotted this movie "Kungfu Pow-Enter the Fist" which I thought will be entertaining. It turn out to be a stupid show that I ever watched.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space?
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Chris redmond.
this thread to show off their level of Trenchant Sophistication. As in, 'I'll be sure to list Popular Movies as my Worst Ever, to immediately separate myself from those Wallowing in the Wretched Filth of the Unwashed Masses!
The OP's subject line was 'worst film/movie you've ever watched.
So, 'The Usual Suspects' was the tip-top, worst film you've ever seen?
'The English Patient'-the worst of the worst?
'Lawrence of Arabia', for chrissakes!
Pauline Kael once said something to the effect of 'If I was headed to the altar, and found out my fiance' liked 'Forest Gump', I'd run screaming from the church' (very much paraphrasing here). However, I doubt even she would have said it was the worst movie/film she's ever watched!
Hard to imagine the Level of Intellect required to have listed 'Atonement' as the worst movie ever seen, because it's, quote, 'an elegant lie'.
Fascinating stuff-
Oh, and thanks to the 'PhilJs' of the thread, who aren't afraid to admit that they tried to sit through 'Norbit'. I think that's what the OP had in mind.
My sentiments exactly. Mucho prententious-o!
I don't rule out the possibility that to some individuals, certain movies might be particulary painful. Still, it certainly doesn't ring true.
My list would certainly NOT include Usual Suspects etc.
Gone Fishin'
Message in a Bottle
Shakes the Clown
Swept Away
Bio-Dome
Leonard Part 6
Rhinestone
The Postman
Wild Wild West
Drop Dead Fred
Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas
House of Wax
Haunted Honeymoon
Heaven's Gate
These are legitimate stinkers. Hmmm Bomb-o.
There are some made for cable films that are even worse than these. It's tough to pick a worst, maybe Message in a Bottle was the most painful.
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There's no satisfaction in picking on Ed Wood and other small-timers who didn't really have any negative effect on the state of the film industry.
My personal peeve is "Star Wars" which gets a surprising amount of respect even among this bunch of cynics. Besides being just dumb, it created the franchise mentality that has stifled originality in film-making ever since. It also derailed the science fiction genre from its cerebral roots (think 2001, The Day the Earth Stood Still, etc.) into a mishmash of medieval hokum and spaceship shootemups.
I'll be right there with you on the 'Star Wars' bandwagon (calling the acting 'wooden' is to give a 2x4 a hard time).
But given the topic of the thread, and notwithstanding the Ed Wood library, where are the 'Showgirls' or 'Driven' (that Stallone pic-yikes!) or 'Speed II'(my excuse-we were wandering the rental aisles, picked up the box,saw it had received a S&E '2 thumbs up'. "How bad can it be?" we said in unison. We then proceeded to find out.)
is the worst POS I have ever started to watch, I could not make it half way through.
I like a good stoopid movie but this one was horrific...
...some insane person would have to pay me at least a thosand dollars.
I try to avoid this stuff.
"Rent" was the worst play I ever saw...so it goes to follow that the film "RENT" is the worst movie in recent memory.
I couldn't sit through this. I like both Depp and Del Toro, but I'm not a fan of Terry Gilliam or Hunter S. Thompson. I know lot's of people are but after 30 minutes I was gone.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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I don't understand why people rave about it.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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I am a Gilliam fan, and still didn't like the film FWIW.
Rod
I try to avoid crap, I truly do. Only so much money, only so much time on earth.
But I got roped into this one and had a pass, went with friend and her son.
ARGH.
Awful.
Even with High Jackman. It was like an 11 YO wrote the script: the narrative was moronic, like when a child tells you about a story dressing up all the parts and never finishing a thought...they did this...and then next...and then...and then...
I'm not a CGI hater, but all it's doing here ispropping up a lazy movie.
I almost thought of buying the DVD for this movie...tks for the tip...How about the Blade Trilogy by Wesley Snipes?
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seen? Even if, for whatever reason, you didn't care for it, it's hard for me to fathom that it ranks at the top of the list. Putting aside how most see it as a seminal film for it's time, it can't be said that it's lacking high-quality production values.
Are you saying you've never seen a movie along the lines of, oh, 'Speed II'?
nt
Boxing: “No teammates, no timeouts, no place to hide”.
John Waters' Hairspray was a lot of fun
Anything by Ed Wood has to be a candidate, though they do have such an absence of production values and lo-fi ideas that they can charm some.
But the most pointless couple of hours I ever spent in a theatre was in front of Cronenberg's "Crash". A stupid, stupid film.
Last Tango in Paris, Broken Flowers, Donnie Darko
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my wife somehow mistook this for "Europa, Europa" and once at the theatre we sat through it. I had never heard of either, but it was her turn to choose. Afterwards she apologized.
Not into unusual or experimental films, huh?
That's your right...gotta say it's one of my favorites of Lars von Trier.
Rod
Not exactly a lite nite at the flickers, but brilliant. And upsetting.
Classic LVT.
So I'm guessing geoff isn't keen on Greenaway or Lynch either.
I must admit I haven't seen any of Greenaway's films, but if he's comparable to LVT and Lynch I'll check him out!
Rod
But he's just as irritating to non-aficionados. Personally, I love him.
People who dislike him accuse him of being cold, much as LVT's detractor's do. Greenaway's a former painter and academic who's basically not into making films for the commercial movie market anymore. He directs operas, multi-media events, TV series etc. When asked his opinion of Blue Velvet he admitted he admired it to the point of wishing he had directed it himself. So you have been warned.
I'd start with The Draughtman's Contract, one of my favorite Brit movies of all time..
Then maybe a Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning By Numbers. The Cook The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. That last one's strong stuff, a commentary on Thatcher's Britain. That and Draghtsman's Contract are the only movies he's had that could be considered art house hits in US.
They're not typical narrative films - multi-layerd, abstract, unabashedly intellectual, visually stunning, poetic, occassionally shocking. They are typically organized around a theme or visual motif.
I checked my local video store's website to see which are available only to find none are. This surprises me, as they have a great selection of harder to find films. I'll be keeping an eye out though.
Thanks!
Rod
I've found them to be the best for art film, foreign & classics.
Our local store is owned by friends, so Netflix is almost a dirty word around here, LOL!
But yesterday I found out they do have "The Cook The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and I'll be watching it soon.
Rod
haunting film.
"Europa, Europa," I found formulaic.
Oh, well.
NT
I loved it, surreal like David Lynch at his best...
Walked out of the first three.
clark
Or Crash the two hour morality play with Matt Dillon?
The original is a worth seeking out if you've not seen it.
J.B.
but can you explain to me anything that's good about this film?
Don't worry about the technical qualities of cinematography, sound and so on - I know they're o.k.
powermatic has summed my own thoughts up regarding this film so well that there's not much I can add.
I will say thank God for directors like Cronenberg, I might not always share his vision but he has the courage to go places many directors won't even consider. Is the ride always fun? No, but for the most part I've found it worth the trip.
J.B.
list only because it insults his perception of The World We Live In, and his political views. I'm not saying 'Crash II' deserved all the accolades it received, I don't think it did deserve them. But that opinion is from a purely movie-making perspective, not because it didn't jibe with my politics.
In other words, it was an entertaining, though flawed, movie. For clarkjohnsen to put it on his 'worst I've ever seen' list is to assume that clarkjohnsen has seen a maximum of three movies in his lifetime.
Which may be true-who knows.
does that just leave the film's message? It's not exactly subtle-technology, and our (human's) place within that context. If it's the sex you're concerned about, see above-have the technological marvels we've created stripped us of even our most deeply ingrained feelings and desires? My synopsis is simplistic, and I'm not saying I agree with any of it, but I thought Cronenberg did an admirable job with a really, really tough novel to put to film. It ain't 'E.T'-actual thought required.
BTW, the novel's author was J.G. Ballard, whose early life was depicted in Spielberg's 'Empire of the Sun'. Maybe that fixation with the P-51 Mustang was a harbinger to 'Crash'. The guy's brilliant. I think (not sure) that he's suffering from a terminal cancer, and desperately trying to finish his last book.
'Cadillac of the skies! Cadillac of the skies!'
To me it was just a bunch of folks getting off on mutilation etc - and I couldn't relate at all.
Other Cronenberg I have enjoyed/admired, but not this one.
that's happened a time or two in the past. But, you asked a question...vaya con dios
Oh, and by the way, I totally dig the P-51 too. Read into that what you will. (-:
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I keep waiting and hoping, but the vampire genre consistently leads to pack as a 'bad movie' genre.
On the single worst movie front, I listed those three, but I'd rather sit through Kramer vs. Kramer five times over 200 Motels once!
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...may well fail to grasp it.
Been waiting for it on DVD... maybe now it'll get BluRay treatment.
clark
And he never should have sacked Ray Collins at al.
Boy, those original mothers gave him plenty. Swap them for the squealing of Napoleon Murphy Brock and so on? No thanks.
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Most over-rated IMO: Pulp Fiction (or pretty much any Tarantino film TBH). I just don't get what people like in his movies.
Worst recent movie rented: Shattered. FF'd through most of it.
Worst single scene that ruined (an already bad) movie: Face/Off. C'mon, the wife wouldn't have recognized the difference between Cage (~190 lbs?) and Travolta (~230 lbs) when having sex?
Worst movie I actually (begrudgingly, BIL wanted to see it as couples) saw in a theatre: Another Travolta... wow, he's made 3 on this short list of mine. Anyway, the one with Halle Barry. A waste of time IMO.
Can't figure a "worst movie".
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Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
just about any movie with:
Pauly Shore
Will Ferrell
Jack Black
Adam Sandler
I thought those were pretty cool flicks. Nacho Libre, that's another matter.
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With a red and blue tatoo
That says
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I was very reluctant to see this but my wife really wanted to and I was feeling guilty from a recent argument so....(how do they get us to feel guilty even if we're right anyway?) This waste of celluloid has set new standards for lousy films. Google "Lily Tomlin outburst" to see why this movie should've never been released.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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I think the worst movie I've ever "tried" to watch was the 1998 rendition of "The Avengers" with Uma Thurman and Sean Connery.
It's the only film I've ever rated 1 on IMDB.
Some people tend to rate things a 10 if the like and 1 if they don't. I've only give about 8 out of several hundred I've rated a 10 and The Avengers is the only film I've given a 1.
I 2nd to that. Others in my list include Mars Attack and Ace Ventura.
Sure, there's plenty of lousy "B" films out there, but these two weren't low budget jobs.
Honorable mentions (also non-low budget):
POTC, part 2 (ain't even going to waste a Netflix rental watching Part 3)
The Polar Express- for it's portrayal of Santa Claus as a near deity.
Troy- a lousy rewrite to showcase Pitt
Kingdom of Heaven- for it's revisionist history
300- for denigrating the bravery of the Spartans by making this cartoon of a movie.
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Twisted ending aside, I thought Del Toro and Spacey were very good, certainly at least worth watching.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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all movies with Jean Claude Van Damme.
To infinity and beyond!!!
he never gets hurt badly. The acting is wooden and those usual flicks/moves...It seems nothing bad will happen with him around who is always so cool....As for Jean Claude Van Damme, the perennial stretching exercises again???....oh...come on....
..by a stuntman off camera.
Jean Claude coke snorting figment of imagination, who never competed in martial arts competetion.
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... I had the distinct intuition about it that you state here. "An elegant lie". I don't care to see it at all.
Its very well done, intelligent, visually sophisticated and multilayered.
merchant-Ivory it is not. Joe Wright is the real deal.
what point you're trying to convey to me.Respects for your opinion regarding the quality and character of the film. I take it you've seen it and speak out of that experience.
Of course. Why see a movie unless expecting to enjoy it for your own reasons, on your own terms?
Like you I watch 150-200 films per year. I may see Atonement someday. Right now there are 200+ in queue. A quick judgement based on the trailer works for me.
Got any suggestions that are not in the mainstream? A quick look in archives will show you my taste.
Cheers.
Terror Beneath The Sea. Unintentionally like Woody Alllen's Whats Up Tiger Lily. Without the wit.
The Brain Eaters. Devestatingly bad. Really, its worth a look just to see HOW F'ing bad.
The Curse Of The Living Corpse. Actually has Roy Scheider in it. Probably not on his resume.
There's a muscle on her arm
With a red and blue tatoo
That says
Fort Worth I love you
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