bad movies discussions and comments

[Itisnotlogical]

Dawn of the Dead. It must have had the worst, least-convincing acting of any movie I've ever seen. I read the little pamphlet inside the case before watching and I went in expecting an epic social commentary set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse. However, aside from a few racial slurs at the beginning of the movie, it has little relevance to anything that happens in the real world, just like the acting has nothing to do with the behavior of people in the real world.

Moving on to the few and far in between scenes where they actually face the zombies, everything falls flat. A hammer strike that supposedly incapacitates a zombie makes barely a sound after the person makes barely any effort to move the hammer? And yet the zombie is out of the game for several seconds. And the police characters (who supposedly know how to shoot guns in the correct manner) hold their wrists while firing handguns... which makes them look like idiots to anybody who knows the slightest about firearms.

The actual worst part of the film has nothing to do with the actual viewing experience; it's the fact that many people think this crapfest set the bar for horror movies for decades to come.

 

[timothy]

I guess you never day of the dead . and what about stallone's OSCAR I thought it was funny as hell but it was bad too. and then you have police academy series everyone of them after the first one sucked .

 

[scotpens]

. . . As for just plain bad movies, Two Minute Warning starring Charlton Heston. Far too slow paced, and far too predictable. Found myself rooting for the bad guy about 15 minutes into it.

Did you see the original theatrical version or the drastically altered television version, which the film’s director disowned?

never seen birdemic don't know what it is about or who is even in it .

Don't worry. Nobody worth mentioning is in it.

Birdemic was reportedly made on a budget of $10,000. It’s obvious that no one connected with the picture meant it to be taken seriously. Except maybe the director.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I guess you never day of the dead . and what about stallone's OSCAR I thought it was funny as hell but it was bad too. and then you have police academy series everyone of them after the first one sucked .

Yes, I never saw Day of the Dead. Neither am I especially tempted to after watching Dawn. And I have not seen Police Academy, I just happen to know that modern armed forces and most professional firearm instructors would call you an idiot if you held your wrist while shooting a handgun.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Dawn of the Dead. It must have had the worst, least-convincing acting of any movie I've ever seen. I read the little pamphlet inside the case before watching and I went in expecting an epic social commentary set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse. However, aside from a few racial slurs at the beginning of the movie, it has little relevance to anything that happens in the real world, just like the acting has nothing to do with the behavior of people in the real world.

actual viewing experience; it's the fact that many people think this crapfest set the bar for horror movies for decades to come.

THANK YOU. I've never understood why people make such a big deal about it either. I love that little satirical bit where the zombies are clawing at a shop window in the mall while commercials drone over the loud speaker, but most of the movie was dull and repetitive. I appreciated how crazy some the gore effects were, but the characters and story bored me.

I loved the original "Night of the Living Dead", though. It was a solid, straightforward horror flick with some interesting characters spending most of the movie in a single location that worked perfectly for creating an eerie and suspenseful tone/atmosphere. This is one of the cases where I thought the sequel equaled bigger and better (budget-wise), but also dumber, more meandering, and less focused.

 

[Trekker4747]

Birdemic has none of that. Not one, single, thing is done right in Birdemic. Nothing.

Correction: the aforementioned hot lead actress does spend a couple scenes in her underwear.

Aside from that, though, you're correct.

Well, true. And as much as you can say it she's probably the most "talent" the movie has as she doesn't too bad with the material or too bad with most of the makeup-effects (a job she took on when the actual make-up artist quit.)

So, yeah. But her dirty feet during the "sex scene" harms things... a bit.

That reminds me of movies where a character who’s supposed to be a professional biologist or oceanographer mispronounces “coelacanth.”

In "Birdemic" they run into another character at one point who -supposedly- explains what's happening; that the birds are attacking as "revenge" against human civilization for global warming/climate change. He claims he's able to do this because he's an orthologist. A person who studies grammar and the correct usage of words.

This is entirely different than the man being ornithologist, someone who studies birds.

 

[scotpens]

In "Birdemic" they run into another character at one point who -supposedly- explains what's happening; that the birds are attacking as "revenge" against human civilization for global warming/climate change. He claims he's able to do this because he's an orthologist.

Well, I suppose anyone can lose a syllable every now and then.

 

[Trekker4747]

In "Birdemic" they run into another character at one point who -supposedly- explains what's happening; that the birds are attacking as "revenge" against human civilization for global warming/climate change. He claims he's able to do this because he's an orthologist.

Well, I suppose anyone can lose a syllable every now and then.

I will admit that it's possible he did say ornithologist but I listened to it several times and it sounds a lot like "orthologist" to me, and it must've sounded like that to the guys at Rifftrax (who probably watched the movie several times to write the riffing like they did on MST3K) since they point it out too.

But the audio is this movie is so very shitty and unclear (seriously, the center fucking channel, dialogue, DO IT) that he really could have said anything.

 

[ElBurro]

. . . As for just plain bad movies, Two Minute Warning starring Charlton Heston. Far too slow paced, and far too predictable. Found myself rooting for the bad guy about 15 minutes into it.

Did you see the original theatrical version or the drastically altered television version, which the film’s director disowned?

Well, it was on t.v (in the UK) that I watched it, but I think it must have been the theatrical version because I don't remember the part about the bank heist. I'm sure that the sniper was alone.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Rachel Getting Married is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I mean they have a scene where two characters have a race to see who can be fastest to empty a dishwasher

The Human Centipede was just boring, so was Paranormal Activity. The Fourth Kind was awful. Perfect Stranger is stupid as well.

 

[Harvey]

Rachel Getting Married is the worst movie you've ever seen? Not even close in my book. If that's the worst you can do, I applaud your skill in selecting worthwhile movies to watch. I thought it was one of the best films of 2008--and so did many of the critics.

Now, The Room, there's something bad.

 

[Trekker4747]

Rachel Getting Married is the worst movie you've ever seen? Not even close in my book. If that's the worst you can do, I applaud your skill in selecting worthwhile movies to watch. I thought it was one of the best films of 2008--and so did many of the critics.

Now, The Room, there's something bad.

I say again, "Birdemic" is worse than The Room by orders of magnitude.

It's like comparing the tiny impact tremor you get from a large man doing jumping-jacks in the apartment over yours to a full-scale 8.0 earthquake.

I think that's the problem with threads that ask about the "worst movie." People are quick to point out Battlefield Earth, Plan 9, Batman and Robin and many other "main stream" ones but they've no idea. Sure those may be bad theatrically-released movies with wide international or fairly "main stream" movies but when you look at really, honestly, terrible movies that are out there you see how "good" those other movies are. Including Plan 9.

Seriously, watch "Manos" -a movie with minuscule release- and then tell me Batman and Robin is a bad movie. It's a movie done with a camera that could only take like a 3-minute shot with no sound, like three people did "ADR" for the voices of the various characters (which were more than three) not mention so many other aspects of the movie.

If you're a fan of MST3K or of "bad movies" in general you can really grasp how "good" a lot of the main-stream ones in this thread are. Don't get me wrong movies like "Batman and Robin", "Battlefield Earth", "Tiptoes" and many others are bad but hardly the worse movies ever when compared to something like "Birdemic" or "Manos."

Hell, even The Room has an ounce or two of "merit" to it. It's just poorly executed.

 

[MLJames]

The worst movie I ever paid to see was Boxing Helena. It was directed by David Lynch's daughter, and it convinced me there must be something seriously wrong in the family gene pool. Go look it up on IMDB; it's too complicated to adequately describe here. The film is one solid almost from the opening credits, and I remember thinking that whatever the director was on, she was either taking too much or not enough. The only consolation was that I saw it in the base theater where I was stationed at the time, and so it only cost me a buck fifty for the wasted time.

 

[Harvey]

Seriously, watch "Manos" -a movie with minuscule release- and then tell me Batman and Robin is a bad movie. It's a movie done with a camera that could only take like a 3-minute shot with no sound, like three people did "ADR" for the voices of the various characters (which were more than three) not mention so many other aspects of the movie.

Manos might be technically incompetent, but the way I see it, it was made with barely a fraction of the millions spent on Batman & Robin. And yet, the latter is still a piece of crap.

That's part of what makes The Room so incomprehensible--the director spent 6 million dollars on it, and yet it comes off like a z-grade soft-core porn flick written by someone who speaks English as a second language...badly. Which, of course, is exactly what it is, but those sort of movies aren't usually made for 6 MILLION DOLLARS.

 

[timothy]

any one see the four rooms . antonio benderease and quintin terantino . that is a messed up movie . and anything seen on scy fy channel saturday is 80% awefull.

 

[ElBurro]

Is it wrong that this thread is just making me want to watch all these films???

 

[Too Much Fun]

any one see the four rooms . antonio benderease and quintin terantino . that is a messed up movie . and anything seen on scy fy channel saturday is 80% awefull.

That's like, half of a good movie. The segments directed by Robert Rodriguez (starring Antonio Banderas) and the Quentin Tarantino (with Tim Roth and the finger) were fun. The rest was lame.

 

[timothy]

I totaly agree with you on that . Now I saw a trailer on the attack of the show on g4 . I don't know if this is a real movie or not but the title is velocipastor . In the tradition of sharkoctopus that sucked monkey balls . and then there is jackass 3d hated the show never will I see a movie . also there is the adams west batman movie . why god !! why god !!

 

[scotpens]

. . . Now I saw a trailer on the attack of the show on g4 . I don't know if this is a real movie or not but the title is velocipastor .

Velocipastor? Is that a gospel-preaching carnivorous dinosaur?

Rachel Getting Married is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I mean they have a scene where two characters have a race to see who can be fastest to empty a dishwasher

Sounds like something that's more fun to do than watch.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Haha, people love that Adam West Batman movie. I remember seeing it on lists where it's called one of the best Batman movies after Nolan's, just to crap on the Burton/Schumacher ones some more. I think it's good as a comedy. The scenes where they try to create some drama with Bruce Wayne being seriously sad about a woman are awful, though. The 'romance' part is cheesy in a bad way, but the rest is cheesy in a good way. I love the villains teaming up, and they're all hilarious, especially The Riddler.