This name above the title means it's a BAD movie

[Bossy Monkey]

I gotta go with Richard Grieco, but I'll listen to other arguments. Remember: directors' names are also often above the title, so if you want to go with Baz Luhrman (or correct my spelling or same), say, I wouldn't argue too strenuously against. A poll may result if this goes anywhere.

[SoCalDem]

1. In MY opinion:...Jim Carrey

He's just not funny..obnoxious maybe, but not funny

[ProfessorGAC]

23. That Would Be High On My List

I have never laughed at anything he's done. Never! I just don't find him the least bit amusing. And, in movies he's an overactor in the Sally Field/Lenny DiCaprio class.
The Professor

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Directed by Uwe Boll

[Lavender Brown]

3. Michael Bay

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I like the way you think.

[Mojambo]

41. Yep.

I usually won't even consider a Bay film.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Directed by Stanley Kubrick

[ghostsofgiants]

9. You really need to look up "bad" in the dictionary

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. You're right. Kubrick defines "overrated".

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Possibly...

But his films were VERY far from bad.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

14. See, I don't agree with that.

I think he did his best to fuck up some otherwise good movies. He absolutely ruins plots by trying too hard to prove his own genius. Full Metal Jacket would be good, if it weren't in fact two entirely separate short movies that are arbitrarily connected, one of which (the second half) could've been reduced by about 20 minutes, easily. He fucked up A Clockwork Orange by ignoring hugely important points, like how he fails to depict the main character's actions as being extraordinarily evil by giving the distinct impression that everyone was pretty bad, which he does intentionally because he tries way too hard to make the point that everyone is depraved and in doing so fucks up his own point. The Shining I place more fault on King's head than Kubrick's, but as a very avid horror film viewer, this movie did neither of the things that make horror movies great (which is to simultaneously make a social statement while scaring the shit out of you). I will give him credit for Dr. Strangelove - that was a good movie - and I admit I haven't seen 2001: A Space Odysee, but I can hardly bestow genius status for a director who does little more than create archetypal characters with no real depth (which he does for ALL of the aforementioned films) that dumb down the movie and destroy its plot's coherency.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. We're clearly not going to agree on this...

Because I love all of those films (The Shining especially).

And why does a horror film have to make a social statement? I mean, I appreciate anything that makes a social statement, but why is it necessary for a horror film to do so to be great?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

19. It's just one of those things that separates classics from everything else

It's one of the major traditional factors that separates horror classics, like Frankenstein and Night of the Living Dead, from pedestrian stories like Friday the 13th. Any good work of literature or film should do more than merely tell a story. For the horror genre, an underlying social statement is traditionally what defines a classic.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

34. FYI - an article arguing that "The Shining" is about the genocide

of Native Americans:

The Family of Man by Bill Blakemore
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0052.html

It fails to convince me, although the inserted lines about the hotel being built on an Indian burial ground (and the builders having to repel attacks) are curious. I'm suprised that he doesn't mention this line Jack speaks to the bartender: "You set 'em up and I'll knock 'em back, Lloyd, one by one. White man's burden, Lloyd, white man's burden."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

36. I don't find that to be very compelling either.

It absolutely lost me with the stretch about the "racist" murders. The chef wasn't killed because he was black. He got killed because he got in the way. And said killing had to be one of the most atrociously anti-climactic things I've seen on film, now that you mention it...

[XemaSab]

38. I was talking about Kubrick last night

and many of his movies are set IN a time, but are nevertheless timeless, such as The Shining and Dr. Strangelove. That to me defines truly great filmmaking.

[silverpatronus]

37. word.

people kept telling me i HAD to watch some kubrick. so i did and JEEZ those are HOURS of my life that i'll just never get back. overrated hack.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. From the producers of Mortal Kombat and Super Mario Brothers...

[Bossy Monkey]

15. I always love "From one of the producers of...," usually followed

by an Adam Sandler title. Almost always on a direct to video release, of course.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Michael Bay

Or M. Night Shyamalan.

[Left Is Write]

8. Mariah Carey

[GOPisEvil]

10. Steven Seagal

[ProfessorGAC]

25. No! Absolutely Not!

Seagal is good for what it is. I watch those movies for stuff blowing up, people getting a butt-kicking, and the bad guys getting their's. And, he's a liberal. So, making fun of Steve is not acceptable.
The Professor

[GOPisEvil]

27. I can see that. As schlock it's adequate.

Plus watching him run is hysterical.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Well, Since He Got Fat, Yes!

But, i like shoot 'em up stuff. It's brain candy!
The Professor

[hobo_baggins]

32. liberal or not, his movies suck

hes good at what he does, which is make terrible movies

[ProfessorGAC]

35. You're Violating The Rule

Don't make me come over there young man!
The Professor

[KitchenWitch]

12. Pauly Shore

[RockaFowler]

18. Pauly Shore - now that is bad

I don't think he has starred in a Good Movie yet

[kick-ass-bob]

17. Slyvester Stallone

[Squatch]

20. Stephen Baldwin

[underpants]

21. Was Michael Ironside In The Film?

http://ruthlessreviews.com/80saction/mcbain.php

One of the all time great movie reviews

Michael Ironside

[Rob H.]

22. Kevin Costner

Seriously, how (and more importantly, why) is this walking block of wood still allowed to appear on film?

[flvegan]

24. Jean Claude Van Damme

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. Sylvester Stallone and

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

[Divameow77]

29. Jessica Simpson

for starters...

[ET Awful]

30. Carrot Top

Well, there was that one "movie" (for lack of a better term). I personally never expended the minimal cranial energy required to watch it, but I am aware of it's existence.

[ET Awful]

31. Any movie whose title begins "Earnest goes to"

Yeah, I moved it from my first post because Earnest deserved his own :P

[DS1]

33. National Lampoon's

God Awful Bullshit on Film, Part 16

[XemaSab]

39. Aaaaah-nold

:(

[EstimatedProphet]

40. Alan Smithee

[WildEyedLiberal]

42. Adam Sandler

He's just not funny, at all, IMO.

[Qanisqineq]

43. Jennifer Lopez

I think she is a terrible actress and don't understand why they keep giving her movie roles. If it's her looks, there are plenty of more beautiful women that can act better than J-Lo.

[RevCheesehead]

44. "John Carpenter's....."

The only exception, perhaps, being Starman.

[ET Awful]

45. I don't know, "The Thing" was pretty cool.

:P

[Rob H.]

47. "John Carpenter's 'The Thing'"

...is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies. It's also held up remarkably well, given that it'll be 25 years old next year. :thumbsup:

[WernhamHogg]

46. Anyone from the cast of Friends who is NOT named Lisa Kudrow n/t

[Tom_Foolery]

48. Matthew Mconahey . n/t