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Those top 5 just seem obvious and lazy really

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Yup. Honestly, Over Her Dead Body wasn't bad - I thought it was kinda entertaining! :hide:

But any list of "worst ever" that reaches back no farther than 2002 or so is lazy and useless...

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I'd like to nominate "X-Files: I Want to Believe".

I'd like my $9 and those 2 hours back, please. I won't spoil anything, but if you're an X-Files fan, like me, you're gonna be disappointed.

Go see The Dark Knight again instead.

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Hercules (1983) with Lou Ferrigno. He throws a bear into space, nuff said.

Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) Bad 3D Indiana Jones wanna be.

Xanadu (1980) High School Play level bad acting, but Gene Kelly makes it watchable.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984) Just an excuse for Tawny Kataen to be naked for 2 hours. Which isn't always a bad thing but....

JFK (1991) As a result of this film many normally intelligent people seem to think that this nonsense is true!

Doug

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Really!? If the last season of the X Files were a movie, id put it on this list. Hope its not worse than that.

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Saw parts of Van helsing last night on TBS, this has got to be somewhere on a list.

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It's a good film, but sitting through the whole overlong affair one time was enough to make me feel like I've already seen it again.

(We all have our pet peeves.)

M.

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Don't forget that to get to Hell you must walk accross the rainbow bridge!

That movie is hilarious!

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With regard to my comments on The Missing in post 229 --
I'm not a film critic, but the name sounds familiar ... who is Dwight MacDonald and what do you mean by referencing this person?

Take out "crap" and replace it with "political correctness" or "reverse discrimination" or "agenda-driven." Take your pick of the above. It will be still be crap, but perhaps you'll understand how it came to be crap.

As for my criteria, I insist on good writing that meets professional standards. A screenplay is the foundation on which a film is built. If the script is compromised, so is the film. The advantages of a big budget, the latest technology, and the best director can not disguise an inept, amateur, flawed, or compromised screenplay. Story and character are everything. To often, the underlying meaning of a screenplay / film is dictated by a committee's or a bureaucrat's (someone not involved in the creative process) personal whims or personal agenda regardless of whether the story and concept support it.

I find that audiences are not as analytical about stories as film makers, who approach their work from a disciplined perspective. This is as it should be. But ask yourself the same question an actor or director does when he or she is handed a script: who are these characters and what's the story about? When audiences ask this question, they refer to the clear text. When film makers ask this question, they refer to the subtext, because the subtext calls on their discipline.

To illustrate the point, I will quote from your own signature: The answer is politically correct movies. Study the interaction between Magdelena Gilkeson and Samuel Jones in The Missing, Elena and Alejandro "Zorro" Diego in The Legend of Zorro, the new M and new James Bond and Vesper in Casino Royale, just for starters. Listen -- I mean really listen -- to the harangue, the lecturing. the editorializing that passes for dialog in these films. The female characters are admirable, while the male heroes are deconstructed into dummies, failures, wusses, and deadbeats.

If James Bond behaves like a meathead who needs to be dressed down and taken care of by his M., then an agenda is being imposed that doesn't belong there, and he is no longer James Bond, he's something else using the same name. Understand that Bond is a clearly defined creative entity with some latitude for interpretation. For contrast, study the interaction between Bond and M, and Bond and Countess Tracy, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service for an example of relationships that make dramatic sense, that are creatively viable, and enjoyable to watch. There are a thousand different ways to define characters, to motivate them and to interact them: the producers of Casino Royale (2006) chose one particular way that advances a personal agenda but is anathema to the very definition of Bond. Setting aside for a moment other problems with the script, it was possible to write the characters differently and still deliver the same exciting action and conflict.

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The first four choices are gems but I simply cannot agree with the last. We can argue day and night about its nonsensical nature et al, but to claim its one of the worst movies ever made is a serious error.

It is one of the best written, edited and scored films ever, imho, not to mention the uniformly excellent performances throughout. Its fearless, ambitious direction should be noted, as well. The craftsmanship, in short, is fantastic.

It's political and social overtones, on the other hand, can be a point of contention between folks like you and I forever.

And while we're on the subject, I am intelligent and attentive enough to know what's real and what's not real in a movie based on true events -- I think most moviegoers are, too. It's a movie after all -- not a documentary. There are many "what ifs?" in JFK. I think the best thing about it is it made people start thinking about the assassination again. I read every book I could get my hands on after seeing it. It made me and many other Americans want to know more.

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Sorry to be misunderstood. I didn't mean to say that JFK was one of the worst movies, rather one of my most hated movies.

It is a very skillfully made movie, however the movie makes up facts out of whole cloth. Even things that are "on the record". The trial for instance has a number of statements in it that were never actually said in that court room. Yet in interviews to this day Stone still says that everything in the movie is true. Hogwash.

Doug

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Thats funny, cause from my personal observations i find that most people are dumb. They couldnt find their way out of a paper sack.
Case and point, when Apollo 13 was out, i had said how exciting it was even though i knew the guys lived. The lady i was talking to was mad, cause she hadnt seen it, and didnt know the ending. I had ruined it. Hello, it should have been common knowledge. You know how many people think America fought the Russians in WWII? Many, some are even college educated!
General, well rounded, basic stuff. Its not like i asked who the Marx Brothers are. Sadly, no one uder the age of 35 seems to know, these days.

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ST. ELMO'S FIRE. Pretty much anything with Andrew McCarthy in it

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Cool World (only film I've ever walked out of)

27 Dresses (even my wife admitted it was a turd)

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Did you see the part the cat fell off the roof? The shot goes through his mouth as he falls, and out his butt. Best part of the movie, and i hate it too!

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I've already forced myself to forget everything about the film, other than the fact that I actually paid to see it.

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Most hated. Gotcha. The trial, the "facts" -- it made for a good movie.

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Best part of Cool World for me? When the nightgown falls onto Kim Basinger and her nipples get hard. The movie sucked hard, too.

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Touche.

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"Did we quit when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor?"

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Not if you know anything about History. Then you just sit there pounding your head against the seat in front of you!

Doug

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LOL, thats exactly what i thought of. Sad, that their are really people dont get that now.

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What can you do? Kids today! They just don't know the basics. Things like spelling and punctuation are beyond them.

(The plural of "German" does not take an apostrophe, but the contractions for "that is" and "do not" do. The first personal singular pronoun is always capitalized. The word "their" is a third person plural possessive pronoun; you mean "there". Don't slam the door too hard on that glass house!)

M.

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Point well taken Michael. I hate to use those " and '. Parts of the keyboard i just never use. I do know the difference between their and there...but i get on a roll.

So, who thinks the new X Files is the worst movie ever made?

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Mostly just the people who haven't actually seen the movie and read reviews online.

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Isnt that the way it is with everything? I want to see the movie, but i will wait for the Blu-ray. You know, i have only seen 2 movies this year at the theater...and X Files isnt (or should i say isn't) one of them. But i will see it!

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Good call on Batman & Robin. Seeing the trailer I couldn't help thinking I was watching a joke trailer, but no that was the real thing. The strange thing is that when it is on cable and I stumble across it I can't seem to keep myself from watching most of it.

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If you've only been to the theater twice this year, you definitely should wait for the Blu Ray instead 'using' a rare trip to the theater to see it. And that's coming from a huge fan of the series (who thought the movie was OK).

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I thought Battlefield Earth was pretty bad.

Lawnmower Man 2 is a close second.