Desdichado
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Eh, it had the most potential, but I thought it ultimately failed to deliver. I hated the cut-scene, hand-held camera work all the time, which made it impossible to ever actually see what was going on.Mystery Man said:
The stupidest movie ever!
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Well, I have racked my brain for... oh, several minutes now to come up with the stupidest ever. What I can provide are the three movies that I managed to think of that really, truly, honestly, were the most UNFORGIVABLY bad movies. Movies that might have been even so lowly as barely tolerable but simply cannot be forgiven for being as bad as they were. So bad that production should have NEVER been completed much less the results foisted on a paying public. UNFORGIVABLE.
Highlander 2
The Avengers
Hollow Man
These were movies with NO WORTHY EXCUSE to have been as bad as they were. They had significant budgets, talented actors, a devoted fanbase... or at least two out of three of these. These were movies which writers, directors, producers, actors and studios should have PUBLICLY AND HUMBLY APOLOGIZED FOR because they were inexcusably pathetic. And what's more they CHARGED people to see them. Endeavored to keep their SHAMEFUL efforts a secret for as long as possible in order to defraud the public out of money. Knowingly foisting upon ua films that in no way could be legitimately described as "entertainment". These movies failed in every way to be entertaining.
There are probably more that I would add to the list but movies THIS bad, this EGGREGIOUS, are rare and fortunately I seldom get tricked into seeing them in a theater. It's one thing for a movie to have no budget and be UNDERSTANDABLY awful. For untalented actors to drag a production into the ground. For producers to have been stupid enough, or desperate enough to back projects that they COULD have known to be unworthy. Plan 9 can be excused because Ed Wood WAS the world's worst director ever. But to have so much potential, so much money wasted by otherwise talented people who SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, who should have PERFORMED better at their jobs, and then still did their level best to lie to the public in order to get us to pay for the EXPENSES OF THEIR ABJECT FAILURE.
It takes a special movie to earn that quality - UNFORGIVABLE.
Highlander 2
The Avengers
Hollow Man
These were movies with NO WORTHY EXCUSE to have been as bad as they were. They had significant budgets, talented actors, a devoted fanbase... or at least two out of three of these. These were movies which writers, directors, producers, actors and studios should have PUBLICLY AND HUMBLY APOLOGIZED FOR because they were inexcusably pathetic. And what's more they CHARGED people to see them. Endeavored to keep their SHAMEFUL efforts a secret for as long as possible in order to defraud the public out of money. Knowingly foisting upon ua films that in no way could be legitimately described as "entertainment". These movies failed in every way to be entertaining.
There are probably more that I would add to the list but movies THIS bad, this EGGREGIOUS, are rare and fortunately I seldom get tricked into seeing them in a theater. It's one thing for a movie to have no budget and be UNDERSTANDABLY awful. For untalented actors to drag a production into the ground. For producers to have been stupid enough, or desperate enough to back projects that they COULD have known to be unworthy. Plan 9 can be excused because Ed Wood WAS the world's worst director ever. But to have so much potential, so much money wasted by otherwise talented people who SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, who should have PERFORMED better at their jobs, and then still did their level best to lie to the public in order to get us to pay for the EXPENSES OF THEIR ABJECT FAILURE.
It takes a special movie to earn that quality - UNFORGIVABLE.
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Captain Howdy
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Omote said:
GAH! Another vote for Lost Highway??? Can't a director do anything creative without being put down by people?
I still insist that anyone who thinks the movie is stupid just doesn't get it... :\ (all opinions aside of couse. everyone is free to have their opinion and say the movie sucks... but it's nowhere near the neighborhood of stupid.)
Narfellus
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Howdy, I have to agree with others that i did not by any stretch like or enjoy Lost Highway. Was it BAD? Bad as in incomprehensible...yes. If i watch a movie for 2 hours i want to understand what happened. Could you PLEASE shed some light in your opinion as to what that movie was about if you know?
Oh man oh man...Redneck Zombies. YEah, it was bad, but funny bad as in it KNEW it was bad and wasn't striving for anything more than cheap cheap zombie entertainment.
Oh man oh man...Redneck Zombies. YEah, it was bad, but funny bad as in it KNEW it was bad and wasn't striving for anything more than cheap cheap zombie entertainment.
Thotas
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yep, I'm going to join those who defend "Zardoz" as an interesting experiment, that does actually entertain at some moments.
Some of the others mentioned, however ... it's hard to say what's more irredeemable. Supergirl ... I rewatched it on TV once to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Turned out that not only were the really bad moments still there, the ones in between were much more boring than I remembered.
The Avengers ... my DVDs of Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg have helped me recover, thankfully.
I know lots of people who say they like Willow. For the life of me, I never know how they figure that.
I've never seen The Core, I admit; I heard about it and decided to show some respect for the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum.
Lost in Space was evil.
If Waterworld wasn't the stupidest movie of all time, it certainly set the record for demonstrating that it would be stupid early in the show. Hey, Kevin! That water filter thing you're using in the opening scene? Wouldn't you feel a lot better using some of that omnipresent saltwater than recycling your own????
I didn't see Matrix 2 or 3. That's because I hated the first one so much. Yes, I said it. I hate the Matrix, thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'm a heretic, a blasphemer. When it came out on video, I tried giving it another go since everyone else seemed to love it so much. Maybe I missed something? Nope, just like Supergirl, even worse the second time.
And as long as I'm trashing movies with Keanu in them, let me add a flick nobody else has mentioned: The Gift. Really bad show.
Some of the others mentioned, however ... it's hard to say what's more irredeemable. Supergirl ... I rewatched it on TV once to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Turned out that not only were the really bad moments still there, the ones in between were much more boring than I remembered.
The Avengers ... my DVDs of Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg have helped me recover, thankfully.
I know lots of people who say they like Willow. For the life of me, I never know how they figure that.
I've never seen The Core, I admit; I heard about it and decided to show some respect for the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum.
Lost in Space was evil.
If Waterworld wasn't the stupidest movie of all time, it certainly set the record for demonstrating that it would be stupid early in the show. Hey, Kevin! That water filter thing you're using in the opening scene? Wouldn't you feel a lot better using some of that omnipresent saltwater than recycling your own????
I didn't see Matrix 2 or 3. That's because I hated the first one so much. Yes, I said it. I hate the Matrix, thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'm a heretic, a blasphemer. When it came out on video, I tried giving it another go since everyone else seemed to love it so much. Maybe I missed something? Nope, just like Supergirl, even worse the second time.
And as long as I'm trashing movies with Keanu in them, let me add a flick nobody else has mentioned: The Gift. Really bad show.
drnuncheon
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D+1 said:
How anyone can talk about great car chases without even mentioning the Blues Brothers is beyond me.
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Tyler Do'Urden
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Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
Au Contraire! The main reason people didn't care for 2 and 3 was that they did watch them with their brains off- and both movies are extremely "brains on". The first Matrix film was extremely Manichean, good vs. evil- the second and third revealed that we live in a much more complicated world, a multi-layered, multi-dimensioned reality. The first movie was pure gnostic ascent- the second and third were about integration. I got this- and was nothing short of blown away by them. Of course, I'd read the relevant philosophers and scientists that the Wachowskis borrowed from...
Watch them with the commentaries in the ultimate boxed set, they're much more understandable that way (if you can follow Dr. West and Mr. Wilber, that is). Oh, and make sure you've seen The Second Renaissance- that helps as well.
(Someone on this thread ridiculed The Second Renaissance- they've gotta be out of their fleepin minds! That was the most terrifying twenty minutes of animated footage I've ever seen in my life... the sheer feeling of desolation at human stupidity, the Buddhist imagery, the machines as protagonists... wow...)
But yeah, the Matrix sequels are great films, and I don't get why folks think otherwise...
