A film that no one on ILE likes

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It was inevitable, wasn't it?

Except I hardly know where to begin. "Battlefield Earth"?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 January 2003 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

New Rose Hotel. I can't imagine anyone liking it if they've seen it. Battlefield Earth, surely there are people who like making fun of it.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 24 January 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Godzilla.
Kangaroo Jack.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Which version of Godzilla?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Back to the Future 3.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I really want to see New Rose Hotel, even if it is crap. Never got a UK release, I think - is it out on video or DVD?

― Jeff W, Friday, 24 January 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

It's on video, but I don't know if it's available in the UK. But you don't want to see it, seriously. Even if you liked the short story. Even if you like Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken (and I think the chick was Asia Argento, but I haven't seen it since knowing who she was). It's not even fun-to-make-fun-of bad. It's boring. Dull. Poorly lit. Impossible to follow -- not because it's dense and esoteric and arty but because it almost seems like the editor used Burroughs' cutup technique to arrange scenes at random -- and then replay them in flashback for no apparent reason.

... of course, now I want to see it again to refresh my memory and provide specific examples.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Back to the Future 3.

how dare you!?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

No-one, but no-one likes Batman And Robin.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you know that Eric Stoltz was to play Marty McFly and that it was originally planned that he would travel through time in a fridge?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, madness. they shot half the film with stoltz and everything. i've seen pictures - instanity. looks so wrong. the fridge/nuclear bomb test time travel idea is available on the net in some early drafts - glad they changed it...

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

DV really rates Batman & Robin, and defends it on the basis that no-one he knows has seen it to disparage it.

Godzilla = the Matthew Broderick one.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

More BTTF: Their product placment department chose Texaco and Pepsi over Shell and Coke as their logos had changed significantly since the fifties.

And then there's the raisin placement.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Impostah (based on a Dick story). Gawd All MIGHTEEEEEE.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

And then there's the raisin placement

harhar. crazy drunk drivers.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Impostah > Minority Report

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

any Kevin Costner movie after 1990

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ANY Kevin Costner movie. Surely?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, JFK and A Perfect World have all gotten some love at one time or another. But not from me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Nor this woman neither.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, he was fine in The Big Chill.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Truly Madly Deeply

― Mark M, Friday, 24 January 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree, surely no-one likes TMD.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

*descends into inconsolable sobbing*

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Hudson Hawk, The Fifth Element, ~~The Fellowship of the Ring~~

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoyed TMD. Alan Rickman and his ghost friends were mildly entertaining. There have got to be worse films out there.

Pretty Woman?

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone who saw "What's the Worst that can happen?" must have hated it...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT THE HOPPING SCENE! THE WORST SCENE EVER IN CINEMATIC HISTORY!

What about Pearl Harbour, Freddy Got Fingered and the Lawnmower Man?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

'Lawnmower Man' OK, 'Freddy Got Fingered' one of my top 10 ever

― dave q, Friday, 24 January 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Carry On Columbus
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
Santa Claus: The Movie

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

TMD was awful and embarassing. As was Four Rooms (though it has one good joke). The shittiest film I have seen has got to be the ludicrous 8mm, by the totally inexplicable Joel Schumacher. Nicholas Cage plays a conflicted asshole to James Gandolfini's evil asshole. Joaquin Phoenix also features as a hip asshole. Jim Jarmusch gets a mention. He should fucking sue.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

SW9?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

PRETTY WOMAN seconded. *spits*

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Never Ending Story Part II. WORST MOVIE EVER!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked Hudson Hawk, Jerry. You don't know bad until you've seen Paul Schrader's Cat People four times, in B&W, with a distorted soundtrack and in the wrong aspect ratio.

(Growling)

(More growling)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

worst movie ever is Sex and zen. the one and only movie i have voluntarily walked out of

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The Evil Beneath Loch Ness.

Or, Armageddon?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i second never ending story 2.
i like the fifth element

― minna (minna), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i loved batman and robin, liked 5th element, found battlefield earth infused with camp, was scared by 9mm and havent seen white rose hotel.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Hudson Hawk

how dare you! i based my whole life on that movie!

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Ben got it: Superman IV is the worst movie ever made. Terrible plot, terrible acting, unbelievably bad effects.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I only recently learnt it existed, and certainly haven't seen it. I don't imagine that many have.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The Waking Life, Adaptation, My Boyfriend's Back.

― Mandee, Friday, 24 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Is My Boyfriend's Back a film or do you just reckon none of us would like it. I doubt many have seen it to be honest.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll deep six Waking Life and Adaptation from competition.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 24 January 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Freaks (the Alex Winter one, not the Tod Browning one)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 24 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Lara, "My Boyfriend's Back" is a classic!

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/35/30/60m.jpg

― Mandee, Friday, 24 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, I saw "Freaks." You're right, it wasn't good.

― Mandee, Friday, 24 January 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

So My Boyfriend's Back loses already?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Looks like it.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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Is the new Psycho not in colour? A lot of people won't watch B&W movies now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Not watch B&W? Criminey! That's like people not reading printed text by only hypertext! What about Young Frankenstein?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not uncommon among young people. Black and white films are old and therefore of no interest. Lots of people think art forms have got better and better, therefore old stuff is obviously rubbish. I remember enthusing about the early Ditko Spider-Man comics while at university, and someone said "But you don't seriously think they're as good as modern Spider-Man comics, do you?" He did mean generally, not some specific examples.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Spielberg was forced to put that colour sequence in Schindler's List to appease nervous studio executives.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Gosh - I feel so, well, dated. My S/O doesn't care for B&W, but I think that's cause he's an optical engineer and gets off on colors.

And I hated that damn color sequence in Schindler's List - seemed so damn, well, obvious - like he thought his audeince was too stupid to get the point, otherwise.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Except that's your second favourite film of all time after Teen Wolf 2.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The Whole Nine Yards.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

There's some pretty choice scenes in Teen Wolf 2. For instance, when "Send me an angel" plays while there is an intense all-night studying scene, and when the coach turns out to be a wolf, too, and her tail flaps around.

― Mandee, Friday, 24 January 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually Battlefield Earth twice...because it was funnier than any movie out that was intending to be comical.

Anybody like North? I'd vote that for Most Offensive, Evil Movie ever - Big Budget division. Unspeakably racist, completely unfunny, nonsensical and it was allll a dream.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

my mum's mum once came into a room where i was watching a black and white film and said "it's so funny you watching these awful old movies without colour, i don't understand it!!"

she wd have been abt 25 when colour arrived: she wz about 90 when she said it

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst movie ever = titanic.

alternatively, pick one of these (except for the one where she's an undercover cop, & solves the case by shagging everyone. That one was GRATE!!!11!1! +++++ warning, link = "an angelfire member site" = popup/multi-cookie hell)

Titanic, anyway. Titanic fukcing blows.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

that's what i'd do if i wz an undercover cop

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

reality bites.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

garafoalofaolo or no.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

reality bites is shit. jg's eye explosions (especially the melrose place-dissing scene aren't employed to their best effect)

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the part where he turns into a wolf. Again.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say xXx but some of you bastards like it; the same is true of all those rubbish James Bond films I'm sure. How about Mel Brooks? I had the misfortune of seeing 2001: A Spoof Odyssey (or whatever it was called; I must be the only person EVER to have watched that 'un, in fact), and it was a real train wreck experience in its tiredness & triteness (mark s, that's your cue to say something nasty about Kubrix0r)

No-one, but no-one likes Batman And Robin.

How exactly is it worse than any of the other Batman movies, though? They're all crap.

(Plus I had my first orgasm to Poison Ivy/Uma Thurman, so it's a movie that makes me wistfully nostalgic.)

My dad made damn sure that I learn to appreciate B&W movies at an early age. Casablanca is still my fav movie evah (me = canon bitch)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Space Balls?

I like Brooks' "The Producers" and a few others.

How about about "Buckaroo Banzai"? (Yes, I know it has a cult following, but I don't like it.)

How about "Ishtar"? Or "Waterworld"? Or "The Postman"? (And is it significant that the last two are Costner flicks?)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Manos, Hands of Fate

On the other hand, that could be so bad as to be good. Hmm.

No one's said that they liked Freaks, though.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't ever put "The Postman" on a hated list because Tom Petty's appearance saves it.

Mel Brooks for the last, what, fifteen years or so, and Mel Brooks when he was doing "Young Frankenstein" and "Silent Movie" are totally different beasts. He might've lost it, but he had it once (and maybe he just ran out of material, cause the more recent movies don't even sound like they'd be any good.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing I really resent about Brooks was that his movies recycled his own jokes from his other movies from the start. If you don't get around to Young Frankenstein fairly early into watching Brooks, for example, it totally destroys the movie. I can't even laugh at it anymore.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, no one does more to prevent the creation of Mel Brooks fans than Brooks himself. There's a little bit of Monty Python syndrome, too: the jokes aren't funny if you've already heard the fans recycling them in the locker room a dozen times (which I think is why the ones I end up liking the most are the ones people don't seem to talk about as much -- "Silent Movie" and "High Anxiety" more than "History of the World" and "Blazing Saddles," etc.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a little bit of Monty Python syndrome, too: the jokes aren't funny if you've already heard the fans recycling them in the locker room a dozen times

Thus my advantages of a) having a rather precocious film education and b) having no friends to spoil things for me.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Space Balls?

Actually kinda liked that one- haven't seen it in a long time tho, it may suck.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm...no-one has spoken-uo in defense/defence of "Ishtar."

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard it was really good! Isn't Elaine May thought of a a brilliant writer?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually kinda liked that one- haven't seen it in a long time tho, it may suck.

apparently, you shouldn't watch it again.

my nom.=a police academy film.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Tremors

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 25 January 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tremors??!?!?!?!!?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, okay, maybe it's just me...

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, it's a personal favourite luna - I have a reason around here somewhere but I can't bloody remember. It's 'important'/good for some cool reason, if I remember I'll.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, I think I really only didn't like it because of the association it has with the ^%#%$@$#@% I went with. Perhaps I should give it another viewing

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 25 January 2003 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

The Bodyguard

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Independence Day

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't dislike Independence Day, though I'm not terribly interested in praising it either. Are we really only seeking indifference here?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Disclosure

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 25 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

K-Pax

― Michael B, Saturday, 25 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone care to stick up for Indecent Proposal, except my sister?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The world's weakest dilemma ever: would you sleep with Robert Redford for $1,000,000. In the sequel, I am offered $10m to have sex with Madonna, and I have to spend an hour and a half agonising over it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's 'important'/good for some cool reason

what, Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon being chased by giant desert slugs isn't enough?

In the sequel, I am offered $10m to have sex with Madonna, and I have to spend an hour and a half agonising over it.

why would anyone want to sleep with Madonna?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd do it for free.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Fatal Attraction?

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll definitely put a vote for the collected works of Adrian Lyne.

And I loved Tremors.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Fatal Attraction. You could have a winner in Lyne's version of Lolita, though.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Glenn Close's performance in FA. Nothing else.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i like lyne's lolita kind of (more than the kubrick one in a couple of ways). i'll also defend titanic if nobody else will.

― jones (actual), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on then.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

erm that was it actually

― jones (actual), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

(ok also this: whenever someone mentions the frightening special effects i naturally assume they're talking about b.zane's head and find myself nodding in solemn agreement)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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