The worst movie ever made?

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Ator the Fighting Eagle. It's a Conan the Barbarian wannabe. A friend and myself were dragged to the movie theater by a third friend in 1983 to view this masterpiece of lazy, oh well, whatever, hey we got 90 minutes filmmaking. It's a BAD movie and there plenty of reviews to back me up. At movies end, two of us were POed and wanted our money back while the third was trying to defend the movie (it has no defense except as a comedy). I have to admit I'm glad we seen the movie as we have some great laughs over it today. It's become a classic in the category of sword and sorcery movies gone wrong. A must see if you have 90 minutes of your life to waste.
 

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#144
G.K. said:
Well I hate to be the contentious one (no I don’t), but his movie was so over the top and stupid that it really didn’t make any kind of serious social comment at all.
Oliver Stone could have achieved the same effect by just by filming himself making love to a goat for an hour and a half; All those with half a brain will just be revolted, a few perverts will get their jollies and a few vacuous heads will rhapsodise over his film making genius.
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hahaha I'd rather have watched Nat. Born Killers than the goat.... You're right about the critics though.

My top 10 in no order:

Dune ('84 Lynch version.. not everyone agrees there, but the Sci-Fi channel versions kinda skeeved me out a bit)
Fight Club
A.I. (again, no one seems to agree with me)
Grave of the Fireflies (again, same, this one actually made me sad even though it's anime)
Spirited Away (hey, Miyazaki is awesome)
Kurosawa's "Dreams" (odd, and I still can't wrap my brain around half of it)
Trainspotting
Monty Python's The Holy Grail

... erm. There are more. Can't think of them right now. Come to think of it, some of these aren't even IN my top 10. I have such a headache.
 
#146
I thought I would add my 2 cents worth. Its interesting how different we are. My favorite movie is Brazil, not for everyone, but to me an amazing vision of life in modern times.

Worst movie ever, wow there are so many. I no particular order.
Days of Thunder
Top Gun
Anything by Jerry Bruckheimer
The unbearable lightness of being (the only movie I ever walked out of)
The Mission (just too stupid to be believed)
Mission Impossible, all three
Flashdance (Why would you do an aerobics workout at a ballet tryout)
Showgirls

These hurt just to think about them.

John
 
#149
Mostly right. There was a time and place to see that movie where it had a real effect. Sadly, it was before it came out. I saw it with a few friends who happen to have had some very odd connections, and I saw it about 6 months before the hype campaign started.

It was very scary if you didn't know what it was. If you already know, it's pretty stupid. "I <3 Huckabees" was far, far worse.
 
#150
RDF.

Yes that's the one. They spend the whole movie making a point about how hard it is to get up the cliff to the native village. Then the De Niro character, who is supposed to be some military guy, doesn't defend the village at the cliff. He lets the bad guys climb it, regroup and attack. I can suspend believe if it makes some sense, but this was just too much. Kind of a dissapointment given the movie the director made right before it was The Killing Fields, which I thought was pretty darn good. Kind of like the people who did El Norte and then followed it up with A Joke of Destiny.

John
 
#151
It's been a very long time since I last saw The Mission but I understand where that would drive someone to distraction. It happens for me with just about any American remake of an Asian film (except Fistful of Dollars!) 😉
 
#152
As for stuff that had artistic pretensions but didn't do it for me, I remember a 1981 movie called "Passione d'Amore". The reviews I read these days wax eloquent about the plot, but me and my friends found it to be an "eye roller" (maybe it was the subtitles)..
 
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jacco vermeulen said:
You mean that wasn't some sort of Amputee BDSM and Snuff mix kind of porn flick ?

Can someone please post a link to a toxic sheep movie, ever since in(ti)mate hurdy stuff has become a legal No-Nookie overhere i've been feeling this urge to write reviews on sheep cinema.
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Ummm, dunno exactly what you are going on about there, but for some reason you just reminded me of one of my favourite Pantera songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMTwVIuLsw

This is one that you have to listen to LOUD to really appreciate (especially the chorus).
But back on topic, I guess that love scene in The Toxic Avenger was nice and cute in a way; if toxie can get layed then there might be hope for you too.
 
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GCA said:
Grave of the Fireflies (again, same, this one actually made me sad even though it's anime)
Spirited Away (hey, Miyazaki is awesome)
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Excellent choice, I have the whole Miyazaki collection. Roger Ebert actually loved "Grave..." as did a lot of folks. A couple I love that are somewhat obscure, "Woman in the Dunes" (a Japanese flick I probably prefer over most Kurosawa films) already in the early sixties salaryman angst had set in, 301/302 (my favorite Korean film).
Also, "Runaway Train" an existential Kurosawa story made by others.
 
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