This is in camp of “hated movie”, not zero stars. Zero stars is what I’d give to movies which were total incompetent rubbish.
I hate the movie Touch Of Evil with Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, and Janet Leigh. I recognize that it is a well-made, well-photographed, and well-reviewed movie. But Welles’s character is repulsive and obnoxious, and Heston is unbelievable as a Mexican cop. The whole thing is dark and depressing and depraved. My husband loves it, but I have to leave the room if it’s on.
I thought the satirical parts of the movie were the parts that were actually good. The problem is that those parts lasted a total of twenty combined minutes, and was interspersed with an action movie that
A) Might as well have been a completely different movie,
B) And was boring as hell.
Vegas Vacation was definitely a cheap, shitty sequel, but I just can’t give it an F, because the scene where he goes to “a different kind of casino” that has games like Rock Paper Scissors and Pick A Number was hilarious. IT’s what a comedy is actually supposed to be, laying out rapid fire gags.
But it became even funnier years later… one of the “joke” games was War. A few years later, casinos actually started offering War as a real table game.
Requiem for A Dream- I will never get those 2 odd hours back. I like all the actors in other things and I actually tend towards darker movies & shows, I really do, but this had zero redeeming qualities . Unrelentingly grim
Which it was. The movie started life as Bug Hunt at Outpost 7. It got tweaked a bit to have some vague resemblance to the book, and add the satirical elements, but most of it was from a totally unrelated movie.
I wouldn’t necessarily give “A Clockwork Orange” zero stars as a movie but I would definitely give it zero stars as a “first date” movie. (There was no IMDB, Wikipedia, or internet in those days.)
It’s odd that I point out one minor issue that fits in the gross pattern of stupidity and ignore all the major ones (nor did you actually read my post, which pointed out a bunch of other signs of stupidity, and that it was an addition stupidity to allow smoking on a vessel that might be months away from replenishing it).
But this was a minor point. It was stupid, but I didn’t see that as anything more than a bad piece of worldbuilding.
The problem isn’t the smoking; that’s just part of the overall pattern of idiot plot. The only way the story works is if everyone involved is a complete idiot. That is my point. The smoking is just the cherry on the dead rat icing on a rotten liver cake. You concentrate on the smoking because you can’t actually refute any of my other points.
Wasn’t Parker armed with a flame thrower? Lambert was still in the line of fire. Had he pulled the trigger she would have been torched along with the alien.
For me this is less stupid and one of the things that makes Alien fun to talk about. Why didn’t the Company send a team better equipped to handle the situation? Did the Company know there was a dangerous alien on the surface of LV-426? Since the crew of Nostromo was able to figure out the “distress” call was likely a warning to stay away I’ve got to assume the Company knew that when they sent them. We don’t even know if this was a decision made by the executive board or just one high ranked person who decided to take a chance. It’s a mystery and one that’s not particularly important to telling the story of the crew of the Nostromo. And if you think its stupid, hell, a lot of corporate officers make mind stunningly stupid decisions for a variety of reasons.
I have only walked out of two films. Coyote Ugly and Metro.
Both times I had to spend almost an hour in the theater lobby watching people play video games because my ride still wanted to watch the film. That was still a better use of my time and I stand by my decision.
I legitimately don’t understand why the Germans didn’t just murder them all at the end end of Escape to Victory. It’s not like the Nazis were somehow against murdering a bunch of people trying to escape something.
The turn-of-the-millennium remake of Rollerball. What a POS. Rented it at Blockbuster, and returned it barely one-third watched. Which is saying something because the Late Mrs. (GRHS) always insisted on watching every rental through to get our money’s worth.
So I like a number of the films folks have listed here for various reasons, including occasionally campy ones (‘The gun is good. The penis is evil’). But I was kinda surprised by the vehemence on this one. A perfectly harmless little British comedy generating that kind of irritation? I thought it was cute.
Then I looked it up to see if I was misremembering it or if that there had been a lot of critics savaging it. Oops - I was thinking of Cold Comfort Farm.
Oh My God! I thought I was the only person who saw this … “Film”. I could start a whole thread on this debacle. Big story about how I came to see it. I was cheated!
So bad, its almost worth watching for the huge errors in continuity and the horrible acting. Almost ‘Plan 9’ level bad/good. I’ll never forget this Old Bullshit.
That would be Manos: The Hands of Fate. It was written, directed and produced by Harold P. Warren and cost $19,000.00 to shoot. If you see it, you’ll know that this is about $18,999.00 more than it’s worth.
Somehow it became popular enough to “review” on MST3K and is still available on Blu-Ray.
I like B movies but this one is a C or D movie!
Bonus Question: Just try to figure out what the couple making out in the car have to do with any of the plot.
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