Classic Christmas staple. The soundtrack alone should have garnered an Oscar...
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Worst movie ever?
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The Jack Black one?
May I please nominate 'The Adventures of Pluto Nash' ? How you can ruin a film with such a stellar cast and enormous budget is beyond me, but that one always comes to mind.
'Dunkirk' an oddly uninvolving film but I thought it was okay for a low budget BBC co-production. Until I found out it wasn't and cost 100 million! Where did that go?
On the other hand the 1958 'Dunkirk' directed by Leslie Norman is a superb film made for a fraction of that budget and without any cartoony CGI.
They've got no idea these days, no idea at all.
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I wouldn't put Dunkirk anywhere near worst movie. I was baffled by the high acclaim it received. I thought it was a poor telling of the real event. I also agree the 1958 version was better. It was very odd how Chris Nolan managed to take all the life out of it almost. An uninvolving film where you wanted to care for some of the characters, but just really seemed to be watching an exposition of no purpose. Average documentaries are more entertaining.
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.
A college kids-meet-zombie film class project that made it to theatrical release in 1972 from the director of the future hit "Porky's"
A college kids-meet-zombie film class project that made it to theatrical release in 1972 from the director of the future hit "Porky's"
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Ho yes that one, it's not Christmas so don't remind me!
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I have always struggled with the whole Star Wars thing right from the beginning. I really don't get the generational significance or it's longevity nor the reverential tone of its fans. Carrie Fisher aside Return of the Jedi is a dog's breakfast of a film. What I took to be the ironical homage to wooden acting and muppet like aliens from the B grade films of the 1950's held no irony at all it just stunk.
I haven't seen all of them and idea of watching them all is a daunting enterprise with no anticipated pleasure.
I really do not comprehend the success of franchises like Marvel and DC for mature adult audiences.
I haven't seen all of them and idea of watching them all is a daunting enterprise with no anticipated pleasure.
I really do not comprehend the success of franchises like Marvel and DC for mature adult audiences.
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Yeah, I thought so too, but there is an enormous effort being put into the validation of the heroes raison d'etre that usually involves some really dark, messed up back stories, real effort being put into providing psychological motivation usually to justify the kind of mayhem that results from their helping "mankind", whereby the eventual cure is worse than the actual crime. Perhaps that is the basis of a political subtext one can easily surmise represents our real world but this is not the place for that discussion at all.
Looking at the size, breadth, pervasiveness and money spent on franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel and D.C. I wonder how much escape is requried, no matter how oft repeated, trite and formulaic it is. I'm not anti "escapist", all film is escapist to various extent, world building, mythic etc, but it is an interesting topic as to why it is so successful.
Batman and Robin.
We paid good money in a Cinema, and we both (Mrs TC and I) walked out after 20 minutes. Never done that before or since.
You can close the thread now
We paid good money in a Cinema, and we both (Mrs TC and I) walked out after 20 minutes. Never done that before or since.
You can close the thread now
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i saw at UCI cinemas tower park , screen 5 with dts with actual overhead surrounds . the movie was dreadfully beyond all worst movies of disbeliefBatman and Robin.
We paid good money in a Cinema, and we both (Mrs TC and I) walked out after 20 minutes. Never done that before or since.
You can close the thread now
and yes i do have it on r2 dvd
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i wouldn't even put that holiday star wars into a dog cat rescue shelter
Pretty dreadful, but it does have a plot…
Sgt. Ear Ache
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There's lots of really awful movies out there that are sort of obvious choices here (such as Plan 9 From outer Space for instance), but for me, there's a couple movies that I've seen over the years that sort of stood out as being just so boring, derivative and just completely bland but also had some big names and actual "real film" production behind them.
this one...
and this one...
just utterly, annoyingly forgettable movies. Air America had the added unlikeable quality of trying to capture a bit of the Good Morning Vietnam vibe. Gibson's character was just so stupid and ridiculous.
lol...just looking at those images causes an almost existential boredom within me!
this one...
and this one...
just utterly, annoyingly forgettable movies. Air America had the added unlikeable quality of trying to capture a bit of the Good Morning Vietnam vibe. Gibson's character was just so stupid and ridiculous.
lol...just looking at those images causes an almost existential boredom within me!
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