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YOUR 10 WORST MOVIES ARE?
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 YOUR 10 WORST MOVIES ARE?NAME THOSE 10 WORST MOVIES YOU HAVE SEEN? |
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My 10 The fog (john Carpenter) Lorenzo's oil (Nick Nolte,Susan Surandon) Dead Man walking (Susan Surandon, Sean Penn) Vampires (John Carpenter) Broken Arrow (John Travolta,Christian Slater) Thin red line (Nick Nolte) Adaptation (Nicolas Cage) Bad Education (Garcia Bernal "spanish film" ) Merry christmas Mr Lawrence (David Bowie) White (french film) |
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10 worst (!?) films --- Well, "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" comes immediately to mind, except that's so funny/campy it's worth seeing ... maybe "Attack of the 50-foot Woman" instead; --- "Plan 9 from Outer Space"; --- homage ro Rilke: "The Fog" and "Lorenzo's Oil"; anti-homage: "Adaptation" would be on my list of top 100 movies; --- Travolta's scientology movie ("Battlestar Galactica"?) --- "The Magus" - horribly Hollywood miscasting of a brilliant John Fowles novel (except for Anthony Quinn) --- maybe not "worst," but how about "10 Most Over-rated Movies"? my list starts off with "The English Patient" .... |
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only 10? |
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usethepawn 04-Oct-05, 05:09 |
I can give you 2... And The Village rather recent supposed to be scary i was more scared in winnie the pooh the movie...anyone seen it? |
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usethepawn 15-Oct-05, 04:53 |
Another 1 that i have just finished watching |
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velvetvelour 19-Oct-05, 22:38 |
Mumford: This was was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and definitely the worst of the "Quirk Lake" genre (as I've dubbed it). Some renegade ex-corporate drone (played by Loren Dean, which I hope ruined his career) saunters in some idyllic small town which the movie is named after, and sets up shop as the resident psychologist, despite having no formal training or education in the field, and in fact having a dim personal view of it. He befriends the whole town, they befriend them, and life lessons ensue. Pathetic. Patronizing, plodding, intellectually dishonest and wholly contrived film. How anyone could believe that this banal, smarmy bore is actually a "sensitive, empathic listener" with any original thought would probably have to be on crack (alcohol wouldn't provoke the necessary suspension of disbelief). Layer Cake: A more recent entry in the "British crime-caper" genre which has now become a cottage industry. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and its sister film Snatch were endlessly entertaining guilty pleasures oozing panache and memorable cockney dialogue, and they knew what they were and what they weren't. This movie doesn't. Pretentious, badly acted, ineptly shot, and blaring with a cringe-worthy 80s arena-rock and post-punk soundtrack which is wholly out of synch. The protagonist is some scowling cheesecake who cruises through the whole movie doing a bad Clive Owen impression. Incredibly, despite the ensemble gangsters, drug running, shoot-outs, and a droll Michael Gambon, it manages to be boring to boot. More "realistic" gangster film my velvet ass. Hated it. HATED IT. For an example of a more realistic Brit-gangster film done *right*, see "Gangster No. 1," which encompasses the dramatic tension and pathos Layer Cake only *dreams* about. The Ring 2: The original was an entertaining and sometimes genuinely creepy horror film, well put together with an original premise (even if a Japanese movie remake). The sequel had to be the most tedious supernatural drama ever put to film. They reunite the cast and then give them *nothing to do for two hours*. In desperation, we're attacked by a few FX effects here and there to try to distract us from this fact. As far as rings go, I'd much rather watch the one around my bathtub than the continuation of this series. For fetishists of Noami Watt's face *only*. Red Dragon: There were so many things wrong with this film that it could have succeeded as a farce except for the portentous and heavy-handed tone of the whole thing. Anthony Hopkins by now is far too old for the part of Hannibal Lecter, and attempts to make him more youthful by the make-up department have him resembling a drag queen. When he's supposed to seethe menacingly, he purrs like a psychopathic kitten who's too fat with the history of his conquests to really care. Edward Norton, whom I usually like, is wildly miscast. He's supposed to be this grizzled, burnt-out, "I've seen too much" FBI profiler but he looks like a grad student (with bleach-blond hair!). He really should have swapped roles with Ralph Fiennes, who has more gumption for this sort of role. Besides the casting miscues the whole movie is one big overblown serial killer opera, with an out-of-control soundtrack. The only good thing about it was Emily Watson, always watchable even if the movie is dross. Twisted: Another crime thriller fiasco. I thought it couldn't be too bad with both Ashley Judd and Samuel L. Jackson (who is proving to be not too discriminating about what he stars in these days) in it. I was sorely mistaken. Not much to say about it, except that it's utter crap, not even late-night cable quality crap. ...and Justice for All: A 70s courtroom drama about a upstanding lawyer (Al Pacino) called upon to defend a corrupt judge in a rape trial. It hasn't aged well and is full of ham-fisted moments, overacting, and a marked lack of subtlety about its subject matter. The wocka-wocka disco soundtrack does the film no favors even on a campy level. Even a subpar episode of "The Practice" is more worthwhile than this movie. The Five Obstructions: A Danish art-house film by Lars von Trier about he revisiting and tly."revising," one of his early short films from the late 60s, "the Perfect Human." Not really a movie but more an exercise in navel-gazing, sort of like a videotaped journal entry of a filmmaker and his particular whimsies. A very pointless endeavor for the audience. In one scene Lars von Trier decides to re-film "The Perfect Human" short by having himself eat dinner (complete with table, wine, and wearing a tux) in a cordoned-off area of a street in some slum of a third-world country. Offensive on many levels, not the least craft. I think if someone had never seen a movie in his/her life and "The Five Obstructions" was given to this person as a representative of a "typical" movie, he/she would *never* watch a movie again. The Star Wars Movies, I, II, III: For the last three entrees I list George Lucas's new Star Wars trilogy. Each one managed to one-up the last in atrociousness. For me the experience was somewhat analogous to sitting through an atrocity reel, like the witnesses at the Nuremberg Trials watching film of Dachau, Auswitzch, and Treblinka for the first time. That sort of "Oh the Humanity" horror. Each one, from the first 5 minutes in, couldn't end soon enough. Dissecting what was wrong with these films would take the rest of my natural life to explain so I won't start. However, they did reveal what George Lucas had been doing all these years in between "Return of the Jedi" and the new movies, which was lounging at Skywalker Ranch watching anime porn all day, apparently. |
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worst movies 2 Last Man Standing 3 Unbreakable 4 Twelve Monkeys 5 Sixth Sense 7 Pretty much every other film starring Bruce Willis 8 Dusk till Dawn 9 Resiviour Dogs 10 pretty much every other Tarrantino movie except Jackie Brown. Controversial i know cos it seems fashionable to hail Tarrantino as a genius! His films usually star another over rated actor Samuel L Jackson as well!! |
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on the other hand .... excellent: Adaptation (like Being John Malkovich, incredibly imaginative and entertaining, way beyond Hollywood's normal level) good: Edward Scissorhands, Sixth Sense, Twelve Monkeys (a stretch for the Bradster), Reservoir Dogs |
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kings_pondus 16-Nov-05, 19:49 |
From others list However, Layer Cake, that's a great movie! It's fun all the way, not a classic, not realistic, but gave me a couple of laughs, and always nice to see a good gangster movie that doesn't follow the Hollywood layout. And, it's the best ending I've seen since Se7en. |
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Se7en |
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velvetvelour 17-Nov-05, 21:14 |
Tarantino is enjoyable in a sort of smarmy, kitschy way. However, Kill Bill Vol. 1 was god-awful, so pointless that I demurred seeing the second. Lucy Lui has the acting chops of a porn actress and should stay out of movies. Honorable mention in my top 10 sh*t-list: "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself," dreadful indie "Quirk Lake" movie. Wilbur wants to kill himself not because he suffers from Virginia Wolfe, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton-esque depression but because he's a bored, obnoxious, attention-culling @sshole. Dreadful movie. Unfortunately, Wilbur never succeeds in his aim to give relief to the audience that have to suffer him. Seven: Overrated but good, atmospheric trendsetting crime thriller. Morgan Freeman is excellent, and so is a deadpanning Kevin Spacey. I wanted to take a sledgehammer to Brad Pitt's idiotic character, as scrumptous as the man is otherwise speaking. Tim Burton tends to be hit-and-miss with me: Liked: Beetlejuice, Batman Returns, Ed Wood. Indifferent: Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish. Hated: Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yet to see Corpse Bride, but I'll probably get into it, as Burton's gothic fairy tale ouevre is often at the expense of his cast, so with all claymation this complements his direction tendencies. Keanau Reeves is a critics' whipping boy but I actually prefer him to Orlando Bloom. Bruce Willis is very wooden in anything he does; I honestly can't think of a good movie he's starred in. For my tought-guy characters, I prefer Jason Statham, Russel Crowe, and Billy Crudup *swoon*. |
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usethepawn 18-Nov-05, 03:45 |
Daverundel. |
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usethepawn But hey thats just me. I know a lot of people do enjoy them but to me he seems hung up now on trying to make more & more violent movies with less & less plot. |
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usethepawn 20-Nov-05, 02:14 |
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usethepawn As for Edward Scissorhands it was weird but Depp seems to spend a lot of time in doing weird ie the Astonauts Wife, Seventh Gate, & Sleepy Hollow. But he was great in Pirates of the Carribean. |
