Worst movies ever....

[pezagent]

Let's see...I also hated Blade Runner. I got the director's cut on DVD because everyone said it was a "must own" for the new format. That movie was soooo stupid. Maybe I'm just pissed that I spent money on it, who knows?

Oh no! Blade Runner is the quintessential sci-fi movie!

The special effects--All shot with models and matte paintings, composited with optical printers! No computers used at all. If you ever get a chance to see pictures of the model of Los Angeles, it's quite intense.

The editing is incredible. All done before non-linear editing was available. What a chore!

The Vangelis (that's a hard G, by the way) soundtrack is beautiful--composed with analog synths at the time. He didn't release it until the DVD came out. Before that, fans were faced to listen to the "New Light Orchestra."

The quotes pulled from that movie are great... Did you get your precious... photos? I want more life, er.

Rutger Hauer gives the performance of his lifetime as Roy Batty... Daryl Hannah will always be Pris, and Harrison Ford in his first and only role with a crew cut.

Yes, the script has flaws, but that's what gives it charm. There's a lot more soul in Blade Runner than there ever will be in movies to come. Computers make everything so simple these days--take the new Star Wars films, which I consider to be amongst the worst ever made--nothing but CGI! I could have killed Lucas for ruining the original Star Wars movies with his digital "remakes". Ruins the whole thing.

Blade Runner represents a moment in sci-fi history that was captured by a very talented and imaginative crew. You'll never see that caliber of work done on a movie ever again. Not even in LOTR.

I believe one must watch BR for what it achieved at the time it was made, not in the context of the films being made today. It's age is certainly starting to show, but one must also remember how much Blade Runner influenced almost every sci-fi movie ever made after it's release.

/johnny

 

[TracerBullet42]

I now will give props to ENWorld for actually having a very entertaining, informative Worst Movies Ever thread that actually targets some BAD movies.

Yeah...that's right...go me. I started this thread...

(Pats self on back...)

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Don't know if its been mentioned yet, but there is a movie called "Druids" with Christopher Lambert. I actually rented it, and couldn't watch more than the first half hour. It might have gotten better later, but I'll never know.


I'd also vote for the DnD movie. When walking out of the theater, one of our group even said "Ok. That is now the worst movie I've ever seen."

 

[pezagent]

Well, after discussing it at work this evening, I have decided to put the following on this list:

Matrix: Revolutions <-- the biggest letdown since New Coke.
All new Star Wars movies <-- George Lucas forgets how lucky he was with the original, once thinking it would bomb...
Signs <-- craptacular, I'd rather read Alan Moore's toilet journal.
Waterworld <-- one of the worst movies ever made by man at that price.
Anything with the word "Police Academy" in the title <-- this should be obvious...
Evolution<-- honestly, why did they waste their money making this?
Vanilla Sky <-- Cruise Crap. Take some LSD instead, you'll thank me.
Minority Report <-- Speilberg should have stopped at the 3rd Kind and thanked us for loving ET.
Murder by Numbers <-- I was bored, I'm in New Zealand, there's not much choice, I rented it, I barely watched it, amen.

and finally

What about Bob? <-- suddenly this pops to mind as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I think this movie helped break up my first marriage...

/johnny

 

[Null Boundry]

Another horrible film: Day of the Dead. I watched about an hour of it, but between the stereotype characters portrayed by individuals that may have flunked out of acting school, a piss-poor script and thinning plot line, I could only take so much.

There is a secret to watching this film.

Watch it on fast forward.

It actually comes across quite well and will save you a few hours of your life. Fair enough you lose the spoken parts but hey some prices are worth paying.

 

[WizarDru]

Now what the heck is "At Long Last Love", and why does it sound somewhat familiar?

Well, here's the IMDB entry for said movie.

A musical with Burt Reynolds and Cybil Sheppard, doing Cole Porter tunes directed by Peter Bogdanavich. Yeah, that looks like a recipe for a train wreck, all right. Never seen it, myself, but IMDB reviewers make it clear that a musical with dancing should have people who can sing and dance in the lead roles. Apparently Madeline Khan is the only saving grace to it.

Personally, I agree that many folks are confusing "disappointing" and "I didn't like it" with genuinely bad movies, of which many are made every year. I mean, "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" is abysmally bad....but did anyone actually think it was meant to be anything but? The problem may be one with defining what a bad movie actually is.

Clearly, a film like "Highlander II" is bad in a wholly different way than, say "The Guardian". And both of these are not nearly the howlers that "MetalStorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn (in 3D!)" or "Cherry 2000" or "Demon Island" are...in completely different ways. In the case of "The Guardian", I got a free preview ticket to go see it...and I felt like I had been cheated out of my valuable time. If I had realized at the time that it was directed by William Friedkin, I would have been doubly irritated that it was so awful.

Picking a Worst Movie Ever to me is like choosing maggoty bread over black, rotten fruit....I can't tell you which is worse, just that they all revile me.

 

[Dirigible]

Ahh, this thread has dug up so many wonderful supressed memories. Gems of utter, utter awfulness.

Can't stop the music -w/ The Village people no less

Ugh. Every millisecond of that movie felt like a concerted attack on my heterosexuality.

Halloween III was pretty bad. As far as I know, it was the only one in the series not to feature Michael Myers. Or be related to the others in any way. No, instead we get some druids with a pointless plot to make kids heads explode into swarms of scoprions and snakes.

Oooh, ooh! Hydrosphere! Malcolm McDowell on a sci-fi (aquatic) ship that works like an 1800's ship, and has a feotus-in-a-bottle for a computer!

 

[pezagent]

Well, here's the IMDB entry for said movie.

Personally, I agree that many folks are confusing "disappointing" and "I didn't like it" with genuinely bad movies, of which many are made every year.

What's the confusion?

I agree with you--there are obviously bad movies, some of which are so bad they're good, i.e. cult classics like Plan 9, of course. So are we talking about movies that are supposed to be good or made to go straight to video--or worse yet, shot straight in video? My idea of a bad movie is a movie that has spent too much money on itself, too much time on itself, wasted other people's time and money, and shouldn't have been made in the first place. However, I think movies that are made with a sort of "we know this is going to suck but we have to make it anyway" deserve some merit and usually end up, as has been mentioned, on the USA network (boy do I miss that channel).

Should there be a "new" criteria for "worst movie" selection? There are bad movies, some movies are just absurd, and some are campy or silly. Some are serious efforts that result in garbage. I think anything that has A-list actors in it that hypes itself 'til Tuesday should be slammed at all costs--and the producers strung up by their Gucci shoelaces. Indy productions should be thrown a bone or laughed at if necessary.

Of course, I'm just making this up as I go along, but you may catch my drift...

/johnny

 

[pezagent]

Oh wait a minute, after all that rambling, I forgot that all they play on the Sky network in New Zealand is bad. There was this movie with Donald Sutherland and Jamie Lee Curtis about a ship that finds an abandoned science vessel and some robot crap takes over or something really super-bad. See, in the States, they would probably show that once on USA. Here, in New Zealand, Sky actually promoted the movie and showed it daily. This is why I don't subscribe to New Zealand digital TV.

/johnny

 

[Dirigible]

There was this movie with Donald Sutherland and Jamie Lee Curtis about a ship that finds an abandoned science vessel and some robot crap takes over or something really super-bad.

Virus. Another stake hammered into Mr Sutherland's blackened, withered heart.

It depresses me I can remember the name of that atrocsious drekheap.