What is the worst film you have ever seen? (Pt. 2)

Paltry amount of good Paltrow

I liked the scene of her listening to a red-label mono vinyl original of THE ROLLING STONES
"Between The Button" LP in "The Royal Tennenbaums"...

 

Dark Knight was a joke from the start. Cristian Bale has to be my least favorite Batman and Ledger well is the worst joker. I thought that movie was so over hyped. Every single time I watch that movie (still trying to make it all the way through) I end up stopping the train wreck during the bank robbery scene. It's just so drawn out and slow, freaking puts me to sleep every time. Gimme the 90's batmans with Mr. Freeze and Riddler over this debacle any day. It doesn't deserve nearly the praise it gets. I hate to say it, but its only as popular as it is because Heath Ledger's death.

It could have been A LOT better.

 

Those post-Burton ones are awful. Well, 'Forever' has some camp factor to it and I like Carrey's Riddler but to each is own.

Dark Knight got overhyped because of Ledgers Death, but Batman Begins was well received so it's not a stretch that this one was also. Nolan seems to be a well-received director, most notably for Momento and Prestige.

 

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Rachael: I'll admit to liking two aspects of the movie. The setpiece in the back room of that theater where they have the bed and plate of grapes and other fruit. It was very colorful. I also like Nicole Kidman, though not necessarily in this movie.

I rented it out after reading some comparisons to Coppola's 'One from the Heart'. Needless to say, that was a much better movie!

 

I liked Batman Forever; thought it was a pretty solid popcorn movie, even though Kilmer was clearly too young to be Bruce Wayne.

I thought the pre-release promo poster had a pretty cool design, too:

 

The soundtrack had some good songs!

 

Any of the movies starring Alyssa Hall.

 

A Guy Thing.

 

Most modern porn.

 

How do you figure? He was 36 at the time, which is perfectly appropriate for Bruce/Bats. Keaton was 37 when he made the first "Batman", and Clooney was 36 for "B&R", so all of them were almost exactly the same age...

 

It's about looks. I just thought Kilmer, as opposed to Clooney or Keaton, looked too young to be the CEO/owner of a major corporate concern, even if he did inherit it.

 

I can respect the opinions of those who don't like The Dark Knight, except on one point -- accusing the film of being popular merely because of Heath Ledger's sad demise is pure poppycock (let's see if that makes it through the filter!)

The comic-con held the summer before the films release and before his death was full of excited fans and the buzz was huge. I think Nolan makes dark films and they may not be to everyones taste, but to deny that this film had a huge wave of interest early on is to ignore reality.

 

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I thought Kilmer was fine in terms of age. Heck, Christian Bale is playing Bruce as CEO now and he's younger! I think the "adult Bruce" is supposed to be 32 - you don't think Kilmer looked under 30, do you?

 

Thank you. The Ledger angle did attract some viewers, but even THAT was more because they'd heard so much praise for his performance. People don't shell out $10 a ticket to see a movie that fails to interest them just because one of its stars died.

Some people like to say "Dark Knight" did well solely due to Ledger's death because they feel some odd need to justify it beyond the notion that - gasp! - people liked it. The "Ledgerers" are the same kind of people who claimed "Titanic" earned $600 million US because the same 23 13-year-olds saw it over and over and over.

Face it: "Dark Knight" was a huge hit because a whole lot of people really liked it...

 

He's my favorite Batman hands down! The 1989 Batman is still my all time favorite one. Keaton as Batman and Nicholson as Joker was a perfect combination. Both played those roles the best.

Can't forget Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent!

Man! I got to watch this one again, its been too long. SO GOOD!

 

Although I love Larry David, I remember Sour Grapes being absolutely horrible.

 

No, but (a) in Batman Begins, we got all that back-story so I found everything a bit more credible, and (b) I think Bale had more gravitas, which fuzzed the age issue, and (c) I dunno, maybe my thinking on Val Kilmer has been unduly influenced by Top Secret! and Real Genius.

All of this to say, I suppose, that while I thought Kilmer was OK, he just seemed wrong, and I pegged this on his not seeming of age. But it may be more that he just dosen't seem like a CEO type.

 

Kilmer can do gravitas, of a sort. Have you seen him in Spartan?

 

For me, the worst movie has to be "Armageddon".

I loathed EVERY part of it - from the cheesy Aerosmith song - to the blatantly wrong physics of the asteroid - the the cliched "hero's death" ending...

It was as if they took a bunch of cliched Hollywood plot complications, threw them in a hat, and pulled them out one after another.

The other part of that film that drove me buggy was the fact so many people actually liked it! (I felt like I was in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and everyone else was a pod person...)

(I gotta go watch "A Hard Day's Night" or "Singin' In The Rain" to counteract the memories of "Armageddon"...! Bleah....)

 

I saw it once at the cinema with my dad. It was the last movie he ever attended. I loved it. He hated it. He was a classical music guy and he was appalled by the music. He didn't know an Elton John song from a hole in the ground though.

I fully understand that Moulin Rouge isn't everybody's cup of tea but that doesn't make it one of the worst films ever made! It's far from one of my favourites but I find it entertaining. Just because one isn't partial to a film doesn't make it one of the worst films ever made.

Folks should be taking pokes at truly miserable films, especially if plenty of money was spent to achieve the result. Plan 9 From Outer Space is a P-poor film but it's understandable due to a variety of factors including lack of production money. To me, Battlefield Earth is far, far worse given that it had plenty of dollars to absolutely, positively flush down the johnny.

I've seen every live, action Batman film. Some are better than others but none are absolutely horrid. Many folks on this thread are kicking the wrong dogs, I reckon. I'd rewatch any of the Batman films. I wonder if any of ya'all adore a film such as The Wild Wild West? There's a loud barking dog.

There's a big difference between a film that doesn't crank one's tractor and an abysmal failure of epic proportions.