OK for fun - some of the worst movies you've seen. - Page 7

Huskyman · #91 09-26-2020, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Photojeep

I know this is supposed to be a "just for fun" thread but I must say the movie, "Sideways" was the worst movie I've ever seen.

I'll never forget walking out of the theater saying out loud, "There's two hours of my life I'll never get back." In my opinion, it was the most pointless thing ever put onto film. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. It was the most self-centered piece of trash film that's ever been made.

Seriously, I'd rather watch men in rubber Godzilla suits 10 times per day than sit through one more viewing of "Sideways."

How it ever got on the Academy Awards list is beyond me.

Just my 2 cents,
PJ

I enjoyed that one myself.

Huskyman · #92 09-26-2020, 08:17 PM

Everton FC · #93 09-26-2020, 08:32 PM

"Private School" w/Phoebe Cates at the Chester, NY drive-in theatre, mid-80s. Horrible flick.

TBman · #94 09-26-2020, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Everton FC

"Private School" w/Phoebe Cates at the Chester, NY drive-in theatre, mid-80s. Horrible flick.

And what's a Canadian doing in Orange County NY asks a guy that lived between Monroe and Washingtonville in the 70s..

Mycroft · #95 09-26-2020, 10:54 PM

"Event Horizon." I want the two hours of my life back!

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon

Mycroft · #96 09-26-2020, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I always assumed that Starship Troopers was a spoof on SF humans vs evil insectoid alien movies, but it also had a message about militarism I thought.

It sort of missed the thrust of the Heinlein book, against fascism.

OKCtodd71 · #97 09-27-2020, 10:59 AM

JFK. The level of suck is off the charts.

robj144 · #98 09-27-2020, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mycroft

"Event Horizon." I want the two hours of my life back!

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon

Event Horizon was pretty cool. I liked it a lot.

Not directed at you, per se, but going against the grain in given negative opinions on fairly well received moves is weird. Why aren't we just picking universally bad movies like "The Room"? No one who has seen that movie has said it was good.

1neeto · #99 09-27-2020, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by robj144

Event Horizon was pretty cool. I liked it a lot.

Not directed at you, per se, but going against the grain in given negative opinions on fairly well received moves is weird. Why aren't we just picking universally bad movies like "The Room"? No one who has seen that movie has said it was good.

Liberate tutemet ex inferis. [emoji23] I enjoyed it too.

ishtar · #**100** 09-27-2020, 02:59 PM

I just got to say that 'Ishtar' was actually brilliant and few got the joke.

It's about really really bad and pathetic songwriters, and the songs are brilliantly awful. The average awful songwriter couldn't come up with the stuff.

That the film ending credits conclude with a acknowledgement of a soundtrack on some big label, but there was never a soundtrack that was released is just too bad.

I still have a sound file I digitized of all the musical moments from the film, in the early 90s, where I patched my VCR into my Macintosh SE 10MB computer.

hubcapsc · #**101** 09-27-2020, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ishtar

In one of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, captioned "Hell's Video Store", the entire store is stocked with nothing but copies of Ishtar. Larson later apologized, saying, "When I drew the above cartoon, I had not actually seen Ishtar ... Years later, I saw it on an airplane, and was stunned at what was happening to me: I was actually being entertained. Sure, maybe it's not the greatest film ever made, but my cartoon was way off the mark. There are so many cartoons for which I should probably write an apology, but this is the only one which compels me to do so."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_(film)#Legacy

Reading this thread led me to reading the Ishtar wiki page a couple
of days ago...

-Mike

frankmcr · #**102** 09-27-2020, 04:00 PM

Yeah, I know there's a revisionist movement that claims Ishtar is actually a good movie, although even there the claims seldom go beyond "it's not that bad."

The part I remember best is when Isabelle Adjani is disguised as a boy because blahblahblah plot points,
and Warren Beatty thinks she (as a boy) is coming on to him.
So he punches her in the face.
He punches her in the face and gives her a bloody nose.

That's just one of the hi-larious hijinx in Ishtar. I guess I didn't get it.