Wild Wild West made me giggle about once or twice. Otherwise, totally horrible. Besides, Kenneth Branagh is giving his all for it.
I’ll pull Can’t Stop The Music for the camp value plus, I love the Village Peeps.
**
Here is where we are at:
Inchon
The Lonely Lady
Under the Cherry Moon
Leonard: Part 6
Ghosts Can’t Do It
Shining Through
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Battlefield Earth
Swept Away
Dirty Love
Basic Instinct 2
I Know Who Killed Me
The Love Guru**
Under The Cherry Moon is one of the few (if not the only) major studio release to have the premier in Wyoming. Plus, it wasn’t that much worse than Purple Rain, and had some interesting music. Pull it.
Wow. To be honest, at this point, I’m stuck.
Of the movies that are left, I’d say the best remaining would be Leonard: Part 6, just for camp factor.
Battlefield Earth has some camp value
An Alan Smithee film : Burn, Hollywood, Burn made me laugh a few times. It will have to be pulled.
The only thing I remember about Shining Through was hearing Melanie Griffith speak German with an accent slightly less convincing than Brad Pitt’s “Italian” in Inglourious Basterds, and the other characters ooh’ing and aah’ing about how perfect her accent was and how she’d make a great spy. At that point I turned it off, but that was enough to convince me it should rank among the worst of the worst.
I’ll invoke the Reading the Phone Book Exception for Anthony Quinn’s voice in Ghosts Can’t Do It.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m one of the five or six people who saw I Know Who Killed Me in the theater, and while it was quite bad, I don’t think it was as execrably bad as some of the other choices that are left. I’m pulling it.
So that leaves…
Inchon
The Lonely Lady
Shining Through
Swept Away
Dirty Love
Basic Instinct 2
The Love Guru
I’m out of the game. I can’t find a defensible thing about any of them.
This is getting really hard, but The Love Guru has one fairly funny cameo from Stephen Colbert. Other than that it’s complete shit, but it’s something.
Just thought I would give this thread a quick bump! I couldn’t participate, as I have only seen Howard the Duck & An Indecent Proposal & they were rescued quite quickly. I wouldn’t have rescued the latter, but agree that Howard was harmless escapest fun.
I’m not bragging, but I haven’t seen any of the other remaining ones. Nor several of the ones already reprieved.
Don’t get me wrong; I watch a lot of complete shit.
I have not seen any of the remaining films but I will take Dirty Love off because I like the title.
Swept Away - if nothing else, it spared us from having to watch any further Guy Ritchie films starring his then-wife, Madonna. That alone made the film worthwhile.
I’ll suggest pulling Shining Through. I saw it when I was 12 and kinda enjoyed it, and there are other movies on the list that are so bad that even 12 year-olds would recognize the badness.
The Lonely Lady has boobs.
That leaves:
Inchon
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2 has boobs. That leaves Inchon as the winner – a Moonie funded epic about the battle of Inchon starring Laurence Olivier as Douglass MacArthur. I’ve never seen it, but the Wiki page does not give th impression that there’s anything remotely entertaining about it.