I saw Battlefield Earth on some free week of some paid movie channel promo a couple of years ago. I heard it was the Worst Movie Ever Made. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. Of course, I likes me some badfilm, so the cheesy John Travolta as an Evil Alien Overlord bits were right up my alley.
Then there was Sony’s Godzilla. I went in with some fairly minimal expectations, actually. Really big lizard comes out of the ocean and invades a major metropolitan area. Does massive property damage. I wasnt disappointed.
I also liked The Postman. The movie was good in spite of Kevin Costner’s best efforts at acting. And really, how could you not love a movie in which Tom Petty plays… Tom Petty? That alone was worth the price of admission.
Apparently I am the only person on the planet who liked these movies.
There surely must be other movies that were universally panned that somebody out there liked. Are you that somebody? And what movie was it?
I really liked Death to Smoochy. Ed Norton, Robin Williams, and Danny Devito in a black comedy about one honest man’s attempt to succeed in the seedy underbelly or children’s television programming. Jon Stewart does absolutely nothing. And everybody save for the people I saw it with seems to loathe it.
Swept Away. It is a rancid smear of diarrhea compared to Travolti al Destino, but when I watch SA I just pretend Travolti doesn’t exist.
I love Madonna. I love Madonna’s T & A.
I love topless Italian men with teddy-bear faces.
I love Guy Ritchie.
I love fantasy musical montages and I love watching people play drunken charades. Swept Away scratches all of my itches, baby.
I would never expect anyone else to think it’s anything other than an unmitigated piece of crap and a sad, stillborn excuse for a movie. I would never ask anyone else to sit through it. I won’t even watch it when other people are in the house.
But I just love it.
[sup]The best part is in the director’s commentary how, whenever Madonna is walking across the screen in her bikini, both Guy and Matt go silent, and after a few seconds shake themselves and go; “Nice… shot. I mean, that was a nice shot. Yeah.”[/sup]
Heaven’s Gate, which was considered to be the worst movie of all time, is one of my all-time favorites. The photography alone is worth the movie. And Krisstofferson is just so awesome in it. I don’t care how much it cost – this movie is brilliant.
Another favorite of mine is Raggedy Man, with Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts. I tell ya, this movie is a work of art. WWII small-town Texas. What more do you need?
Bicentennial Man
It wasn’t perfect, but it was a helluva lot better than people gave it credit for. And it’s the first adaptation of an Asimov work I’ve seen that felt like Asimov.
You’re not the only one! I love that movie. It was directed by her husband Jack Fisk, and you can tell he loved her dearly. Every frame is like a painting and she’s the most beautiful woman in the world as seen through his lens. Even if it were a bad movie, I’d just love watching it, and her, but it’s a good movie too. It’s also Eric Roberts, who often plays creepy, at his sweetest and cutest.
The ending gets a bit weird, but I can deal because the rest of it is so wonderful.
It also features a pre-ET Henry Thomas.
I wish it were on DVD.
My pick is a 1985 Australian movie called Bliss. It’s not on DVD either and I don’t understand why not. It’s based on a book by the celebrated Peter Carey, and was directed by Ray Lawrence, who most recently made the acclaimed Lantana. Bliss is about a man who tell stories named Harry Joy. One day he has a heart attack and dies, and things just go downhill from there. He is brought back to life, but he sees his life and the world in a different way. It’s funny, sad, lovely and absolutely unique. You’ll never see another film like this.
Not a good movie by any means, not like the two above, but we had a great time at Van Helsing. It’s a leave-your-brain-and-age-at home, throw-popcorn-at-the-screen, fun, dopey, daffy, silly, goofy, Saturday afternoon matinee cheesefest. Loved it!
Gummo by Harmony Kornine.
I loved this twisted little flick, but everyone and I mean EVERYONE I’ve recomended it to has been really angry at me afterwards.
Not a BAD movie, by any means, but would have been better had B4 been handled differently. SOME mention of Lor, for instance. The Reman guy could have been handled better, too. No problem with the existance of either character, or their parts in the plot, but the dialogue surrounding them was painful, in either what it had, or what it lacked.