The worst movie ever made?

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Hmmmm I think the worst movie I have ever seen would be runaway car. It was on late at night on Television, and I couldn't bear watching more than about 5 minutes at a time. I kept changing channels and changing back to see whether it had improved, It hadn't. It was almost daring me to try and watch it, the acting was so bad it was almost funny. Maybe it doesn't count as I didn't watch it all (It was so bad I couldn't)... I generally will enjoy some movies that others think are bad, this one was off the scale 😉 Other movies I didn't like? hard pressed to think of many, but Independence day would be one. Anything that has been hyped to the hilt I am usually disapointed by. Dead Poets Society was one such movie, I didn't think it was bad, I was just really disapointed that it didn't live up to all the hype.

Movies I liked? Just about everything 😉 There isn't much I don't enjoy (which is why Runaway car was so bad, I think it is the only movie I have not been able to continue watching). I have a really hard time trying to pick favourites when pressed, but the first thing that came to mind is an old aussie flick called proof. I've got a soft spot for old bond movies, and I probably shouldn't admit it but I quite like some of Arnies movies (True Lies is probably my favourite of his). I haven't really watched that many movies for the last few years. Sneakers, and "the usual suspects" are another couple that come to mind as more than enjoyable than usual.

Tony.
 
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JLH said:
Natural Born Killers:

This is the only movie I have ever walked out on. This film was revolting to me. Violence has its place in moves, but this was repugnant and senseless violence that had no rhyme or reason. Very disturbing.
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Hate to revive a dead thread (no I don't), but that actually was the POINT of that movie ;P Oliver Stone was intending to portray the violence and the rise of a pair of mass murderers into TV and news stars to illustrate the Mcdonald's-ification of American media. So... the violence and stupidity was entirely what it was supposed to be. Therefore, I'd say you 100% got the point of it! Anyone who wasn't a little bothered by it should have been.

The #1 worst movie ever: "I <3 Huckabees." I'd prefer to munch on an entire bottle of laxatives than watch that garbage again. Nat. Born Killers at least had a point to the movie (if not the story), but that one....
 
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To put yourselves into context, how about we now ask what movies are on your top-10 list?
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City of God
Chariots of Fire
Das Boot
Werner Herzog's epics (Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo & Aguirre, The Wrath of God come to mind as being particularly disturbing/good)
There Will Be Blood
Bullitt
Anything Kubrick

And Caddyshack for something lighter after the rest of that list 😀
 
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GCA said:
Hate to revive a dead thread (no I don't), but that actually was the POINT of that movie ;P Oliver Stone was intending to portray the violence and the rise of a pair of mass murderers into TV and news stars to illustrate the Mcdonald's-ification of American media. So... the violence and stupidity was entirely what it was supposed to be. Therefore, I'd say you 100% got the point of it! Anyone who wasn't a little bothered by it should have been.
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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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Good Bad and Ugly

My definition of a good movie is that I can watch it again and again and it gives back something else each time. (Lynch, Kubrick, Malick movies come to mind)
My definition of bad is something I absolutely don't want to ever see again.
 
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As a science major I was able to squeeze in one elective in the fine arts (this was many decades ago -- i am a survivor of the woodstock generation) so I took a course in "film", the prof was a friend of Pauline Kael:

some of my favorites:
Orphans of the Storm
Ramona
Sanjuro (sp?), Seven Samurai, Taxing Woman
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Seventh Seal (which is why they invented Akavit)
The Apu Triology (including the Simpsons if you didn't get the joke).
Coconuts
Grapes of Wrath
The Apartment and Irma
M. Hulot's Vacation
Blazing Saddles (presages the present)
The General
After the Fox
From Russia with Love
2001
Rear Window

I could go on forever.
 
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Hi Budp

From IMDB top 250 films of all time:

no. 13 Return of the kings
no. 21 fellowship of the ring
no. 33 The two towers
no. 53 Clockwork orange
no. 173 Trainspotting

not a rings fan myself but they are not that bad are they, and Clockwork orange is a cult classic that many would consider you lucky to have seen (still banned in UK) what are movies you like?
 
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not a rings fan myself but they are not that bad are they, and Clockwork orange is a cult classic that many would consider you lucky to have seen (still banned in UK) what are movies you like?
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Those listed above, especially. I was following G.K. around, with a mooney look on my face, and so pointed to my favorites, after the worst ever, in Gog Megog.

I did forget to mention

Water Hole Number Three
Van Helsing
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Dark Crystal
Dumbo

When I first viddied Clockwork Orange, I was overwhelmed with feelings of De Ja Vu, except it was a prequel to the mess we live with now, walked around for days with the hair on the back of my head wiggling about.

I suggest you dig up a copy of at least one of the Gods Must Be Crazy movies, they are wonderful. The director, James Uys, has another, that has a section on an African fruit tree growth deep in the Jungle and what goes on with the creatures who live there, and others who show up, just especially for the fermented fruit..... you have met most of them in the Pub....

Bud
 
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