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i saw jurassic park 3 the other night, and i thought it was a dreadful movie. what other dreadful movies have there been? put your worst movie's of all time here. and have you ever walked out of the cinema because the films was so bad, if so what was it
thanks
i forgot the mummy returns and pearl harbour. batman and robin, and of course the matrix(i have to ask do we need 2 more, of this dreadful film, when one was bad enough)
I would never walk out of the cinema because I might as well as see it to the end. It is the same if I have a movie on DVD - I nearly did it though with Tomb Raider, only Ms Jolie kept me watching! :nuts: . I even sat through the real life horror of Scream 3 somehow - only to see if they would actually get radical and not just have a random drawing of a killer! :D
Davester
07-02-2002, 13:12
Green mile, catsaway, saving private ryan (see a rule?!)
Black hawk down, I know what you did last summer, blair witch, mission to mars, exec decision, thats all for now but I'll remember more soon.
John316 Scream3 did have jay and bob in itif only for 30 seconds.
Davester Green mile, is a great film. but the others you are dead right
Dan Druff
07-02-2002, 13:18
Soldier, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Judge Dredd, Highlander 2, Sneakers.. I hate them all.
indiana jones and the last crusade why do you hate this one, the others i can say yes they are crap, but indy:confused:
Solaris. Pretentious pap. Maybe Soderbergh's remake will be more accessable. (I do like foreign, subtitled movies by the way)
cervaro i've never seen it.
Originally posted by homerj
John316 Scream3 did have jay and bob in it if only for 30 seconds
The only good bit bar Jenny McCarthy looking very fine in it - I knew it was trouble when the only good looking girl in the movie died early on!!! (Ms Cox looked awful in it so she don't count)
Scary Movie 2. F knows how I managed to let myself be persuaded to go and see this, but I felt a little part of me inside die after sitting through this toilet of a film. I haven't been the same since. :(
fudge you mean you didn't walk out. how could you sit though that film. hope you were tied to the chair.
Crash. Almost walked out the cinema but the fact that I had paid money for it made me try and enjoy it. I have never been so borded watching a film since.
After about 5 minutes I'd had enough - the next hour of the film was spent with the 'friend' ;) responsible for making us go and see this travesty apologising for the whole thing. I eventually managed to persuade everyone to leave. It still affects me to this day, I keep having flashbacks...
fudge: you should make your friend sit and watch pearl harbour.
jimmy-b i liked crash, but i must be the only one
2001 had far more dreadful films than any other in history. Off the top of my head, we have:
Mummy returns
Planet of the apes
Jeepers creepers
Driven
JP3
Fast and the furious
Swordfish
The animal
Tomb raider
my worst films are
The Thin Red Line - no matter how many times i try to watch this film i get severely bored and just want to throw a rock at the tv. If i had seen it in the cinema i doubt i would have lasted very long.
Scream 1,2 and 3 - The Scream films are absolutely bloody dreadful, all that self referential crap is really annoying. I wish Wes Craven made another Freddie Kruger film rather than one Scream film - at least just to give Robert Englund the work! :D
Originally posted by homerj
fudge: you should make your friend sit and watch pearl harbour.
Already seen that too - another 3 hours of my life gone...why do I let this happen?
nc your right 2001 was a bad year for films.
mr-woo i liked scream 1/2 and the thin red line.
fudge you should get new friends, and go and see good movies
Preacher
07-02-2002, 13:57
Commando. I waked out of this when the audience kept applauding everytime Arnie killed someone. Never watched another one of his films since :)
Originally posted by nc
2001 had far more dreadful films than any other in history. Off the top of my head, we have:
Mummy returns
Planet of the apes
Jeepers creepers
Driven
JP3
Fast and the furious
Swordfish
The animal
Tomb raider
I loved:
The Mummy Returns
POTA
JP 3
TFATF
Swordfish
Hated:
Tomb Raider
Not seen:
Jeepers Creepers (looks good though!)
The Animal (looks utter crud)
Driven
I must have strange movie tastes!
Originally posted by homerj
jimmy-b i liked crash, but i must be the only one
I remember reading a review for it in a film mag after seeing the film, it got top marks :confused: WTF. What really foxed me was that fact the reviewer said how clever the humor was. The only twisted humor I could see was the fact I had been conned out of £5.50 :(
Preacher commando is pure class, total **** but pure class.
john316 you've got bad taste alright, you need help if you like those films:D
it is very funny when you are conned out of £5.50 for crap movies
Originally posted by homerj
fudge you should get new friends, and go and see good movies
I've already ostracised them...mind you, I thought Godzilla was OK..
fudge godzilla is a bad movie alright but fun, and i did own this film
Originally posted by homerj
batman and robin
AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! - the sheer horror of it, get it away, GET IT AWAY!!!
Just thought of a few others:
Robocop 3
From Dusk till Dawn 2 + 3
Terminator 2 (I hate the Connors with a vengeance!!! :mad:)
Speed 2
Dan Druff
07-02-2002, 14:12
Originally posted by Homerj
indiana jones and the last crusade why do you hate this one, the others i can say yes they are crap, but indy
Yes you deserve reasons for why I think the movies are awful, especially that one (pardon me if I posted some of this b4 in other threads..).
Also these are movies I find personally awful, though they might be technically proficient.
Soldier
A boring big budget sci-fi film. Paul Anderson did bad.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Andie McDowell is a terrible actress, and the whole thing felt forced. Pushed the wrong buttons on me.
Judge Dredd
As a fan of the 2000AD character I was appalled at this sacrilege
Highlander 2
Just a badly made film, a poor continuation of a film with a good character
Sneakers
Too implausible ('Say.. passport' - right) and actually a bit of a mess
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The first time I saw this I thought 'yeah, enjoyable'. Now I see it as a poor mans Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Indy just getting off with the crap Alison Doody (nothing like the relationship with Marion in the first, which had depth), a 6' right handed Hitler, Sean Connery as his dad (he obviously became his father at age 7 or so. Not implausible actually as Connery says he first had sex at age 9), pretty badly done set pieces not a patch on the original (motor boat and tank vs the originals boulder, truck, Cairo scenes, Ark opening finale etc.), and a frankly weak ending:
Grail falls down a hole that conveniently opens up and the knight, happy with all this, waves them goodbye. OK.
Its awful in comparison to the original, and even on its own does not withstand repeat viewings. Batman released around the same time is far more interesting.
jimmy_b: now thats funny. batman and robin must be in the top 3 worst films of all time
i can't believe no one has said id4 yet, or hard target
jimmy-b dont forget the first speed that was crap to.
Michael Brooke
07-02-2002, 14:15
<B>Commando. I waked out of this when the audience kept applauding everytime Arnie killed someone. Never watched another one of his films since</B>
This is absolutely the only way to watch <I>Commando</I>, a film I’ve seen an embarrassing number of times and which I still find irresistibly funny.
I actually thought 2001 was a pretty good year for films… but then again, I gave up on big-budget Hollywood dreck years ago (I made the great mistake of seeing <I>Planet of the Apes</I>, which rather proved my point!). But any year that saw the release of <I>Amelie, Amores Perros, Blackboards, Ghost World, Ginger Snaps, Kandahar, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Moulin Rouge, The Others, Shrek, Tears of the Black Tiger</I> and the superb <I>Together</I>, just to name a dozen off the top of my head, is hardly a bad year!
Originally posted by Preacher
Commando. I waked out of this when the audience kept applauding everytime Arnie killed someone. Never watched another one of his films since :)
It is one of those movies that is deliberately bad - when Arnie is mowing down the soldiers at the end is a cinema classic!
i've seen commando over a 1000 times and it get's funnier every time i see it.
Preacher
07-02-2002, 14:26
Originally posted by homerj
i've seen commando over a 1000 times and it get's funnier every time i see it.
The humours obviously too sophisticated for me.:rolleyes: ;) :p .
preacher you should give the movie other go, what do you think?
Michael Brooke
07-02-2002, 14:34
<B>jimmy-b dont forget the first speed that was crap to.</B>
Personally, I thought <I>Speed</I> was absolutely superb – a model of how to make a perfect action movie that had all the right ingredients but which didn’t waste time over any of them. At the time, I thought Jan de Bont had a great future ahead of him, but unfortunately it seems to have been a one-off fluke in retrospect.
Bernardo Bertolucci once cited it as his favourite guilty pleasure of the 1990s, but I don’t see where the guilt comes in!
michael speed is crap, but i did like dennis hooper. i guess i just don't mr reeves. the only good movie he was in was point break
Originally posted by homerj
michael speed is crap, but i did like dennis hooper. i guess i just don't mr reeves. the only good movie he was in was point break
How could you not like Bill & Ted? Excellent (cue guitar riff!!:D )
Meet the Parents. Possibly the least funny 'comedy' ever made. I really can't describe how much I hated this film.
Bought it off someone on the forums, watched it & then took it into work until I could trade it, coz I didn't want to keep it in the house.
Originally posted by aprout
Meet the Parents. Possibly the least funny 'comedy' ever made. I really can't describe how much I hated this film.
Bought it off someone on the forums, watched it & then took it into work until I could trade it, coz I didn't want to keep it in the house.
Another great film - I loved it!
Mark Orme
07-02-2002, 14:56
Quite liked Mummy Returns and Scream 3, but for me the real baddies were Tomb Raider & Gone in 60 Seconds, Speed 2, The Thin Red Line. Worst ever, Awakenings and Flesh Gordon 2.
Preacher
07-02-2002, 14:57
Originally posted by homerj
preacher you should give the movie other go, what do you think?
No way. I can't stand watching Arnie films. It's the only thing I'm snobbish about films wise (that and the Phantom Menace!)
Originally posted by Michael Brooke
Personally, I thought <I>Speed</I> was absolutely superb – a model of how to make a perfect action movie that had all the right ingredients but which didn’t waste time over any of them.
Agree 100% - can't wait for the 5-Star Collection which should turn up later in the year (hopefully....). :D
Not really surprised to see some of the usual suspects being nominated, but I am surprised to see the likes of Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan etc get branded as being "dreadful" - next thing you know some people will be mentioning the likes of The Godfather, Citizen Kane, etc etc. :nuts:
Originally posted by Michael Brooke
<B>jimmy-b dont forget the first speed that was crap to.</B>
Personally, I thought <I>Speed</I> was absolutely superb – a model of how to make a perfect action movie that had all the right ingredients but which didn’t waste time over any of them. At the time, I thought Jan de Bont had a great future ahead of him, but unfortunately it seems to have been a one-off fluke in retrospect.
Bernardo Bertolucci once cited it as his favourite guilty pleasure of the 1990s, but I don’t see where the guilt comes in!
i'd definitely agree about Speed being a great film but I'd disagree about being the model of how to make a perfect action movie.
For me that honour belongs to Die Hard which grabs Speed by the nads and chucks it far, far way! :D
I always say how bad Batman and Robin is- singleing out Arnie in particular. But I actually watched it agin last night and yes Arnie sucked as did the rest of the cast, but the worst bit has to be when Alicia Silverstone finds out that Bruce Wayne and that other one is Batman and Robin- what emotion was she trying to express? It was like a mixture of laughing, mild shock and mostly gormlessness. dreadful
Speed was OK, but isn't good for repeat viewings and the train sequence is a bit poor.
I absolutely loathed Mission Impossible 2. The original was pretty entertaining, but MI2 was just just awful. Just a vehicle for Cruise to show off his glistening bronzed body in shot after shot of slo-mo fights (not to mention, slow motion shots of white doves and the like). And the number of times they used that 'Aha, it was a realistic mask - that fooled you!' trick was just ridiculous. The scenery was nice though.
Originally posted by Paul490
Speed was OK, but isn't good for repeat viewings and the train sequence is a bit poor.
I watch this movie at least once a year, but only when I visit my aunt's in Italy. Only a VHS copy and with english subtitles (originally sold as a language learning aid), but it's become an annual holiday tradition. Never tire of watching it, but must get around to watching the DVD edition some day! Will probably buy the R1 SE too that's due for release this year I think.
Originally posted by homerj
michael speed is crap
Who is michael speed?? And why is he crap??
Confucius
07-02-2002, 16:28
Bad Movies hmm?
Die Hard 2
Alien 3
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Any movie starring Dolph Lundgren or J-C V Damme.
Any of that kung fu nonsense
Most Sly Stallone films except First Blood
Introspective depressing low budget British movies about incest*
edit: another vote for MI2 & Speed 2
* don't get picky, you know the genre :rolleyes:
Originally posted by Confucius
Bad Movies hmm?
Any movie starring Dolph Lundgren or J-C V Damme.
I'm guessing Universal Soldier is a definite no-go for you then? :D
Originally posted by Confucius
Any of that kung fu nonsense
Do you mean you hate all Kung-Fu / martial arts films without exception? :eek:
Confucius
07-02-2002, 16:55
Universal soldier would not be top of my viewing list, though Mrs Confucius insists that I don't burn the DVD:rolleyes:
I'm just not in to martial arts films.
Originally posted by Confucius
Bad Movies hmm?
Die Hard 2
not as good as the first but certainly not a bad film as far as im concerned!
Joe Pasquale
07-02-2002, 17:41
3 from last year that I thought were extremely bad:
- 15 Minutes
That 'laugh where you shouldn't really' thread should have the whole script in it. I can't believe that DeNiro's Rocky+Bullwinkle can possibly be worse.
- Jeepers Creepers
Okay, and reasonably engaging first half hour... Once the two get to 'civilisation', it's gets bad, really bad. Would've worked much better if you never saw the 'badguy'. Worse than even the god-awful Scream 3 IMHO.
- Rock Star (copied from review forum)
I thought it was awful, already a very good contender for worst film of the year. Average performances all round (I agree no-one was 'bad') and you didn't 'feel' for the characters at all. Other than the round the table thing where the brother takes the mick, is there anywhere where you're supposed to start feeling sorry for the guy? Even in the ropey Planet Of The Apes Wahlberg was given much more to work with. I do enjoy a good comedy (I thought Rat Race was okay), and loved 'Almost Famous', but this was bad, extremely bad.
And, had to hark back to 'Airheads' during this film, 'Marky Mark, man that guy sucks', in a bizarre role reversal, I agree wholeheartedly.
and of course,The Matrix (http://thedvdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53716). :D
Originally posted by Confucius
Bad Movies hmm?
Die Hard 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Any of that kung fu nonsense
Die Hard 2 is my favourite DH movie - it kicks serious arse!
Temple of Doom - classic movie as are ALL the Indy movies. You may not like them but they are so well made you cannot pull them up on that!
Kung fu nonsense? - get a life mate, you cannot be a macho bloke if you don't like a Jackie Chan movie - a fact of life now mate! :D
Confucius
07-02-2002, 18:54
Problem with DH 2 is that I work in the aviation world, DH 2 is 'based' on aviation situations, DH2 gets everything to do with aviation wrong, therefore I think it's crap.
Indy 2 ain't worthy of being shown on my HT system, if eventually the 3 are only available as a box set someone can have it for free. It's all the fault of that irritating woman who keeps screamng and the 'jokey' (pain-in-the-ass) Asian-American kid, should've got eaten by insects the both of 'em.
kung fu stuff? You can keep it. Sweaty ballet dancing ponces!
Originally posted by Confucius
Problem with DH 2 is that I work in the aviation world, DH 2 is 'based' on aviation situations, DH2 gets everything to do with aviation wrong, therefore I think it's crap.
Indy 2 ain't worthy of being shown on my HT system, if eventually the 3 are only available as a box set someone can have it for free.
kung fu stuff? You can keep it. Sweaty ballet dancing ponces!
You think DH 2 is crap because it isn't realistic? :rolleyes:
I will have your free copy of Indy 2
And to describe Jackie Chan as ballet dancing ponce is someone who knows NOTHING about Martial Arts - surely you have respect for the men and women involved in these sort of movies??
Confucius
07-02-2002, 18:59
Yes. Since in other action flicks I may well know nothing about the reality of certain situations I am prepared to suspend belief. If I know something ain't right then I don't want to know. (I bought the DH 3 film set having 'pre-sold' DH2) The problem is that many situations in DH2 develop from an entirely false premise, including, and perhaps most importantly, the spectactular denouement.
Only if it's buy 3 or nothing - in which case my pleasure.
No respect. Cheap churn-'em-out-by-the-dozen flicks. Don't like Mr Woo's hollywood nonsense either (face/off, MI2, Broken Arrow)
Davester
07-02-2002, 19:06
GODFATHER P3 :mad:
AndyWilson
07-02-2002, 19:21
I really, really wanted to walk out of scary movie, but i was on a 747...
wong fei hong
07-02-2002, 19:23
Top Gun/Days of Thunder (interchangable)
The English Patient
Tomb Raider
Bridget Jones' Diary/Notting Hill/Four Weddings/Sliding Doors (see Top Gun)
all Van Damme movies except Hard Target - which is still pretty bad.
Originally posted by Confucius
Problem with DH 2 is that I work in the aviation world, DH 2 is 'based' on aviation situations, DH2 gets everything to do with aviation wrong, therefore I think it's crap.
Die Hard 2 is the weakest of the bunch by some way... but I don't think it's that bad. I work in aviation too, but I employ a tactic called willing suspension of disbelief. No, you can't reset an ILS to fool a landing pilot. No, you don't get huge vents in the middle of runways. But the film isn't really about all that anyway. It's about sweaty old Bruce shooting a whole lot of people. :D
Davester
07-02-2002, 20:01
Originally posted by AndyWilson
I really, really wanted to walk out of scary movie, but i was on a 747... no excuse
Antichrist
07-02-2002, 20:17
Waterworld, Crouching Tiger, Blair Witch 1, Batman Returns... I could go on a lot longer
Confucius
07-02-2002, 20:41
Originally posted by wong fei hong
It's about sweaty old Bruce shooting a whole lot of people. :D
Don't forget you gotta wear a vest whilst shooting peeps!
'Tis a fair point about what the film is about, but as per the original question - if you ask people what films they like/don't like you gotta expect some answers you don't like either.
wong fei hong
07-02-2002, 23:12
Originally posted by Confucius
Don't forget you gotta wear a vest whilst shooting peeps!
Agreed - it's pointless otherwise. :D
'Tis a fair point about what the film is about, but as per the original question - if you ask people what films they like/don't like you gotta expect some answers you don't like either.
Naturally - although it wasn't your dislike of the film I was commenting on, just your reasons for not liking it. :nuts:
Cirrus888
08-02-2002, 02:10
Blair witch project still haunts me until this day ... utter con job.
Speed while well paced is completely generic offering nothing new from the 200, 000 car movies that has been before it.
name me 10 'car' movies then.......
edit: plus Shaft has to be the worst movie ive ever seen as is pretty much every Van Damn movie.
plus i dont know what people have agains SPR, sure its smaltzy pro-american rubbish at the end, but the start and all the combat sequences made me have a new found respect for the men who fought in ww2.
RoboCop4
08-02-2002, 09:02
Just to add my twopenneth. Some (recent) cinematic experiences that I consider to be a waste of my time and money include:
• Existenz
• Species II
• Lost in Space
• Meet the Parents
• Armageddon
• The Wedding Planner (another *great* inflight movie)
• Notting Hill
• The Cable Guy
Cirrus888
08-02-2002, 09:03
Originally posted by Ruskins
name me 10 'car' movies then.......
You gotta be kidding me right? Well James bond ... theres 18 or 19 or is it 17 car movies for you there!
Originally posted by homerj
i saw jurassic park 3 the other night, and i thought it was a dreadful movie. what other dreadful movies have there been? put your worst movie's of all time here. and have you ever walked out of the cinema because the films was so bad, if so what was it
thanks
i forgot the mummy returns and pearl harbour. batman and robin, and of course the matrix(i have to ask do we need 2 more, of this dreadful film, when one was bad enough)
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Michael Brooke
08-02-2002, 10:55
<B> Blair witch project still haunts me until this day ... utter con job.</B>
That comment seems to be blaming the marketers more than the film-makers - how on earth can the film itself be “an utter con job”?
For what it was, I thought it was a terrific piece of work, providing a desperately-needed injection of back-to-basics psychological creepiness into a genre that had got far too SFX- and gore-heavy for its own good. I’ve seen it three times now, and it gets better every time – the opening scenes in particular take on far more resonance once you know what’s going to happen.
<B>Speed while well paced is completely generic offering nothing new from the 200, 000 car movies that has been before it.</B>
If it’s done well – which it certainly is in <I>Speed</I> - I don’t consider that much of a criticism. I thoroughly enjoyed <I>Gosford Park</I> as well, even though that doesn’t have even the tiniest smidgen of an original idea in its head (in fact, both films are roughly similar in terms of their respective genres).
There are times when I want constant cerebral stimulation, and others when I just want to switch my brain off and enjoy myself. I can’t do this with most big-budget Hollywood action movies as they’re too bloated, self-important and overlong to let me, but <I>Speed</I> is a rare exception: it knows exactly what its audience wants, and delivers it with an absolute minimum of fuss
George vader
08-02-2002, 11:04
The thing that puzzles me with these threads is that we get the same old films mentioned....c'mon if you've watched enough films you'll now there's far worse films out there than the blockbusters being slated.
For the ultimate in awfullness I sugest watching The Stupids , one of the most painfull viewing experiences I've ever had!!!
Arch Stanton
08-02-2002, 11:23
Arch will put forward one film released in the last year.
Fredie got fingerd.
Complete dross or a work of perverse genius?
Arch say's ....it's dross.
I'll watch anything once..but nothing prepared me me for how bad Muriels Wedding was...:(
Kept the missus happy tho...
Originally posted by Arch Stanton
Arch will put forward one film released in the last year.
Fredie got fingerd.
Complete dross or a work of perverse genius?
Arch say's ....it's dross.
Two words: Class Act
Hated Sixth Sense (Both I and the girlfriend were hoping the film was going to finish soon - because we both thought the other was enjoying it :rolleyes: )
And The Saint, which I saw at the cinema with friends. It was so bad I seem to have blotted the whole thing from my memory.
thanks everybody for posting on this thread, it has been great fun to read your replies, so keep them coming. but let's get some new bad movies and not the one's we've been talking about, i'll start:
shanghi express
psycho remake
bloodsport
frighteners
i love trouble
babe 1/2
any film with dogs as the main character's expect k-9
gladiator
Michael Brooke
08-02-2002, 16:22
Well, you've just named two of my favourite films of the 1990s (<I>The Frighteners, Babe</I>) and two films that I think are massively underrated and weirdly fascinating (<I>Psycho</I> and especially <I>Babe: Pig in the City</I>), and I bet I won't be the only one to raise eyebrows over <I>Gladiator</I> (overrated, but a solid B-plus effort in my book).
With regard to <I>Shanghai Express</I>, you aren't talking about the Marlene Dietrich/Josef von Sternberg film, are you?
Ol' Blue Eyes
08-02-2002, 16:30
Originally posted by George vader
The thing that puzzles me with these threads is that we get the same old films mentioned....c'mon if you've watched enough films you'll now there's far worse films out there than the blockbusters being slated.
For the ultimate in awfullness I sugest watching The Stupids , one of the most painfull viewing experiences I've ever had!!!
I agree, hardly any of the films mentioned in this thread qualify as truly terrible, people just didn't like them because of personal taste. Terrible movies should be badly written, badly acted and / or incompetently made. Anyone who thinks The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix are terrible should be condemned to watch Sky Moviemax for a whole evening, preferably when they're showing nothing but straight-to-video films starring Casper Van Dien.
Michael Brooke
08-02-2002, 16:35
<B>Anyone who thinks The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix are terrible should be condemned to watch Sky Moviemax for a whole evening, preferably when they're showing nothing but straight-to-video films starring Casper Van Dien.</B>
Although it looks as though I'm shamelessly aping the IMDB, there's very little question that <I>Manos: The Hands of Fate</I> is the worst film I've ever seen on <U>every</U> level - even basic technical competence - and will be a real eye-opener to most of the contributors to this thread, who have clearly never seen a truly appalling film!
I think a lot of the films being cited here are certainly overrated (<I>Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, The Matrix</I>), but swinging the pendulum too far the other way just makes the pendulum-swinger look silly. The fact that a film isn't as good as the hype suggested doesn't mean that it's a terrible film <I>per se</I>.
MI:2, Mystery Men and Alien Resurrection are probably the three least interesting films I've had the misfortune to see.
Confucius
08-02-2002, 17:12
Some more:
The Glimmer Man
Who's Harry Crumb?
Spy Hard
The Avengers (when the opening titles are the high point......)
Sheepking
08-02-2002, 20:37
Scary Movie 2
Bridget jones' diary
Originally posted by Confucius
Bad Movies hmm?
Die Hard 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Any movie starring Dolph Lundgren or J-C V Damme.
Any of that kung fu nonsense
Most Sly Stallone films except First Blood
What about Demolition Man, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, Driven, Timecop, Rocky, Tango and Cash....titles like this are way above utter crap such as,
Black Sheep Affair
Star Wars Phantom Menace
Romy and Michelles High School Reunion (yes I went the pics to see this)
Any of Arnies comedys with the exception of Twins
Urban Legends 2 <-- tried to finish this at least 3 times :D
Scream 2
Jurassic Park 2
Lost Highway <-- didnt have a clue what the story was :confused:
Existenz
Ticker (hopefully wont be released in UK)
the list goes on and on and on.....
at the end of the day though everyone to their own opinions
Originally posted by Goblin
Any of Arnies comedys with the exception of Twins
How can you not find Jingle all the Way funny??? One of my favourite Xmas movies and the only movie I have left on VHS (shudder!!!)
Godfather 1,2,3 (if you like these u need to get out more, BORING
LA confidential (YAWNNNNNNN!)
Unusal suspects (so cheesey its sad)
Charlies angels (plan9 from out of space come back all is forgiven)
The English patient (if you like this film, then im sorry your just plain weird)
tj_director
09-02-2002, 00:51
Originally posted by Ol' Blue Eyes
I agree, hardly any of the films mentioned in this thread qualify as truly terrible, people just didn't like them because of personal taste. Terrible movies should be badly written, badly acted and / or incompetently made. Anyone who thinks The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix are terrible should be condemned to watch Sky Moviemax for a whole evening, preferably when they're showing nothing but straight-to-video films starring Casper Van Dien.
this always happens with these threads, perfectly solid examples of film-making always get mentioned, purely because it didn't live up to people's expectations, or because it stars Tom Hanks (why do some people hate him with such a passion, and still go to watch his films!!?!!). I even thought The Wedding Planner was a decent film within it's genre, i would never go as far as call it a dreadful film.. so what if i won't remember it this time next year. You should know what to expect when you go into it.... as a result, i can only really cite a few films in the last year which i found truly dissapointing.
Wil, -- interesting to see you mention Godfather, LA Confidential, Usual Suspects and English Patient ... whether or not you find the film boring, there's no way you could call them dreadful examples of film-making ??? i'd be interested to know say 3 films you think as excellent?? (ps, i'm not trying to diss you, just curious) :)
well 99% of hollywood output
i could write a 10 page essay on the various aspects of Swordfish which make it the most repellent, lowest common denominator idiot-fodder ever. and that's the only 'blockbuster' i've seen in a while. lord knows how bad american pie must be :(
Originally posted by sampath
....next thing you know some people will be mentioning the likes of The Godfather, Citizen Kane, etc etc. :nuts:
Originally posted by Wil
Godfather 1,2,3 (if you like these u need to get out more, BORING
LA confidential (YAWNNNNNNN!)
Unusal suspects (so cheesey its sad)
Right, so that's The Godfather sorted out - along with Part II, and two of the better thrillers of the 90's (talk about being efficient).
So... who's going to do the honours and condemn Citizen Kane to take it's rightful place among the truly abysmal of the film world?
:D :nuts:
Gary Couzens
09-02-2002, 08:30
Originally posted by Vinny
I'll watch anything once..but nothing prepared me me for how bad Muriels Wedding was...:(
Kept the missus happy tho...
So who's right then?
Personally, I'm with your missus on this one, as I did enjoy it. Maybe the marketing of <i>Muriel's Wedding</i> was misleading, as the film's a lot darker and blacker a comedy than you'd suspect from the trailer.
Michael Mackenzie
09-02-2002, 10:40
Films I have been severely disappointed by:
- The Gift
- Titanic
- Schindler's List
- Independence Day
- Pearl Harbor
- The Matrix
- Halloween (in my view, the rip-offs like Scream are superior)
- Omen II
Films everyone else hates but I actually enjoy:
- The Mummy Returns
- Tomb Raider
- Scream 3 (not as good as the first two, but I still like it)
- Jeepers Creepers
- The Lord of the Rings animated version
- and the grand finale... Problem Child!!! One frickin hilarious movie that is funny because it's so bad.
hate tank
09-02-2002, 13:26
Originally posted by sampath
So... who's going to do the honours and condemn Citizen Kane to take it's rightful place among the truly abysmal of the film world?
:D :nuts:
Yeah! Take this! The worst of the worst, the lowest of the low are:
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Rashomon
I hate them! They are old (I wasn't even born when they were made!), they are black and white (why don't they release them in computer-colorized versions like they did with Night of the Living Dead?). Hell, some of them even are in languages I don't understand! Can't they do proper dubs anymore? I hate reading subs all through the film. It makes me tired. If I want to read I get me The Sun!
(Not to be taken seriously... )
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Confucius
09-02-2002, 16:41
If that prat 'Lenny Nero' had said the above he would've meant it :nuts:
My top five:
5. Wishmaster (1 & 2)
4. Batman & Robin
3. Leaving las Vegas
2. Rambo III
1. Rocky V
you can form your own opinion if you wish
Grimley
"Surely you can't be serious?"
"I am serious, & don't call me Shirley"
I'm quite a fan of "bad" movies, but even I couldn't handle...
Retro-Puppetmaster.:)
Originally posted by Jon B
I'm quite a fan of "bad" movies, but even I couldn't handle...
Retro-Puppetmaster.:)
LOL Im with you on that one :D
Ol' Blue Eyes
09-02-2002, 22:43
I've just watched Fortress 2: Re-Entry which I taped off Sky Moviemax (where else?). It's so bad, it's endearing and I don't think I'll ever forget the scene where...
...Christopher Lambert is blasted out of an airlock into space and survives by - I swear to god - HOLDING HIS BREATH (!!!!!!!!!), undoing the bolts on the airlock and climbing back inside the space station.
I haven't seen any of these posted yet ..... apologies if they have.
No apologies for loathing each & every one of them though.
BRAVEHEART
DEAD AGAIN
FACE/OFF
FULL METAL JACKET
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
hate tank
09-02-2002, 23:51
Ah, just watched Vertigo, one of the movies directed by that fat old bloke Alfred Hitchcock. Should have put it on my list, too. ***** as hell. At least it was in computer-colorized version. I wonder if I could have made it through the movie if it had been the original black and white thing. At least they had decent cars in this one...... :D
Originally posted by RDNZL
I haven't seen any of these posted yet ..... apologies if they have.
No apologies for loathing each & every one of them though.
FACE/OFF
Total action classic you are dissing there! :rolleyes:
George vader
10-02-2002, 07:26
The Stupids
National Lampoons Golf Punks
The Cool Surface
The Avengers (A blockbuster that deserves the slating!)
Spookies (appalling 80s horror)
Gummo (bought an ex-rental copy for £2, the critics loved it, I demanded a refund)
Pitch Black
Mr Magoo
Originally posted by RDNZL
I haven't seen any of these posted yet ..... apologies if they have.
No apologies for loathing each & every one of them though.
BRAVEHEART
DEAD AGAIN
FACE/OFF
FULL METAL JACKET
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
With 'FACE OFF' - I'm right with ya boss! - Overatted pile of toss
http://homepage.eircom.net/~garryleavycomedian/Avalon.jpg
In random order:
Memphis Belle
Stop! Or my Mom Will Shoot
The Talented Mr Ripley
High Fidelity
Atlantis (new Disney one)
Scream 3
The Phantom Menace
Gone In 60 Seconds
Dude, Where's My Car?
Hot Shots - all of them
Spy Hard
etc
Originally posted by Xenole
Stop! Or my Mom Will Shoot
the scenes were his ma washes his gun and buys him an uzi for his birthday are quality :D
DeanimatE
10-02-2002, 12:04
Hmmmm i have to say to people here not in any way to listen to what has been put down here
Its only about personal tastes and not sure fire disasters
I mean some of you don't like, The Matrix, Schindlers List, Green Mile..........oh man i pity you!
Brilliant films!
bad film? Strike Commando.........dear gods! its actually fairly good cause its so funny its so bad!
mikegray
10-02-2002, 15:03
Just saw a screener of "Not Another Teen Movie" - surely a contender for worst film of the year... far, far, far worse than Scary Movie 2, now that's saying something!
As for films you hate that everyone else likes - definitely The Matrix. I fell asleep when I saw this first time at the cinema, had to go back to watch the rest. Wish I hadn't bothered, really!
Films I walked out of at the cinema : Fast And The Furious, Ravenous and Twin Dragons.
Commando is an absolute classic! Scenes like the car crash when they don't exactly make the effort into hiding the fact there are dummies in the car, and the usual great Arnie one liners......
The opening scene of "Not Another Teen Movie" wasn't too bad......watchable, if driving nails into your skull is the next best thing to do, and not really funny.
Did I mention earlier:
Scary Movie 2: Other than the toilet bit at the beginning, complete crap)
Daliah Lavi
10-02-2002, 16:10
One word Glitter - The movie that broke Mariah Carey :p
It's gotta be THE worst movie I have EVER seen & THE most fun I've EVER had at a preview!
I'm real tempted to pick up the R1 disc just to prove to my friends how bad it is.
Btw look out for the continuity cock up involving a cat, the whole media screening was crying with laughter, priceless.
Daliah.
"Ten things I hate about you" anyone? Cruel Deep, Titanic and Sound of Music spring to mind.
Barney_Tabasco
10-02-2002, 23:19
Just finished watching Perfect (1985 John Travolta mega-flop) on Sky Cinema. Holy moly, if ever there was such an undescriptive title - jeez!
Originally posted by hate tank
Ah, just watched Vertigo, one of the movies directed by that fat old bloke Alfred Hitchcock. Should have put it on my list, too. ***** as hell. At least it was in computer-colorized version. I wonder if I could have made it through the movie if it had been the original black and white thing. At least they had decent cars in this one...... :D
??? VERTIGO was made in colour and is a class movie
jmdomain
11-02-2002, 03:09
The film i just watched on sky 'Jawbreaker' is pretty dire, maybe not the worst out there but probably one of the most mean spirited films out there.
ok heres a few shoddy movies for ya .......
DEADLY HEROES ..if you havent heard of it its worth a watch for its sheer awfullness :D (is that a word ?)
BLOOD SURF which was on sky recently (poor, poor )
OPERATION SANDMAN :WARRIOR IN HELL ..more like watchers in hell !!!
THEY NEST another sky viewing .....dean stockwell hang your head in shame ..:D
have to admit i like its nice to know that people are still making these crappy movies (hey we all need a laugh )
Shadow of a Vampire and Proof of life. Both films are shockingly bad!
Creamstick
11-02-2002, 13:42
Originally posted by Michael Brooke
<B>Although it looks as though I'm shamelessly aping the IMDB, there's very little question that <I>Manos: The Hands of Fate</I> is the worst film I've ever seen on <U>every</U> level - even basic technical competence - and will be a real eye-opener to most of the contributors to this thread, who have clearly never seen a truly appalling film!
Michael, I urge you to check out 'The Thirsty Dead'. i haven't seen Manos, but what I've heard about it, ..Dead still beats it hands down in evry sucky department.
Yes, it has pride of place in my video collection - only because there are people foolish enough to ask what it is, and borrow it - only to hand it back quite changed ;)
WildWayz
11-02-2002, 14:05
Hmmm films that I found boring (not neccesarily craply made, but they bored me silly).
Godfather Trilogy
Well filmed but boring beyond all belief
A.I
Jesus - my fiance and I almost walked out - when we thought it was about to end, it kept on going and going!
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Boring. Nothing that prick Hugh Grunt stars in is any good.
Rising Sun
Hmmm I did turn it off on VHS when I saw it, then turned it off when it was on TV.
The Rollerblade Seven
OMG NEVER WATCH THIS PILE OF CACK!
Sixth Sense
YAWN
Traffic
Boring. Cack. Watched once, sold soon after
The Mexican
Saw it on a flight to Canada... fell asleep.
Series 7: The Contender
Boring - again saw it on a flight to Canada.
Monkeybone
urm... humour for isle 3, thank you!
Any Quintin Tarintino Film
All are over rated poo. Would rather get my testicles shaven by the queen mum than watch them
--James
ROLLER BLADE SEVEN lol......!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D :D
bought this in makro ages ago
havent watch it all ...so dont go spoiling the ending ;)
Originally posted by WildWayz
Any Quintin Tarintino Film
All are over rated poo. Would rather get my testicles shaven by the queen mum than watch them
Quintin Tarantino? Shame he doesn't take after Quentin he's made some good movies!
JamieC460
11-02-2002, 18:12
My personal list of bad movies
Cyborg
Vanilla Sky (I quite enjoyed Open your eyes)
The Limey
Octopussy
Planet of the Apes re-make (Let down by a "Twilight zone" ending)
Star Trek:The motion picture
2001: A space oddessy (That'll get some people going)
Sound of music
Star Wars:episode one (As with "Jedi" this is just a toy commercial)
Star Wars:Return of the Jedi
Very Bad Films (http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/verybadfilms.htm)
It has to be the absoultely awful Series 7: The Contenders... i wanted to walk out after 5 minutes! Somehow i stayed until the end, only through laughing at how bad it was!
Also Scary Movie 2 was pretty bad, and i always hated Labyrinth... But that was probably due to all the scary haircuts on view! :nuts:
Arch Stanton
12-02-2002, 08:39
Originally posted by Ol' Blue Eyes
I've just watched Fortress 2: Re-Entry which I taped off Sky Moviemax (where else?). It's so bad, it's endearing and I don't think I'll ever forget the scene where...
...Christopher Lambert is blasted out of an airlock into space and survives by - I swear to god - HOLDING HIS BREATH (!!!!!!!!!), undoing the bolts on the airlock and climbing back inside the space station.
well that idea worked in 2001: A Space Oddessey.
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