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btw. I've never seen Cable Guy.
I highly recommend it regardless of it's shortcomings, it is genuinely creepy and slightly disturbing, hence me wanting to see Jim Carrey REALLY play a villian. I think he was pretty good in the long named movie for kids (yes... that was the name alright) where he played a Scrooges cousin, but it was the long named movie for kids, and a bit meh because of it.
I thought "Lemony Snicket's a Series of unfortunate Events" was a pretty good movie. Though Carrey was indeed the best thing about it.
And as bad as the movie itself was, I really enjoyed Carrey as the Riddler in Batman Forever. Well, except that whole brainwashing plot, that was stupid.
Gigle I heard was horrific. Battlefield Earth just absolutely sucked eggs. My mind had blotted out the shear crappiness of that film.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
John Carpenter's Vampires was an absolute abortion of a film, especially considering how fantastic the John Steakley novel of the same name is. I think it may be the only movie I ever walked out on...
The Chronicles of Riddick was another disaster...it tried so hard to be epic and instead was comical with a nonsensical plot.
"Success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Cliff Bleszinski
Again I have to side with MGS. Hokey as hell but humorous and fun in a light hearted way. Any film with a Kung Fu pulling out two chromed peacemakers old west style has a lot going for it...
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
10,000 BC, or whatever that pile of crap was called.
I walked out in the middle of the last 'battle', but I was immediatley aware of how much the movie was going to suck.
Yeah, that movie makes perfect sense, a whole bunch of neanderthals....With perfect teeth, awesome dreds, clean smooth skin, and almost no body hair......
I don't want to get in to the acting, setting, or 'plot'
The casting alone was enough to make it apparent that this movie was made by morons.
Epic. Hollywood. Fail.
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Mazes and monsters... a fundamentalist Christian sect funded movie about the terrifying dangers of playing D&D... and it's got that nasal whining bastard 'Ross' from Friends in it...
Must.destroy.world...too much rolling many-sided diceeeee....
MeanGreenStompa wrote:Some recent ones that spring to mind:
Babel. A massively arrogant, pretentious glimpse into the lives of the least sympathetic characters on earth. Depressing gak.
Really?
A guy and his wife trying to work through their problems on holiday, when she is shot and is bleeding out while he deals with local doctors and bureaucracy? A couple of young boys doing one thing without thinking, and then watching it get bigger and bigger as government officials full of anti-terrorism gusto never stop to try and figure out what's actually happened.
I didn't like the movie that much (what was with the Japanese story? why not spend that time dealing with difficulty of international relations, which would be closer to the other stories and actually relevant to the theme) but I don't think the issue was unsympathetic characters.
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George Spiggott wrote:You were unimpressed with a Lynch film because it was incoherent?!? Mrs Spiggott loves 'em, I won't watch anything except Dune.
Lynch films generally have themes that come through in interesting ways despite, or perhaps because, there being no coherent narrative. I don't think Inland Empire achieved that. I really have no idea and no interest in what Lynch was getting at with that movie.
And yeah, I've seen Manos: Hands of Fate. Well, I sat there while it was on. The first twenty minutes are numbing, and you stop being able to talk while its on, or keep your concentration or focus. I remember less about that movie than films I watched at two in the morning while absolutely off my face. I do remember staring around the room, and being able to focus longer on furniture and the corners of the room than I could on that film.
But it wasn't as bad Battlefield Earth. Manos is boring, incredibly boring. But Battlefield Earth is so incomprehensible I started wondering if I'd forgotten how to watch movies.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Wrexasaur wrote:It was just depressing really.... Babel that is.
True. It was also kind of pointless, and kept off-screen the events that the film was supposed to be about - the failure of communication. I'm not saying it was good, but the unsympathetic characters comment puzzled me.
It also definitely doesn't belong on this list. There are movie like Manos that are actually more boring than turning the TV off and staring at the blank screen. There are movies that are created to fulfill weird, horrible fantasies, like any of the recent torture porn movies. There are movies that are so incompetently made they end up incomprehensible, like Battlefield Earth or Myra Breckenridge. Babel doesn't belong with those movies.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Wrexasaur wrote:It was just depressing really.... Babel that is.
True. It was also kind of pointless, and kept off-screen the events that the film was supposed to be about - the failure of communication. I'm not saying it was good, but the unsympathetic characters comment puzzled me.
It also definitely doesn't belong on this list.
So it's depressing, pointless, didn't show any of the things it should have, it wasn't good but it can't be on the list?
The characters were desperately unsympathetic, the racist elitist yuppies turning their noses up at the few people trying to help them, dumping their kids with 'the help' to piss off to some desert to point and take pictures of very poor people and complain about everything there, then scream about how inadequate everything was in the filthy little place they had gone to stare and take pictures of was when they had to call on the same misearable resources the locals had to tolerate.
It was a bleak and misearable movie and it kept an arrogant 'highbrow' attitude about it. I hated it with a vengence and I stand by the decision to put it here. If I wanted to feel like I felt after watching it, I would have saved time by lying down on the ground outside a kebab shop at kicking out time and asking the chavs to start kicking.
The fact that I am even considering watching it again, simply to review it, is more than proof enough for me that it is most definitely not one of the worst movies of all time.
Here is a very good list to give you a general idea of what the worst movies could actually be, and IMDb has a pretty decent reputation of having unbiased polls.
These are all probably ALL terrible films, but saying top 100 is pretty broad, you might as well include nearly every crappy horror film ever made just by default, and as far as I know that could be more than 100 films right there.
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Ugh, I managed to see that a while ago on the internet. It was basically just one big advertisement. What a waste of bandwidth.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
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And so, due to rising costs of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor's finest accountants spoke to the Demigurg. A deal was forged in blood and extensive paperwork for a sub-prime mortgage with a 5/1 ARM on the Imperial Palace. And lo, in the following years the housing market did tumble and the rate skyrocketed leaving the Emperor's coffers bare. A dark time has begun for the Imperium, the tithes can not keep up with the balloon payments and the Imperial Palace and its contents, including the Golden Throne, have fallen into foreclosure. With an impending auction on the horizon mankind holds its breath as it waits to see who will gain possession of the corpse-god and thus, the fate of humanity......
They aren't worthy of the original trilogy at all. The dialogue between the federation droids is utterly moronic, and there is large quantities of cheese in all of them.
Another thing, if the clone troopers were cloned then why do they have a New Zealand accent? Sorry if I'm splitting hairs.
Saw it on MST3K,horible movie,but then ALL the films on MST3K are awful,that's what makes them funny.
As did I - in fact, watching it on MST3K is the only way I could tolerate watching Manos beginning to end.
Here's one that I'm surprised to see missing until now - The Isle of Dr. Moreau (with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer). Horrid. I can't believe I paid money to see this one.
Listen you, not only was mila 'leelomultipass' jovovich in that, the second one had that other insanely hot looking lass playing Jill Valentine. It had zombies, zombie dogs, lickers in a church. It wasn't 7samurai but it was watchable with a beer and a packet of peanuts.
Seriously though, the big mutant with a chain-gun is going to be coralled into a circle of nameless guards so that he can fight a chick? IMHO I think Mila's kind of hot, but she needs to go up to at least a small C-Cup before she's going to be mandatory viewing for me.
"Just pull it out and play with it" -Big Nasty B @ Life After the Cover Save
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Seriously though, the big mutant with a chain-gun is going to be coralled into a circle of nameless guards so that he can fight a chick? IMHO I think Mila's kind of hot, but she needs to go up to at least a small C-Cup before she's going to be mandatory viewing for me.
The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
I watched Battlefield Earth the other day. It made me envy the blind.
2 - The hobbiest - The guy who likes the minis for what they are, loves playing with painted armies, using offical mini's in a friendly setting. Wants to play on boards with good terrain.
Devlin Mud is cheating.
More people have more rights now. Suck it.- Polonius
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It's cold out, throw another heretic on the fire. 
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