I love bad movies. I can't get enough of them. Mindless dialogue, heavy symbolism, terrible acting...which all adds up to about two hours of bliss for me. And by bad movies I don't mean those that were intentionally made to be bad (in order to be "funny"). I'm talking about movies that were intended as a showpiece for their creators and for the participants, something for which they poured out their hearts and souls. We all know about "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and just about anything else Ed Woods had a hand in. But what about some of your "favorites"? I'll start off with some of mine: The Room Birdemic: Shock and Terror An American Hippie in Israel Feel free to add to the list.
Anything Goes : Worst Movies of All Time by Tom Batha
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Mindless dialogue, heavy symbolism, terrible acting: Star Wars Episodes I, II and III. The worst movies of all time.
Those Star Wars episodes are actually quite good if you watch them at home! You can fast-forward past all the Jar-Jar Binks nonsense (which was written for small children, face it), and mute the worst of the dialogue. If you think of it as space opera and focus on the broad themes, it's much better! Still tough to accept the fact that Queen Amidala ended up totally useless at the end, brushing her hair and fluffing blankets. And if Yoda and Obi-Wan had any sense, they would have ganged up on The Emperor first, together. Lots of logic problems, but worst movies? No way! You just have to endure the flaws. I have not seen many tragedies more heart-wrenching than watching Obi-Wan leaving Anikin to die, slowly burning up, and having one scream "I hate you!" and the other "I love you!" That is operatic. (Whoops, have I started a new thread?!)
I do feel "worst" and "best" are totally subjective. In my book, even a mediocre movie by George Lucas is 100 times better than the majority of films coming out of Hollywood--people just had much higher expectations from him. It's actually hard to say what I think is the worst because I tend not to remember the ones I hate.
Ardua, It's interesting that every single thing that I find terrible in those movies you point out and then dismiss. Each one of the things you mention are the reason I find those movies to be the worst movies of all time. One doesn't have to fast forward and ignore much of "The Empire Strikes Back" I'm with Cassidy - to me there is a big difference between "bad" and "the worst" movies. I enjoy a lot of "bad" movies; "Showgirls", "The Room" and even "Troll 2". It is very subjective, isn't it?
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Then you should like all the crap I've been in :) LOL
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The English Patient ;-)
My personal fave...and yes maybe they really didn't mean it to be serious "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians"
One of my favs is Killer Clowns From Outer Space. B movie, however, I did get a bizarre thrill out of it.
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I bet you loved Land of the Lost with Will Farrell.
I know I did...the scene with the dino urine was classic...
Hi Cynthia. Haven't heard of Land of the Lost. I'll have to check it out.
Marci X (2003) Pure crap!
A friend introduced me to Bloodsport the other day - it was absolutley terrible, and I loved it!
So much Van Damme crazy-eye!
Best worst (watchable): Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. Worst worst (totally unwatchable): Dragon Wars
LOL - just for laughs and giggles, here, I present: My Rotten Tomatoes 'review' of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter: ...Like one person at a movie review site summed up: Jesus Christ...with VAMPIRES! This is precisely the sort of film my friends and I would love to make. I can't in good faith rate it 5 stars...but I have no qualms about giving out 4. Right from the start, with the narration recalling Plan 9 From Outer Space, I was hooked. And, when Jesus broke into a song and dance number...that was the icing on the cake. Just when things seemed to be bogging down in the middle, here comes the character El Santo. This movie is NOT for everybody. If you're expecting to find a gem in a pile of dung, don't bother. If you're looking in that same pile for some fertilizer, then this should have the roses looking beautiful immediately... *** and...my RT review of Dragon Wars: ...Tripe is a dish best served...to someone else. If I can spare but ONE person from wasting 90 minutes of their life, by keeping them from watching this unwatchable piece of trash, then my job here is done. Essentially, it's: Boy finds out about girl, boy finds girl, girl holds the mystical "Yu-Gi-Oh!" or whatever, boy and girl flee evil forces, girl eventually is sacrificed to the good "Omura" (or whatever), boy stands alone (since the theater has since been emptied). First, I will say the opening started off with an old man faking a heart attack in front of a boy's father; sending the father off for 'help' as an excuse to explain to the boy that he's a re-incarnation of a 'protector' from 1507 a.d. Korea. Next was a pitched battle scene from that same era, and that actually fooled me into thinking this could be an interesting movie. How wrong I was. To me, it all went downhill from there. This film tries to invoke imagery from such classics as "The Neverending Story", "Dragonheart", and even "Raiders Of The Lost Ark". However, I'm left debating whether this was actually worse than "Reign Of Fire". From the moment I first saw the 'evil dragon', I had my doubts, and they were satisfied. Instead of wings on the side of it's head, there's a 'hood' similar to that which cobras exhibit. There are even mild attempts at comedy relief, and those failed miserably. Solid half-star material if I've even seen it (and trust me...I have)...
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Catwoman, Daredevil, Hunk,
Her. Those are two hours of my life I can never get back.