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I take it you just saw it on TCM…1935’s A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Mickey Rooney and James Cagney do Shakespeare – enough said.
I take it you just saw it on TCM…1935’s A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Mickey Rooney and James Cagney do Shakespeare – enough said.
If you’ve seen it, I envy you. Turner Classic Movies?I can vouch for the existence of this gem…![]()
I have basically boycotted the Transformers movies since the masturbation joke in the first one.Transformers (the first one)
I used to love these movies, until I rewatched this first one during last Lent. It was almost painful to sit through! Forced, raunchy teen humor, cheesy dialogue, gaping plot holes… The sequels aren’t any better (and in some ways, they’re worse).
We always fast-forwarded that part, but it would have been just as fine to fast-forward the whole movie.I have basically boycotted the Transformers movies since the masturbation joke in the first one.![]()
Well, I was watching it in the theater where there is no fast-forward button.We always fast-forwarded that part, but it would have been just as fine to fast-forward the whole movie.
It’s best that you have. It’s not just that the movies are offensive, but extensive sequences of mindless, explosive violence bores me now (though I still appreciate the work that the animators put into the robots). I need substantial characters to keep me interested in the story.Well, I was watching it in the theater where there is no fast-forward button.Haven’t watched that movie since.
I remember that I snuck a peek at the first few minutes of the third one when it was on Netflix, but otherwise, I’ve actively avoided the series.
I have *not *seen it, but it was on one of the other cable networks just recently i.e. not on TCM and within the last month. I cannot remember which channel, unfortunately. I knew about it prior to that, though, and stupidly chose not to see it that day…(((sigh)))…maybe it will be shown again soon. All part of the pain of being a movie junkie/buff, I guess.If you’ve seen it, I envy you. Turner Classic Movies?
Yes, but the theme song is so memorable…The worst movie ever made is by far
The attack of the killer tomatoes.
Birdman is one of the worst movies I’ve ever had the misfortune to have paid to see at the cinema.
Honestly? This movie deserves to be on the list of worst films ever made, not even for its sheer badness (which it is undeniably full of – John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Let that sink in, pilgrim.) but instead for the sole fact that it single-handedly may have ultimately killed off a large chunk of its cast and contributed to its producer going looney-tunes later in life.I’ve never seen it, but the little-known John Wayne biography about Genghis Khan (sounds like I’m joking, I know, but I assure you I’m not) The Conquerer is supposed to be one of the all time worst. I would love to see it!
Sadly, it seems they don’t make bad films like they used to. Now the bad films are just boring (and the better ones too).
When you said, “for the sole fact that it single-handedly may have ultimately killed off a large chunk of its cast,” I thought you merely meant their careers.Honestly? This movie deserves to be on the list of worst films ever made, not even for its sheer badness (which it is undeniably full of – John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Let that sink in, pilgrim.) but instead for the sole fact that it single-handedly may have ultimately killed off a large chunk of its cast and contributed to its producer going looney-tunes later in life.
Howard Hughes thought it’d be a great idea to film out in the Nevada desert – downwind from the then recently concluded “Upshot-Knothole” atom bomb tests (which included firing a nuke from an artillery howitzer. Some publicity photos even had Wayne, Susan Hayward et. al holding Geiger counters, apparently as if this was a selling point…) Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, Hughes decided to cart tons of the soil back to Hollywood for studio shoots. :doh2: All this resulted, predictably, in a higher-than normal incidence of cancer among the cast and crew, ultimately felling Wayne, Hayward, Pedro Armindariz, Agnes Moorhead, director Dick Powell and roughly 46 others – in all 91 members of the cast and crew would be diagnosed with some form of cancer. Hughes felt so bad that later in life, once he was a recluse, he apparently bought each and every copy and forbade it to be screened again during his lifetime, but watched it obsessively himself until his death.
It hardly killed Wayne’s career; his Oscar win (for True Grit) was still to come.When you said, “for the sole fact that it single-handedly may have ultimately killed off a large chunk of its cast,” I thought you merely meant their careers.![]()
What a crazy story! Thanks, Pat, I had never heard any of that before.Honestly? This movie deserves to be on the list of worst films ever made, not even for its sheer badness (which it is undeniably full of – John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Let that sink in, pilgrim.) but instead for the sole fact that it single-handedly may have ultimately killed off a large chunk of its cast and contributed to its producer going looney-tunes later in life.
Howard Hughes thought it’d be a great idea to film out in the Nevada desert – downwind from the then recently concluded “Upshot-Knothole” atom bomb tests (which included firing a nuke from an artillery howitzer. Some publicity photos even had Wayne, Susan Hayward et. al holding Geiger counters, apparently as if this was a selling point…) Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, Hughes decided to cart tons of the soil back to Hollywood for studio shoots. :doh2: All this resulted, predictably, in a higher-than normal incidence of cancer among the cast and crew, ultimately felling Wayne, Hayward, Pedro Armindariz, Agnes Moorhead, director Dick Powell and roughly 46 others – in all 91 members of the cast and crew would be diagnosed with some form of cancer. Hughes felt so bad that later in life, once he was a recluse, he apparently bought each and every copy and forbade it to be screened again during his lifetime, but watched it obsessively himself until his death.