Worst Film Ever Made...

[L.J.]

OK, no offense intended to you personally L.J. ...but 'costed' ?

costed is a word but that's not what it means or how you use it. You mean 'cost'.

I'm on a mini rant because I've seen and heard it used too many times this week by people who should know better. Sorry for choosing your post to vent on. I’ll go climb back in my box now.

That's actually exactly how I would say and use it. It's not a question of if I should know better. The real question is do I really give a ****.

[noddin0ff]

Honestly, I think SlumpB is spot on. A bad movie is one that fails, not one that just wasn't good. If you love some thread, set it free. If it comes back to bite you in the a$$, it didn't love you back anyway. Let it go.

[Troy]

Geez, you didn't have to accosted the guy!

[noddin0ff]

that was beautiful, man. *snif*

[JSE]

that was beautiful, man. *snif*

Or "sniff"

[GMichael]

I'm so proud of all of you.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Or "sniff"

Nice catch JSE

[Rich-n-Texas]

smackdown!!!

[noddin0ff]

smackdown!!!

Well, hardly a smackdown!!!. If L.J. doesn't care, that's fine with me. I didn't take his comments personally, and I hope he didn't take mine personally. Lots of people say 'costed'. Lots of people think it's the past tense of 'cost'. A frightening number of people I've interacted with this week seem to think that. It isn't. Try using it in a job interview. 'know better' was a poor choice of words, but it was easier than trying to find a humorous way of saying "successfully mastered eighth grade english". The price of being an egalitarian jerk, I suppose. It apparently costed me some good will.

oh, no. I hope I didn't hijack the thread too!

[Rich-n-Texas]

Well, hardly a smackdown!!!. If L.J. doesn't care, that's fine with me. I didn't take his comments personally, and I hope he didn't take mine personally. Lots of people say 'costed'. Lots of people think it's the past tense of 'cost'. A frightening number of people I've interacted with this week seem to think that. It isn't. Try using it in a job interview. 'know better' was a poor choice of words, but it was easier than trying to find a humorous way of saying "successfully mastered eighth grade english". The price of being an egalitarian jerk, I suppose. It apparently costed me some good will.

oh, no. I hope I didn't hijack the thread too!

Don't mind me noddinOff, I just like to instigate sometimes. If I had a dime for every time I saw 'noone' I would own this site. No one gets more irritated than me when the English language gets butchered like it does on the internet and in society. And don't even me started on... no, nevermind.

[/hijack]

[JSE]

Don't mind me noddinOff, I just like to instigate sometimes. If I had a dime for every time I saw 'noone' I would own this site. No one gets more irritated than me when the English language gets butchered like it does on the internet and in society. And don't even me started on... no, nevermind.

[/hijack]

I say "drug". Like, "I drug it accross the floor". My wife corrects me all the time when I do it. (Not that "Do It" GMichael ) Anyway, I guess it's a southern thing.

Crap, thread got hijacked again!

JSE

[Rich-n-Texas]

That's my biggest fear Groundbeef. It's happened to me in the past but IIRC it was a movie I enjoyed so it wasn't too much of a let-down. One good thing about the Blockbuster Total Access and Netflick systems is that won't happen unless you want it to.

[jrhymeammo]

I got one that will destroy every single one of them listed above.


Run Ronnie Run.

and this is coming from a guy who is a huge fan of Mr. Show. I think it was supposed to be a joke that didnt go so well...

JRA

[bobsticks]

I think we need to also need to give serious consideration to anything with Jim Varney in it.

[PeruvianSkies]

I think we need to also need to give serious consideration to anything with Jim Varney in it.

You mean like Ernest Goes to Africa???

[bobsticks]

That is but one of the offending parties, sir.




My brain hurts just thinking about it.

[PeruvianSkies]

That is but one of the offending parties, sir.




My brain hurts just thinking about it.

It's a blaxploitation film, set to a score by Bobby Womack...it's a classic case of Ernest being involved in a mix-up with a crime boss/pimp. Ernest follows the boss/pimp all the way to Africa where he learns about an illegal ivory smuggling operation that is taking place. Ernest then joins up with a local tribe where the teach him to fight and before you can say LIVE AND LET DIE, Ernest infiltrates the bosses crime organization and brings down the kingpin.

[Rich-n-Texas]

!!! I saw that movie!! I thought it was pretty good.

Where did Ernest go? Didn't he die?

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Uwe Boll's House of the Dead. Scientifically the worst film to ever be released theatrically. But every film he makes he does get a lil' more coherent.... by 2015 he should be making a pretty decent Sci-Fi channel original movie.

[Gerald Cooperberg]

Life's too short to dwell on bad movies. Without putting too much thought into it, I will say that I agree with Troy that Being John Malkovich and Borat are top notch, and also say that I find Baby Geniuses hypnotically watchable. I will also agree with Mr. Ammo that Run Ronnie Run left me scratching my head...

...but really, how much effort can I put into savaging such easy targets? There are so many films made by well-meaning people that just fall flat, so many that aspire to greatness and fall short, and so, so many put out by a Hollywood studio system intent on feeding us calculated, pandering garbage... who has the time to sort through all of them just to anoint one with the crown?

That said, The Life of David Gale.

-Coop

[kelsci]

I heard over the years that ROBOT MONSTER and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE were supposedly the worst films ever made, but I found them pleasantly entertaining. Many of the choices that the forum members have mentioned above that I am familiar with make the two I mentioned look like best picture Oscar winners.

[dean_martin]

I heard over the years that ROBOT MONSTER and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE were supposedly the worst films ever made, but I found them pleasantly entertaining. Many of the choices that the forum members have mentioned above that I am familiar with make the two I mentioned look like best picture Oscar winners.

Yep. As a former subscriber to FilmFax and Outre magazines and collector of some of the "worst" films ever made, it's those supposedly bad films - mostly scifi and horror from the 50s and 60s - that I find charming and sometimes mesmerizing. "They" picked Robot Monster and Plan 9 as worst but I don't know who "they" are and I've seen worse.

As of last year, "they" picked Leprechaun 2 as worst film ever made. I'll have to give that one a go. My pick would be something like "Pretty Woman" or "Ghost". Unfortunately, I had to watch those all the way through with a significant other or someone I was trying to make significant.

[jrhymeammo]

Here is one I think is ok, but all of my friends disagree...


Killer Klowns from Outerspace.

[RGA]

I also have to say the I liked Being John Malkovich though not as much as Adaptation.

And I would like to defend Notting Hill as one of the more intelligently crafted Romantic Comedies of the last 20 years. For what it is it is about as good as it gets.

I think it's too easy to put films that are going to be obviously bad like Justin to Kelly or to put very low budget horror films on the list. My worst in this case would be Oasis of the Zombies. You sure need to find an Oasis after wasting brain cells and oxygen while viewing.

Perhaps it is better to go after supposedly serious art films - maybe not the WORST film but stuff that you think is really bad that many thought was brilliant.

David Cronenberg's CRASH is a dreadful piece of soft porn "art house" which is really just "shock" shlock. IMO.

[Gerald Cooperberg]

David Cronenberg's CRASH is a dreadful piece of soft porn "art house" which is really just "shock" shlock. IMO.

But it wasn't half as insulting and manipulative as Paul Haggis' Crash! [don't-kill-me face]

-Coop