Worst Films

[DotCommunist]

it paved the way for HBO's 'Rome' who then got out-gored and outsexed by Spartacus: Blood and Sand. So Thats good.

 

[Orang Utan]

I fell asleep during Gladiator. Even the fighting was boring. The only decent thing Crowe has been in is Romper Stomper

 

[8ball]

I fell asleep during Gladiator. Even the fighting was boring. The only decent thing Crowe has been in is Romper Stomper

I kept getting nudged awake cos I snore.

 

[Orang Utan]

Gangs Of New York made me zzzzzz too

 

[8ball]

Gangs Of New York made me zzzzzz too

That wasn't so bad cos I watched it on my own and there was no one to nidge me awake.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

The only decent thing Crowe has been in is Romper Stomper

Wut? At the very least The Insider and LA Confidential are Very Not Shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Forgot about LA Confidential. Not as good as the book of course but performance wise it's spot on. Spacey and Pearce are also excellent.
Mann is an overpaid lighting technician though. The Insider is his most dull film.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Forgot about LA Confidential. Not as good as the book of course but performance wise it's spot on. Spacey and Pearce are also excellent.
Mann is an overpaid lighting technician though. The Insider is his most dull film.

Russel Crowe is actually pretty good in those roles where he's basically playing a partially shaved gorilla.

 

[8den]

I couldn't tell you as I have not seen it. But A Time To Kill remains one of the worst films I've seen.
Of the listed films from 1996, I have only seen A Time To Kill and The Island Of Dr Moreau. A Time To Kill is worse.
A film's quality is never demonstrable! There's nothing objective about rating movies.
And you can't expect people to reserve judgement until they've seen ALL THE MOVIES.

Okay then change the thread title to "worst films I've heard/seen". A Time to Kill is lightweight "Hollywood racism" and is objectionable forgetable Oscar bait, by no means is the worst film released that year.

And I'm not talking about critical acclaim/financial success/awards, by any reasonable standard a Time to Kill is a better film than Barb wire (someone actually thought "lets remake Casablanca as a Sci Fi film and cast Pam Anderson as Humphrey Bogart"). Similarly while you might dislike Gwenth Paltrow or Ben Affleck or the smug Shakespeare references in Shakespeare in Love, it is still better than Spiceworld (the only positive to come out Gary Glitter's pedophilia conviction is that we're unlikely to see Spiceworld on TV now).

 

[Orang Utan]

That's just your opinion man. Some people will disagree. Spiceworld seems more fun than SIL, so maybe it is better.

 

[8den]

That's just your opinion man. Some people will disagree. Spiceworld seems more fun than SIL, so maybe it is better.

Spiceworld is about as fun as concentration camp run by clowns.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Spiceworld is about as fun as concentration camp run by clowns.

 

[8den]

Why do you think I made the reference?

OU will claim just because he hasn't seen it, it isn't on his radar.

 

[8den]

Oh and btw.

I can win this thread



http://www.cracked.com/article_18632_irelands-only-kung-fu-movie-is-worst-film-ever-made.html

The whole film




Though the truly magnificent moment is the random cluchie from Trim taking a naked outdoor bath (about 3 minutes in)



Anyone who makes it to end wins. (I've had a copy of this on VHS somewhere for about 15 years.

 

[Orang Utan]

Why do you think I made the reference?

OU will claim just because he hasn't seen it, it isn't on his radar.

I have read about it.
Sounds awful. But you'll never see it either. So you have no right to criticise it!

 

[8den]

I have read about it.
Sounds awful. But you'll never see it either. So you have no right to criticise it!

No I have seen it. It's popped up on torrents. And before then VHS/DVD copies circulated for years. As I mentioned above I had a copy of Fatal Deviation for years before it turned up on youtube. On another completely random thread on this forum years ago I mentioned how I had a selection of vintage hard core porn movies made in the 1920s/30s. I've worked in film and tv editing for 15 years.

 

[Gingerman]

A pre-James Bond Brosnan in a laughably bad Irish gangster/revenge flick,also starring Frank'Fr.Jack Hacket'Kelly

 

[DaveCinzano]

A pre-James Bond Brosnan in a laughably bad Irish gangster/revenge flick,also starring Frank'Fr.Jack Hacket'Kelly

It's a perfectly reasonable low budget thriller based on a pulp paperback. Whilst not exceptional in any department, there's nothing truly interminable about it either. The worst thing is that the film casts Brosnan in the lead, whereas the original novel has Taffin as a physically repulsive man.

The film also has Dermot Morgan in it as a strip pub compere.

 

[Orang Utan]

No I have seen it. It's popped up on torrents. And before then VHS/DVD copies circulated for years. As I mentioned above I had a copy of Fatal Deviation for years before it turned up on youtube. On another completely random thread on this forum years ago I mentioned how I had a selection of vintage hard core porn movies made in the 1920s/30s. I've worked in film and tv editing for 15 years.

So you are probably more critical of badly made films, not the awful well-made earnest turkeys

 

[Yetman]

Anything with will smiths son in it

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Just watched Colombiana. God, that was shit - everything that's wrong with a certain type of modern day action film.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I fell asleep during Gladiator. Even the fighting was boring. The only decent thing Crowe has been in is Romper Stomper

Gladiator bored the shit out of me at the cinema. Ridley Scott, bar a couple of films, is way overrated.

 

[moodygirl86]

A Time to Kill

Yeah, I agree. I prefer the book. Same with Nick Hornby's "About a Boy".

 

[Poi E]

Gladiator bored the shit out of me at the cinema. Ridley Scott, bar a couple of films, is way overrated.

Agreed. Alien was good but rather tedious in parts, and it took, what, 3 edits of Bladerunner to get it right? Now, Top Gun, there's a fillum.

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Oh and btw.

I can win this thread



Anyone who makes it to end wins. (I've had a copy of this on VHS somewhere for about 15 years.

That's me sorted for the next hour... looks ace

 

[Gingerman]

An unending nightmare of life-affirming laughter and tears as one critic said......

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Battlefield Earth is the worst movie of all time.

Actually, I can't say that with 100% certainty, because I've never seen the whole film. I'm unable to.

When I tried to watch it at the theatre, I demanded my money back after I walked out partway through - and they gave it to me.

 

[emanymton]

Birdemic is truly terrible, right from the credits where it refers to casts and crews.

 

[8den]

So you are probably more critical of badly made films, not the awful well-made earnest turkeys

No, not in the slightest. Look at Clerks. It's not technically proficient but it's a wonderful film.

It's just getting annoyed by a "Time to Kill" or "Shakespeare in Love", when Hollywood have produced far worse films about racism (Crash) and worse historical romantic comedies (Kate and Leopold) both off the top of my head.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I love David Lynch, but I can't tell you how much I struggled with Inland Empire.

Terrible film, way too long and the DV also made it look really ugly.

I keep thinking I should give it another go someday, just coz it's David Lynch.