Worst films ever
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Why Armageddon didn't make the top 10 in this list I'll never know. It was simply Pearl Harbour in space after all... Except that Armageddon came long before Pearl Harbour, which, of course, is based in part to an historical event. The rest is pretty much a sappy love story like that which was found previously in Armageddon. While I don't mind a sappy love story from time to time (if nothing else, it earns points with my wife), Armageddon at least plagued the mind with the inevitable fact that someday we will be hit by an asteroid. At least half-way decent movies do something to stir up emotions in the viewers. It may not provoke a lot of thought like the first Matrix, leave the viewer in wonderment like Total Recall, or raise the hairs on the back of their necks like The 6th Sense, but it had its merits. Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: No happy ending though, so hence ignored by the vast majority of the cinema-going public. My kind of movie! People complain how life sucks and then they're fine with a happy ending? Yeah, that's realistic. Isn't it funny how the fantasy films like most sci-fi are unrealistic but have realistic endings? I.e., we don't win when faced with an armadda of highly advanced alien warships and a seemingly endless supply of highly evolved and much bigger alien warriors. On the big screen, we always win - be it a brave suicide mission up the corn-hole of a saucer or a glass of water.
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OK, I worded that badly - but Armageddon and Pearl Harbour are pretty much the same story in my book. They are both pretty awful and only the CGI makes them bearable. As for asteroid movies, I enjoyed Deep Impact more - a lot less gung-ho and a bit more realistic. One thing that annoys me is the amount of cheesy moments in Armageddon - all that standing in front of huge, slowly flapping US flags, etc. Puke-a-hontas. Still nothing can match the speech given by the Pres in Independence Day ("today ... is our INDEPENDENCE DAY!") - that would make even the sappiest cinema-goer reach for a popcorn barrel to hurl into. First Matrix. Awesome. Right up my street (like Vanilla Sky in that respect) and I must have watched the hotel lobby -> crashing helicopter bit a 100 times. he he. Total Recall - haven't seen that in a while but it's one of those movies where I remember where and when I saw it (Sheffield, 1990) because I came out of the cinema with my head spinning. ha ha.
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Did you like 2001? I think VS had the same kind of 'what the truck is going on?' feel to it that a lot of people don't like. Many movie gowers don't want an experience, they want a rigid story with beautiful people. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Yeh, I was disappointed to see Vanilla Sky in tje list too, as I think it's a great moview. Perhaps there was an anti Tom Cruise vote!?
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Perhaps there was an anti Tom Cruise vote!? Well, i didn't vote, but that would have been my reason. The movie began, and i had fond hopes of seeing Tom in agonizing pain, perhaps even dying a horrible death... but it just wasn't enough. :sigh: Maybe in the sequel, there'll be sharks waiting for him after he drives off the bridge... :hopeful:
A servant to formulaic ways.
Shog9
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Did you like 2001? I think VS had the same kind of 'what the truck is going on?' feel to it that a lot of people don't like. Many movie gowers don't want an experience, they want a rigid story with beautiful people. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Many movie gowers don't want an experience, they want a rigid story with beautiful people. Passing a kidney stone is an experience, but I wouldn't call it living. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
I never passed judgement on which was wrong and which was right. Neither are either, merely personal preference. p.s. If they could make a movie that was not to arty farty on the experience of passing a kidney stone, I would probably watch it. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Agreed with all of them, except Vanilla Sky. I thought it was a brilliant movie, even though it was a direct rip off of the original. Why, oh why, didn't Pearl Harbour get to the first (or even second) spot? **I Dream of Absolute Zero
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
Mmm... guess Gigli is so horrific that it was wiped from everyone's memory. Unless they're just referring to movies that a good number of people have actually watched.
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
Speaking of really bad movies, my wife and I recently rented the latest encarnation of Charlie's Angels. Twenty minutes into the "film" and we couldn't take it anymore. What a pile of dung! Regards, Alvaro
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Paul Watson wrote: they want a rigid story with beautiful people. Oh, sigh. Why can't people just appreciate the overly drawn-out stories with beautiful people? :rolleyes:
A servant to formulaic ways.
Shog9
LOL touche Shog9 from outer spaceM. Though I never passed judgement. Sometimes I want a rigid story with beautiful people too. :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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What does it mean if I enjoyed quite a few of their top ten worst films? A.I had beautiful moments though it was a let down overall. Pearl Harbour was cool for the battles, nice entertainment and anyone who was expecting a historical docu should have their heads checked. Vanilla Sky was just freaky man, but it had Diaz in it, how could I not like it? :blush: The Avengers was just fun. But yes, Battle Field Earth and Highlander were just utterly horrendous. Titanic, Eyes Wide Shut and the Blair Witch I have not watched. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: A.I had beautiful moments though it was a let down overall. A.I. disappointed me a lot. And all because it could have been so good... :sigh: If Spielberg would just have cut the movie with Haley Joel trapped in the ice, i would have been happy. It was a good ending - it left things unresolved, it left questions, but it told a story.
A servant to formulaic ways.
Shog9
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
Titantic is the worst film ever ??? :confused: Sure, it sucked, but the worst film ever? Police Academies? Short Circuit 2? Planet of Apes 2002(or whenever it was remade)? There are alot of movies much more deserving of the title "Worst Ever". Titanic was forgetable at best.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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The worst film I have every watched was Trainspotting. By far, the most miserable 10 years of my life were spent watching that film.
A great film (in my slightly humble opinion), and I really need to buy the second sound track CD sometime. Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop - amazing track :-D Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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I assume this is though taking children, not because you went on your own... The tigress is here :-D
I'm not that much of a masochist ;) And my brain isn't turned into jelly so much that I'd seek out Pokemon in preference to pretty much any of the films on that BBC list. If I'd had that mp3 player back then I could have tuned in and turned off, but that blasted pika-pika-nasty rat thing would maybe have pierced through any headphones anyway. Still, my kids have outgrown it now...and moved onto Yu-Gi-Oh. Oh the joys of parenthood. :~ Debbie
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
LOL!! '8) Battlefield Earth You said... "A totally miserable experience shared with six other sad and bemused people and 120 empty seats."' Not at all surprising. L. Ron Hubbard was once overheard at a party in 1950-something saying, "the only way to make any money in this business is to start a religion." He was a complete failure as a science fiction writer, being an utterly incompetent wordsmith, so he invented a cult to generate income and compensate for his ineptitude. I read many of his "Battlefield Earth" series books in the hope that he would finally learn to write. He never did. Movies made from good books are bad enough; I can't imagine why anyone would waste the funding on a movie based on a book that was, at best, a boring, childish story. "Your village called -
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
The reviews are just slamming it. Too much flash and too little story / plot.
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Titantic is the worst film ever ??? :confused: Sure, it sucked, but the worst film ever? Police Academies? Short Circuit 2? Planet of Apes 2002(or whenever it was remade)? There are alot of movies much more deserving of the title "Worst Ever". Titanic was forgetable at best.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
brianwelsch wrote: Titanic was forgetable at best. I agree, but who can forget the scene where the ship breaks in half? That was pretty spectacular! Regards, Alvaro
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I always said after watching the worst one that I wouldn't insult my backside by forcing it to sit through it again but everyone else seemed to think it was brilliant. Apparently not http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml[^] pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
The worst movie I saw as a kid was Yor, the Hunter from the Future. As an adult I think the worst thing I've ever seen is Timequest, a really, really, really unwatchable movie that had a seemingly good premise: what does the world look like today if JFK's assassination had been prevented? Just awful.
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Paul Watson wrote: The Avengers was just fun. Have you seen much of the original Avengers television series? In comparision the movie was a complete pile of donkey droppings! Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
The original television series was fantastic! I'm not sure whether that's because the show was so good, or because I wanted to do Emma Peel.:-D "Your village called -
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That's a real pitty, because I thought Battlefield Earth, the novel, had real movie potential, to rival Dune and Starwars as epics. I hope nobody butchers Greg Bear's Eon. Hallelucination - when you think you see God
ProffK wrote: That's a real pitty, because I thought Battlefield Earth, the novel, had real movie potential, to rival Dune and Starwars as epics. Very true... the book was simply amazing..... why they had to turn it into a "movie" (i use the term loosely since it was so bad), i'll never know. :( :sigh: The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
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I'm not that much of a masochist ;) And my brain isn't turned into jelly so much that I'd seek out Pokemon in preference to pretty much any of the films on that BBC list. If I'd had that mp3 player back then I could have tuned in and turned off, but that blasted pika-pika-nasty rat thing would maybe have pierced through any headphones anyway. Still, my kids have outgrown it now...and moved onto Yu-Gi-Oh. Oh the joys of parenthood. :~ Debbie
Debs wrote: and moved onto Yu-Gi-Oh Isn't that the same as Pokemon? or is it better that I just don't know? :-D The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
