In the “direct to Netflix low-budget documentary department”, a recent entry is “Patient Seventeen”, which looked interesting, and even though I did finish it, it just kept getting weirder and weirder. In short, it’s about a podiatrist (!) who believed in UFOs and aliens doing implants, and was willing to remove them from people who had them in their feet and lower legs.
The “believed” is deliberate; the podiatrist died during filming. Another scientist who is interviewed seemed a bit hinky to me, and Googling him revealed that after the Oklahoma City bombing, he was interviewed because he was suspected of being John Doe #2 and still hasn’t been fully exonerated from this.
This is what IMDB said about it.
Watching it was a STRAAAAAANGE experience. But probably not as strange as “What The $%^& Do We Know”, which I shut off after 10 or 15 minutes.
Speaking of horrible Sam Elliot movies…Isn’t there one about mutant frogs? I’d really hate to have to look it up. But sigh here I go…
Edit: Well that was easy. It’s called…Frogs.
Ha! Loved that movie (although not in the sense that I would ever want to watch it again). I thought my friend that I saw it with and I were the only two to have ever seen it.
Worst for me: Congo and whatever that Star Trek reboot was called.
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Oh, hell yes! I saw that in an actual theater when I was about 13. It had Ray Milland, of all people, in the cast; I remember reading that he accepted the role with the condition that he wouldn’t have to touch any frogs.
IIRC, the frogs were decidedly un-scary, despite what was depicted on the poster. It reminded me of Willard (otherwise a pretty good film) in which Ernest Borgnine was “attacked” by what were obviously completely tame rats.
Ok - obviously it was better than some (not all) high-school kid’s film class project, but for a movie with an extraordinary budget, a devoted (and slightly demented) fan-base, enormous popular culture impact - it was rubbish.
I took my kid to it (he was exactly the right age - early teens), and I nearly walked out and left him to it.
Heh. My wife and I trade off on taking the sprog to kid’s films and by sheer luck I missed out on both The Emoji Movie and Postman Pat, both of which were dire by all accounts. I think the worst of the ones I’ve seen in the cinema was Despicable Me 2, during which I laughed exactly once (at the scene with the “fire crew” hacking through walls). The rest was a lot of rehashed jokes from the first film and Gru being angsty.
Worth it to see Jon Voight’s performance of the World’s Most Over-the-Top Leer.
I don’t think we can blame that film on Williams. There were a lot of talented actors in it, but the plot was phenomenally stupid. It limped by on all the scenes of the afterlife looking interesting. It would have been better served by removing all the people and dialogue and just using the visuals as a screensaver.
Tangent: Someday I want to hear Clancy Brown do one of his speeches from Highlander in the voice of Mr Krabb from SpongeBob.
Non-tangent: I once rented Bonfire of the Vanities, took it home, watched half an hour of it, rewound it and took it immediately back to the shop. Awful.
I was disappointed in a lot that they changed and a lot that could have been done better in that movie. Of Forsyth’s “original three” thrillers, all were filmed, but I only love Day of the Jackal without reservation.
I wrote a lengthy post when the film first came out suggesting that the real goal of the aliens wasn’t to invade Earth – it was to get rid of a huge amount of the surplus population (the really annoying guys) by having them invading what was for them Acid World while totally naked. Kinda like what happened to the Golgofrinchans in Restaurant at the End of the Universe, but more tragic (for the aliens) and less funny.
I managed to avoid this until I saw a special Rifftrax screening of the film. It is wonderfully awful. Hard to believe that they made this as a serious film. My favorite part is when you se a shot with a waterfall falling upwards!!.
Yes, for some reason they felt they had to reverse the action in that shot, so they simply ran it backwards, despite the fact that a waterfall falling UP looks like something out of a David Lynch film.
Another thread mentioned Adam Sandler and I had a flashback. “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” is definitely the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I gave that about 15 minutes, tops. I think I have a tendency to bury awful movies in my subconsciousness.
I hate to defend Signs, I thought it was mediocre, but what makes you think that the monsters are aliens? There is no evidence at all of their origin, goal, or motive. We never see spaceships, technology or the like. For all we know, they’re demons or genetically engineered super soldiers or a particularly convincing mass hallucination. The characters in the movie say they’re aliens, but they are just guessing, based on crank UFO books and the same evidence the audience has. The movie works much better if you embrace the uncertainty.
When I first saw Signs I was an xtian and the ending blew me away. I thought, “Wow! That’s so deep and wonderful. Real life is just like that.” I’m not sure what I’d think if I rewatched as an atheist, but I still have warm fuzzies over it.
My worst movie is The Mist. Worst, most stupid ending ever.
I agree the choice has to be something that was intended to be a mainstream success. No art films, no quirky films. Movies the creators thought were good. I’d actually put Plan 9 in this group. And The Room (assuming it wasn’t really about mob money laundering).
Allowing for the fact I can usually spot a stinker and avoid it (I haven’t seen most of the recent bad movies others have listed) the worst movie I went to that I picked that I thought would be good was Remo Williams.
