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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: dead

The Blair Witch Project was the most profitable movie ever made.


101 posted on 09/28/2005 9:41:42 AM PDT by Grand Old Partisan
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To: Pharmer
Titanic. This film was a disaster (get it?).

I remember watching it, thinking "Just sink already."

102 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: uncbob

I would respectfully disagree. In "A Few Good Men," the military was portrayed as, for the most part, an ethical institution (Cruise, Bacon, both the younger marines, Moore and Pollack) that was capable of weeding out the corrupt colonel. The only area where I think it strayed into typical liberal agitprop was the need to make Keifer Sutherland's psycho Lt. into a born again Christian.


103 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:23 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: pabianice
Okie:

Class 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Ugh.

Class 2: Stone Mountain. Double Ugh.

Class 3: Legends of the Fall, Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Shootmenow Ugh.

104 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:25 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Pharmer

I'm still wondering how the Aviator won the Oscar. Worst winner in some time...


105 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:35 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: pabianice

"The Choirboys": One of the first of the "Take a Decent Book Then Hack And Slash It Into Irrlevance" Movies.

Joe Wambaugh was absolutely right to have his name removed from this poorly written, acted and directed piece of cinematic dreck that even James Woods, Don Stroud and Louis Gossett Jr. couldn't pull up from the sewer!

Special Category: "Full Metal Jacket": Kubrick should have stayed stuck to Gus Hasford's "The Short Timers" as he had for 3/4 of the novel (Which is superb!) as it was written!

Having Joker, Cowboy and the Lust Hog Squad sent to Khe Sahn. Where the squad falls victim to another ambush where Doc is shot. Cowboy goes after him and is shot. Joker takes charge, decides not to risk any more men and shoots Cowboy dead!

"Hedwig and The Angry Inch": A very popular IFC film. Though, I just can't get the hang of a rock band with John Cameron Mitchell in drag leading it. Far too pretentious for its own good.

Jack.


106 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:43 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: pabianice
BTW... my "moments" based on the classes:

  1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- College. Trying to impress cute girl who liked the "Turtles". 'Nuff said.

  2. The Bourne Identity -- After faithfully following the book for about 15 minutes, they throw the rest of it out the window, turn the good guys into the bad guys, and completely replace the major point of conflict in the story. Would have been a class 3 if Mrs. kevkrom (who never read the book) hadn't been enjoying herself.

  3. None -- I can't recall ever walking out of a theater; if the movie is that bad, I stay to mock it.

107 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:48 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Political looters" should be shot on sight)
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To: I still care

I just watched Canstantine last night. I like dark movies, and it's pretty much all about dark.


108 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:49 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Borges

I don't remember the novel saying anything about the pre-positioned war machines.


109 posted on 09/28/2005 9:42:53 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush and the Gulf Coast.)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy
good song by coolio though.


110 posted on 09/28/2005 9:43:06 AM PDT by Sloth (We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
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To: pabianice

The worst movie ever made: AMERICAN MOVIE
Amazon.com essential video
Struggling filmmaker Mark Borchardt is the subject of American Movie, and he may also be the most determined man you'll ever meet. The straggly haired, fast-talking, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, native lists his greatest influences as Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He began making horror movies as a gangly adolescent, and is now set on finishing Coven (which he pronounces like "woven"), the "35-minute direct market thriller" he has worked on for two years. In the process, he steadfastly battles immense debt, the threat of losing his kids, and birds chirping gleefully through scenes set in the dead of winter. His mother would rather do her shopping than be an extra, his brother contends he's best suited for factory work, and his father just wants him to "watch the language."
Standing by him through it all is Mark's childhood buddy, Mike Schank, who is the strongest weapon against drug use a task force could ever hope for, and Uncle Bill, begrudging financier of Coven, who appears to be wasting away before our very eyes. In less perceptive hands these two could easily become caricatures--the burnt-out stoner and the crotchety old coot--but through director Chris Smith's lens we see why Mark loves them, why they love Mark, and why each of these stories is uniquely compelling.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the film has been compared to Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman--two unquestionably hilarious mock-documentaries--and, indeed, American Movie has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. But in the spoofs, we feel encouraged to point and giggle at the poor slobs trying to get a piece of the action. Smith, however, offers us a funny and overwhelmingly affectionate portrait; you may sit down expecting to laugh at Mark's pie-in-the-sky hopes, but you soon find yourself bursting with admiration. "The American dream stays with me each and every day," Mark says, and by the end, we want nothing more than for it to come true. (The DVD version includes the complete short film "Coven.") --Brangien Davis


111 posted on 09/28/2005 9:43:22 AM PDT by Tugo (The worst)
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Two favorite scenes from Sid n Nancy:
Nancy calling her mother from a pay phone in London telling her she's married and to send money and the part where the kid is getting picked on in the vacant lot, Sid comes to save the day, and ALL the kids run away when he sayd "I'm Sid Vicious".

Someone stole my copy of Sid and Nancy a long time ago and I ache for it to this day. Sighs while waxing nostalgiacally.

BTW, Central Scrutinizer, is that screen name a throw to Zappa's Joe's Garage??? It's got some lazy neurons snapping in my head and I'm not so sure.


112 posted on 09/28/2005 9:43:42 AM PDT by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: Woman on Caroline Street
How bout this category- "The Date Killer". This is a movie that is so bad, you feel guilty that your date paid 8.50 for you to see it, and what makes the situation "killer" is that they recommended something else but deferred to your "good" judgment.

"Mystery Men." She suggested it, I paid. Never went out with her again.

113 posted on 09/28/2005 9:43:53 AM PDT by Clemenza (Giuliani endorsed Clinton and Cuomo)
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To: pabianice

Class 3: Can't remember the title but it was the movie 3-4 years about a reunion of a folk singing group. I rented it but it was so bad I pulled it out after about 30 min. Whole story line was the same tedious joke or it seemed like it to me.


114 posted on 09/28/2005 9:44:03 AM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: Borges
WOTW was also superb though.

Superb? Maybe if you have the hots for Tom Cruise.

I went to see it with some friends, and told others to rent the video. The 1950s version, that is. End to end, it was so chock full of ludicrous happenings (scientific impossibilities, continuity problems, unexplained scenes) that I thought Ed Wood had directed this thing.

115 posted on 09/28/2005 9:44:10 AM PDT by ssaftler ("Where are the Greyhound Buses?" - Ray Nagin)
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To: gopwinsin04

It didn't win.


116 posted on 09/28/2005 9:45:03 AM PDT by Borges
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To: pabianice

I agree, the original was a metaphor for the Post War/Cold War world. A warning which we have failed to heed.

The remake would have been a good movie had the original never existed.


117 posted on 09/28/2005 9:45:03 AM PDT by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: nomorelurker

"A Mighty Wind" or "Waiting on Guffman"....something like that? Both total parodies...bad, but funny.


118 posted on 09/28/2005 9:45:49 AM PDT by americanMel
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To: pabianice

Prelude to a Kiss - was on a date (thought it would be a good date movie) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Chariots of Fire - Heard all the hype, then stunned by the sheer boredom of it!

Most anything with Will Smith in it. Talk about ham-handed acting! And that black ghetto schtick is getting really old. Hey Will, that was funny 20 years ago in that TV sitcom, now get over it!


119 posted on 09/28/2005 9:45:53 AM PDT by Obadiah (Deuteronomy 6:5)
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To: Conservomax
Class 3: XXX State of the Union - Sequel with Ice Cube, one of the worst most degenerate movies I have ever seen. it was so shamelessly overly targeted to inner city blacks that I almost went on welfare after i saw it on my plane

BWAHHHAAA! Reminds me of how I felt about "2 Fast, 2 Furious" which I "watched" with my nephews.

120 posted on 09/28/2005 9:45:53 AM PDT by Clemenza (Giuliani endorsed Clinton and Cuomo)
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