The absolute worst film you've ever seen
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Obviously it's far from the worst film I've ever seen, but even Return of the Jedi isn't a great watch as an adult, especially if you watch it with Empire fresh in your memory. After the opening sequence it just drags on for a long time, and then the ending is just a less exciting rehash of A New Hope.
I didn't think The Last Jedi was as terrible as people were saying, and I didn't think The Force Awakens was as good as people were saying. They were both just fairly decent action nonsense that were quite enjoyable in the cinema, but didn't really feel very incredible or do anything that hadn't been done better elsewhere. Pretty typical modern boardroom factory-line hollywood.
A film made by committee
It's been a few years but I read about about the making of that movie. I don't recall cocaine but I do remember a few other gems:
Actors hanging around the set for months getting paid exorbitant amounts of overtime because the director never got around to shooting their scenes.
The director deciding that the street of the western town was too narrow and needed to be widened by 10 feet, so he demolished both sides of the street and rebuilt them each 5 feet further back (when it would have cost half as much to just demolish one side and build it 10 feet back).
The director using money from the studio to pay for irrigation improvements to the land they were shooting on, which also happened to be land owned by the director! (I think he did eventually have to pay that money back.)
Ishtar has a germ of a good idea but is woefully miscast. Warren Beatty & Dustin Hoffman, while great actors, lack the comedy chops to riff their way through a movie like that. If they'd done it with, say, Steve Martin & Bill Murray, it would have worked a lot better. (Still probably too expensive to make a profit but not quite the disaster it turned out to be.)
It took every fiber of my being to sit through that without howling at the screen out of sheer boredom!
Battleship was a lot of fun! And it had Rihanna in it.
What more could you want?
I really want to know what went on during the making of Supernova. I've seen the film twice and still can't fathom how it got made. I did read things like the Director being an ass and walking out or something leaving everyone up in the air with the production but yeah that one seems to be a bit of a juicy story or two behind the scenes.
Poor Richard Gere he also played the loving husband in Unfaithful which felt like a somewhat depressing movie / porn-lite
I remember buying one of those Public Domain DVD collections years ago and that movie was on it. I had to turn it off after about 10 minutes, I just couldn't stand it. And it's actually Santa Claus Conquers The Martians and, surprisingly it has made it to Blu-Ray---although only from a 1.37:1 16mm transfer made for TV syndication in the 60's. Apparently the original 1.85:1 35mm master print, or even 1.85:1 prints in general no longer exist, or they are extremely scarce, to the point that Kino Lorber, who issued the Blu-Ray, had to go with the TV version.
But I was just watching the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie the other night. One question, were the screen writer's even sober when they wrote the script, or were they so drunk that they really didn't care? Why was the movie allowed to be produced based on the script that was used? And why did Mario look to be in his 50's when Luigi looked little more than 19-20 years old? I didn't buy that they were "brothers". And where was Luigi's mustache?
I watch the Super Mario Bros movie every couple of years with friends. It's a super enjoyable film to have a few drinks and watch with others. It's such a head-scratcher.
And it's hardly recognizable to anything from the Super Mario games of the late-80's and early-90's (or even the DIC shows) or even the ones that have come since. Also, why did they go with Daisy? At that point she wasn't as well known as Peach, since her adventures had been confined to the Game Boy games.
OMG You read my mind.
I've been thinking about this movie and getting it to watch. Is this the one where the baby knows things from inside the womb?
I remember a movie trailer and not sure if it's this one but they showed the baby in the womb opening its eyes and giving an evil stare.
Not the worst movie, but worst subtitles ever. The movie itself was actually fairly interesting, but when it came to anything other than english, would just say [person speaking foreign language, yelling, cursing in a foreign language], etc. It effectively rendered them useless, which I found very odd given that it was a multi-country production.
I used a blunt wallpaper scraper to expunge what I could of that rancid memory, but what’s left doesn’t sound familiar.
Is spoiler code superfluous in this thread? I feel should use it, but that it would be futile.
You can use spoiler code if you wish.
I am deeply sorry @Butters for bringing back bad memories of that one.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant ranks real close to the bottom even though (miscast) John C. Reilly had moments. So stupid and annoying and I don't know if it was supposed to be self-mocking (it probably was in parts, would be/was still bad) or just really terribly done.
Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell is the worst movie of the 21st century.
The only thing I could think of that could be worse would be Star Trek, starring Will Ferrell as Captain Kirk.
The only thing I could think of that could be worse would be Star Trek, starring Will Ferrell as Captain Kirk.
