What's your favourite 'Worst Film'
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Starship Troopers.
That's one of my favorite movies. Explosions, bugs, and co-ed shower scenes. Would you like to know more? One of the very few times the movie was far better than the book it was based on.
Personally, I liked the book because it fit the whole background. Still, the book directly would not have made a good movie (though their body armor would have been cool to see in the movie).
Christopher Reed "The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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I can't believe you can type that and keep a straight face! The only connection between the book and film are a few names and the fact the baddies are bugs, it's an awful adaption of a good book.
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You must be smoking something. Tell me what page in the book has the co-ed shower scenes. I'll wait.... Scratch that I won't wait. Cause there are none! The book was chock full armored suits, people going to sleep against their will, and failure. The book was far to matter of fact and had none of the visceral combat feel the movie did. "I shot a missile down a bug whole, blah blah blah, the missile...(to paragraphs for boring information about the missile) blah blah" The movie took that story, tossed out the crap, and added entertainment. I will not however defend any of it's sequels. Anyone involved with those should be set on fire.
ROTFL, co-ed shower scenes don't make a story good or bad (although they may help :) ). Lets face it a lot of the books charm is about it's simile for Vietnam and what Heinlein felt were inadequacies in the political system. I guess I just read it more for that layer then for blood guts and sex. I mean a fairly important difference between film and book is that Dizzy changes sex for a start. The book is good the film is mediocre at best, lacking the depth of ideology that the book has. To me the film would have been more bearable if it hadn't tried to claim to have anything to do with the book at all.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
War Games
War Games is a great film!! That is until I understood about computers. I vote for Starship Troopers. Classic. :)
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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That film is soo bad its great!!
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I have a former manager who thought that Big Trouble was the best movie of all time. Seriously!
Christopher Reed "The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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and another Kim Cattrall film - Mannequin
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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Army of Darkness, Orgazmo, Natural Born Killers, and possibly Cruel Intentions (I'm not sure if being Epically Wrong counts towards this list or not)
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Let's see, some of my favorite stinkers:
- Tron[^]
- The Black Hole[^]
- Flash Gordon[^]
- Krull[^]
- Transmorphers: Fall of Man[^] (how they talked Bruce Boxleitner into this one...)
There's others, I'm sure, but these are all I'm admitting to, heh. :-\ Flynn
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GalaxyQuest What's that? GalaxyQuest Huh, I can't hear you? GalaxyQuest OK, I like Tim Allen and most Star Trek spoofs.
Brent
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That is to say name a really bad film that you actually like watching, even if you do not want friends and family to know? I have a few... War Games The Fog The Land that Time Forgot. (Actually, anything with Doug McClure in it).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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That is to say name a really bad film that you actually like watching, even if you do not want friends and family to know? I have a few... War Games The Fog The Land that Time Forgot. (Actually, anything with Doug McClure in it).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
War Games is awesome - how could you consider that a bad film?
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Dan Neely wrote:
Starship Travesty is the worst obscenity WholelyWierd has ever produced from a classic SF nove. When Verhoeven drops dead I plan to: get a passport, goto the Netherlands, drink a large quantity of the local beer, and "pay my respects" on his grave.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think that anyone who has any kind of idea what RAH was talking about really, really hated that film. :mad:
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Oh, come on - it's not a bad film when it knows it is totally cheesy, and wallows in it! And - you really think "Stargate" was bad???
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That is to say name a really bad film that you actually like watching, even if you do not want friends and family to know? I have a few... War Games The Fog The Land that Time Forgot. (Actually, anything with Doug McClure in it).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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That is to say name a really bad film that you actually like watching, even if you do not want friends and family to know? I have a few... War Games The Fog The Land that Time Forgot. (Actually, anything with Doug McClure in it).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Masters of the Universe (the live-action He-Man movie)!
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Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:
Tron[^]
What? Bad movie? What in the world are you tslking about?
I loved the movie myself. But it's generally considered a cheesy "bad" film, heh. :-\ Flynn
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Battle Beyond the Stars, aka John Boy in Outer Space. I'm still trying to find a copy on DVD. It's been out of print for years.:( As for The Last Starfighter, I picked up the recent anniversary Blu-Ray. It wasn't very expensive from Amazon, and the movie has held up pretty well. :) Flynn