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I went through this list and had a few laughs. I think I saw every "Larry the Cable Guy" film in there, every "____ Movie," and all of the Uwe Boll classics.
100 Worst Movies - Rotten Tomatoes
Only thing that I couldn't believe was that the Uwe Boll movies weren't higher up on that list.
I watched some of battlefield earth the other day, I've seen some shit movies in my time, but .. CHRIST.
Was Babylon AD really that bad?
fortunately the only one of those films I've seen is Corky Romano
I don't know what helped kill Travolta's career more, that movie or Scientology.Quote:
Originally Posted by kernow
the list is lame since nearly half of the stuff on there are movies people have never heard of, and/or are direct to video level movies.
Battlefield Earth, never saw it and glad I haven't. I saw Master of Disguise when it was on during a really lazy weekend, don't remember WHY I left it on, got that was a terrible piece of shit. Dana Carvey shouldn't be allowed to work in Hollywood again due to that. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think he has.Quote:
Originally Posted by kernow
Only one of the movies I've seen in that list and disagree with is The New Guy. Bad movie, but still hilarious. And I can't believe there weren't any Tom Green movies in there... even though I like them, they always got slammed.
I'd have taken Strange Wilderness off that list for one scene alone:
That fucking shark.
Every Saw movie should be on that list.
Corky Romano
The New Guy
The Master of Disguise
Those three are the only ones on the list I didn't hate. I don't think any of the three were particularly good, and nor would I watch them again, but after seeing them I didn't feel as if my time were wasted.
Wow, I had no idea 88 Minutes did so poorly.
3000 Miles to Graceland and Twilight also deserve to be on there (I know they're going by rottentomato percentage rankings).
Oh man, I just started and saw some doozies in there. Doogal I saw when it was on a free preview of Showtime, only because Jon Stewart is in it. And as much as I love Jon on The Daily Show and in his brief part in Half Baked, he's terrible in that movie. Even he said he hated it, he played a talking spring that shoots ice out of his mustache. What. The. Fuck.
Battlefield Earth was the only one on that list I saw beginning to end. I knew it was awful and was curious how bad it was. I also saw bits of Bloodrayne as well.
I consider myself lucky for not viewing the others. :loco:
Haha, I remember when Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever came out and being blown away by all the bad reviews. I didn't see it, but I remember they even took the time to create a video game version.
LOL, Ballistic was all about finding some next big Asian director --only the Thai kid they picked was completely incompetent.
Nah, most (if not all) of these were in theaters. I can actually remember most of these getting panned on arrival --I don't think I ever saw one of these because by 2000 I was much better about "scouting" movies with reviews before I wasted time on them. Still saw a few bad movies, but nothing horrifically bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by dullbuoy
The best part is they actually took an existing, passable movie (The Magic Roundabout) based off a British children's show and actually rewrote it to remove any references to the show and added stupid pop culture and flatulence jokes, along with a new American cast. I mean, wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by YuckMud
...sort of like the stupid stuff that was done to Nausicaa in its original US release.
Scanning these, I love this summary:
I just remember how long the whole name was.Quote:
Featuring mostly wooden performances, laughable dialogue, and shoddy production values, In the Name of the King fulfills all expectations of an Uwe Boll film.
After reading the whole list, I can happily confirm I missed all of them.
Magic Roundabout is French but got very popular in the UK, partly thanks to the awesome English dub.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobak
They are the same thing. Scientology is why he made that movie -- a story written by the founder of Scientology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
It is with great pride that I announce I have seen none of those movies.
It's kind of amazing to me they've included Whiteout to that list, since it just came out. It's too bad, because I liked the comic, but the trailer made it look like they were either going for a very different direction or were trying to misrepresent the story because they were afraid audiences wouldn't go for an understated murder mystery without all the action, romance and whatnot Hollywood likes to include with everything. And they had been sitting on the finished movie for more than a year I think, which is never a good sign. Still disappointing.
I'll say it again, Miss March was pretty good. It's stupid and silly but that's the idea of the genre. Sorry to see it on the list. Perhaps you have to be a fan of the sketch comedy troupe the two writers and co-stars are members of, The Whitest Kids U Know. I've been wrong about these things before though. I'm known to like really stupid comedies that the critics pan sometimes.
The last truly horrible, irredeemable movie I saw in theaters was The Avengers. That was before I realized the connection with (1) no reviews appearing on the Friday of release and (2) film so terrible even the studio knew. By 2000 I was screening films either scanning IMDB's external review list or, later, Rotten Tomatoes. It hasn't been perfect, but its been a whole lot better than before.
I love that movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobak
Yeah, it is admittedly horrible, but the surreality of the scene where the cabal of bad guys is all running around in giant teddy bear suits really made an impression on me. I'm pretty sure that scene was an unconscious partial inspiration for Dogby.
The only thing I hate about that movie is that I'm pretty sure it killed whatever small chance Thurman had left at that point of starring in a Modesty Blaise movie. She would have been so perfect for that. Fuck, it makes me mad just thinking about it.
The only movie I've seen from the list is the remake of The Fog which is not only utter crap but also a disgrace to Carpenter's original.
Ha-ha! Lost Souls..man, I had forgotten about that movie.
A buddy of mine and I saw that in high school, since we picked it to do a story about for the school paper. Wooo, we ripped that piece of shit a new asshole.
Though, I have to say, I don't recognize a good deal of the stuff on the list. And I won't give away number one, but I've seen that, and it's not what I would consider the worst movie ever (though I know it's based on RT rankings). It's bad, but not that bad. It's not Pluto Nash or Legend of Chun-Li bad.
Not included on the list, but all certainly worthy of each being in the top 10....
Bowling for Columbine
Fahernheit 9/11
Sicko
Captain Mike Across America
Slacker Uprising
The only ones that I have even seen parts of are Corky Romano, Master of Disguise, and The New Guy. No thanks to Comedy Central.
Of course, I see very few movies anyway, so if you listed the Top 100 Best Movies I will have probably only seen a few, on TV, as well.
you are confusing the list with "the top 10 overrated movies"Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
So what's wrong with the movies, other than you not agreeing with them? Most of them grossed higher box office than the vast majority on the Rotten Tomatoes list. Most on the list were failures. Slacker Uprising also doesn't count because straight-to-internet doesn't qualify as a major release.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
You're full of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
....and that list was total bull shit. Babylon AD wasn't a good movie but it didn't belong on the list. Ecks vs. Sever was a bland movie but it CERTAINLY didn't belong there.
I've said it and I'll say it again, fuck lists. Countdowns and lists are for simpletons that can't research things for themselves.
I do kinda agree with them, the problem is, they were documentaries and in typical Michael Moore style, he purposely stated countless false facts during them. He'd rather spit out false facts in exchange for a bigger hit ( more money in his pocket) than actually tell the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo Alec
Like in his film Roger and Me, he stated the entire film how Roger Smith refused to meet with him for an interview and he really played that to help the film out.
However, that was a total lie and he did in fact have a full interview (that was filmed) with Roger Smith. He purposely left out the interview and went ahead stating that the guy refused to ever meet with him.
Now, what kinda "documentary" is that ? Where you interview people on your topic, then claim "I never met the person, they refused to return my calls".
The guy is a fucking fruad. He's always been a greedy fruad right down to when he was suing people before he turned 25. He doesn't give one rat pebble shit about any of the causes he makes films about. All he cares about is $$$.
Oh, I can't wait to see his new film Capitalism. The best part is, Moore is a raging Capitalist who's exploited every possible angle of it, right down to demmanding multi-millions up front to make the film.
I just wish they would stop calling Michael Moore's films documentaries. Everything about the way he does his movies, as Abusato stated, is skewed to his means.
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2760/lumberg.jpg
If people would stop doing that, that would be greeeeeat. Thanks.
Well, I certainly agree the set design was pretty good --and that scene is my favorite too. (actually, I think its everybody's favorite... I can't even remember any other scene other than the forced "Mother" and "Father" joke). But set design does not make a movie, just scan the collected works of Milla Jovovich.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
There's a really bad assumption that's being made here: documentaries can be neutral.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phyeir
I've been a longtime fan of documentaries, and I've watched everything from Nanook of the North to Man on Wire --the best documentaries have never been neutral. It's impossible.
Even with cinema verite, the very act of editing is bias.
(don't even get me started on some of the low-quality trash that Discovery and History resort to these days)
About the only way you can try to avoid bias is explaining something non-controversial (how do you make a dam? And not "how did you make ____ dam?", because that also can have serious bias: see something like Three Gorges Dam), or go with something like the incredible boring stuff I had to watch in an anthropology-through-film class (where you watch completely raw and unedited footage, so you can draw your own conclusions --let me tell you, it will bore anyone to tears)
So, completely separate from the issue what a person things as a subjective opinion (on which I have no strong feelings), people blaming Moore for making "fake documentaries" know nothing about documentaries.
With that said, the best documentaries challenge your opinions, and that's why I love docs like Wild Man Blues, Tyson, General Idi Amin Dada and others where you see a person in either a new light, or a more in depth undestanding than you thought possible.
PLUTO NASH WAS FUCKING INCREDIBLE AND YOU ALL KNOW IT
Highlander was the last really good documentary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phyeir
I finally got around to watching Battlefield Earth last year but it was the Rifftrax version. I suggest watching it, its pretty funny. But what an awful movie. Seriously, the cave men learn how to fly fighter jets? Jets that have been sitting there for decades (or was it hundreds of years?) and still fly just fine?
Totally get your point and I'm not going to stick up for everything that is classified as a documentary because, as you said, once you edit, you're taking away from what you've seen happen which is in someway inserting a bias.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobak
But with anything out there, I think there's a line where it stops being what it was classified as and is something else. I wouldn't want to be the person to come up with that line (that's an argument that would keep going nowhere), but what I can say is his movies are much closer to Documentary-Style Propoganda.
And that's where it become a bad movie, and that's a completely legitimate argument.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phyeir
I havent seen 1 film on that list. Is that good or bad? :D
nothing wrong in seeing a bad flick, especially legendarily terrible ones -- they provide an...alternative experience in their own way.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoDragoN
I'm with Bobak. I come into the film knowing I'm seeing one side's argument. The other side will say something completely different. You have to decide if you agree in general based on the outside facts you already know or can find. The people who just blindly fall for everything they are told are the ones who can't properly judge the films. None of this means I can't appreciate the documentary for what it does right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
The only movie I watched in that entire list was the master of disguise. Actually, I only watched 10 minutes of it before changing the channel. Terrible.
It's a shame too, because I used to like Dana Carvey.
What most people never realize is that they first made a game based on a very early draft of the script:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobak
http://www.gametab.com/images/ss/gba/1738/box-l.jpg
then they made the movie...
http://m.virtualstar.com/Movies/2002..._Vs._Sever.jpg
then they made a game based on the actual movie:
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...15034mb4kt.jpg
OOOH-VUH, OOOOH-VUH!
I own a copy of Postal on Blu-Ray, did that make it? That's easily Uwe's best movie though, so it might not be on there. That movie knows what's it's trying to be, though, just utterly poor taste, tons of violence, and Uwe playing himself and getting shot in the balls with an automatic weapon for making bad movies about videogames.
I have a sick fascination with Uwe's movies, though, and I'll buy pretty much any that come out on BD, so I also have Dungeon Siege (got it dirt cheap, at least, which was still too much, also I'm gaytham for Statham ala Oswalt), and it is indeed awful. Got through maybe 45 minutes and then realized that it's 2.5 hours long, thus I had barely made a dent, had to turn it off. I also tend to really dig Perlman, even those two together can't save Uwe from himself.
Battlefield Earth is the worst movie ever made (period, full stop, end of sentence).
I'm pretty sure it was the death of his kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abasuto
I agree the new guy was good.
I watched Basic Instinct 2 only last week, it wasn't entirely without merit, pretty shod and nowhere near as great as the first, but not total rubbish.
Deck the Halls is a decent flick for the kids too, I even had a guilty chuckle during:help:
To be fair though, I am easy to please and loved watching Cyborg last night.
independence day was absolute **** no wonder someone gave it to me for free!
cant rem the year exactly
lost in translation...
superman returns
One of my favorites I didnt see on the list but totally expected it to be was Freddy Got Fingered.
Same here... Tom Green's movies always were SLAMMED by critics, but for good reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pink Spider