There are funny movies, movies wherein nothing happens, too star-studded, etc. Now, what’s not just the worse you’ve seen, but something you’d describe as awful? Use your own definition.
The one I’m thinking of right now is “Treed Murray.” Drugs, violence, coercion to perform sex, racial stereotyping, awful one-setting format. The only thing I liked was the movie’s ever changing mood. I liked the part where he (Murray) got the leader all riled up the gang finally attempted a full frontal attack. That scene looked epic.
There are some weird movies in the 60s and 70s that left me bewildered as a kid. I just can’t find their titles. There was this one about an overly-sheltered rich girl named Margaurite(sp?) who liked to alternately babble about botany and cry like a retard. I didn’t even get the epilogue.
I accidentally rented this POS on VHS. If I’ve ever seen a worse movie my brain won’t let me recall it. I picked it up to look at it (because Richard Pryor’s name was on it) and put the wrong tape back on the shelf…didn’t notice at checkout.
Holy crap! I think it was filmed during a long coke binge by all involved.
Vanishing Point (1971). Rebellious nonconformist pilots high-performance Dodge across four Southwestern states, inciting the ire of law enforcement officials until he deliberately crashes into a roadblock at full speed. Nowhere near as exciting as it sounds.
Frank Zappa was a brilliant composer and musician who had many moments of near-genius. However, his musical gifts didn’t carry over into video arts, a fact he and his unchecked ego were blissfully unaware of.
200 Motels features some of his finest rock/classical fusion music, performed by the best band he ever assembled (often with orchestra), embedded in a self-indulgent, pointlessly moronic and garishly ugly video exercise.
In my opinion the soundtrack to this “movie” is one of his five greatest albums, but for me the film itself is literally unwatchable except for selected episodes of musical performances.
I don’t mind cryptic films, or artsy films, or slow-moving films, but one thing I really don’t like is a cryptic, artsy, slow-moving film. I’m thinking of Eraserhead and Il deserto rosso in particular.
But did you see it in '71? It was iconoclastic, IMHO – not Easy Rider level but close. The lead actor ended up with a TV series on the basis of that movie.
I love From Dusk Til Dawn.
I can’t think of the title, or the actors, and I haven’t seen the whole thing so maybe it’s not totally awful – the one where a young woman is chained (by her ankle?) and held (for her own good?) by some guy who’s supposedly trying to help her. I run across it fairly often.
Yeah, Eraserhead was one of those few movies I saw at my friend’s home on tape where I said to myself, “I would have walked out of a theater… Now” five times over.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover I saw in the theater and had almost the same reaction of rejection, but not of bafflement. Upon leaving the theater I said: “That was a powerful film, but I wished I had never seen it, will never rewatch it and will try not to think about it ever again”.
I watched Adventureland not too long ago and it made me really, really mad. It was so pretentious, void of any likeable characters, and the acting was horrible.
I was so pissed at this stupid movie that I couldn’t fall asleep. Argh!
I can’t recall its name, but it was a documentary on the violence caused by the drug trade in Mexico. Sounds interesting, right? Well, about 45 minutes through, I kind of realized that whoever made it had never heard of plot - it was just a series of video clips, with no dialogue or information, strung together. You’d keep thinking it was just about the pick up the pace and get really good, or that you just weren’t deep enough to get the meaning, but . . . no.
Roget’s doesn’t print a thesaurus with enough adjectives in it to describe how awful this film is. It is simply so bad that it should be shown multiple times to condemned prisoners to make them truly pray for death. It is without a doubt the single worst comic book dil adaptation in Hollywood history. It literally (not figuratively) makes the abortion that Batman and Robin look like it is high art.
I paid to go see this (yes, I’m ashamed to admit it) and even today almost 30 years later, I cannot look at the actress (a term loosely used) Lea Thompson without the image of her and an actor in terrible duck costume about to commence foreplay. The image is seared into my brain. Even Caroline in the City, probably one of the worst shows in television history makes Thompson look better than this POS.
For anyone who claims that George Lucas has never made a bad film, this one is proof positive that is a fallacious belief.
That movie came out around the same time as another megabomb, “Leonard Part 6”.
I managed to sit through about the first 15 minutes of “Leonard” when it aired on TV a while back, but have never seen any of “Howard The Duck”.
Doesn’t anyone watch some of these movies before they’re released?
Say, anyone seen “Americathon”? For some reason, I’ve always wanted to see that (or try to, anyway) and have never found it on VHS and AFAIK it’s not available on DVD.
