Wojo 2,453 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 ID 4 and Armageddon....are both marvelous when compared to flicks like Battlefield Earth. ID4 inspired an awesome score, which kicks it a few notches above "worst ever" anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Absolutely. And even a Bay crapfest like Armageddon has some redeeming features that rise it above the true absolute dreck of the world. Moderately competent actors, a budget, a director that's at least a professional... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 transformers 2 is the worst big big budgeted film/movie ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 It's a close race between that and Armageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 armageddon is a much better movie than Transformers 2, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Battlefield Earth is terrible, but I think Armageddon is worse. In fact, strike that for most of Michael Bay's back catalogue. Most of his films are irredeemable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,336 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.By what criteria?! Not only do I think that it doesn't belong in this thread, I also think it gets better with each viewing. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.Is it already Opposites Day again?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.By what criteria?! Not only do I think that it doesn't belong in this thread, I also think it gets better with each viewing. AlexThere is almost nothing I enjoy out of that movie. The cast to their credit do their best with underwritten roles resulting in barely interesting characters. It does remain compelling for a while (at least on the first viewing) as it provides an insiders look at the tricks the magicians use try to one up each other. Then the outlandish twist comes and the movie just loses me, no longer providing me any interest to watch. On top of that, as I'm still reeling in disgust from the big reveal, it continues to bludgeon me with clumsy twist after clumsy twist after clumsy twist. By then I've stopped caring at all about the stupid film. I did give it two more chances, thinking that maybe there was something more to it apart from the twist. Repeat viewings only serve to exacerbate its other problems. Yes it may be more fair to call it an overrated but extremely mediocre movie on my part, but I intensely dislike few films more than this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Wow. I pity thee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Transformers 2 is one of those few films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 jacob's ladder Jacob's Ladder is a clever movie,to me. Extremely disturbing,for sure. But clever, it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Jaws: The RevengeCarry on EmmanuelleHighlander: End GameDate MovieBlair Witch: Book of ShadowsTransformersjacob's ladder Jacob's Ladder is a clever movie,to me. Extremely disturbing,for sure. But clever, it is.Jacob's Ladder is a wonderful film. It blows me away everytime I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Worst movies I saw THIS year:ObsessedI Love You Beth CooperWhiteoutJennifer's Body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 jacob's ladder Jacob's Ladder is a clever movie,to me. Extremely disturbing,for sure. But clever, it is.Don't egg him on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 armageddon is a much better movie than Transformers 2,That's not saying much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Date MovieOh yes, I forgot about those "[insert Genre Here] Movies". My friends and I started to boycott them after we almost walked out of Epic Movie. Nine Dollars poorly spent.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Jaws: The RevengeCarry on EmmanuelleHighlander: End GameDate MovieBlair Witch: Book of ShadowsTransformersjacob's ladder Jacob's Ladder is a clever movie,to me. Extremely disturbing,for sure. But clever, it is.Jacob's Ladder is a wonderful film. It blows me away everytime I see it.I'm with you, Pixie. It is a powerful, disturbing, strange, emotional film, without being sentimental, and with a rather good Maurice Jarre score. It is not often that I praise an Adrian Lynne film (I wasn't much impressed by "Fatal Attraction", and as for "9 1/2 Weeks"...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I'd watch Jaws: The Revenge over Jaws 3-D any day. At least the former is good for some laughs, the latter is just plain boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Godzilla: Final Wars (With all due respect to Don Frye, Akira Takarada and Godzilla)Legend Of The Dinosaurs (You know you're in trouble when you're laughing during the final 15 minute climatic scene, and it's not a comedy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob 0 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Worst movies I saw THIS year:ObsessedI Love You Beth CooperWhiteoutJennifer's BodyWhy do that to yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.it is indeed a very bad movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 It is not often that I praise an Adrian Lynne film (I wasn't much impressed by "Fatal Attraction", and as for "9 1/2 Weeks"...).Lolita was very good I thought. The score by Morricone is absolutely haunting! It makes the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.it is indeed a very bad movie.Just curious...what do you folks think of The Illusionist? Because THAT was a bad stage magician mystery period piece, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Illusionist sucked, The Prestige rocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.it is indeed a very bad movie.Just curious...what do you folks think of The Illusionist? Because THAT was a bad stage magician mystery period piece, IMHO.The Illusionist was cheap and very much inferior. The Prestige is just a brilliant piece of film making and storytelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Glad to hear some sanity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.it is indeed a very bad movie.Just curious...what do you folks think of The Illusionist? Because THAT was a bad stage magician mystery period piece, IMHO.The Illusionist was cheap and very much inferior. The Prestige is just a brilliant piece of film making and storytelling.The Illusionist was mediocre, but The Prestige makes it look like a near masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Neither of these belong in a "worst film even made" thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 KM speaks the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Crapwoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Prestige. Gets considerably worse with each viewing.it is indeed a very bad movie.Just curious...what do you folks think of The Illusionist? Because THAT was a bad stage magician mystery period piece, IMHO.The Illusionist was cheap and very much inferior. The Prestige is just a brilliant piece of film making and storytelling.there is no brilliance in the Prestige, all you people got caught up in trickery, there was no magic. Its a bad movie, bad story, and a horrible ending.After the Prestige I didn't want to see the Illusionist.Worst movies to me are not the cheap ones but the expensive nonsensical ones, the Prestige, that other Nolan movie Momentos, over thought films that say look at me I'm great when they are not. Put Momentos in a diet coke bottle and you see it for what it really is, a bunch of fizz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI 0 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Joey sometimes you can be so profound, it just hits me right between the eyes baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 there is no brilliance in the Prestige, all you people got caught up in trickery, there was no magic. Its a bad movie, bad story, and a horrible ending.Ah, so they fooled you, too? My dear Joey, if you'd understood the movie, you would have realized that the most amazing kind of magic is the real kind, the kind that's so real that the magician has to give the audience a reason to think it's only trickery. Nolan et al. packed so much magic into the film that you can't even see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,336 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Joey never likes good movies so his thumbs down is a clear sign that The Prestige definitely doesn't belong in this thread. Just because Joey and Burgerflippers can't relate to a certain movie doesn't mean the rest of the world is experiencing the same problem. Quite the opposite, actually. The Prestige is a widely and highly respected movie and often found in 'favorite movie' lists. Personally, I see The Prestige as Nolan's take on Ridley Scott's The Duellists since it deals the exactly the same themes and issues. It was also through this angle that I've come to appreciate Nolan's film very much. In fact, when looking at Chris Nolan's oeuvre, The Prestige is, in my opinion, his best movie to date. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Memento is my favorite of his, followed either by Insomnia or The Prestige. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 386 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I consider Dark Knight to rank among his best as well. <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I never saw The Prestige. I saw The Illusionist only once and found it decent enough.I was never a big fan of Hocus Pocus. I'd put that on this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Rotten Tomatoes has a list for this decade:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/The only flicks on that list that I've seen are #27 and #18. I wasn't expecting a list like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Balistics: Ecks vs. Sever is like the worst rated movie on RT. I've seen parts of it, and I don't understand the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 there is no brilliance in the Prestige, all you people got caught up in trickery, there was no magic. Its a bad movie, bad story, and a horrible ending.Ah, so they fooled you, too? My dear Joey, if you'd understood the movie, you would have realized that the most amazing kind of magic is the real kind, the kind that's so real that the magician has to give the audience a reason to think it's only trickery. Nolan et al. packed so much magic into the film that you can't even see it. <_<oh please quit with the you don't get it bullshit, you and Alex are not one bit smarter than anyone else here, and each of us are entitled to like or not like a movie. One mans trash is another mans treasure, in this case you and Alex think the Prestige is treasure, I find it to be less than so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I told you guys not to egg him on.Anyway, since movie discussion is nothing without lists, here's a recent compilation made by RottenTomatoes which kind of suits this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Rotten Tomatoes has a list for this decade:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 oh please quit with the you don't get it bullshit, you and Alex are not one bit smarter than anyone else here, and each of us are entitled to like or not like a movie. One mans trash is another mans treasure, in this case you and Alex think the Prestige is treasure, I find it to be less than so.I didn't think I was any smarter than anyone here...now that you've misinterpreted my joke as sincere holier-than-thou-ness, I'm not so sure. (That was a joke, too.) No, but seriously, you're really speaking my language now. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I mean, obviously, there's stuff that's objectively bad in this world, but with music it's all a matter of taste. It's nice when you occasionally acknowledge that...and that wasn't a joke! - Datameister, who doesn't look down on anyone for disliking The Prestige, but perhaps on folks who look down on those who do like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Rotten Tomatoes has a list for this decade:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/that's the kind of movies I was thinking about .Totally inept films that don't offer an shred of entertainmentHere's another one from last year: Semi-Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musica42 0 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 The biggest film letdown I've ever experienced and thus receives the greatest amount of ire I can muster goes to The Ring 2. The degree to which that movie sucked knows no bounds. I loved what Gore Verbinski did with the American version of The Ring and to this day it is one of my favorite movies of any genre. I got myself completely hyped up for the sequal, went to see it opening night, and BAM!!! There were lifelong Star Wars fans that didn't experience the letdown I did. It's ponderously slow, the plot is just plane crap, and the scares are for the most part idiotic. Their car is attacked by a heard of deer. Yah. That actually happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Many years ago, my brother was inside a shed when a doe knocked at the door. He got spooked and ran back to the house, and it chased him the whole way. We think it was rabid, which made it act so bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Their car is attacked by a heard of deer. Yah. That actually happens.My brother blind bought this on DVD. When we got to this scene, we couldn't stop laughing we had to watch it at least 2 more times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Their car is attacked by a heard of deer. Yah. That actually happens.Now while I bite the passenger to keep the car here, you go around and poke out all the tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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