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Author Topic: What is the worst movie you've ever seen? Cobi Fox Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Earth Registered: May 2018 posted 05-22-2018 07:06 PM                     I'd agree that George Lucas is a bit weird. I don't think that he had anything to do with the production of the Christmas special, though. And remember that although he gave us Howard the Duck and sold Star Wars to Disney, we can still thank him for Star Wars I-VI, American Graffiti, and Indiana Jones. Just imagine how much bleaker the cinematic landscape would be without him!  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-22-2018 10:09 PM                        If I look at this from the perspective of a movie I thought would be decent that turned out to be bad then I would say The Avengers from 1998. This is the one with Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, and Uma Thurman.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2018 10:15 PM                        ^^^^ So! You're the one who watched that.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-22-2018 10:42 PM                        Only as a QC screening, so it didn't cost me anything but time.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-23-2018 07:45 AM                     RABBIT TEST - Billy Crystal plays the world's first pregnant man in this totally unfunny movie written by Joan Rivers. NOTHING BUT TROUBLE - Chevy Chase, Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore in this awful movie directed by Dan Ackroyd. How bad was it? The HUMPTY DANCE is the highlight of the movie.  |  IP: Logged Sascha F. Roll Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: Berlin, Berlin / Germany Registered: Sep 2015 posted 05-23-2018 07:56 AM                     Throwing something more recent into the ring: INDEPENDENCE DAY 2. Good, what a waste of time and money.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 05-23-2018 09:46 AM                     quote: Leo Enticknap one exception was a print of Howard the Duck, which was a magnetic, 6-track SR print that looked like it was fresh out of the lab. and quote: Leo Enticknap The movie was f---ing abysmal, universally panned, and pulled from almost everywhere it played after the opening weekend. WoW!- - first of all I'm astounded that there were 70mm prints of this title. Right around the time that movie was released, I had to drive over to a film depot here in Northern CA to pick up a replacement reel of another movie for a theater that needed it the next day to replace one that had been badly printed. When I got to the loading dock, I noticed several workers pulling what looked like brand new rolls of film, (35mm) on cores, out of cardboard lab boxes and tossing them into a dumpster that was almost already overflowing with strips of celluloid. "What's that?"; I curiously asked. "Howard The Duck", the guy said, and then, pointing to one of the unopened lab shipping boxes, he jokingly asked - "Want One?" I'd heard what a bomb the movie was, and declined the facetious offer. So the guy turns to his boss, and says: "You see, Joe, - - we can't even GIVE these away!!", evoking much laughter from all those within earshot. I hadn't seen the film, but I had another reason for disliking it: One of the scenes was filmed in an alley behind the place I was working at the time, and their 'set up' with all their lights, cables and all their production trucks totally blocked our cars from getting in or out of our private parking lot for several hours in the middle of the day. They claimed they had posted the required notices about the filming, and, indeed there were some notices posted when we looked around lunch time. But everyone affected agrees that there were NO notices posted the day before or even that morning when we arrived for work. If they were posted it would be highly unlikely and just about statistically impossible that not ONE of us whose cars were stuck in the lot saw one posted before work that morning. (We did see production trucks & film crews arriving and staging things, and they clearly saw us going into the lot, but there were no notices posted and nobody from the film crew said anything about our cars being blocked in for the rest of the day when we arrived in the morning)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2018 12:20 PM                        There are occasional movies where even the title sort of sounds like it's going to be a flop, and "Howard the Duck" was one of those. I remember the first time I heard of it, and thought "well, that's a bomb." Later when I saw a trailer for it, that feeling only intensified. But I never saw the actual movie. Last night I was looking for something to watch and I happened to land on "Mother, Jugs and Speed" which I can easily see is a pretty bad movie, but I have always liked it anyway, mostly due to Bill Cosby's performance. Some things just can't be explained.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-23-2018 12:55 PM                        For the better Star Wars films, you had Marcia Lucas and Gary Kurz on board. Nuff said.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-23-2018 01:12 PM                        quote: Jim Cassedy I hadn't seen the film, but I had another reason for disliking it: One of the scenes was filmed in an alley behind the place I was working at the time, and their 'set up' with all their lights, cables and all their production trucks totally blocked our cars from getting in or out of our private parking lot for several hours in the middle of the day. The block of Las Palmas between Hollywood Boulevard and Selma is a favorite location for the studios shooting street scene exteriors: the rear entrance to the Egyptian is on it, and when it was closed off for a day, it was a serious pain in the neck. The most memorable occasion happened on the opening night of a German film festival. Earlier that day, a guy from the studio came into the lobby, and casually explained that "we're gonna be blowing up an auto, around dusk," and that we shouldn't be alarmed at the noise. "Around dusk" meant 8pm-ish, about half an hour in to our gala premiere. Despite complaints and protestations, nothing could be done to stop it, and so our head of programming told the audience during the introductions, and warned them not to be alarmed. The movie was a Victorian costume drama (sorry, can't remember what it was called), and the explosion happened during a scene in which the heroine had just been told that her fiance had been killed in the Napoleonic wars, and that she was dying of some gnarly disease or other. About 2-3 seconds after a tear started to trickle down her cheek ... KABOOM! The audience dissolved into fits of giggles.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2018 04:01 PM                     I gotta' go with "Birdemic!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdemic:_Shock_and_Terror https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1316037/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/birdemic_shock_and_terror_2008? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644 This movie is so bad it's hard to describe just how bad it is. It has, however, developed a cult following among "bad" movie lovers. James Nguyen, the guy who made it is so self-absorbed that, when the movie started getting a following, he thought people liked it so he made a sequel that's even WORSE and, to top it all off, he wants to make a "Birdemic 3!" This movie is so bad it's almost good! The first time I saw it, I was like, "WTF?"... I thought it was made by high school students.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-23-2018 04:41 PM                     LOL I not only screened "Birdemic" at UC Irvine, I am the proud owner of an autographed DVD from the filmmaker! The worst movie I can think of (and I only saw the trailer) was a film in the 80's called "Chatterbox". (IMDB shows one done in 1977, which I don't think is the same one as the trailer I saw, but the premise is the same.) Chatterbox 1977 How did I know how bad this movie was, and the horrible premise? Well, I was working at Davis-Monthan AFB at the base theatre... I made up the trailer reel of all green band trailers (including Chatterbox) and in my rush didn't pre-screen it. As that reel was running during the afternoon G-Rated family matinee, I was inspecting the night show print. I had the booth monitor on and heard some squeaky voice dialog..as I went to the port to see what was playing, the manager ran up the stairs screaming "Turn it off! Turn it OFF!" ...just as I saw on the screen, the lead actress at Dodger Stadium, with a megaphone and mic in front of her va-jay-jay, singing the National Anthem! At least she was fully clothed. I shut the machine down and started the feature. Needless to say, after that, a directive came down from AAFES (the agency that manages the theatres and Base Exchanges and stores) that ALL trailers shall be screened before showing to the public.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-23-2018 07:07 PM                     Now, dating myself here: Worked at cinema as Chief Projectionist and for a Christmas Kid show in the early 1970's, the worst film ever hit the screen, but today it approaches a cult classic being so bad: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) Don't know how Joseph E. Levine got involved with this, but it was the first film with a very young Pia Zadora. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2018 09:12 AM                     It's Howard The Duck for me... What a total waste of time for everyone involved. Mark  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-24-2018 02:09 PM                     Worst movie I've ever seen? That's a tough call since there are so many truly awful movies, yet comparing or ranking them in terms of awfulness is purely subjective. For example you could try comparing Madonna & Guy Ritchie's vanity movie Swept Away with Battlefield Earth. It would be like comparing the smell of a pig farm on a hot summer day to a swimming pool filled with cat pee. Bad movies can be bad for different reasons and trigger different reactions from viewers, like boredom, indifference or unintentional laughter. I might feel sorry for certain people involved with a bad movie, such as a talented director getting overruled and burdened with stupid creative choices made by a vain A-list (soon to be B-list) actor. Some bad movies just plain piss me off. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace falls in that category. Superman III (the one with Richard Pryor) was bad enough that it put the Christopher Reeve version of the saga on shaky ground. But the franchise was still salvageable. What did Warner Bros do? They put the 4th installment into the hands of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the schlock-meisters at Cannon Films. Rather than revive a wounded franchise these guys just murdered it. The movie itself is filled with cringe-worthy moments. The plot is so broadly silly it feels like it was written in crayon by a six year old. The visual effects in the first three Superman movies weren't the greatest. The effects in the fourth movie were a steep down-grade, to the point of being embarrassing to watch. Lots of other corners were cut. You see it in the cheesy production values. IIRC it's the only one out of the four Christopher Reeve Superman movies not to have any 70mm prints. I don't know if that was intentional or if they cancelled any 70mm print orders due to bad test screening results.  |  IP: Logged

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