What's the worst film you've seen?
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Arikan
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 What's the worst film you've seen?
Following on from the enormous success of my previous thread on everyone's favourite films, it's only natural to ask what everyone's least favourite films are. So what is the worst film you've ever seen? Or the film you've walked out of?
Someone's got to ask these questions...
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charly
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a) I Robot. Walked out.
b) Phantom. Because Mashed up Monkey was blubbing (Ani-Ist can confirm).
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:25 AM |
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simonb
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'Swept Away' by Guy 'Mockney' Ritchie. Undoubtedly one of the worst films ever made. Madonna is rank and the scene where her fellow castway makes her do a little song n' dance, simply excrutiating to watch. I would rather eat my own sick than watch it again.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:25 AM |
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simonb
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[quote user="charly" post="58291"]a) I Robot. Walked out.[/quote]
Indeed that one is truly awful.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:26 AM |
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Arikan
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"Swept Away" - Oh, boy. I had to rinse my eyes with bleach after I accidentally stumbled upon it on Digiturk.
"I, Robot" - Yep, absolute twaddle. Even more infuriating when one considers the source material, and that the director, Alex Proyas, had previously made one of the best science-fiction films of all time, "Dark City."
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:31 AM |
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Jyrays
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 hey
ı didnt even watch it more than 3 min...
one bad one as well is The Cut... how did she go so down?
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:37 AM |
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charly
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c) Planet of the Apes with the transvestite who is actually a real woman - what's her name.... Bonham-Can'tdressher-Carter
d) The Postman - what was the point?
e) That Mick Jagger and Tina Turner travesty in the Aussie outback with the wild hair.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:42 AM |
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simonb
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Just thought of another monster - Catwoman!!!!
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:42 AM |
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simonb
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The Patriot, U571, Braveheart and all other faux-historic bullshit propaganda deserve to be mentioned for polluting the minds of a generation.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:45 AM |
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Arikan
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You mean "In the Cut" by Jane Campion? Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh etc. It's contrived and misguided, sure; but it's not abhorrent. Not a good film by any means, but not a train wreck, either.
(No film with tits can EVER be a train wreck. Pauline Kael said that.)
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Gilly
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Lord of the rings
Scream
Any spoof movie come to think of it
So many more but have erased the names from my mind.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:49 AM |
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Arikan
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Braveheart sucks ass, agreed. So does The Patriot (a movie about the American War of Revolution from a German director and a Japanese studio - Viva La Globalizacion!).
U571 - See, I am actually fine with people re-writing history to suit their mental vision for a film; it is fiction after all. What I did find disturbing was Harvey Keitel on Jay Leno, while promoting the flick, saying that these people died for us, they were heroes, they masterminded the breaking of an impossible code etc. That was bollocks. He was trying to present the film as an accurate portrayal of real events, and that was out of order.
But all that is inconsequential when one considers the fact that the film in question is fcuking rubbish.
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Arikan
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Quote: Any spoof movie come to think of it
BACK TO RUSSIA!
Airplane! is one of the funniest films ever made. And Scream is great, too.
I wouldn't call the Rings films the worst flicks ever, but the latter two are shit, and the first film goes arse over tit once Gandalf falls into that chasm.
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| Thu, Jul 06 2006, 12:04 PM |
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pollyanna
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can't bring any titles to mind now, but period dramas wherein the costuming is correct, but the hair and makeup are still obviously circa 1980s
another peeve- there have been plenty of good films made that are completely destroyed by sappy, happy hollywood endings, which turns an otherwise triumphant film into dross
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Arikan
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Come on Walden, give us an example.
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