OK for fun - some of the worst movies you've seen.

[Dirk Hofman]

Originally Posted by TeleBluesMan

I know a lot of people love it, but I hated The Big Lebowski.

I've never gotten through it. Tried twice I think, just didn't care about any of it. Had a boss who looked genuinely shocked and I think maybe questioned hiring me after I told him. He thought it was the greatest ever. I didn't hate it, it just did nothing for me.

[Andromeda]

A small science fiction film from 1985 called “Galaxy Invaders.” Absolutely dreadful.

[Norsepicker]

OK. I was in it and it makes all the ones you mention here Academy Award material. I played a CIA officer who was murdered on the beach in Waikiki amidst a bevy of bikini clad beauties, and Carlos Palomino (middle weight world champion boxer from Mexico) was the hero. Henry Silva, who you may remember from the original Manchurian Candidate, was the terrorist villain. I knew it was bad and never watched it until I made the mistake of mentioning that I was in it to my students and they found it on line and played it, much to my eternal shame and embarrassment.

[bfm612]

Originally Posted by Norsepicker

OK. I was in it and it makes all the ones you mention here Academy Award material. I played a CIA officer who was murdered on the beach in Waikiki...

So, you in particular didn't have fists of steel? That's a shame.

[Ozzy the dog]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

hi Fred, but women love it, and the follow up. Ya gotta admit that the music was good.

I will agree Andy, the music was good ............................ before Mr Brosnan started singing it.

Now I'm waiting for Bruce to start the 'best film' thread.

[Warren01]

Not the worst movie I've seen, but I find "Blade Runner" really boring.

[Neil K Walk]

Starship Troopers. Vanilla Sky. Natural Born Killers.

[catdaddy]

Originally Posted by bfm612

Good for you for actually having seen Zardoz! I've never met anyone who has actually seen this. It seems to be one of the worst by reputation primarily.

Yes, unfortunately I actually saw this film at a theatre when it was released (unleashed on an unsuspecting public would be more accurate). There was nothing good about the experience. I found it unique in reaching a depth of stupidity and incomprehensibility which managed to render it immune to categorization in the usual "This is so bad it's funny" gaggle of films. It proved to be much more malignant than that, enveloping the viewer in an insurmountable miasma of artistic narcolepsy and near fatal boredom.

[tinnitus]

Originally Posted by ras1500

George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats comes to mind as a movie that wasn't worth the price of the ticket.

+1. I appreciate avant garde, strange and downright weird stuff, finding humor or some kind of entertainment in just about anything. Not so much with Staring at Goats.

Also can't seem to enjoy anything with Will Ferrell in it - all SNL's fault IMHO. John Belushi was charismatically hilarious on the show, even at his worst, a seemingly effortless deadpan genius. Dozens came along after him, attempting to pick up and carry the torch. But watching anyone trying too hard (at anything) just doesn't connect with me.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by AndreF

Bruce,
Maybe it's because the Sheriff couldn't figure out that Robin was actually from Brooklyn, N.Y.:


I'm willing to bet that the Kevin Costner movie version was more of a laugher than yours.

Costner version was bad but I don't remember seeing a ye olde casino in Nottingham with a roulette wheel like this 2018 version has - I kid you not! Is that a Las Vegas showgirl with purple feathers in the background on the left?



p.s. thanks to Silly Moustache for reminding me of 'Noah' with Russel Crowe - boy it was dumb.

[KevWind]

Hard to pic just one

Obviously a number of low budget sci fi films .

But at the risk of stirring flames
Of some the bigger hits
Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs both come to mind. For me too realistic to be fiction, too bizarre to real... .... I realize Pulp has a strong cult following but for me personally Meh !!

[boombox]

Originally Posted by Neil K Walk

Starship Troopers. Vanilla Sky. Natural Born Killers.

Starship Troopers?!!! That's a great film if you don't take it seriously. But then again, sci-fi can be really divisive: I hated Arrival, which many raved over.

[bfm612]

Originally Posted by boombox

Starship Troopers?!!! That's a great film if you don't take it seriously. But then again, sci-fi can be really divisive: I hated Arrival, which many raved over.

Boo and hiss. “Arrival” is probably among my top twenty, maybe even top ten favorite movies of all time.

[AmericanEagle]

Waterworld, with Kevin Costner

[AmericanEagle]

Originally Posted by bfm612

“Arrival” is probably among my top twenty, maybe even top ten favorite movies of all time.

I really liked that one too.