Funny how so many of these films are hated by some and loved by others.
Did you not know what to expect when you got it? I thought it was pretty much what it advertised itself as.
I’ll see your “Lesbian Vampire Killers” (actually I won’t - I caught the last half hour of it on TV once and it was horrible) and raise you “Sex Lives of the Potato Men”. I like Johnny Vegas in the right context. This was not that context. At all.
Loved it!
Loved it! In fact, I bought the soundtrack. But it’s definitely not for everyone.
Birth. A 10 year old boy comes up to a young widow and tells her he’s her husband reincarnated. She could have solved it in 10 minutes, tops. “If you’re my husband, why the hell aren’t you glad to see me? What’s your social security number? What’s my middle name? Birthday? What was the first movie we saw together?” Instead she lets the little creep jump in the tub with her and later kisses him on the lips. And that’s just the plot, let’s not even go into the direction with the interminable closeups of people showing no emotion in particular.
I don’t know, even in the realm of terrible RPG movies** Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight** might top yours. I wanted to be pithy and just post the picture of Dragon Highlord Verminaard with an inexplicable Dragonlance through his chest to prove how bad the animation was but I can’t find it and my Google-fu is weak today.
“At Long Last Love” --To be truly awful you must reach out in multiple forms. This film takes it to Romance, Musicals, Star driven and who knows what else.
big name director - Peter Bogdanovich.
big name stars - Bert Reynolds, Cybill Shepard, Madiline Kahn
nig name music - Cole Porter
based on a big name play - Noel Cowards Private Lives.
Those of you who think you saw this stinker bad on television…it was cut and improved for television from the original big screen version. To say this is “bad,” is being kind.
Someone mentioned “Avatar” - while I stick with the live-action “Grinch” monstrosity as my pick for the thread, watching Avatar was an awful experience. I watched with a couple of friends who treated me for my birthday. (yes, in 3D). One of the couple adored Avatar, had seen it previously. I kept wanting to laugh out loud through most of the film, and finally just wanted to sleep through the endless battles. I pretended to enjoy this dreck for my friend’s sake. Miserable.
Regarding “The Aristocrats”: I had never heard the joke, and didn’t Google it because I didn’t want to know anything about it ahead of time. Ever seen “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More”? If you have, her son tells a long, convoluted, nonsensical joke. It reminded me of what I saw of the movie.
And BTW, if you think I’m some kind of bluenose, I thought “Pink Flamingos” was hilarious.
It’s not that I think you’re a bluenose, but The Aristocrats was certainly an atypical movie and if you didn’t know going into it that it was about comedians telling the same extremely raunchy joke over and over, each in their own way, I can see why you wouldn’t like it.
(Personally I thought Billy the Mime’s rendition was hilarious.)
I read a similar summary of Iron Sky and thought it’d be the kind of B-movie I enjoy.
No. It’s just bad. It takes itself absolutely seriously; not in the way that, say, Leslie Neilsen took his characters seriously and the directors didn’t, or in the way that 50s and 60s b-movie directors took their monster movies seriously because they really didn’t know how daft the monsters would look on the big screen - it’s filmed as if it’s a serious movie. A Really Serious Movie. It isn’t.
Btw, congrats on making it through Pink Flamingos.
Now for my answer to the OP- tho let me digress & say that while I enjoyed Jim Carrey’s GRINCH, I can understand why many did not, however, it is a masterpiece compared to the Mike Myers POS that is The Cat in the Hat…
From 1989, Jane Campion’s “Sweetie”- I was never so glad to see a character die in my life.
The story goes that Pia Zadora was in an amateur theatrical production of The Diary of Anne Frank. When the Nazi troops arrived at the end, several people in the audience shouted, “They’re in the attic!”
I’ve heard it’s supposed to be (well, from comments I’ve seen - I’m not sure what the film-makers intended) but there’s no comedy in it. I can usually recognise when something is supposed to be funny even if I don’t personally find it funny. The funny thing is the premise; from there on it’s just dull plodding.