i seldom go to the cinema, and am hardly a fan, so my scope for such a discussion is severely limited. however, based solely upon a roughly 15 minute segment that i once saw of stayin' alive, john travolta's sequel to saturday night fever, i am convinced that it would be impossible to put moving pictures to a more contemptable use than this particular film.
--- but with a little effort, you could figure Siskel out...he had an aesthetic, albeit i disagreed with him ( no more than Gene Shalit - maybe it's the hair ) much of the time.
"Ernest saves Christmas" is one of my favorite XMas movies. "Call it a ... fifth sense" But some were truly bad
I trust people would generally ignore a stupid ass ignorant statement like that -- as if one movie reflects "american humor"? At least you are honest.
Now to open up a can of worms! Come on, lets get past the special effects and die hard fan thing here and be totally honest, in descending order; Bad - Star Wars 1/Star Wars 6 Worse - Star Wars 2 Just farkin hilariously bad - Star Wars 3 For me the funniest and worst moment in all of SW, even more cringe making than midi-clorians and Ja Ja Binx, is when the newly mechano-made Darth Vader, on hearing that his beloved "no I love you more because you love me" Princess I'mreallydulla had croaked, lets out a pure Rocky Baboa type scream! What unbridled mirth!
Eh. I though "Sith" was actually the best out of the newest trilogy, though the scream was pretty lame. I loved the battle between he and Obi-Wan though, and the Jedi-hunting montage was pretty good. Also, I think I'm in the minority here, but I liked "Return of the Jedi". Yeah, I know about all the complaints with the Ewoks and everything, but I thought the rest of it was fine.
I thought ep. 1 was the worst. I've said it before, I'll say it again: ep. 2 was in almost every single way a worse film than 1, but it had one key thing going for it: ep. 1 had wrecked my expectations for the trilogy so throughly that I came in to ep. 2 expecting absolutely nothing, and I got kung fu Yoda and Samuel L. Jackson decapitating people. So I walked out happy. Episode 1 is an example of a failure of unfulfilled expectations more than anything else. As much as I don't enjoy watching it, it's still a far cry better than, say, Sphere.
Just one movie, Eraserhead. I could kill Lynch for that pile of crap. 1 1/2 hours of my life that I can never get back.
Brilliantly written..... Thats a stretch there was not one single clever or witty comment or scene in any of those movies... Comedy includes anything by Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Movies such as Old School, Animal House, etc..... But don't come in here and try to insult my intelligence because I thougt those movies were painful...... Oh yeah I almost forgot.... GO FVCK YOURSELF.....
--- for me, getting a perspective, albeit limited, on a person's life experience, based on chronological age, helps me evaluate their taste and preferences. for example, i wouldn't expect 30 year olds to like music that was popular ( Top 40 ) before they were born, so if you think Wooly Bully and What the World Needs Now are crap, i can understand. they were partly a product of their times, and you didn't live thru them. on the other hand, if you think (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction or I Can't Help Myself (Four Tops) stink, i don't know what to say, since i think they stand up as very good music, from almost any perspective. you can disagree, of course, but i think you would get some stick for it.
Am I the only one who thinks that most responses have not been in terms of "movies poorly concieved and executed" but rather "movies I hate?" And does it reveal something about the nation/culture at the moment?
Shawshank was terrible, as was O Brother, even though I like some of the Coen Bros' movies. The biggest crime committed by O Brother is what it did with its source material. A comic version of Homer's Odyssey? It's amazing that no one has ever thought of that before. What was more surprising is that so few critics noted this. However, instead of a funny, tragic, and penetrating examination of the Irish psyche, we get hick jokes. It's like doing Romeo and Juliet as a musical about rival gangs without ever having heard of West Side Story.
Wow, this thread has gone head first into an empty pool. Why is O Brother a bad film? Because it took a already conceived formula and re wrote it into an early 20th century American story? And honestly I will fight anyone that picks on Wes Anderson! Except for maybe The Life Aquatic that was pretty lame. Anyhow so i will drop my bombs and walk away. Titanic Sucked big giant gargantuan donkey balls. But those balls were small in comparison to the size of the gonads sucked during the "film" starring Madonna as Evita Peron... Then again, I like Romero films..
Many many people will probably disagree with me but i thought that Once upon a Time in America a was one of the worst films i've ever seen. Also the Taxi remake was awful, who thought that Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifa should be in a comedy film?
You must have misread the title this is "The worst movie of all time" thread, not "The best movie of all time by three million orange mocha frappuccinos" thread. "You can read minds?" LOFL.