I read in a Newsweek piece recently that, after fighting with the studio about the length of the movie - he later admitted they were right and it should’ve been 20 minutes shorter. That won’t satisfy anybody who hated the movie, I just thought it was funny.
I’m amazed that no one has yet mentioned:
or David Bowie’s snore-fest The Man Who Fell to Earth.
But then, for all-time worst, there has never and will never be a movie as god-awful bad as that complete waste of celluloid, Pulp Fiction.
Are you talking about some Obscure, non-tarentino movie with the same title, or do you merely have an innate desire to get flamed?
Not even Bruce Campbell could save this stinker. And it’s really sad, because as cheesy as it was, I love* Escape from New York*.
Two movies came to mind after reading through http://www.badmovies.org/movies.
**Super Mario brothers. ** As a kid I thought this sucked, and now I wonder who the hell came up with the script for this? And why the Hell did Dennis Hopper get invovled?
Superman 4 Preachy and Stupid. Superman gets plenty of new powers out of the blue that are never seen again, and he faces an idiot(named Nuclear man) who needs constant sunlight to do anything.
Oh, it was unquestionably funny–in a “we’re laughing at you, not with you” kind of way.
If it had been intended as a humorous parody of the giant monster movie genre, things might have been different. As far as I can tell, however, the people behind it actually meant it to be taken seriously–which is amusing in itself.
oh come on! that wasn’t that bad. besides, gabriel burne was worth it! and i cannot say i have laughed more than the end cartoon sequence.
“ok hunny poo”
LOL SO FUNNY!
i agree awful remake. shames the first one which was excellent.
may i add “lost souls” w/ winona ryder. what was that about??? it put me to sleep. “soul survivors” looked like it had potential, but confused the hell out of me at the end. there’s another one i saw recently where i was like what the hell??? but i can’t remember it at the moment. i know a lot of people liked it, but i was at a loss.
Cherry 2000.
Enough said.
81 minutes of garbled, incomprehensible dialogue, teeth-jarring music, and no plot that I could discern. And what boggles my mind is that all three IMDB reviews gush over it, and one compares it to “Rocky Horror” and “Spinal Tap”! They must have seen it just once, and been really, really high.
I once was subjected to Mac and Me when I was on the Amtrak going across country. Or rather, it was on the TVs, but I was talking to some people and not paying much attention to it. I registered that the kid had a really annoying voice and that’s about it. Reading the reviews, I’m actually regretting not getting the full flavor of suck; I don’t remember a dance sequence in McDonald’s, for instance. Maybe I should wear a wig and rent it from a video store in another community.
I’m not sure if Buford’s Beach Bunnies was straight-to-video but it might well have been.
GACK! my eighth grade lit class were forced to watch this movie for two excrutiating days while we “studied” the book. I have blocked this travesty out of my mind for ages…until now. Thanks a lot!
I didn’t read through all three pages of posts. I am presuming that “Love Story” must have been mentioned somewhere before the end of page one.
Instead, I’ll suggest Satan’s Cheerleaders.
Haven’t seen that one, but I did once, out of morbid curiosity, rent Bride of the Atom. Deserves its reputation. Uberdumb and megasux. The shame is that it was Bela Lugosi’s last speaking role on the screen. (He delivered no lines in Plan 9 – Lugosi died in the middle of filming and Wood’s wife’s chiropractor subbed in, speaking no lines and concealing his face with Lugosi’s Dracula cape, as I’m sure all Dopers know.) As Stephen King wrote in Dance Macabre, it was “a squalid coda to a great career.”
I recall a bit from an early-90s fanzine called Caffeine Quarterly: “Cool World Invades Toontown!” “Cool World security chief Nails denied rumors of ethnic cleansing of characters of Warner Brothers extraction . . .”
At the Tampa SF convention Necronomicon one year, there was a panel discussion – in a huge, packed auditorium! – about the existence of God and the use of God in SF. When the mod called for a last question, I stood up and innocently asked, "Do you think God . . . will ever forgive William Shatner for Star Trek V?" A moment’s silence, then the room exploded. 
[kirk]
Ermm . . . excuse me . . . why does God need a starship?
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I could appreciate that too, but one point spoiled the whole plot for me: Why would a spacefaring human civilization use an Earthlike planet with a breathable atmosphere (extremely rare conditions, to be sure!) as a garbage dump, when you could just as easily dump your garbage on a lifeless moon or throw it into the nearest star?
I also would have liked more backstory. These “soldiers” (i.e., the brainwashed enlisted men, not the officers) have no civil rights or private lives of any kind, are not even allowed to form the conception of such. How did the United States (or some successor state, which the “American Forces” apparently were serving) evolve into a society where children could be selected at birth for a life of slavery?
[QUOTE=jimpatroThere was a best or worst fight scenes in movies thread recently and folks really railed on the scene from They Live. I gotta agree though that I think it’s one of the best ever.[/QUOTE]
I think the problem people have is that they expect a movie fight scene to be exciting, not just two really tough guys whaling on each other for several long minutes, with no weapons or leaps or spin-kicks, until one is worn out – the way it probably would go if two really tough guys street-fought IRL.
(And yet people will pay money to watch professional boxers . . .)
Try Jack-O. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113449/ A cheesy, low-budget bit of shoegunk that could not possibly ever have been released to the theaters. Not even in the days of drive-ins.
[ross geller]
After Police Academy III, I stopped worrying about whether they were going to make it as cops and just decided to enjoy the comedy . . .
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Nobody has yet mentioned Eegah! (you’re all so young). See “the crazed love of a prehistoric giant for a ravishing teenage girl.” This was an early appearance of Richard Kiel, better known as Jaws from Diamonds Are Forever.
And don’t (or do) forget the truly horrible musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, an even worse Streissand movie than Yentel, if that’s possible.