The worst movie ever made?

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That idiotic thing Quentin Tarantino released a year ago. The jokes on us and you gotta laugh. The studios were probably throwing money at him and this is what he gave them. He even managed to get paid twice for one movie (The Bill's). That's probably unprecedented.

His latest, however, is dizzying masterful. Shoshanna's dressing to kill scene features David Bowie singing the theme from Cat People. Ole QT is wry and sly and deep in his knowledge of movies.
 
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Mutiny on the Buses (1972).

A spin-off from the British TV series On the Buses.

Oh! look! Stan fell into horse poo! Suzy isn’t wearing a bra! The inspector looks like Hitler! He just fell over, flat onto his ****! Ha ha! Look! Arthur just fell over too! The fish and chips are on fire! The baby farted (again)! Ho ho ho…. OMG, Jack just fell over too! Woops! There goes Inspector Blake! **** up as well! (fart).

Just watched this one this evening at a mate’s place. I believe this movie was a hit in its day. People actually used to find this kind of B.S. hilarious? 😕 Good grief 🙄
 
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In its day, UK folks considered "Passport to Pimlico" hilarious. Sometimes the comedy was so refined and subtle that a mere movement of the upper lip by one audience member was thought to thrill the director and producers.

Actually, I prefer Brit-com to anything this side of the Great Puddle.
 
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Well, British comedy in general is little further in scope than what I was whining against, but since you bring it up, I think a great deal (Benny Hill, The Carry On brand, stuff in a similar vein, et cetera) is overrated.
I have a tentative theory that people found this vaudeville treatment of previously taboo topics substantially more titillating than hilarious, but just called it the latter because that was a less indecent thing to admit too.

But nowadays it just looks so dated and dumb. Mutiny on the Buses is probably the crème de la crème of the genre and contains buckets of the most unfunny one-liners and incompetent slapstick ever written and filmed.
What’s so funny about a guy calling his wife a ‘dumb fat cow’, a woman tongue-kissing three or four blokes in a row, or a baby crapping in a potty on the dinner table?

Though I’m not a PC-Nazi or anything, and as a disclaimer I will admit to a recurring fantasy from childhood of becoming lost in the jungle and finding myself ‘trapped’ for eternity in Amazonia..........
 
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jackinnj said:
In its day, UK folks considered "Passport to Pimlico" hilarious. Sometimes the comedy was so refined and subtle that a mere movement of the upper lip by one audience member was thought to thrill the director and producers.

Actually, I prefer Brit-com to anything this side of the Great Puddle.
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Yes, in general lumping Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in with Benny Hill would be unfair. I love "Double Bunk" with Ian Carmichael as a sort of childhood guilty pleasure.
 
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