Is Tom Green more evil a Canadian import than Anne Murray? What about Loverboy?
No, I don’t think so. At least you know Tom Green’s an infantile, tasteless dick. Anne Murray, on the other hand, is far more insidious - she markets herself as wholesome and bland, when in reality she’s straight from the devil. Everybody knows the face of evil is the face of the average citizen.
Loverboy, while nauseating, is not really evil, because nobody born after 1980 has any idea who they are. So they have no legacy, unlike Anne, who can still be seen hawking CDs on television. Also, Loverboy can lay claim to having the butt-ugliest drummer of the video age (with the possible exception of the guy from Pat Benatar).
This movie does challenge assumptions. Like the one where people assume that the movie they paid to see is going to attempt to amuse them.
Look, I’m 22. I can have a rather juvenile sense of humor. I can also see what this movie might have been trying to challenge as a challenging piece of art. It fails miserably at both. I don’t mind seeing taboos broken, IF THERE’S A FREAKING POINT! It is not art to simply break taboos.
It’s like paying money to walk into a theater and have crap flung at me. Sure, it’s taboo, but I’m not going to appreciate the artistic statement, because it’s stupid and disgusting.
I dunno, I don’t think that part sounds so bad!
My brother found a website which said that the sound equipment for this one accidentally got – get this – pushed INTO A LAKE! And I, for one, believe it!
In theory, it didn’t have to be. The way it happened, it was.
I’ve seen 'em all and to me, the worst MSTed movie was “Wild Wild World of Batwoman”. I have no idea what was being done to who and why.
Worse, I didn’t care.
Fenris
I had to go back to Vancouver on business in November. I was in a mall and they were filming the movie. It was actually the “last” scene I guess as Tom Green got on a bullhorn thanking everyone for making the movie… it was done.
I was going to see it just for the reason I saw a scene get filmed and try to pick it out. I don’t think I will bother.
Let me add, that while I always trust WaterJ2, I’m not sure that this is the worst movie ever made, or even the worst recent movie ever made.
May I point everyone to Second Sight, a movie so bad that I would happily gouge an eye out rather than see the second half (I walked out).
To swipe a line from “Bloom County”, Second Sight does for movies what Jonestown did for kid’s drinks.
Fenris
Oh, so now we’re into “Blame Canada” mode, are we? What makes you think we’re exporting our crappiest and keeping the best for ourselves? Why would we do something like that? Doesn’t everyone know that we’re nice, polite people, with no hidden agendas or anything like that?
::evil laughter fading off into the background::
Ah, come on! With a cast comprising of John Larroquette and Bronson Pinchot, how could it miss?
What I want to know is why in the hell would you go to see it in the first place?? 
Second Sight? Hmm… While unabashedly stupid and unfunny, the plot was coherent, the actors were about as competent as a gifted high school thespian, the special effects were lame but well executed, and the direction didn’t give you motion sickness. Sorry, but on the continuum of bad movies, Second Sight barely registers.
I have read the horrifying reviews of Freddie Got Fingered (and Cervaise’s alternative – very thought provoking and something I’d like to bat around with Cervaise but don’t want to hijack). I haven’t seen the, um, film, and didn’t have any desire to until I read this thread.
What I find interesting is that the OP gave a synopsis of the entire movie.
Really, that’s what I found the most interesting. Because everything I have read (not bucketloads, mind you, just the cursory in-depth scan) does everything but empty my gas tank in an effort to prevent me from seeing this atrocity.
But still, waterj2 viewed the whole thing, which is something I don’t normally do when watching garbage. Sure, there are movies that you’re stuck watching either being polite on a date or battling with inner-entitlement issues that you paid $7.50 for something. But waterj2 downloaded this, rent free, and still watched it.
I’m sure it pales in comparison, but the last movie I can recall being agape at was a renter starring Jeremy Irons as two really screwed up gyno doctors (sort of) twins (Dead Ringers?). It was beyond horrible, yet I watched it until the end.
I dunno. I’m kind of with Cervaise in that being repugnant/horrible doesn’t necessarily equate to a bad film.
Whooooops. I just read what I posted and realized that I was taking liberty with Cervaise’s point of view at the end.
It’s my point of view and I have no idea how Cervaise feels.
No serious discussion of bad movies is complete without mention of the ultimate in bad flicks. Yes, I’m talking about The Big Stinker, The Movie the Memory of Which Time Repressed, The Absolute Worst Waste of Cheap Film Ever. Manos, the Hands of Fate is that Abomination. This site is a pretty good review. Here is the Bad Movie Night review, a must-read.
No, I’ve never seen Freddy Got Fingered. I might, though.
Ahh, Derleth?
Guinastasia said:
“Surely it isn’t as bad as Manos, the Hands of Fate, or Space Mutiny?”
To which I replied:
“Y’know, Manos gets a lot of glory from Misties, but didja ever see Red Zone Cuba? At least Manos had a semi-coherent plot and only mildly incompetant cinematography.”
Still, missing these posts is entirely forgivable. It is, as you pointed out, such a bad movie that it can cause severe mental trauma, including (but not limited to) short term memory loss, mild dyslexia, blackouts, dizziness, disorientation, narcolepsy, insomnia, loss of sexual function, psychotic delusions, paranoia, and ennui.
No, wait, that’s my perscription hayfever medication.
Their puny quotes fade in comparison to my links to outside web pages! Bow at the might of my vB-enhanced post! Marvel that the links all function, and are relevant to the discussion at hand! WORSHIP THE POST, FOR IT IS THE LORD YOUR GOD, COME UNTO YOU FROM THE WILDERNESS OF CYBERSPACE!
Or you could love it and pet it and call it George.
Or you could add water. It makes its own gravy.
Or you could take it to Sweden to see the moose.
No, really.
I disagree. I can’t speak to the whole plot, having left 40 minutes into the film, due to a violent urge to projectile vomit, but the first 40 minutes were more-or-less incoherent. The direction was nausea inducing to me, at least, but it certainly didn’t sink to the depths of The Creeping Terror.
But the acting and casting. This is where our major disagreement occurs. This movie had the most disasterous casting since Burgess Merideth was chosen to play a nude scene with Dyan Cannon in “Such Good Friends”. Or Marlon Brando with tape on his eyelids playing Sakai in “Teahouse of the August Moon” .
If we create a smarmy-smug-smirky scale, with, say…Jimmy Stewart at a 0.0 and oh, say…Pee-Wee Herman at a 5.0 and Bryant Gumbal at an 8.6, John Laroquette is at a 27.9.
The man cannot act. He does not act. Laroquette has spent his entire career trying to be Keenan Wynn combined with Dabney Coleman without success. They acted, he smarms. In the right context, with the right person to deflate the smarm factor, this can be extremely funny (Night Court). Without the deflateing, the smarmy-smug-smirky-ness runs amok. It’d be like giving Margaret DuMont her own movie with no Marx Brothers to deflate her.
In the same vein, if we create an annoying-little-gnome scale (the height of their body is irrelevant…I use “little” to refer to their souls) with, say…Jimmy Stewart at a 0.0 and oh, say…Pee-Wee Herman at a 5.0, Bryant Gumbal at an 8.6, and Gore Vidal at a 9.8 the Balki guy (Bronson Pinchot(sp)?) is at least a 24.4.
An annoying-little-gnome cannot deflate a smarmy-smug-smirky person. A smarmy-smug-smirky person cannot squelth an annoying-little-gnome. You had two extremely annoying character actors running amok, their individual schticks blending like oil and water don’t.
Either of these two performers paired with a down-to-earth non-annoying actor (Bob Newhart, to name one possiblity) could have been OK in their respective roles. The two together are gouge-your-eyes-out bad. The only things that could’ve made this movie worse would have been: adding Carrottop or Adam Sandler to the mix or having a nude scene with Burgess Merideth.
Fenris (traumatized from remembering the movie)
The applications for Survivor! included these two questions: [list=1][li]What would be the craziest, wildest thing you would do for a million dollars? What would you NOT do for a million dollars?[/list=1][/li]
The first one, I answered with a few things, fun and laughable. The second question, well, I’ll just c&p from my form:
I put that on an application to a show where it’s conceivable that I would win $1,000,000, I hate him that much.
Why wouldn’t I want to be around Mr. Green, you ask? Well, I figure I’d end up killing him and the money would go to waste.
Huh, that’s what I get for cutting and pasting from my first-draft. Make that
I really don’t like that guy.