What is the worst film you have ever seen?

Don't you think he did try to make "Pearl Harbor" somewhat meaningful? Not that he meant it as a documentary, but I think he tried harder than usual to create a dramatic film...

 

Not a Richard Harris fan, huh?

I think "Orca" stinks if you expect it to be a great action flick ala "Jaws", but it still manages some charms of its own. I didn't love it, but I thought it was decent/good. Why do you hate it so much?

http://www.dvdmg.com/orca.shtml

 

I loved that "Kong" back in 1976 when I was just 9, though I WAS sorely disappointed that the movie's Kong didn't straddle the Twin Towers ala the poster. I DO dig the irony of a poster for a remake calling the flick an "original motion picture event", though!

I liked it considerably less as an adult, though I can't say I HATED it. I thought it was tolerable and that's about it:

http://www.dvdmg.com/kingkong1976.shtml

 

Yesterday, I watched a double feature DVD: "Battle Beyond the Sun" and "Star Pilot". The first one is a Russian film, but badly re-cut w/ new scenes and new dialog by Francis Ford Coppola (the reason I rented this DVD). Coppola didn't know Russian, so he just made up new dialog. This was one of the first things he ever worked on. He definitely got better after this.

The second one is an Italian sci-fi "epic", apparently made in 1966 but re-released in 1977 in the US to cash in on "Star Wars". Both films plots are incomprehensible. But it was fun to pick out all the flaws. I had a good time watching these with my wife and daughter. They are still terrible movies though.

 

Just thought of another movie from my past. I used to work in a movie theater, and I made it my personal policy to see every film that played there. The worst movie we showed was about Idi Amin. I don't remember the title. But I described it at the time to a friend as "feeling like a porno flick, without the porn". It featured bad acting and writing, and had a very cheap look to it. This would have been around 1984. I looked it up on IMDB, but couldn't find it. I don't think it's "The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin", as that movie came out in 1981, a good three years before I worked at the theater.

 

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Wiz
The Perils of Gwendoline
Popeye
The Mummy

were all similarly headache inducing to me. However, Solaris (the original) also left me with a bit of a migraine, but that is a great film!

 

Armageddon, Con Air, and The Rock also *almost* fall into the worst films category, but not quite.

 

Yep, I had that movie poster on my wall throughout 1976-1977 after buying it at the box office where I saw the flick with my parents at age 5. I was so excited. They sure did a good job of making that 5 year-old believe it was an "event."

I watched it on cable again about 8 years ago and all I can remember is that Jessica Lange was really stunning in 1976.

 

Really?...I love all three of them!

especially the extended Con Air...

 

I was 6 when I saw the remake at a theater with my parents and it was the best movie I saw until Star Wars the following year! But I revisited it within the last couple of years and, you're right, it's not a great film but I don't think it's as bad as it's reputation. To be honest, I still like it more than the recent Peter Jackson remake. That movie just went on and on and on.

 

I agree, I just watch the Jackson version and think "What is the point of this movie?" The original is a far more enjoyable and visceral experience.

Just no soul or character at all.

I would prefer to watch the 1976 version, at least it isnt as long.

 

I might be forgetting a few here, but these were pretty awful:

Nothing but trouble (the one with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, not the Laurel & Hardy movie)
Ocean's twelve (I saw this one in a theatre, my parents and sister talked me into it....)
Die another day (bad story, bad acting and the most ridiculous action scenes in Bond movies. Not worthy of a place in the Bond series)

 

I agree 100%. I can't believe I didn't walk out of that one...must've been Halle that kept me in my seat.

All I can recall of the movie is Bond getting tortured, a silly CGI ice castle & some boring scene of Madonna fencing.

 

I just watched "Awake" and although it dosen't edge out my previous selection ("The English Patient" aka "A Bratworst's Life") it is a really terrible movie in every respect.

 

For a five-year-old - or nine-year-old, in my case - the flick WAS an event. Heck, something doesn't have to be good for it to be an "event", and that film qualified - especially if you were a dopey kid at the time!

 

I actually always liked "The Rock" and "Armageddon" - neither qualifies as a classic, but they're good action entertainment. "Con Air" was always a disappointment to me, though - largely due to the patently absurd opening premise. A respected military veteran accidentally kills a drunken redneck as he defends his pregnant wife from a completely unprovoked assault - and he goes to jail??? For the maximum sentence, even after his idiot lawyer plea bargains down the sentence??? Oy!

If you get past the stupidity of the premise, it's an okay movie, but I always found it tough to swallow the idiocy of the set-up...

http://www.dvdmg.com/conairextended.shtml

 

I like the Jackson version - it's a bit plodding during its first act, but it works really well once the action starts. The 1976 "Kong" is just mediocre from start to finish - it never manages to really go anywhere.

I do agree the original is the best. When I watched it back in 2005, I'd not seen it in years and I expected it to seem... quaint. It's not. Sure, the effects show their age, but they remain surprisingly good, and the movie's much more exciting and fun than I thought it'd be. It's still quality entertainment after almost 80 (!) years...

http://www.dvdmg.com/kingkong1933.shtml

 

I actually don't mind the slow build of the first act. It's when Jackson & Co decide to amp up the action once the party makes it to Skull Island that doesn't work for me. Those chase sequences and overuse of CGI Skull Island critters seem endless to me.

 

While channel surfing last night I came across Oliver Stone's "Alexander". I had forgotten to what degree it stunk. It is mind numbingly, slack jawed in disbelief bad. I wouldn't be surprised if this became a 'camp' classic in the future.

 

The "Final Cut" actually improves it somewhat. It's still not a great - or even particularly GOOD film - but it's significantly better than its prior versions:

http://www.dvdmg.com/alexanderfinalcut.shtml

 

It reminds me of one of those over-the-top Latin American soap operas, only on a 'grander' scale and with better cinematography. I'm surprised Colin Farell's career survived.

 

Are you commenting on the theatrical cut, the original home video cut, or the "Final Cut"?

 

Feminist Kong?

Lange got the most memorable line in the movie too: "Put me down you male chauvanist ape!"

 

Both King Kong and the film made parallel to it, The Most Dangerous Game hold up from a pacing standpoint more than most other films of the early 30's.

Mark

 

From the description of the different cuts that I read this morning on the film's Wiki entry, the version I watched last night was the North American theatrical cut - I think. (I previously saw that edition a few years ago, and did not sit through the whole thing last night.) I thought that the station last night would have shown one of the DVD versions and that the North American theatrical cut was no longer available for broadcast.

Anyways, I don't think that it really matters which version I saw. I can't imagine adding or cutting scenes would eliminate all the bad acting, bad dialogue and soap opera-ish plot lines and situations (no matter to what degree they are based on historical fact). I'm not certain I could be persuaded to sit through 214 minutes of of "Alexander Revisted: The Final Cut", even if Stone has clarified some of the story lines and improved the over-all plot structure. However, the cinetographer did a nice job, as did Stone or whomever co-ordinated the battle scenes - I enjoyed most of them.