reapersaurus said:
It's always amazing to me how people can fool themselves into saying (with any shred or pretense of objectivity) that films like Pirates of the Carribean and Contact could be some of the worst movies ever made.
Similarly, some of the movies listed here are not nearly a "worst movie ever", simply they are a movie that you hate, or a movie that many people like that you harbor a dark spot in your heart for (Fargo, Contact, PotC, etc).
There's a big difference.
Good and bad is subjective. The English Patient, Gosford Park, Gladiator, and Titanic all simulaneously landed on both best and worst of the year lists by major film critics. Hell, Gladiator, TEP, and Titanic won Oscars and GP was nominated for one.
Ebert even said before Gladiator won that if it did it would be the worst film to ever win an Oscar. And he
loved Speed 2.
For me, I can't understand why people think Peter Jackson is such a great director. Fellowship of the Rings was okay, imo, and I actually kind of liked Two Towers, but I don't think he shot either film all that well. The first one was nearly as bad as the "wipe, 45 degree camera angle, blue filter" style of Battlefield: Earth with it's sweeping helicopter shots for practically every establishing shot.
And TT had more than a few scenes that were downright laughable, like the heroes standing at the top of a hill, looking down it, and then running and hiding while an army rides past them, unawares. Um, how did the army miss them if they were standing on the top of the hill and, judging from the time it took for the soldiers to reach them, they must have only been 30 feet away?
