Battle Beyond the Stars is awesome. Roger Corman doing Seven Samurai in space? Nothing wrong with that!
The absolute worst film you've ever seen
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Split was pretty good. I liked The Village too. I've used it in PTSD groups, actually.
But yes, Lady in the Water missed the mark by quite a bit.
Sure, there are a lot of bad movies but for me the worst and definitely my least favorite was Crazy, Stupid, Love. I usually like Julianne Moore and Emma Stone (Stone was OK in it) but I dislike Steve Carell and especially Ryan Gosling, pretty much everything except Stone was trying way too hard to be cute and cool and instead was super-annoying, maybe especially the really pretentious/sentimental stuff near the end.
Idiocracy is a close runner-up for worst, decidedly stupid and self-satisfied.
Idiocracy is a close runner-up for worst, decidedly stupid and self-satisfied.
There was a time when people thought Chevy Chase could do no wrong, and he made a movie called Modern Problems. I was only 11 and had started watching Siskel and Ebert on Sneak Previews, and they regularly trashed movies, but to me going to the movies was a big deal and always fun, it never really occurred to me that a movie could be bad. But when I left that movie, it was like "Oh now I get it."
I can think of a few movies I didn't see, and I can think of a lot that were disappointing, (And Airplane II ceased to be funny on January 28, 1986, only a few years after it was released, but lacking Abrahams and the Zucker Brothers, it wasn't all that funny to begin with), but as to truly awful ones I did see? Well, . . .
The Ralph Bakshi LotR was awful, with far too much emphasis on blood and gore (and a lot of the animation looking like they'd simply xerographed frame blow-ups of the reference films onto cels, with the cheapest copy machine they could find, and called it "rotoscoping"). That he only got halfway through is a good thing.
I was once a captive audience (on a bus, bus-bridging from Tallahassee to Orlando because of track work blocking the Sunset Limited) for a piece of garbage called Held Up, that was all the worse because it was a total waste not only of Jamie Foxx, but of Barry Corbin and John Cullum (Northern Exposure, with Cullum also appearing in 1776), and of Julie (Airplane!) Hagerty.
Then there was Rabbit Test. It is not without good reason that Joan Rivers' career took an immediate nosedive after this was released.
The Ralph Bakshi LotR was awful, with far too much emphasis on blood and gore (and a lot of the animation looking like they'd simply xerographed frame blow-ups of the reference films onto cels, with the cheapest copy machine they could find, and called it "rotoscoping"). That he only got halfway through is a good thing.
I was once a captive audience (on a bus, bus-bridging from Tallahassee to Orlando because of track work blocking the Sunset Limited) for a piece of garbage called Held Up, that was all the worse because it was a total waste not only of Jamie Foxx, but of Barry Corbin and John Cullum (Northern Exposure, with Cullum also appearing in 1776), and of Julie (Airplane!) Hagerty.
Then there was Rabbit Test. It is not without good reason that Joan Rivers' career took an immediate nosedive after this was released.
It was mainly the acting in part and the action. It felt too space opera like for me I guess.Split was pretty good. I liked The Village too. I've used it in PTSD groups, actually.
But yes, Lady in the Water missed the mark by quite a bit.
Forgot one! Galaxy Quest. Didn't find that one to be all that good or that funny.
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Another vote for Hardware. Absolutely dreadful movie that's somehow managed to become a cult film. It was so bad my cousin and I (we almost walked out) used it as the bottom rung on a "Hardware Scale" of movie ratings for years as an inside joke between us. It had a decent trailer and featured features Iggy Pop and Lemmy from Motörhead, which at the time was a selling point for me, I guess. Oh, and Porkins was in it too along with Dermott McDylan or Dylan Mulroney.
And the OP's mention of Amazing Grace and Chuck brings back memories. I loved that film as a kid, but I'm sure if I saw it as an adult the cheesiness would be overwhelming, because I even recognized it back then. Shocking ending though... well for the time, and in a kid's movie. Today it would be old hat.
And the OP's mention of Amazing Grace and Chuck brings back memories. I loved that film as a kid, but I'm sure if I saw it as an adult the cheesiness would be overwhelming, because I even recognized it back then. Shocking ending though... well for the time, and in a kid's movie. Today it would be old hat.
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My father and I went to see the 'Fifth Element' on opening weekend. I think we both knew something was up when we got to the theater and there were probably only a dozen or so people in it. We made it to the point where Chris Tucker showed up and my Dad and I, we both turned to each other and without saying a word, got up and left. I still haven't finished watching that movie. Every time Chris Tucker shows up he stops the movie dead.
I thought Ruby Rhod was a riot. 
Message From Space - a Japanese sci fi turd inspired by Star wars. What made it a memorable experience, though, was that the rest of the audience felt the same way my group of friends did, and the entire audience MST3Ked the whole movie in the theater. It was a blast.
Fifth Element is weird, yah, but it's a good kind of weird.
I mean, come on, any movie with Brion James in it can't be all bad, can it?
And I LOVED the future New York City.
I even picked up some expressions from the film...like when the cop car is in line at McDonald's and Korben Dallas crashes into it (causing the cops to spill food all over themselves), the lead cop - Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf - does this long pause and goes "...Woah." I do that all the time.
AZIZ! LIGHT!!!!
One question: Who was the voice of Korben's mother on the phone? Anyone know?
I mean, come on, any movie with Brion James in it can't be all bad, can it?
And I LOVED the future New York City.
I even picked up some expressions from the film...like when the cop car is in line at McDonald's and Korben Dallas crashes into it (causing the cops to spill food all over themselves), the lead cop - Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf - does this long pause and goes "...Woah." I do that all the time.
AZIZ! LIGHT!!!!
One question: Who was the voice of Korben's mother on the phone? Anyone know?
Then there was Laserblast - basically a 16mm student film that got a theatrical release. There were cool stop-motion aliens animated by young Phil Tippet (IIRC), but that was the only goo thing. The plot was a teenager finds an alien laser cannon that grafts itself to his arm. He goes on a killing rampage, slowly turning into a zombie-faced monster. That was the whole film, really, him running around blasting people and things.
According to IMDB, one Jill Mullan:Fifth Element is weird, yah, but it's a good kind of weird.
I mean, come on, any movie with Brion James in it can't be all bad, can it?
And I LOVED the future New York City.
I even picked up some expressions from the film...like when the cop car is in line at McDonald's and Korben Dallas crashes into it (causing the cops to spill food all over themselves), the lead cop - Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf - does this long pause and goes "...Woah." I do that all the time.
AZIZ! LIGHT!!!!
One question: Who was the voice of Korben's mother on the phone? Anyone know?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611928/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t115
Apparently, Vin Diesel was the voice of Finger (Korben's old war buddy and mechanic). I THOUGHT that sounded familiar...
Sums up my reaction to most of the posts in this thread.
But, to be contrarian, I find Fight Club and "The Ring" on my lists of films I could barely finish and will not rewatch.
Battlefield Earth.. Ohh dear lord where can I even start...
117 minutes of my life shot to hell...
Dutch angles for almost every shot....blue-grey tinting of many scenes...
1000 year old Harrier jump jets in perfect working order flown by freakin cavemen for Christ's sake..
John Travolta chewing scenery over and over...and over and over...
And yes, I paid $7 to see that cinematic suppository on opening night..
117 minutes of my life shot to hell...
Dutch angles for almost every shot....blue-grey tinting of many scenes...
1000 year old Harrier jump jets in perfect working order flown by freakin cavemen for Christ's sake..
John Travolta chewing scenery over and over...and over and over...
And yes, I paid $7 to see that cinematic suppository on opening night..
