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I absolutely hated Chicago. I wanted to walk out, except I was with several other people who are BIG musical fans. I had no idea it was a musical. The last decent musical ever released was My Fair Lady.
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querying
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My sentiments exactly.
Horror is my favourite genre, but 1 hour viewing of Saw let me know that what I was watching was not entertainment, but the workings of a twisted mind.
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querying
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- All of the “The Omen” franchise suck- in particular the very last one, with the girl playing the part of the spawn of the devil.
- All of the “Exorcist” franchise- why the first movie is so popular is beyond me…
- I"'ll always know what you did last summer"- the last movie in the trilogy was horrific. How dare the produce ruin such a great horror franchise!
- Scream 3- the last movie in the trilogy was horrific. And Scream is the signature 90’s horror flick- and my favourite horror franchise!
- Starwars- the movie released in 2009. What the h-e double hockey sticks was the plot all about??
- Righteous kill, with De Niro was horrible. Both he and Al Pacino looked like they belonged in a retirement home, not fornicating with women half their age and chasing bad guys. 50 Cent was in it too, and I cannot abide him and his music.
- Vanhelsing- the one with the guy from X Men- I can’t recall his name. The movie was far too long and drawn out.
- The Godfather franchise- all of the movies! The book was poorly written, but I love Mario Puzzo’s ideas and prefer his books over his movies.
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BarbJo
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Species - the only movie I ever walked out of.
Demon Dog - a German Shepherd wagging his tail and laughing with a red light shone in his eyes supposed to make him look mean.
The Car Wash - Blaxsploitation and not funny
The one where Robert De Niro and Sean Penn were escaped convicts and pretended to be priests - horrible.
Demon Dog - a German Shepherd wagging his tail and laughing with a red light shone in his eyes supposed to make him look mean.
The Car Wash - Blaxsploitation and not funny
The one where Robert De Niro and Sean Penn were escaped convicts and pretended to be priests - horrible.
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gurneyhalleck1
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Agree, dittos, except for “The Omen” and especially “The Exorcist.” I love both films. The original Exorcist is an awesome film IMO. Great flick.
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gurneyhalleck1
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Well it would be pretty corny if George Romero had put it all into a God-context and have Jesus send zombies to pillage the earth LOL…Not every movie should be or needs to be in a Christian context to be good commentary on the human condition or cynical about it. Would you criticize Tolkien for not putting his characters into a “God context?” He was a devout Catholic and never once has God, Christianity, or even religion in his stories to convey points. The “dead” series is a study in human behavior and how sometimes we have more to fear from each other than outside fears from the animal world or nature or science gone bad. It had nothing to do with God nor should it really. Star Wars has a son-redeems-the father theme but God was utterly absent from the context yet I enjoyed it?
Dawn of the Dead on internet movie data base scores 8/10 stars with over 37,000 votes. That is extremely high. Night of the Living Dead scores 8/10 as well with 34,000 votes. Day of the Dead scores 7/10 with around 19,000 votes. So, obviously the idea of “worst movies of all time” is absolutely, totally absurd with regard to these films from the point of view of classic film fans. Now I’m sure you’d say American film-goers are idiots LOL but these Imdb.com folks are movie buffs and usually call it pretty much accurate. Most movies on imdb are under 7 out of 10. So these buck the trends.
Now Plan Nine From Outer Space which indeed IS a lame movie, scored 3.6 out of 10. Queen of Outer Space, an awful, hilariously bad film with Zsa Zsa Gabor, scored 4.1 out of 10. Beast of Yucca Flats scored 1.6 out of 10!!! Dracula vs. Frankenstein 2.4/10. These are example of stinkeroo movies!
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gurneyhalleck1
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No redeeming qualities, pure blood and guts, torture, idiocy. I wouldn’t even watch these movies. They’re not scary and not suspensful. Dumb.
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scottywolf777
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Hi rpp:wave:
Couldn’t agree more there. I expect musicals to be somewhat silly and even inane (does anybody sane actually burst into song when someone enters a room). Murder mystery cops and gangsters all singing and dancing. The smilies system won’t give me enough big yikes to cover that
bigyikes Won BEST picture of the year competing against LORD OF THE RINGS! What were they thinking???
Completely unforgivable. RE Richard Gere: he was once described as a person that would take off his pants any time a director would tell him to regardless of whether the scene called for it or not. Pretty boy hack! This movie should’ve had the audience singing that song at the beginning of the new Producers by Mel Brooks when the crowd describe what a piece of schlock the play was they just saw. OY!
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Sailor_Kenshin
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And yet since LOTR is one of the most sublime CATHOLIC works ever produced (even in the words of the author) I must respectfully disagree.
I despise nihilism. That is why I can not enjoy the zombie flicks. And please do not put words in my mouth; I do not nor never have said American film-goers are idiots but the ‘opinions’ of Imdb I take with a boulder of salt.
I try to live by the Word, even though I fail miserably most times. I would look to that Catholic film board if I wanted someone else’s movie opinions (other than mine).
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244Rocket
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For one thing Bill Murray, I can’t stand him. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it and I can remember walking out of the theatre thinking what a waste of time that was.
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Hmm. I might have to see it for myself, unless it’s blatantly immoral and/or nihilistic.
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Nyarlathotep
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How 'bout an entire genre? – “Simplistic ham-handed European movies about how cute and precious / backward and silly peasant folk are”. I give 2 examples:
- Antonia’s Line – “Winner of an undeserved Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Antonia’s Line is an almost entirely unsuccessful North European stab at Latin American magical realism. Meant to be a celebration of life with a feminist slant, it’s the sort of film whose idea of poetry is a woman baying at the full moon from her window every month… for forty years, while her unrequited lover downstairs gazes piningly at the ceiling… for forty years.”
- Zelary – “When it should be building toward something stirring, Zelary instead meanders like the sheep grazing on the nearby hillsides.”
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Sailor_Kenshin
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I believe I must watch both those films, with a crowd of noisy friends and a keg of beer… 
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rpp
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I do not think you could collect enough of my friends and get a big enough keg to get me to watch either of those movies.I believe I must watch both those films, with a crowd of noisy friends and a keg of beer…
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This afternoon, I was at leisure and decided to watch TV. Lo and behold, 'Shaun of the Dead ’ was on!Did you ever see Shaun of the Dead? It was so amazingly stupid that it was funny - in parts.
I remembered it being mentioned here, so I watched the whole thing. Not as bad as I had expected. It had its moments. And, it was English. I didn’t know that before (but, not that it matters.)
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gurneyhalleck1
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Sailor,
You make my point for me. Lord of the Rings is ok with you since it’s written by a Catholic author despite the fact he makes all his points without once referencing Christ, God the Father, Mary, the Church or anything remotely Christian. He uses wizards, hobbits, trolls, dark lords, and a mythical world to represent his views. George Romero’s films are criticized by you for being Godless, with a quasi-apocalyptic world that has no references to God. I fail to see the difference? Neither overtly uses God; both obviously chose to represent their story without a blatant Christian reference point.
You also make my point for me with your view on American theatre-goers. You say you trust a Catholic film screener for you but not Imdb, a great website full of movie buffs who really really love films. Obviously you must not trust movie-goers too much or respect their views or you would at least acknowledge that the “Dead” series are classics and beloved by millions of people. Your putting those films in the worst movies of all times category is absolutely absurd and laughable. You don’t acknowledge imdb and I think you should.
It would be like me saying that I dislike Michael Jackson. I don’t like his music or his lifestyle so I say that Thriller was one of the worst albums ever made. Horrific. All because I personally didn’t like it. And yet it sold millions and millions of albums and is one of the top best-selling albums of all time. Then I’ll say I don’t care about the sales and would trust a Catholic record-screening group instead? Dawn of the Dead grossed $55 million bucks! That’s nothing to sneeze at!
You also say you hate nihilism. Who doesn’t? Romero’s Dead movies have nothing to do with nihilism? Nihilism is the notion that morals do not exist but rather are falsely invented and that life is without value. Life is supposedly pointless. That’s not what I see in the films and Romero has never mentioned one word of this philosophy. It may be cynicism, but not nihilism. And what’s funny is that the end of Dawn of the Dead has Peter just giving up, deciding to stay behind and commit suicide because there’s nothing left to live for. In the end, though, he realizes he’s wrong, wants to escape with Fran in the helicopter, and they decide to go for it, just live life and hope for better things ahead. Hardly fatalistic or nihilistic.
If you took the time to watch Dawn of the Dead instead of being one of those folks who just criticizes it for being immoral and blood-and-guts-only, you’d see that it’s mostly about commercialism. Romero himself talks about it as do the actors in the film. Where is the first place these dead, reanimated, lifeless zombies go? THE MALL!! They’re even subconsciously materialistic and greedy in death! And the small group of human survivors go and live in the mall to escape this zombie onslaught in Pittsburgh only to become enamored with the shopping sprees, wealth, and material comforts of pillaging and living in the place until they realize it’s stagnation and that they’re living off the old world. They’re no more alive than the zombies. And then come the humans that are like a militia trying to profit off the end of the world and try to kill off the good humans who are in the mall in a turf war. Romero loves to point out how in humanity there is good, love, truth, and yet there is that appalling lack of humanity in so many that feeds off crisis and turns on its own. IMO in this day and age, the movie is right to address commercial materialism, greed, and a lack of humanity. Throw in some zombies, yeah, but the essential plot is man against man and trying to keep one’s humanity in a crisis. In Night of the Living Dead it’s the same thing. The humans are boarded up in a house trying to survive and it’s NOT the zombies to worry about! It’s the selfish guy in the basement who is risking all of their lives, out for himself, and a loose cannon.
We’re going in circles with this; all I can say is you sound like a great guy with a good head on your shoulders but you sure wouldn’t be fun to go with to the movies!
I’m sticking with George and the gang!http://home.earthlink.net/~resrvordog/images/romero.gif
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Not one mention of an Ed Wood’s movie, not one mentions of an Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movie, not even a single mention of Plan 9 From Outerspace. I am setting myself for stones to be thrown but I do not believe anyone who had replied so far can fairly make any judgment on naming the worst movie ever made.
Moreover, I still stand by my nomination.
The Beast of Yucca Flat.:hey_bud:
Moreover, I still stand by my nomination.
The Beast of Yucca Flat.:hey_bud:
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Reference my post about Yucca Flats somewhere above.
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scottywolf777
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I have an increadably vague memory of Beast of Yucca Flats. I remember it being on TNT’s Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs and there was something about a mine and that’s about it. Genuinely memorable movie
BTW who is domno paulo de peco and what order has the initials AOL.? I tried googling it and went on a wild goose chase. I though AOL was America ON Line
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