[jjayg]

Death to Smoochy

[joseph pakovits]

Battlefield Earth?

Ishtar?

Almost anything by Ed Wood?

[jmh30]

Santa With Muscles.

[nicodemus]

I have a few suggestions:

"Chocolat" the one with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche. What a sleeper that was. It was infuriating though because so many people told me how great it was. Well it wasn't great, it was terrible, and insufferably long. I try to finish every movie I start, and I finished this one, but it took me 5 days because it was so bad.

"Taste of Cherry" is an Iranian film that won big at Cannes a few years ago. Having seen some great Iranian films, I was excited to see this. It was, and I kid you not, two hours of a guy driving around a landfill outside of Tehran trying to find a vagrant that would bury him after he kills himself. Sometimes there would be five or six minute aerial shots of this guy driving his landcruiser. It would be completely silent except for the tires on the dirt. Some might call that deep, but it was boring beyond belief for a movie that could have had so much depth.

Ed Wood movies are so bad, they are almost good, especially when seen through the eyes of Mystery Science Theatre.

The reason I bash to two above so much is that they were hailed as "great cinema."

[GringoTex]

Originally posted by nicodemus
I have a few suggestions:

"Chocolat"

Agreed.

"Taste of Cherry"

One of the five greatest Iranian films ever.

I would like to add to the worst list:

Anything by Oliver Stone

[Kickeroo]

My vote:

Eraserhead, directed by David" what do mean, you don't get it" Lynch.

What a bore.

[nicodemus]

Originally posted by GringoTex

One of the five greatest Iranian films ever.

That movie isn't a tenth of the movie that "Leila" was for instance. Please tell me what you found so redeeming about "Taste of Cherry."

[GringoTex]

Originally posted by nicodemus


That movie isn't a tenth of the movie that "Leila" was for instance. Please tell me what you found so redeeming about "Taste of Cherry."

Jonathon Rosenbaum, our best critic on Kiarostami, can explain it a lot better than I:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/...e=3&rid=105814

I liked Leila, too.

[spejic]

> Anything by Oliver Stone

The Untouchables was a pretty good popcorn action flic, and of course Natual Born Killers was just awesome.

The worst movie every was "Shock Treatment", the supposed sequal to the terrible "Rocky Horror Picture Show". It is used by Osama Bin Laden to show martyrs what their deaths will destroy. Its stink fills the room in which it is placed. It will rot the wood of the shelf it is placed apon. It emits an aura so evil it takes a team of Catholic priests to control it. It produces boredom so great one viewing will kill 10 French post-modern philosophers. Any VCR used to play it becomes corrupt. Any eye used to see it becomes blind. Any mind used to understand it becomes retarded. And the new actor that plays "Brad" is rather stiff.

[whirlwind]

Originally posted by spejic
[BThe worst movie every was "Shock Treatment", the supposed sequal to the terrible "Rocky Horror Picture Show"...(snip) It emits an aura so evil it takes a team of Catholic priests to control it. [/B]

Actually, the priests couldn't control it, but they did bribe it to keep quiet and not go to the police.