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Mon 24 May, 2004 07:56 am
Often times people ask "what's your favorite....?"
This has probably been asked here before, but not by me, so it didn't count. What's the worst movie you can remember watching?
For me, it was so bad, it was actually good, because I was laughing so much. The other night, my roomate and myself were scanning the On Demand selections, and ran across "Jason X." Reading the description about how Jason becomes frozen, then thawed out by students in 2455 and goes on a killing spree on their spaceship, it was a must-watch.
For instance, Jason throws a guy off a platform on this huge corkscrew-looking thing protruding from the floor. The guy falls on it, and spins down it. When he's found, his co-worker says, "he's screwed." Great stuff. The special effects were pretty low budget too. It was way too cheesy of a movie not to laugh at.
Worst movie for me? That amateur porno you released with the midgets, orphans and a llama.
Ishtar. Nothing else comes close.
Well, "Plan Nine From Outer Space" is the official worst movie ever made, but I thought it was pretty good for the budget.
There's worst movies that are fun and worst that are excruciating. In the painful-waste of money category...there's The Waterboy
You have to be kidding me. Waterboy? That movie is great. But from what I've seen, Adam Sandler is a love/hate thing.
Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
Exactly right Slappy;Sandler issues. And what was Kathy Bates thinking?
So bad it's good, shouldn't count as the worst. The worst in my experience were "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Eraserhead." I was at a party where "Eraserhead" was shown on video, and after about 10 or 15 minutes, the crowd screamed "stop this movie at once!" which the host did.
I thought these were particularly loathsome:
Bird on a Wire
--Goldie Hawn pushing the cute ingenue button once too often, looking older and less pretty than co-star Mel Gibson, mistaking manic activity for comedy.
The First Wives Club
--a laundry list of female grievances against evil husbands falling for younger women, cloaks itself in self-righteous indignation and an assumption of shared values, devolves into an emotionally empty revenge fantasy.
What Dreams May Come
--sappy new age treacle that betrays its own dubious premise of eternal joy in heavens of our own making when our heroes opt to have another go at life.
If I had to pick one, it would be Bird on a Wire.
The worst movies are those that make a pretense of being good.
i am having a particularly 'good' time with 'bad' movies lately; i have found that "Honest Ed" entrepreneur to the 'stars' in the TO neighbourhood, has old vhs movies for sale, so cheap that renting a movie no longer crosses my mind.
And the competition for worst, is decidedly 'heating up'!
So far see if you can find "Baja" with Molly Ringwald, and Lance Hendriksen;
a 'hit man' genre tour de force in which 'nothing' happens very melodramatically! (for a very long time
).
The worst movie ever is seldom the one that was so bad it's good and becomes a cult classic. The worst movie can be a B film that wasn't made for anything other than Hollywood filler for the theaters in the 30's and 40's (disappearing in the 50's). It can also be one with high asperations and also a remake like "The Haunting" that is so overdone it falls flat on its face. I could also put "The Passion" in that category.
The worst movie that I would avoid and is repeated on cable enough to make me ill is "Rollerball." (Both the original and the remake).
GlenGary-GlenRoss bit the big one.
Glengarry Glenn Ross? You're no a disgruntled boiler room salesman are you?
A great movie.
Glengarry. What a great script. Mamet wasn't it? Baldwin, Spacey, Lemmon...they all did great work. But hey, that's what makes this a great thread.
Lightwizard wrote:.......The worst movie that I would avoid and is repeated on cable enough to make me ill is "Rollerball." (Both the original and the remake).
well finally! we disagree.
I loved "Rollerball", the original, many years ago, and haven't seen it since; but i have not seen the remake, nor do i intend to.
I was looking for a spoof called "Bowler Ball" where the actors tried to knock each other down with bowling balls. As much as it's been on cable, there's no excuse not seeing it again. That's the measure of a good film -- one you see again and again. I think you might be forgetting how bad it was.
Glengary??? One of my favorite all time movie scenes...Alec Baldwin tearing everyone up. That's a GREAT movie, especially if you like sales. Al Pacino is money in that.
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