Posted on 01/06/2010 9:42:42 AM PST by ctdonath2
In the spirit of the current thread "Best Films of all Time?", I just have to ask for the other end of the spectrum.
I don't mean "Night of the Lupus", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", or other standard bad/forgettable films. I don't mean just box-office flops. I want to see tour-de-force bad.
I can see at least a dozen films up-thread that are far better.
Ishtar!
I stank up the theater.
Birth ..... Nicole Kidman (2004)
Nicole Kidman in bathtub scene with young boy (who she thought was her dead husband)
Has anyone ever watched it sober?
I did that is how it got on my list. It has been years but I bet I could still quote 90% of the film, and get the props in the right place.
...and of course:
King Kong- starring Jessica Lange
and
King Kong Lives-starring Linda Hamilton
I believe that the youg boy’s name in the Nicole Kidman movie was Woody.
The best part about watching it in Florida back in the day was when everyone shouted out “FSU....FSU....Where the Girls are Girls, and the guys are too!”
My nominee would be “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens.” I was introduced to this “classic” during a Bad Film course in College.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078846/
My husbands nomination is “Alone in the Dark” with Christian Slater http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/
The subject of gynecological instruments for mutant women was not amusing?
In my time, I've walked out of Boeing Boeing, Wait Until Dark, Natural Born Killers, and Enchanted April. There were only those four because I am normally careful about what I see. For instance, anything with Meryl Streep is out of the question.
Ishtar!
I stank up the theater.
Oooops, the movie stank even worse. damn keyboard.
Who was cast in that one? I've seen a related TV movie titled The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, which came from another chapter of the same book that yielded "A Christmas Story". It wasn't bad, considering an obviously thin budget.
Has everyone forgotten the masterpiece brought to the big screen by the immortal Yahoo Serious?Of course,I refer to:
“Young Einstein”
I’d listen to Hillary Clinton speeches for twelve hours straight if it meant I’d never have to watch “Napolean Dynamite” again. My wife and son loved it. I was left thinking “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???” That was ninety minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Yep - if not for getting to see Woody Harrelson blow his own @ss off with a hand grenade, that film wouldn't have a single redeeming moment. Fortunately, you can now just watch that one good part on YouTube. ;-)
Star Trek — The Motion Picture. The scene with Spock crying was more than I could bear. I had to leave the living room. I should add that Hubby and son would disagree.
My nominee is Easy Rider. Hubby insisted I see it, because “it’s a classic.” I should have turned it off, but I kept hoping it would get better, start to have a plot, better acting, something, ANYTHING.
I’m convinced I lost points off my IQ from watching it.
“Highlander II is the only movie that i walked out of.”
Same here. And that was back when I was in school, and I rarely went to a movie.
“I think i lasted 40 mins. 30 mins too late if you ask me”
Yep
“Ah, The good old UMASS days.....”
I also was with a group of college mates.
We could start a thread: “Where were you when you walked out of Highlander 2.”
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