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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 15, 2008 5:57:24 GMT -5
Now here is a topic anyone can appreciate though some of the films mentioned might actually be on someone else's "good movie" list. Gosh I hope not. :-)
A couple of films come to mind right off.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (What? Tom doesn't like a Star Trek movie? Un heard of! Preposterous! No it's true I think STV sucks. There I said it. I feel better now.)
Beowulf (Not the new cgi film by Robert Zemekis. No this piece of crap featured Christopher Lambert who I've always liked since Highlander. Why he chose to be in this film I'll never know. It is by far the most inept production I've ever seen...oh wait I forgot about...) Alien Apocalypse (Made for Sci Fi channel featuring Bruce Campbell. Kyrstie made me sit through this "film" and I wish I had found a way to get out of it. "You watched it, you can't UN watch it" comes to mind. Highlander II, III, IV and whatever else they're calling them. Just terrible stuff. The tag line from the first film is "There can be only one!" God I wish that had been the case. ;D
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Post by cail on Apr 16, 2008 7:29:56 GMT -5
Manos: Hands of Fate is easily the worst film ever. I'd also add Flesh and Bone with Meg Ryan and James Caan, Happily N'ever After, Are We Done Yet?, and anything with Christopher Lambert except Greystoke and Highlander.
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Post by ram on Apr 18, 2008 11:32:55 GMT -5
I keep hearing of Manos but am not that eager to see how bad it is for myself. Absolute worst film I've seen? Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a strong contender. It should never have been made. It makes Superman III look like a sublime masterpiece. It should be quarantined so its stink doesn't infect neighboring movies in the video store. Catz and Dogs is another contender. I got dragged into seeing this wretched excuse for a movie. It's about cats plotting to rule the world, and it's up to the dogs to stop them. It stars Jeff Goldblum mumbling his way through the whole thing as some goofy genius scientist who invents some sort of device that the evil cats want. Or something like that. I can't believe I just wasted brain power trying to remember the plot. Crap, I just remembered another awful film that sucked the life out of me: Black Christmas. This was a Canadian-made horror film from the '70s about a killer who sneaks into a house on Christmas Eve. It was my fault for watching this turkey: I caught it on late night TV and was so struck by its lameness that I had to see how bad it could get. Well, it didn't get any better. The only "horror" in this film was the excruciating pace and the bad acting. But at least I didn't fork out any money for it.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 18, 2008 14:35:00 GMT -5
Catz and Dogs is another contender. I got dragged into seeing this wretched excuse for a movie. It's about cats plotting to rule the world, and it's up to the dogs to stop them. It stars Jeff Goldblum mumbling his way through the whole thing as some goofy genius scientist who invents some sort of device that the evil cats want. Or something like that. I can't believe I just wasted brain power trying to remember the plot. Whenever I see the movie Catz and Dogs mentioned I always seem to connect it with the film "Small Soldiers". I believe they were both released about the same time and both...sucked. IMHO of course. SS does get a few marks for being somewhat unique I guess. BTW I totally agree about C&D. :-)
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Post by prorider514 on Apr 20, 2008 11:53:46 GMT -5
Racing Stripes. Alien Apocalypse. You NEED to see Alien Apocalypse. Trust me. You havent lived until you've experienced it.
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Post by prorider514 on Apr 20, 2008 12:26:14 GMT -5
darkman 2 return of durant. OMG! its so bad! i love renee oconnor but crap almighty!
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Post by baylou on Apr 20, 2008 15:45:26 GMT -5
Water World with Kevin Costner.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 21, 2008 5:23:11 GMT -5
Water World with Kevin Costner. Though I didn't exactly hate Waterworld I totally understand your opinion, Sis. There wasn't much to like. Costner films are hit and miss. I loved Field of Dreams. ;D
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 21, 2008 5:29:36 GMT -5
darkman 2 return of durant. OMG! its so bad! i love renee oconnor but crap almighty! I've seen Return of Durant. Yep pretty dad burn awful. Not sure if it's the worst movie I've ever seen but its in the top 20 for certain.
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Post by baylou on Apr 21, 2008 16:32:18 GMT -5
Yep, Atomic - Field of Dreams is right up there with my top movies. We have it on DVD and whenever we're channel surfing and see it on, we finish watching it no matter how long it has been on.
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Post by cail on Apr 23, 2008 10:22:14 GMT -5
Meh, I loved Waterworld.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 23, 2008 10:43:13 GMT -5
I think I loved the concept more than the execution. After watching for a while I remember sitting there at the theater thinking "Here we go, Road Warrior on the water." I know its more unique than that but in many ways it is similar. Not a rub against Road Warrior. I really liked it.
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Post by gingerbelle32 on Apr 23, 2008 12:44:38 GMT -5
Well, as I have been around for 75 years - I vote for the two worst movies I have seen and also gave me nightmares were: Deliverance and Apocalypse Now.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 23, 2008 13:40:50 GMT -5
Well, as I have been around for 75 years - I vote for the two worst movies I have seen and also gave me nightmares were: Deliverance and Apocalypse Now. It's possible those films delivered (no pun intended) exactly what was intended. If after watching you woke up screaming in the middle of the night then it seems the film makkers probably got across pretty much what they wanted. Kyrstie hates Deliverance. Not because its a bad film but because it makes her feel creepy about the folk of the back woods. ;D
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Post by ram on Jun 16, 2008 22:00:12 GMT -5
Folk of the back woods creep me out, too. I thought Deliverance was a fine movie, but let's just say I'm not exactly eager to sit through it again. I'm here again because I just remembered two more awful, awful movies that sucked out my life. (How is it that I've not yet become a zombie?) One of them was Hook, Spielberg's turgid (turd-like?) adaptation of the Peter Pan story. The movie was technically flawless-looking, as Spielberg movies are, but it was also excruciatingly lame and lifeless. But even Hook can't touch the lamest, most sterile, most unexciting big budget movie I've ever seen in my life...Final Fantasy. How dreadful was this movie? Well, I'd rather sit through Superman IV again than watch another minute of Final Fantasy. FF was boring beyond belief. I did not mention this movie earlier because I had evicted it from my mind. Or so I thought. That's it, Final Fantasy takes the cake. It's absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen. Gee, atomic, thanks a lot for having a thread that forces me to remember all the crappy movies I've seen in my life.
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