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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:46 AM
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What is the absolute worst movie or TV show you have ever seen?
It can either be bad-bad, or so-bad-its-good.

For worst movie, I would have to say a movie called "Epic Movie (2007)." It was so bad that I wanted to cry. I think I lasted 10 mins watching it. It wasn't even hilariously bad either.

"Jackass No. 2 (2006)" was also one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen.

Finally, there was that movie called "Gamer (2009)." It was a god-awful cyberpunk movie that I lasted probably 25 mins on. Absolutely terrible.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:54 AM
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1. Worst movie: David Lynch's Dune
I LOVE that book and he absolutely butchered it. There are plenty of bad movies I've seen, but because I was sooo disappointed to see a great piece of lit destroyed thats my choice
For worst TV show? Easy.."Jersey Shore"
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 07:06 PM
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51. wait! You haven't seen "Russian Dolls" yet, have you ?
You're in for a treat - Lifetime, after Project Runway.
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:11 PM
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85. Oh, it wasn't that bad!
Just a let down from what *could* have been.
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Incitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:08 PM
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2. So I take it you haven't seen Jackass 3. nt
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 01:56 PM
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11. They made a third one? That's frightening.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:33 PM
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18. Hey Jackass is awesome!
Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 02:38 PM by Initech
The thing about it though is that you either get Johnny Knoxville and his crazy crew's brand of humor or you don't.
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mysuzuki2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 08:13 PM
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54. I know I'll be flamed for this =
Gone With the Wind
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:38 AM
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69. When considered in
regard to the level of its hype I would have to agree.
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Incitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:53 AM
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74. They do some funny stunts, but their obsession with using eachothers penises in so many
bits including masturbating and pissing on eachother just doesn't do it for me.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:40 PM
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88. True that is a huge turn off.
My favorite has to be the third one when Knoxville got blindsided by Jared Allen. :rofl:
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:08 PM
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92. Taking a real dump in an unconnected toilet
in a plumbing store ain't funny. It's acting like a douchebag. I guess my sophisticated sense of humor, encompassing as it does South Park, ATHF, and The Three Stooges as well as the Marx Bros. and Monty Python, is just too underdeveloped to appreciate the subtleties of "Jackass."
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:51 PM
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101. That was one of their dumber moments.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:09 PM
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128. That's something four-year-olds do
The reason the toilets are displayed way up high at Home Depot and Lowes, is little kids were shitting in the ones on the salesfloor. They didn't know any better--it's a toilet, they need one, that one will do.
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Denninmi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:26 PM
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3. This is right up there on my list.
Really bad, made for TV schlock, a cheap ripoff of Deep Impact and Armageddon (which in themselves are pretty bad, IMHO).

So bad, its funny. Father and daughter astronomer team William Devane and Connie Sellecca (that tells you a lot right there!) fight to convince the world that a giant asteroid is coming to kill us all, and no one believes them. A lot of terribly bad dialogue, it gets the science completely wrong, such as when the asteroid "clips" the moon in a flyby and knocks the tops off a lunar mountain range, yet apparently the laws of gravity don't apply since there is no collision. And, of course, don't most female professional astronomers run around day and night in ballgowns, high heels, and other clothing that makes them look more like a model on 'The Price is Right'?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119009/
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:08 PM
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25. Haha Check out a made-for-TV movie called "May Day"
Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 03:09 PM by chrisa
So bad, it's good. Plus, it has Dean Cain in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465537/


And who could forget, 'Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.' This would be the worst movie of all time if it were a serious attempt. Instead, it's a really really good comedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1680138/
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:30 PM
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4. I can only guess it would be an Adam Sandler or John Claud god van damnit film
but I am not going to test that theory-
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:30 PM
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5. Dead Heat
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:44 PM
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6. Coneheads sucked so bad.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:03 PM
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24. People should be banned from making full-length movies out of SNL skits.
They never end well.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:12 PM
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26. That's for damn sure
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:45 AM
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58. The Blues Brothers was pretty good.
Although it's pretty much the exception to the rule.
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:30 AM
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66. Blues Brothers and maybe Wayne's World were OK but definitely the exceptions
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 12:52 PM
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7. The Happening
It includes little gems of dialogue like this:

Elliot Moore: All right, be scientific, douchebag. Identify the... rules... design the experiment... careful observation, measurements, that's what I'm trying to do, interpret the experimental pattern, interpret... What if it IS the plants? That group was larger than ours. This thing's been escalating all day. Smaller and smaller populations have been setting this off. They react to human stimulus. Maybe people are setting off the plants?

Alma Moore: What are you saying? That guy was crazy! We have to save them!

Elliot Moore: They're already dead! What if they're targeting us as threats? This part of the field may not have been set off. Something in this field could be releasing the chemical into the air when there's too many of us together. Let's just stay ahead of the wind!
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 01:55 PM
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10. I've never met someone who doesn't hate that movie.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:13 PM
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13. during that movie was the first and so far only time I've ever started texting in a theater.
Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 02:13 PM by charlie and algernon
Normally I LOATHE people that turn on their phones in the theater, but I was so mind-numbingly bored, I had to text my brother about how awful it was.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:55 PM
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21. It's okay. I doubt anyone noticed.
They were probably too busy plotting revenge against M. Night Shyamalan for once again obnoxiously destroying their brain cells.

You would think after "The Village" and "Lady in the Water" somebody would have forcefully grabbed his camera away and smashed it, but then again Uwe Boll is still directing...
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:36 PM
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29. Oh, yes. That movie sucked hard.
We should've gotten a clue when the person who sold us the ticket made a face. We asked her and I guess she realized she shouldn't be discouraging business, so she just said "It wasn't THAT bad". It was. It was horrible. We now call it "The Crappening".
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mulsh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 01:05 PM
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8. tv-show steve landesberg's sports talk
it ran 2 episodes on the SF ABC affiliate in 1978. It featured dialog such as:

Steve: the giants

guest: the giants

steve; uh yea the giants.

the show never got any better.


Worst movie. every movie directed by David Lynch. they're a tribute to the influence of coke abuse in Hollywood.

Twin Peaks was remarkably good and I loved his comic strip but those movies truly suck.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 01:44 PM
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9. The only movie I ever walked out on: "Time Bandits."
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:14 PM
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14. I walked out too, and also on BELOVED. nt
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:35 PM
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45. TB: So painfully unfunny.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:48 AM
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59. And yet you find so many people who will ejaculate over it.
Maybe it was because a Beatle produced it. Didn't matter to me, though. I hated Time Bandits with the fury of a thousand white-hot suns.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:10 PM
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12. Worst movie was "Young Cycle Girls" a.k.a. "Cycle Vixens" (1978)
A lame, amateurish attempt to be sort of a female counterpart to "Easy Rider" that fails miserably. Unintentionally funny, but still an ordeal to sit through.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:18 PM
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15. "My Mother The Car"
A TV show for about twenty minutes in the mid 1960s. I was ten and felt that my intelligence was being grossly insulted the one time I remember watching it. Cretinous is a generous description.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:18 PM
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16. Tim Burton's remake of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Gene Wilder's Willie Wonka was a psychedelic trip, Johnny Depp's Wonka was dark and creepy and thoroughly unpleasant, the bad acid...

Eeeeeeewwwwwww.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:42 PM
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32. Oh I so agree!
I saw it on a plane. The Gene Wilder version was one of my favorites as a kid, so i already had high standards for it. And when they got they got to the rapping Oompa Loompas, they immediately lost me. It was that bad.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:51 AM
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60. If I had seen that on an airplane, I would have walked out.
Gene Wilder for the win.

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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:47 AM
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80. + 1 re Wilder
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:39 PM
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87. How do you walk out of an Airbus when it's mid-flight?
:rofl:
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:36 PM
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37. I loved the Burton version for that reason.
The book, itself, was dark and creepy, and Burton's film was far more in the spirit of the book than was the sickeningly-sweet schlock that was the Wilder version. And, the soundtrack to the Burton version was infinitely better.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:53 AM
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61. The soundtrack was "infinitely better"? Really?
Quick, name a song from the remake. And no fair looking it up on the Internet.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:28 PM
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106. "Veruca Salt"
Didn't need to look up anything on the Internet. Danny Elfman did a fine job with all of the songs the Oompa Loompas sang. Beats the hell out of that "Ooompa Loompa doobidy doo" shit from the first version.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:18 PM
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129. Most people don't understand that
Willie Wonka hates kids. Even Wilder portrayed that.

dg
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:21 AM
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64. So in other words, you hate the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Because that was a much much much more true to the literature movie. The Willie Wonka character ISN'T really the happy go lucky clown that Gene Wilder portrayed him as...I actually can't stand the Wilder movie for that reason. The book is NOT a light hearted affair.
Burton did make Wonka a bit darker than Dahl did, but thats actually much more in touch with what Dahl wanted.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:53 PM
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94. meh -- I love the book, but also love the Wilder version
I actually enjoyed the Burton/Depp version too, but I prefer the original movie version ...
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:13 PM
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116. I don't recall Wilder's Wonka character being a "happy-go-lucky clown".
In fact, I remember him being kind of an a-hole, albeit an entertaining one. But I haven't seen the movie in 40 years, so :shrug:.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:26 PM
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17. Worst series: HBO's Mind of the Married Man. AWFUL. Deeply misogynist and wrong.
Worst film: Toss up between The Hearse (1980 Margot Kidder movie that Roger Ebert once scoured far better than I ever could) and The Life of David Gale (which Roger also beat with stick.) Both are appalling.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:58 PM
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22. Haha. That show was so stupid.
I didn't think it was horrific, though. Just very very stupid.

I think the person who wrote it has never seen a woman before. It was like he was portraying his experiences studying an alien life-form on screen, from what I can remember. I also remember the main character throwing himself against a tree over and over again. What an odd show...
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:36 PM
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19. Adam Sandler's "Anger Management" was just painfully awful.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:59 PM
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23. Everybody has an embarrassing movie, and that was Jack Nicholson's, I'm thinking.
Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 02:59 PM by chrisa
I think he needed the cash.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:34 PM
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98. which makes it perfect that Charlie Sheen is going to be starring in the TV version of the movie
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HappyMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 02:38 PM
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20. Three's Company.
Dumb with a side of stupidity.

Charlie's Angels. :puke: And now they will be making a new one!


Bridezillas - only saw about 10 monutes of this. Made me want for "slap-o-vision".

Haven't ever seen 'Teen Mom' or '16 & knocked Up' but I'm thinking 'slap-o-vision' again would apply.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:16 PM
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27. Hercules versus the Moon Men.
It's worse than the title would suggest. :scared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_vs._the_Moon_Men
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:03 PM
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35. but have you seen Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Men_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules

Also bad, though probably not quite as bad as Hercules vs. the Moon Men. Still, bad though most of them are, I get a kick out of those old peplum/sword and sandal films.

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Gordon Shumway Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:35 AM
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67. til MST3K got it , then it became good.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:52 AM
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83. Pretty much :)
Having watched their take on "Manos, Hands of Fate" I have to wonder if they were really able to do that one in only a week, or if it took longer to create the episode. I can't imagine anyone sitting through that one in a regular theater :o
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Gordon Shumway Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:51 PM
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84. Manos is on Quintin Tarrantino's favorites list.
He owns the reals or copy thereof.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:46 PM
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89. I still would not be able to sit through it
without MST3K's help ;)
And why I wonder what kind of torture they went through in their weekly sessions (where they wrote all the jokes.)
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:34 PM
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28. Worst Movie by a mile: A.I.
Mostly because of the Hollywood heavyweights involved. It was a project that Stanley Kubrick had on the work table for a number of years before he died. Then Steven Spielberg picked it up. I think Kubrick never got the film going because the story is just so fucking incomprehensible.

SPOILERS FOLLOW (not that you should care, in fact, you'll be thanking me):

The premise is that Dad works for a gadget company. Mom stays home and looks after the couple's charming little boy. Well, "looks after" may be an overstatement, because Sonny nearly drowns in a pool, and is in an "irreversible" coma. In the midst of their grief, Dad brings home Haley Joel Osment, and the film takes a sinister turn. Wait, no. Dad brings home a supertoy 8-year-old boy to "replace" the comatose Sonny; supertoy is played by Osment. On further reflection, I stand by my previous statement.

Anyway, Supertoy Boy is designed to look, sound and act like an 8 year old, which is great because the couple just lost their own boy. No wait; that's not great. It's fucking creepy. Eight year olds are terrific, don't get me wrong. But they're terrific for exactly one year, and then they become 9 year olds and progress from there. Supertoy, however, is 8. He will be 8 forever. Next year? Still 8. Ten years from now? Yep, 8 years old. A quarter century down the line? Uh huh, 8. So, when you're in your sixties, and you've just barked your shin on the coffee table, and you're hopping to the medicine chest to get an aspirin for the pain, here comes Marblehead with drawing number 5,872 in a never-ending series of "Mommy and me" and get the hell out of my way, you little shit!

I think this is the problem Kubrick couldn't overcome: Who would invite this monster into their household? Spielberg apparently didn't worry about this at all, and forged ahead with his movie. After some initial reluctance at the creepiness of it all, Mommy finally relents and decides to activate Supertoy Boy by using a series of passwords. One of the passwords, as I recall, was "hurricane," which was highly appropriate considering how much this movie blows.

Naturally, their own Sonny wakes up from his coma around this time, and now Daddy and Mommy have the problem of what to do with Supertoy Boy. In a heart-warming scene reminiscent of the finest in Grimm fairy tales, Daddy drives Supertoy Boy out to the waste lands and dumps him there, which is when Supertoy Boy's adventures really begin. We are talking truly about fun for the entire family.

Avoid this movie as you would a particularly nasty case of the clap.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:46 PM
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41. lol AI is indeed universally hated. It's considered Spielberg's worst work by a mile.
I've seen it multiple times, and it was definitely a mediocre movie. Not the worst ever, imo, but when you factor in the budget and time put into it, it's a total stinker.

The end was pretty cool with the super-futuristic robots, but all of the characters in that movie sucked. I wished them all a fiery death. I have still not forgiven all involved for this total cow pie.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:00 PM
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44. I rate it lousy because of the heavy hitters involved
Any hack can make a "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" or similar dreck. But when you get big shots like Spielberg involved, a run-of-the-mill clinker becomes an epic stinker, because those involved are supposed to know better.

I read a contrarian review of "Ishtar" for example. Most of the critical savaging of that movie was over how it could cost so much and deliver so little. This one contrarian review basically boiled down to, "Yeah, they burned through a fuck of a lot of money, but it wasn't your money, so what do you care? Ishtar has its moments." Based on that ringing endorsement, I went and saw it, and found that, yes, a lot of money was spent making it, but it wasn't a bad little bit of fluff. Some day I may get around to seeing "Heaven's Gate," but its overlong running time factors into my calculation on whether to actually watch it. Vita brevis, and all that.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:37 PM
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46. It just wouldn't end - Kubrik started it but then died so Spielberg finished it
I remember watching it thinking "When will this END?!?!?"
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:21 AM
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57. lol that is what i was thinking too. how friggin long is this movie!!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 05:11 PM
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111. 2:26 - 146 minutes gone out of my life - seemed like 5 hours
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:36 PM
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30. Worst TV show: Small Wonder. Hands down, no contest.
Worst movie: Moulin Rouge. It was most certainly not "original" and "genius"; it was crap, pure and simple. Baffle 'em with bullshit, that's Baz Luhrmann's M.O. in a nutshell.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:57 AM
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62. Although you are, sadly, wrong about Moulin Rouge...
you are absolutely spot-on about Small Wonder, and you win this thread.

I completely forgot about that show. I think my brain was walling me off from the trauma.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:37 AM
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68. I hated Moulin Rouge as well, but just because I don't like musicals.
I also dislike plays and shows, so that movie definitely isn't for me. I can't even claim to have an opinion on it.

I can knock them for one thing, though. The cast was terrible. I can't stand John Leguizamo. I'm also not a fan of Nicole Kidman.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:54 AM
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72. The worst ever movie has got to be
TROG starring Joan Crawford 1970. It is downright horrible. It has no redeeming qualities -none whatever. http://wirelessfodder.com/?p=1263
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:41 PM
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131. TROG let me hate Joan Crawford years before it was popular
Because of her Mommy Dearest infamy, so it wasn't all bad.
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:56 PM
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90. You beat me to Small Blunder.
I saw that once and couldn't believe it made it past the pilot. :puke:
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:17 PM
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113. I'm with you on Moulin Rouge.
Hated it.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 02:48 PM
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125. Moulin Rouge was a waste of eyeballs.
I felt insulted.
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michaelslomo Donating Member (307 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 04:55 PM
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140. I couldn't take Moulin Rouge either
I coulnd't take more than 20 minutes or so before I gave up on it.

(The previous Moulin Rouge, from the early 50s, was OK.)
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MerryBlooms Donating Member (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 03:41 PM
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31. Such horrible tv, how can you choose just one?
Anything that is affiliated with MTV or Dr. Drewpy... Movie - Dumb and Dumber. I still haven't sat through that whole dang mess, much to the chagrin of my sons.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:50 AM
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71. Blasphemy! That's one of my favorites!
I can't believe they made a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, though. Now that was a piece of crap. They seem to be remaking old movies lately, but they end up very badly. They won't even release Red Dawn (2011). Maybe they're embarrassed because we already know how bad it's going to be.

Dr. Drew is kind of like Dr. Phil. Both annoying, are fame vampires that feed off of famous peoples' problems, and seem to have no idea what they're talking about.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 07:10 PM
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52. You're right, that movie sucked a fat one. nt
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Maccagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 04:15 PM
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34. Gus Van Zant's remade (scene by scene) of Psycho
with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. Truly mind-boggling in it's badness (from casting to the idea itself).
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:37 PM
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108. Nothing could compare to the original Psycho. n/t
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:08 PM
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36. Ricochet, with Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Kevin Pollak, and Ice-T
So-bad-it's-still-very-bad. Really a horrible movie.

I'd have to think some on the television show, though ...
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:40 PM
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40. If I had to be in a movie with Ice-T, I wouldn't try either.
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Gordon Shumway Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:38 PM
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38. My picks
Worst movie: Mr. Nanny

Worst TV show: AKA Pablo (staring Paul Rodriguez)
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RadiationTherapy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:12 AM
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63. Well, ALF was a pretty shitty show too.
Edited on Fri Aug-19-11 07:12 AM by RadiationTherapy
HAA! I kill me!
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:38 PM
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109. I like ALF and I do not like most sitcoms. n/t
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:39 PM
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39. Russ Meyer's "Up"
Saw it at the student union when I was in grad school. Or, should I say that I saw part of it. The film broke midway. Everyone in the theater cheered.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:34 PM
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107. Roger Ebert wrote or co-wrote that movie with Meyer,
IIRC. Ebert was involved with a number of Russ Meyer projects. How weird is that?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:47 PM
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42. I walked out on "Death to Smoochy." It was really stupid.
Also walked out on "The 'Burbs," which also was stupid.
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digonswine Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 05:49 PM
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43. Thinner-the only movie I have walked out of.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:45 PM
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47. W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Burt Reynolds from the pre-rug era. So bad Mom walked out and took me with her!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:51 PM
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48. TV- The Nanny or Unhappily Ever After | Movie - Reality Bites or Pearl Harbor
I have no idea how people can list to Fran Drescher speak for 2 minutes of airtime let alone 22.

Unhappily was a complete "Married with Children" ripoff with Bobcat Goldthwait as an animated stuffed animal and Nikki Cox - that was the whole point of the show. I didn't have cable in those days and fell upon this for manybe three episodes. Eric Murphy (Entourage's "E" ) played the Bud Bundy role. Not that I was a big fan of Married with Children but watching the runoff from a one level idea was worse.

Reality Bites - no one in that movie survived from my perspective other than Stiller and that was only because he has talent....at least some.

Pearl Harbor - at one point I started rooting for the Japanese.
THEN Aykroyd (who I love) showed up and then I knew we were in for a ride of bad. The stuttering guy who hhhhhaaasss to aaaannnnnounce that the jjjjjjjappppppeneeeese were.....atttttttttaaaaaaacking was too much. Cuba Gooding played the only real person in the movie (Medal of honor winner) and he was in it maybe 3 minutes. THEN.... THEN Baldwin shows up (love him too) and we have another 40 minutes of movie. That movie was a disgrace. Affleck should have gone into rehab.

"Australia" wasn't a bad movie but I was sure that it was about the cattle drive and then ..... WWII happened - another hour and one incredible spearshot.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:38 PM
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99. I was IN Pearl Harbor.
Somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I was in the clinic scene near the beginning of the flick, as an extra.
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Philippine expat Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:06 PM
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103. Cuba Goodings character Doris "Dorie" Miller
from Waco, Texas did not win the Medal of Honor, he won the Navy Cross
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 05:10 PM
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110. Excuse me that is correct
I over stated it but that man was magnificient on that day
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Philippine expat Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:06 PM
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118. Yes he was
and he is well remembered here in Waco, Texas
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Philippine expat Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:06 PM
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119. Yes he was
and he is well remembered here in Waco, Texas
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 08:25 AM
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135. Australia's probably in the bottom 5 for me
It just went ON and ON and ON. :(
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 06:59 PM
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49. Worst movie: "Love Story."
It was like "Jerry McGuire" before "Jerry McGuire."

Second choice for worst movie I've ever seen: "Jerry McGuire."

:rofl:
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Gordon Shumway Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 07:04 PM
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50. That was my second choice
it tied with Somewhere In Time. Not too keen on sappy flicks.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 07:51 PM
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53. There are two movies
One, a little known and horrendous one called Liquid Sky from the early 80s, and Blair Witch Pro Project. There was another one in the early 80s or late 70s, but since a friend and I walked out within 20 minutes of whatever it was, I could never remember the title.

As far as TVs shows, there have been bad ones, and some I would never watch, but I don't like a lot of popular TV shows that lots of people like. If I had to name one, I might say Benny Hill, I suppose. Loved Monty Python, but Hill was just juvenile.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:21 AM
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77. Liquid Sky did indeed suck big time.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:44 AM
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81. I had considered mentioning Liquid Sky,
but the last time I did that around here, no one had heard of it ;)

I would also like to add "Saturn 3" to the really bad movies I've actually paid good money to see (a friend in our group talked us into it because it looked cool to him. None of us were happy with him after we got out of the theater...)
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 08:43 PM
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55. There was a movie on the tv 28 years ago that had Americans escaping from
a city on a divided freeway because of some sort of attack by aliens or nuclear war. I can barely remember but the one highway was packed bumper to bumper with no movement while the other lanes, going back to the city, were empty. As if nobody would cross the median to avoid getting hit with a nuke. That was a bad move. And fortunately I can barely recall it.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 08:48 PM
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56. Zombie Strippers and Pants Off Dance Off with The Bride as runner-up...
Plenty of stinkers out there to make Ed Wood look good, but those only two I ever walked out of.

Who could imagine a zombie movie with Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, and probably some other porn stars under their real names could possibly be that bad?

And I had bad thoughts about Sting as Frankenstein before I went in, but it was worse, far worse, than I feared.

On TV? You can bring up My Favorite Martian or My Mother the Car, even Mr. Ed, but nothing, NOTHING, even Toddlers and Tiaras, was ever as dreadful as Pants Off Dance Off.

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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 12:58 AM
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122. Zombie Strippers is my first choice too.
It wasn't even stupid-funny. Not even when watching while drunk. We were watching on DVD and put it out of its misery halfway through. Biggest stinker of all time.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:29 AM
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65. The television show "Survivor."
That show brings out the worst in human nature, and it kicked off the "reality show" craze.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:46 AM
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70. lol That's all fake too. They camp out in nature parks where there's
no animals nearby. The camera shots of animals are taken off in the distance. I wouldn't be surprised if they all go home at the end of the day to a hotel.
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annonymous Donating Member (850 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:01 AM
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73. Mr. T & Tina and Pink Lady & Jeff were truly awful
I don't know if anyone is old enough to remember these shows but they made a brief appearance in the late 70's. Pink Lady & Jeff featured this Japanese singing group that barely could speak English. It was a variety show. Mr T & Tina was about this Japanese widower and his maid.

The absolute worst movies I have seen include Baby Geniuses II, The Pebble & the Penguin and Master of Disguise. The last one was so bad I stopped watching after 30 minutes.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:46 AM
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75. Back in the 1970s there was a summer replacement "comedy" called The Corner Bar
There was not a single laugh in it, the actors were terrible, and the show died a quick death.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:52 AM
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76. Zardoz
Any movie where the costumes make a perfectly gorgeous man look like the worst dork is on my hit list.
(I actually watched this a second time many years later to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Yes, it was.)

There is also a little known western called Renegade Girl starring Ann Savage that is probably by far the worst movie I've ever seen. What, never heard of Ann Savage? There's a reason for that.
(It came in a collection of "Western Legends" that I got for 9 bucks at Best Buy. It's a legend alright. )
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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:22 AM
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78. two guys a girl and a pizza hut
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:25 AM
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79. The Patriot stunk to high heaven
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:48 AM
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82. Worst movie: "Black Sheep".
New Zealanders battling mutant sheep. In second place: Any of the Syfy channel original movies (although some are kind of in the so-bad-its-good category).
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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:27 PM
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86. Well..."Gone WIth the Wind"
Perhaps not the worst of all time from an absolute perspective...but by far the worst if you compare the film to the amount of praise it has received...

The only scene worth watching was the burning of Atlanta...


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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:06 PM
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91. An Australian TV series called "The Strip"...
It was not very good and the Australian TV viewers must have agreed...it only ran
for one season.

I really don't think it was the actors so much as it was the scripts.
http://www.australiantelevision.net/the_strip/

Tikki
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:19 PM
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93. So bad it's good: "The Core"
I strongly recommend renting this movie and watching it with a bunch of science majors - preferably after several beers or bong hits. Do not make a drinking game of it however - "Hey, every time they violate the laws of physics, we have to take a drink!" - unless you're willing to confiscate everyone's car keys, and arrange a stint in detox beforehand.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html
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Fantastic Anarchist Donating Member (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:58 PM
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95. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
A close second is "Cabin Boy."

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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:06 PM
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96. Cop Rock
There can be no other.
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:04 PM
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112. How could I have forgotten "Cop Rock".
Imagine a show with singing cops turned out to be bad.
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Zephie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:09 PM
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97. My husband wanted to watch Jersey Shore the other night... I think that takes the cake
He wanted to know if it was truly as horrible as people say.

We made it about 5 minutes. I'm still having flashbacks. :scared:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:47 PM
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100. you want I should kick your husband's ass, Zephie?
*EGREGIOUS*
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:48 PM
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132. When life gives you douchebags... you make Jersey Shore.
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Philippine expat Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 03:54 PM
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102. Worst movie "Snakes on a Plane"
Worst TV show "Seinfeld"
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:11 PM
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104. The Beguiled. The suckitude was awe-inspiring.
Not only was it a horrible period piece, but the creep factor with Clint Eastwood orgying his way through a Civil War Era girls' school and then crushing a kid's pet turtle before having a leg sawed off, well, Leonard Pinth Garnell couldn't do it justice.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 04:14 PM
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105. Synecdoche. Seeing it right now. I don't think I'll make it to the end.
Even having Catherine Keener in the movie is not enough.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:31 PM
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114. TV show: Hello Larry
Movie: Leonard Part 6
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:23 PM
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117. I had a TV crush on Kim Richards (Larry's blonde daughter), so I can't diss it.
She is now better known as Paris Hilton's aunt.

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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:47 PM
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115. Heartbreak Ridge
Ugh x(
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 10:56 PM
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120. Probably FreeJack with Estevez and Jagger
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 12:26 AM
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121. Jeepers Creepers is the worst movie I've ever seen.
At least in a theatre. Just terrible. The female character can't drive the car because it has a manual transmission, but she's always driving for some reason, even though that monster thing is after them. Worse than that, when she does finally get going, and they're driving along, the car is shifting gears, and it's obviously an automatic (by the sound).

And when the Justin Long is looking down the pipe, it was so obvious that his untied shoes were going to come off, and he was going to end up at the bottom of the pipe, in the creature's domain, that the entire crowd groaned when it happened.

The whole movie was like that. I have no idea why so many people liked that movie, but to each their own. :shrug:
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 02:30 PM
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123. A Mighty Wind
I didn't realize when I started watching it that it was a mockumentary about folk music and folk singers, but I watched it anyway, even though I like folk music.

The movie was the most boring moving I have ever seen. My grown kids, who don't care much for folk music, watched it with me, and they thought it was dreadful too.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 02:37 PM
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124. I hate all of that guy's movies. I forget his name. I just don't find them fun.
Maybe it's too dry of humor for me.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 02:52 PM
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126. As regards movies...
the worst that I remember was a rather bizarre piece of black humour that didn't quite come off: 'He May be Dead But He's Elvis' - late 80s, I think. The one that I really disliked that everyone else liked was 'Hannah and Her Sisters' - depressing rather than funny. But I generally don't like Woody Allen, except for 'Sleeper'.

On TV: 'Survivor', 'Big Brother' and most of its spin-offs; and similar reality shows. They just encourage and celebrate nastiness IMO. I also dislike 'Neighbours', but that may be partly just because I hate the sound of the theme-song!
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 02:53 PM
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127. It's Alive
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:32 PM
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130. That L. Ron Hubbard atrocity "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000"
And I only caught about five minutes of it before it made me feel physically ill.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:54 PM
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133. 'Manos: The Hands of Fate' and 'Freddy Got Fingered."
About 'Manos': Even MST3K couldn't make that turd watchable.
It's not even 'so-bad-it's-good' bad. It's just BAD. It is painfully dull. It is horribly filmed. Nothing really happens. What does happen is incredibly stupid. The dialogue would make Ed Wood blush. The acting is every bit as good as the dialogue. Everything about it is amateur, stupid, pointless and dull. The only redeeming factor it has is Torgo, and no, Torgo does not even come close to making up for what a steaming pile the rest of the movie is. It's somewhat unfair to make fun of a movie with such a low budget, though, so.

However, taking shots at a movie that so clearly had no budget and even less effort is too easy, so I also really hated...
'Freddy Got Fingered.' This is the single most repulsive movie I've ever seen, and I've seen John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' This movie is just one disgusting set-piece after another. This movie killed what was left of Tom Green's career, and thank God. I don't think humanity would've survived a sequel to this garbage. What's so bad about it? The scene where Tom Green does...something...to a horse. Later he...he...does something....to an elephant...and then there's this dead deer and then there's his girlfriend who's paralyzed from the waist down so he...
:cry:
I can't go on.

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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 02:08 AM
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134. The War of the Worlds, with Tom Cruise in it
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 08:34 AM
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136. Worst TV Show: The Lone Gunmen
They managed to miss everything that made the characters fun to begin with.

Inception and End of Days were the only movies I've seen that I actively hated while I was watching them.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 07:16 PM
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141. I know it was bad, but I have a sick love for TLG.
My favorite part was finding out that the rest of their apartment was quite nice (at least Byers' room was.)
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 02:49 PM
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137. Family Guy -
I have yet to make it through a whole episode.
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 03:27 PM
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138. Glee
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michaelslomo Donating Member (307 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 04:47 PM
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139. Of movies that actually got good reviews from many . . .
the worst I can recall were:

The Thief, the Cook, His Wife & Her Lover: Ugh (except for one Helen Mirren scene)
American Beauty: Totally depressing
Moulin Rougue (the recent one, not the one from the early 50s): So bad I couldn't make it through more than 20 minutes or so

Usually I avoid movies I think could be really bad.
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bookworm65t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 09:06 PM
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142. anything with Bo Derek/ Caligula
Tarzan The Ape Man (1982) is probably the 2nd worst movie made. I couldn't believe that Richard Harris and George Kennedy stooped this low to be in this movie, but I learned later that films are a director's medium, so not likely their fault .

Caligula- 1-2 hours of my life lost forever. once again, couldn't believe the cast had anything to do with this disaster.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 09:24 PM
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143. Eyes Wide Shut ....... (but they weren't shut tight enough!)
It is hard to make film full of beautiful naked women boring, but Kubrick managed to pull it off.
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