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OMG, Why, did I watch that?!

Adm_Hawthorne

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Had an interesting thought come up in the Voyager forum, and I wanted to expand it here. We were talking about a show that was nixed that Jeri Ryan was going to be a part of. udat, pointed out that he would watch it just because it had one the Trek actors in it.

This lead to me to thinking... is there something I watched just because it had an actor in it I loved that I later wished I had never seen? Something so horrendous that it falls into the category of "Things That Cannot Be Unseen"?

The answer is yes.

TV Miniseries "Mansions of America"
It stared a very young Kate Mulgrew and Pierce Brosnan. It was aweful. It was so bad that I had to start drinking halfway through to get through the rest of it. By part 2 of 4, I had called in a favor from a friend of mine to come watch it with me so I could at least have someone MST3K with on this bad production. As I said in the Voyager forum, never EVER again. *shivers*

So... how about it? Have any of you had this experience?
 
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^ :lol:

Probably the best example of this for me would be the Star Wars Christmas Special. I've never been able to make it all the way through it. :rolleyes:
 
I'll watch anything that Elizabeth Hurley is in. I could watch her pick her nose and dig out huge, slimy boogers. So I sat through a picture called Bad Boy, aka Dawg, that she starred in with then-boyfriend Denis Leary. This movie is so wretchedly bad, even the choicest barbs from the MST3K crew couldn't make it watchable. It does have some nice scenery of the California coast. Too bad the actors have to stand in front of it and talk.
 
Now I want to try to find it somewhere, but I'm betting it's never been release for home viewing. :shifty: Man, I don't want to be that dude from Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" video, yet...
 
Now I want to try to find it somewhere, but I'm betting it's never been release for home viewing. :shifty: Man, I don't want to be that dude from Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" video, yet...

It's out there, just Get it frOm yOur friend Greg, in LakE VIDEO, Illinois.

Also, ahem some of us maybe be able to "produce" a DVD of it for you. I, um, recorded it on TV... on my DVD recorder.... when the show aired for the first time... two years before I was born.
 
It is true that every time a church bell rings, an angel gets its wings.

But what they don't tell you is that every time someone watches The Star Wars Holiday Special, God kills one of them.
 
Now I want to try to find it somewhere, but I'm betting it's never been release for home viewing. :shifty: Man, I don't want to be that dude from Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" video, yet...
:guffaw:
I actually have a VHS copy of it, "obtained" somehow by my parents in 1997 as a present for me! It currently sits on my shelf, played about halfway through from the one and only time I tried to watch it. :wtf: Not even my 10 year old son, who is arguably a bigger Star Wars fan than I am, has tried to watch it.

Oh, and this: http://xkcd.com/653/

:D
 
Oh, and here's a store video of a guy who was trying to bleach his brain after watching the Star Wars Christmas Special.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFZgqCt24Js[/yt]
 
TV Miniseries "Mansions of America"
It stared a very young Kate Mulgrew and Pierce Brosnan. It was aweful. It was so bad that I had to start drinking halfway through to get through the rest of it. ..

Manions of America---not Mansions, unless you're watching the Home & Garden channel. :)

And yes, "The Manions of Amercia" was a mini-series following Irish immigrants during the Great Famine, through the Civil War. And yet, somehow, manages to be unbelievably BORING and stiff as an ironing board. Clocking in a 6 HOURS, it's a real snooze fest. But there are far worse things out there.

Ever see a popular Korean film called "Old Boy?" It makes "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" look like a freakin' comedy.

It's so very, very wrong on so many different levels. I wish I could just wipe it from my memory.
 
Had an interesting thought come up in the Voyager forum, and I wanted to expand it here. We were talking about a show that was nixed that Jeri Ryan was going to be a part of. udat, pointed out that he would watch it just because it had one the Trek actors in it.

This lead to me to thinking... is there something I watched just because it had an actor in it I loved that I later wished I had never seen? Something so horrendous that it falls into the category of "Things That Cannot Be Unseen"?

The answer is yes.

TV Miniseries "Mansions of America"
It stared a very young Kate Mulgrew and Pierce Brosnan. It was aweful. It was so bad that I had to start drinking halfway through to get through the rest of it. By part 2 of 4, I had called in a favor from a friend of mine to come watch it with me so I could at least have someone MST3K with on this bad production. As I said in the Voyager forum, never EVER again. *shivers*

So... how about it? Have any of you had this experience?
Well, last night I watched "Cool As Ice," or at least parts of it(streaming on Netflix), but I don't really regret it. It was more of a "so bad it's good" kind of thing. What really cracked me up was that Vanilla Ice walked around through most of the movie trying to be super-dramatic while wearing a jacket that said "OH YEAH" on the back. Lol
 
Not necessarily related to Trek Actors (that I can think of off the top of my head) but I'd kinda like to get my time from Starship Troopers and Alien 3 back... among mannny other things... :(

I've seen terrible things...
 
TV Miniseries "Mansions of America"
It stared a very young Kate Mulgrew and Pierce Brosnan. It was aweful. It was so bad that I had to start drinking halfway through to get through the rest of it. ..

Manions of America---not Mansions, unless you're watching the Home & Garden channel. :)

And yes, "The Manions of Amercia" was a mini-series following Irish immigrants during the Great Famine, through the Civil War. And yet, somehow, manages to be unbelievably BORING and stiff as an ironing board. Clocking in a 6 HOURS, it's a real snooze fest. But there are far worse things out there.

Ever see a popular Korean film called "Old Boy?" It makes "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" look like a freakin' comedy.

It's so very, very wrong on so many different levels. I wish I could just wipe it from my memory.

The fact I had to drink to get through it makes me think I can be slightly forgiven for getting the name wrong. ;)
 
Any of the SciFi films are ones that I wish could be erased from my brain.

So horribly bad, that they become funny, before turning out to be just as bad.
 
A couple of years ago I watched a movie with a cast of trek actors that go to the centre of the earth anyone see it?
 
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