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[Lazenby880]

The Worst Films Ever Made...

Bravheart. Inaccurate, patronising drivel.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Perhaps someone could explain what exactly is funny in this film.

Super Mario Bros.. I had this inflicted on me as a child at the cinema, I have never recovered since.

Flash Gordon. Even an actor of Dalton's class can't save this.

But the winner is...

Dude, Where's My Car. The acting, the script, the plot, everything and anything in this film is horrid.

Edited by Lazenby, 13 March 2004 - 10:25 PM.

[Tarl_Cabot]

"Even an actor of Dalton's class can't save this."

Nope, he did exactly that. Saving Flash Gordon from pørno star-esque Sam Jones...It's a silly movie but very enjoyable.Flash Gordon was a fun,unpretentious campy movie. Don't be such a snob!

[Xenobia]

I watched Clerks once, waiting for Kevin Smith's brillance to come through.

It never did.

I also walked on Final Destination, which was very sad for me, since I loved Morgan and Wong's work on The X-Files.

-- Xenobia

[Tarl_Cabot]

Final Destination was a blast! I don't really like horror films or movies about highschool and FD qualifies as both and I love it and the sequel!

[Robinson]

Final Destination was a blast! I don't really like horror films or movies about highschool and FD qualifies as both and I love it and the sequel!

I second that. While I didn't care for the sequence in FD1 where the water magically moves toward the victim, I loved the premise. I actually thought the sequel's premise was intelligent. I wouldn't have figured the story would go the route it did. I figured it would be a rehash of the first movie. Granted, I thought the deaths in FD2 were needlessly graphic, but the film was totally enjoyable.

Apparently, they're developing the script for FD3. Actor Tony 'Candyman' Todd was interviewed recently at a convention and confirmed that if the film goes forward, he'd reprise his role as the mortician.

Oh, we should add TOKYO DECADENCE to the list of truly bad films. If you haven't seen this flick, consider yourself blessed.

[Tarl_Cabot]

The car crash scene in FD2 was the most intense thing I've seen in a movie since Saving Private Ryan. I really like those films...great Brew and view flicks!

[The Dove]

I'm wondering why nobody here has mentioned Robert Stigwood's 1978 disaster of a movie, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Jam packed full of musical artists and movie stars like The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Billy Preston, Steve Martin, and George Burns. But as for plot, totally non exisitent!! I would rather see a full-length feature film of H. R. Pufinstuff or any other Sid and Marty Croft show than Stigwood's piece of garbage.

The same could be said for me about "Stayin' Alive" the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever directed by Sylvester Stallone!

[ChandlerBing]

Embrace of the Vampire with Alyssa Milano is pretty horrid.

[mccartney007]

I just caught "House of the Dead" last night and it was all around horrible. I actually don't think I've seen a film that was terrible on every level possible. I imagine production meetings went something like this:

Director:  We've got some really great effects for this.  Remember "The Matrix"?  Well, we're going to overuse every effect they did -- an effect that was maybe cool for 3 seconds and then got really old really fast -- and hopefully we're going to come off as creative and original filmmakers.  We've also got use of a helicopter so we're going to use an aerial swooping camera effect every chance we get and occasionally we'll speed the film up so everything shoots by and it looks really neat.  Speaking of which...  we're going to throw video game footage in every now and then because it has a lot to do with everything.  We're going to keep the "PRESS START" thing flashing in the lower right hand corner of the screen.  We have a lot of original ideas for this -- I honestly don't think any of what we're doing has been done 800,000,000,000,000,000 times before... nor has it been done better by everyone else.  You need to see our other actors too.

Actor:  Oh?  Why's that?

Director:  Because two of the guys we hired almost look like famous people.  We've got a sort-of Josh Hartnett and a sort-of Orlando Bloom.  Anyway... so... you're willing to show your tits?

Actor: Yes... I'll do anything you want.

Director: Great.  When I say "action" just do stuff and every once and awhile whilst about to have sex, pretend you hear something and then several minutes later pretend to die or something.

Actor:  Okay, so do you want me to act very poorly and just come off as a complete sack of crap who deserves to be killed?

Director: Yeah, that's about right.

[Lazenby880]

"Even an actor of Dalton's class can't save this."

Nope, he did exactly that. Saving Flash Gordon from pørno star-esque Sam  Jones...It's a silly movie but very enjoyable.Flash Gordon was a fun,unpretentious campy movie. Don't be such a snob!

Sorry to reply to an aging thread, but I haven't been here in a while.

Out of interest, how does the fact that I don't like Flash Gordon make me a snob? Just wondering.

In my [humble] opinion, the cheapness of the sets/costumes/cinematography, the dreadfulness of the screenplay and a general lack of talent on the actors' part is what makes this one of my least favourite movies.

I did however like it as a kid.

Having seen it on television just now, I'd like to add Street Fighter to the list, again a terribly cheap movie (the anime versions are much better). Be it (among other things) Van Damme's accent, the usually great Ming-Na's (of ER) dire version of Chun-Li, a hammy script, Kylie (still looks great though despite her none too convincing British accent) or the bricks that are a bit too obviously polystyrene this is a pretty awful movie. Still, strangely watchable (it must be the games I used to love.)

Edited by Lazenby, 03 April 2004 - 11:47 PM.

[urhash]

No one mentioned Manos: Hands of Fate? It was #1 on IMDB's bottom 250 until Gigli came along.

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

Here's my all-time worst movie list:

FAIR GAME
GIGLI
HOWARD THE DUCK
PLANET 9 FROM OUTER SPACE: so bad it's good!
BATTEFIELD EARTH
GLITTER
FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY

[Brian Flagg]

Worst movie of all time?


ANYTHING WITH BEN AFFLECK IN IT- Affleck is the worst excuse for an actor or "movie star" that has ever existed. And that horse-like chin!!! Uri Geller is a better actor than Ben Affleck!
The legend behind GOOD WILL HUNTING is that Matt Damon wrote the script, and Ben Affleck typed it. It's all true!

Runners-Up:

INDEPENDENCE DAY
CASINO
PLANET OF THE APES (2001 Version)

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

CASINO?

What the hell are you thinking?

[Brian Flagg]

CASINO?

What the hell are you thinking?

CASINO, IMO, is just an annoying pastiche of Scorsese's previous work, especially GOODFELLAS, which is one of the BEST films ever made. All CASINO "offers" is Joe Pesci regurgitating his role from GOODFELLAS (including an unwelcome encore of him beating the holy hell out of Frank Vincent, just like he did in RAGING BULL and GOODFELLAS, although Frank Vincent's character gets the last laugh here), plus a wretched performance from Sharon Stone, whose career rightly went into the gutter after that role despite her unwarranted Oscar nomination. Endless music montages with 1960s and 1970s pop songs, all to convey "time and place", when a filmmaker of Scorsese's caliber stoops to that gimmick, it's time to call it a career.

You've probably never seen those other films, perhaps you should, and you'll understand.

CASINO is garbage

IMO, of course.

Edited by Brian Flagg, 04 April 2004 - 03:33 AM.

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

What? I've seen those other films by Martin Scorcese! Maybe CASINO wasn't better then RAGING BULL or GOODFELLAS, but it was still good!

I understand clearly. You probably hated GANGS OF NEW YORK, too.

Garbage. Whatever.

[Brian Flagg]

I understand clearly. You probably hated GANGS OF NEW YORK, too.

Garbage. Whatever.

Why should you be offended by my opinion?

I haven't seen GANGS OF NEW YORK...

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

I respect your opinion about Casino, it's just other people might disagree. Let's just leave it at that.

[Kingdom Come]

All of you left out Irwin Allen's films. The Swarm; Beyond The Posideon Adventure;
When Time Ran Out - though a talented action director on The Towering Inferno.

I'd also nominate a few Bond films and watch out reader as a few sacred cows are about to be rubbished....... NSNA / LTK / TND and FRWL. Just finished watching FRWL and it beggers believe how Young ever became a director - such badly executed scenes and a total disregard to the audience in the final scene in Venice. Was the man drunk? Have another look at it?

[DanMan]

I recently saw You Got Served. It is by far the worst thing I've ever seen on the big screen. My gf was mad at me because I couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing and making wise cracks.

[Kingdom Come]

Re Casino - I'm afraid I'm a huge fan. It is Goodfellas with a better budget.
It is a wizz of a film. Technically brilliant. Although, less sick and grotesque than Goodfellas, I was slightly put out by the violence.

[DLibrasnow]

The Worst Films Ever Made...

Bravheart. Inaccurate, patronising drivel.
...
Flash Gordon. Even an actor of Dalton's class can't save this.

I loved both of these movies...I thought Braveheart was a great show if for no other reason than because the English were the baddies

I also loved the whole campy feel of Flash Gordon.

[taxman2001]

Lazenby,

Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back is hilarious because having invested many hours of my life watching all of Kevin Smith's movies until I can quote them ad infinitum it is the perfect conclusion to an excellent series focusing on 2 stoners and their impact on others.

Think of Jay & Silent Bob as the stoner equivilent of C3PO and R2D2.

I think of the films as loving homages to all those films I (and Smith) grew up with.

And how can anyone not love the campness that is Flash Gordon.

Hell, how many movies have an ex-Blue Peter presenter in it ...

[Q-Zar]

I can understand why many people won't like Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
Personally, I loved it for the same reason as you : seeing all the characters from Smith's movies, a bunch of inside jokes referring to the movies, ...
You watch it with a smile

At times like these I miss dating a lesbian

[Prav_007]

I loved Jay and Silent Bob, great parody! Worst movie ever made, even though I was at the set in san Francisco........TWISTED.

Sure was!

[Kingdom Come]

Beyond the Posidon Adventure - watch the first 10 minutes of this film and be amazed how bad effects can get!

[Lady Templar]

Too many candidates indeed
The worst English speaking is for me "Dumb and Dumber", all is in the title

[Agent 76]

Too many candidates indeed
The worst English speaking is for me "Dumb and Dumber", all is in the title

well...I have that dvd loooool

[Kristatos]

Signs ... absolutely dull

[00-FAN008]

"Even an actor of Dalton's class can't save this."

Nope, he did exactly that. Saving Flash Gordon from pørno star-esque Sam Jones...It's a silly movie but very enjoyable.Flash Gordon was a fun,unpretentious campy movie. Don't be such a snob!

Speaking of Dalton, I have a very interesting story to tell.

My brother borrowed a book from his high school library called 'Marvels' (You may have heard of). It's a graphic novel about the Marvel super heroes and a reporter who lost his eye. Anyway, They have these pictures of Tony Stark ( a.k.a Iron Man), and he looks exactly like Timothy Dalton! It's CRAZY!!!