Worst Movies

I have a new least favourite movie ever. I should warn you that there will be spoilers in this comment but seeing as the movie is so terrible I don't feel any remorse in giving anything away. In fact, I feel like I'm doing you all a service by making sure you won't have to watch it. I've never been a Nicholas Cage fan but my mum is (don't ask). So we watched The Season of the Witch. There is not a single good aspect about this movie. Women come off pretty badly in it. There is one female character...who turns out to be a man anyway. The acting is terrible, the sets are reminiscent of The Princess Bride (ok for a kids movie in the 90's but not for an action movie made in the last couple of years), the story seems like it was written by a ten year old who just kept adding things to make it longer, and every character is so dry and lifeless.

Another recent one is The Immortals. It was made by the same people as 300 so that should've been a big enough warning as to the quality of this movie but I had free tickets so I went anyway. Even James McAvoy can't help to make it any better.

I've still only seen the first Transformers and it sounds like I'm not missing anything by not seeing the later installments.

Is there a best movies thread anywhere? I went to see We Need to Talk About Kevin recently and I think it is one of my favourite movies ever. I loved it! (maybe Tilda Swinton is to blame).
 
nobody's seen any bad movies since December?

How about "Wrecked"? Adrian Brody wakes up injured in a car wreck (get it?) in the woods, hangs out for a bit in the wreckage, then crawls for days on his belly in a big circle back to the car, then thinks "oh wait, maybe there's a road at the top of this hill down which the trail of broken trees leads to the car?", so he crawls up there, finds the road and then the movie ends. The only entertainment value is wondering why the heck didn't he just pick up a branch and use it as a crutch so he wasn't crawling through the woods on his stomach. I kept waiting for a Predator to kill him.

Also "Black Swan" which I saw last week. Unpleasant movie.

And "Babylon A.D." -- Vin Diesel, enough said.
 
Chlidonias said:
nobody's seen any bad movies since December?
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I was hoping that "Mars Needs Moms" would be good as I was a huge fan of Berke Breathed in his "Bloom County" days. I thought the movie was horrible with unlikable characters, bad animation, and a boring story. Bad motion capture animation like this is one of the low lights of 21st century cinema.
 
DavidBrown said:
I was hoping that "Mars Needs Moms" would be good as I was a huge fan of Berke Breathed in his "Bloom County" days.
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I'm afraid I didn't understand a single part of that sentence :D
Mars Needs Moms?
Berke Breathed?
Bloom County?
 
Chlidonias said:
I'm afraid I didn't understand a single part of that sentence :D
Mars Needs Moms?
Berke Breathed?
Bloom County?
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[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Moms]Mars Needs Moms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Breathed]Berkeley Breathed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County]Bloom County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
 
I think the worst film I've seen is 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'. This should be renamed 'It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Film.' Considering the cast, this should be a good film, but it is a waste of talent. There was only one remotely funny sequence, when members of the cast are looking for a letter W, while behind them are four palm trees forming a W. Not exactly side-splitting. Otherwise it's a collection of chases, slapstick and things being blown up. I don't know why members of my family sat through 3 hours of tedium - perhaps we all thought something funny was about to happen. It didn't. There is a 4.5 hour version. Perhaps I ought to watch it if I have a bad case of insomnia.
 
Dassie rat said:
I think the worst film I've seen is 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'. This should be renamed 'It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Film.' Considering the cast, this should be a good film, but it is a waste of talent. There was only one remotely funny sequence, when members of the cast are looking for a letter W, while behind them are four palm trees forming a W. Not exactly side-splitting. Otherwise it's a collection of chases, slapstick and things being blown up. I don't know why members of my family sat through 3 hours of tedium - perhaps we all thought something funny was about to happen. It didn't. There is a 4.5 hour version. Perhaps I ought to watch it if I have a bad case of insomnia.
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you should just watch the shorter version on The Simpsons, the episode called "Homer the Vigilante" (the treasure is hidden under a giant T)
 
so I saw The A Team movie last night.

First up I'll say that I grew up with 80s tv shows and lots of them are still good watching even today. MacGyver is still fun, if a little un-exciting by modern standards; The Dukes Of Hazard is good, although it does pretty much only have one plot-line (escape from the police and jump the car over something); Magnum P.I. will never grow old. But the best of them all, then and now, was The A Team. There was literally not a single tv show in the 80s that was better! (Don't try to argue because you will be wrong).

Unfortunately the recent movie remake was just unbelievably bad. Not even fun bad, just really really bad. It made me feel as if I was insulting my brain by watching it. Its like they didn't even have a script - or rather they did get scripts but everyone got a different version! Normally I'd say it had one redeeming feature (Jessica Biel) but even her presence wasn't enough for me to enjoy the viewing.

Tv A Team, 5 stars.
Movie A Team, minus 5 million stars.
 
Chlidonias said:
so I saw The A Team movie last night.

First up I'll say that I grew up with 80s tv shows and lots of them are still good watching even today. MacGyver is still fun, if a little un-exciting by modern standards; The Dukes Of Hazard is good, although it does pretty much only have one plot-line (escape from the police and jump the car over something); Magnum P.I. will never grow old. But the best of them all, then and now, was The A Team. There was literally not a single tv show in the 80s that was better! (Don't try to argue because you will be wrong).

Unfortunately the recent movie remake was just unbelievably bad. Not even fun bad, just really really bad. It made me feel as if I was insulting my brain by watching it. Its like they didn't even have a script - or rather they did get scripts but everyone got a different version! Normally I'd say it had one redeeming feature (Jessica Biel) but even her presence wasn't enough for me to enjoy the viewing.

Tv A Team, 5 stars.
Movie A Team, minus 5 million stars.
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You didn't like the parachuting-tank-cannon-navigation scene? :D
 
nanoboy said:
You didn't like the parachuting-tank-cannon-navigation scene? :D
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was that before or after they escaped heat-seaking missiles by turning off the helicopter engine in mid-air (because, you know, everyone knows engines cool down instantly when turned off!). Hands-down stupidest scene: where Jessica Biel went to the mental hospital to arrest Murdoch but stopped in the middle of the arrest to put on some 3-D glasses and walk towards the ward's movie screen.
 
one word:

"Rubber"


It seems like one of those bad movies, that's so bad it's good.
BUT IT'S NOT!
 
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Chlidonias said:
was that before or after they escaped heat-seaking missiles by turning off the helicopter engine in mid-air (because, you know, everyone knows engines cool down instantly when turned off!). Hands-down stupidest scene: where Jessica Biel went to the mental hospital to arrest Murdoch but stopped in the middle of the arrest to put on some 3-D glasses and walk towards the ward's movie screen.
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If you want scientific accuracy, go read a journal paper. :D
 
I just re-watched "Anaconda" (it was on tv). It's been a long time since I've seen it, and while I remembered the presence of Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight, I'd completely forgotten that the lovely Kari Wuhrer was in it. Also it came as a surprise that Owen Wilson was in there as well (I hadn't even heard of him the last time I watched it - "Anaconda" is only his fourth acting credit on IMDB!), but a bigger surprise than that was Danny Trejo right at the start as the poacher on the boat (the snake's first victim in the movie)!!!
 
Chlidonias said:
I just re-watched "Anaconda" (it was on tv). It's been a long time since I've seen it, and while I remembered the presence of Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight, I'd completely forgotten that the lovely Kari Wuhrer was in it. Also it came as a surprise that Owen Wilson was in there as well (I hadn't even heard of him the last time I watched it - "Anaconda" is only his fourth acting credit on IMDB!), but a bigger surprise than that was Danny Trejo right at the start as the poacher on the boat (the snake's first victim in the movie)!!!
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I saw this one in cinema, and I enjoyed it thoroughly back then. Watching movies like this now though, the dated CGI makes me laugh, because I can't believe that we thought it was cutting edge 15 years ago. I does make you wonder if we will laugh at 'Avatar' in a few years.
 
I saw Anaconda at the cinema, and half way through the movie one of the staff said I would have to leave if I didn't stop laughing because I was disturbing the other people.

And it wasn't just the CGI - the whole premise was laughable.

:p

Hix
 
Does anyone dislike the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? I think they're amazing but I was just curious if anyone finds them trashy?

And Chlidonias, for some reason I bash Peter Jackson's King Kong a lot about things in it that don't make sense (aside from the dinosaurs, and of course the 25-foot ape :D), but I still find it to be one of my favorite movies. (shrugs) I've no clue why. :p
 
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