# The Worst Weirdest Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757 "2008-09-22T23:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/21 "2008-09-24T20:03:37Z")
**Gummo** , about a strange town that never fully recovered from a tornado. I kept hearing how bad it was, but when I saw it myself, I thought it wasn’t that bad. Thinking about it some more, yeah, it was pretty bad. Using nihilism as a theme is risky and the writer/director couldn’t pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/22 "2008-09-24T20:22:06Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > **Gummo** , about a strange town that never fully recovered from a tornado. I kept hearing how bad it was, but when I saw it myself, I thought it wasn’t that bad. Thinking about it some more, yeah, it was pretty bad. Using nihilism as a theme is risky and the writer/director couldn’t pull it off. That’d be Xenia, OH, IIRC. It’s the hick town\* just east of Beavercreek, OH, the town where I spent 12 of my most formative years. Not much to do in Xenia, and it’s a bit too far from Dayton or any of the malls for most teenagers to readily enjoy the more cosmopolitan pursuits of suburban life. Haven’t seen Gummo, but from what I’ve heard it sounds pretty accurate. \*my personal knowledge of Xenia ends in 1996. I’ve just projected it into today. _ETA: Just want to disambiguate that I lived in B’Creek, not Xenia._ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/23 "2008-09-24T20:27:54Z")
> [@Just\_Some\_Guy](#): > > You know the kind; the ones where “plot” or “characterization” by “symbolism”. “Plot” or “characterization” WHAT by “symbolism”? I assume you mean “are represented” or “get overtaken”, but I must know! Also, in order to not make this a complete hijack, I nominate _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. Which is easily the worst of their movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/24 "2008-09-24T20:55:14Z")
Well, it’s not a movie but if you watch an episode of _Reign: The Conqueror_ you’ll swear it’s three hours long. It’s anime. About Alexander the Conqueror. And giant robots. Amazingly, it sucks. Me and my friends used to watch it every week because we just couldn’t believe it was as bad as we remembered, and lo and behold, it would be EVEN WORSE. Everyone wears leather bondage gear, except for the villain Darius, who wears a sweater with a thong. One half of him is either going to be very hot – or very cold. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/25 "2008-09-24T21:02:48Z")
[_Cemetary Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/). I’ve sat through the film twice. I want to like it – I really do, especially since it’s a comedic zombie flick. But…I just can’t. There’s something fundamentally wrong with it that I can’t put my finger on. It’s got “weird” down cold, though. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/26 "2008-09-24T21:05:14Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > “Plot” or “characterization” WHAT by “symbolism”? I assume you mean “are represented” or “get overtaken”, but I must know! Replaced, actually, but close enough. That tends to happen to me when I my comments to change phrasing four or five times. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/27 "2008-09-24T21:57:57Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > [_Cemetary Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/). I’ve sat through the film twice. I want to like it – I really do, especially since it’s a comedic zombie flick. But…I just can’t. There’s something fundamentally wrong with it that I can’t put my finger on. > > It’s got “weird” down cold, though. I liked Cemetery Man (originally Del Amorte Del Amore). To sum up- The cartetaker of a local cemetery has problems- the dead he buries sometimes rise again, he keeps finding and losing the woman he loves, he can’t seem to get the credit for the murders he commits, and he feels stuck in a small town. I would not characterize it as comedic although some bits of it are. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/28 "2008-09-24T22:17:39Z")
Castaway with Tom Hanks. Roughly 2 hours of talking to a volleyball…what a load of bollox ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/29 "2008-09-24T22:27:59Z")
Joe Versus the Volcano! ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/30 "2008-09-24T22:34:37Z")
[Don’t Go Near The Park](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082276/). 5 word review - Don’t Go Near This Movie. I’m not sure why this was ever banned, but I bet the people involved in making it didn’t make much of a fuss, once they had seen the finished product. Is it weird? I thought so. Is it terrible? Definitely. Here’s what the only imdb reviewer thought. > [@](#): > > I read the warnings online. Despite them, I stupidly went out and rented this piece of garbage. Wow. I’ve been let-down by a movie before, but never by a movie I had no expectations for anyway. This was just bad. First of all, the intro takes place “12,000 years ago”… which would make the characters 10,000 years older than Christ, but they speak VERY good American English… wow. THAT’S an impressive feat, almost as impressive as going on a 12,000 year-long murdering spree and not being caught once. Another impressive feat would have to be the awesome special effects they used to show aging… which were the exact same effects used in The Wolf Man almost 40 years prior to this. Incredible. [sarcasm] > > Yes folks, this movie includes it all: bad acting, stupid effects, weak plot, and best of all, two 12,000 year old murderers, everything. The only thing this movie has going for it, in my opinion, is that it’s hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/31 "2008-09-24T22:42:01Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I liked Cemetery Man (originally Del Amorte Del Amore). > > To sum up- The cartetaker of a local cemetery has problems- the dead he buries sometimes rise again, he keeps finding and losing the woman he loves, he can’t seem to get the credit for the murders he commits, and he feels stuck in a small town. I would not characterize it as comedic although some bits of it are. Certainly not a laugh-out-loud comedy most of the time, and it the overall theme is fairly dark, but it seems like a lot of the elements are designed to make you laugh. I was introduced to it by a friend who adores the film, so I certainly don’t hold anything against you for liking it as well. It’s just that, to me, after repeated viewing and analysis, I wind up with a thumbs down. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757/32 "2008-09-25T06:21:26Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BdwubPG5iQM/hqdefault.jpg "Creepy Crawling") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdwubPG5iQM) My God, I just found out about THIS- anyone here see “Live Freaky, Die Freaky”- a puppet show about Helter Skelter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-weirdest-film/464757.md?page=1)