While there are several I would agree with already mentioned, there are two more I wish to add: Godzilla (1998) and Lost in Space
The '98 G film (Tri-Star released) is just bad. Script, monster, script, script, ect... Why do you think Toho did G2K? Because the G '98 was that bad.
Lost in Space was just a insult to both the Iwrin Allen Family and to LiS fans in general. It was a over-blown, over-SFX'ed, and idiotic TV pilot made into a theatrical film. But then again, it was done in the late 90's, so go figure...
Keep in mind I saw both in the theaters at the time....
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I don't know; whilst I, personally, don't count either of the JJ-Trek movies to be particularly great, I found the first one (2009) worse because of:
Kirk's promotion from Cadet to Captain.
Red stuff from which a tiny blob creates black holes
Black holes that read the script - one allows ships to time travel, another destroys a planet, and another decides that it DOESN'T allow ships to time travel and destroys them instead.
But it's alll be discussed before, so.....
.. so we know they are TRIBBLE, but others will not. yes i know it's a dead horse, but that ranks one of the worst even so.
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While there are several I would agree with already mentioned, there are two more I wish to add: Godzilla (1998) and Lost in Space
The '98 G film (Tri-Star released) is just bad. Script, monster, script, script, ect... Why do you think Toho did G2K? Because the G '98 was that bad.
Lost in Space was just a insult to both the Iwrin Allen Family and to LiS fans in general. It was a over-blown, over-SFX'ed, and idiotic TV pilot made into a theatrical film. But then again, it was done in the late 90's, so go figure...
Keep in mind I saw both in the theaters at the time....
Thank you for the time...
In Godzilla: Final Wars, the original flavor kills the '98 fish-eating lizard in about 3 seconds. It's hilarious.
You do NOT f*ck with my Godzilla! Godzilla is love! Godzilla is life!
I don't know; whilst I, personally, don't count either of the JJ-Trek movies to be particularly great, I found the first one (2009) worse because of:
Kirk's promotion from Cadet to Captain.
Red stuff from which a tiny blob creates black holes
Black holes that read the script - one allows ships to time travel, another destroys a planet, and another decides that it DOESN'T allow ships to time travel and destroys them instead.
But it's alll be discussed before, so.....
Yeah, it has been discussed before, but as the plot holes in STO.
Cadet to Captain? Check.
Red Matter? Check.
Black Holes changing function based on plot? Check.
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
My personal vote goes for a certain film of a certain genre. A film so god-awfully terrible that it killed that genre until 2002. A film so terrible, it gave... Batman... one of the greatest superheroes of all time...
A BAT CREDIT CARD???!!?!!?!?!?!!?
The name of this... abomination... is Batman & Robin.
I'm told that The Expendables is rather bad and the Judge Dread remake is sickening to watch, so I'm kind of wondering if these made anyone's list?
Expendables isn't bad.... it's shlock, and does a good job of being corny IMO.
As someone who read at least some of the comics.... The new Dredd is better than the previous movie. The other Judge Dredd movie made the character far too flamboyant. I don't quite get the excessive violence thing... Dredd isn't Batman, he doesn't believe in being nice to criminals. Just one example from the comics: a criminal goes into a mall and starts beating people to death with a large, but non-functional gun. Dredd shows up to stop him and they fight... eventually the criminal ends up impaled on a broken water pipe, and Dredd handcuffs the girl who was dumb enough to help the guy.
Fortunately, there may be some retcon coming with Neil Blomkamp's forthcoming Alien-themed movie project. (See Aint It Cool News, among other sites, for details.) I share your disdain for the other two movies.
Expendables isn't bad.... it's shlock, and does a good job of being corny IMO.
As someone who read at least some of the comics.... The new Dredd is better than the previous movie. The other Judge Dredd movie made the character far too flamboyant. I don't quite get the excessive violence thing... Dredd isn't Batman, he doesn't believe in being nice to criminals. Just one example from the comics: a criminal goes into a mall and starts beating people to death with a large, but non-functional gun. Dredd shows up to stop him and they fight... eventually the criminal ends up impaled on a broken water pipe, and Dredd handcuffs the girl who was dumb enough to help the guy.
Enh... Ninja Turtles is pretty standard fare giant-toy-add really. Hasn't it always been that way?
I actually rather enjoyed Dredd, a decent sci-fi action flick. Only problem I had with it, is that it wasn't in any way about his character. It was just about something that happened to him. Could have slotted in any Judge into the situation and you'd have had the same movie.
I also have a soft spot for Alien 3. I wouldn't say it's very good, but I wouldn't say it's the worst ever. However I've got no problem with a new Aliens film ignoring it. As much as I love District 9, I just hope Blomkamp tones down his hyperactive filming/editing style. An Alien film needs to be more stately, more composed.
The sight of Connery in a red, patent-leather bondage outfit, was and is, a total turn-off even for my rampant S&M sensibilities.
:eek:
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2001: A Space Odyssey. Pretentious claptrap and effects ladened boredom disguised as meaningful cinema .
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
All other movies cannot compete with the magnum opus of Satan himself, a movie so eye-killing and bran-melting that you would rather get a full lobotomy than watch it...
I'm told that The Expendables is rather bad and the Judge Dread remake is sickening to watch, so I'm kind of wondering if these made anyone's list?
The Expendables was actually pretty good if you take it on its merits (those being "silly testosterone-laden action movie with lots of Stuff Blowing Up (TM)"). And at least it was better-plotted than ST2009. Actually I'd say it was better-plotted than most of the stuff in this thread, come to think of it.
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All other movies cannot compete with the magnum opus of Satan himself, a movie so eye-killing and bran-melting that you would rather get a full lobotomy than watch it...
The Expendables was actually pretty good if you take it on its merits (those being "silly testosterone-laden action movie with lots of Stuff Blowing Up (TM)"). And at least it was better-plotted than ST2009. Actually I'd say it was better-plotted than most of the stuff in this thread, come to think of it.
Expendables was pretty good, and I don't think it was meant to be serious. Its a "Lets get all the old action stars together in a movie and have fun" kind of movie.
And to whoever said Howling 2 was a good "Get drunk with friends" movie... Christopher Lee himself said "The less said of that movie, the better."
Maybe I'll give The Expendables a chance. The person who was telling me about it said that it was so bad that they had to keep pausing it to go do other things, yet they couldn't bring themselves to not finish watching it.
I wonder how many of these movies have been graced with the talents of Mystery Science Theater 3000 or rifftrax.com?
Expendables was pretty good, and I don't think it was meant to be serious. Its a "Lets get all the old action stars together in a movie and have fun" kind of movie.
And to whoever said Howling 2 was a good "Get drunk with friends" movie... Christopher Lee himself said "The less said of that movie, the better."
Maybe it's a case of it being a good "Get drunk with friends" movie because it makes you WANT to get drunk just so you can't remember watching it! :P
I actually rather enjoyed Dredd, a decent sci-fi action flick. Only problem I had with it, is that it wasn't in any way about his character. It was just about something that happened to him. Could have slotted in any Judge into the situation and you'd have had the same movie.
Well the core aspect of the Judge Dredd character is that he literally LIVES his job. He has no hobbies, he doesn't go on vacations, he's a relentless and implacable dispenser of justice. When he comes for you, you have 2 choices: surrender, or die. Running is futile and only serves to make you tired when he eventually catches up to you.
The only move I walked out of a theater on is Drag me to hell.
The scenes ( yes multiple scenes ) of the lead woman getting other people vomet in her mouth was not sickening enough, they also went stupid with trapping a demon in a goat, which could then talk, and secured with a piece of string.
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
Douglas MacArthur - Quote on the dedication plaque of the U.S.S. Ranger NCC-97332-A Armitage class Fleet Heavy Strike Wing Escort.
I would personally label the movie Nukie (1988) as one of the most blatantly and shamelessly failed motion pictures in cinema history.
The plot, in short :
Two alien brothers (who accessorily look like walking turds) from a distant planet crashland on Earth, ending up being separated on their way down. One of them (Miko) is captured by America Space Agency and experimented on (Oh, the Baddies !!!), while the other (Nukie) ends up in the African savannah, where he befriends two young boys named Toki and Tiko (Note the latent racism in that oh-so-simplistic and stereotypical representation of traditional african names...) Will Miko survive the scientists' experiments? Will Nukie ever be reunited with his space-travelling bro? And will the producer of such a crime against humanity be eventually caught and rightfully punished for belching such an unspeakable horror in the face of humanity?
Not only this movie shamelessly proclaims itself to be "In the tradition of E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (according to its trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9Orl29wyg ), but it is also an incredible fest of doltishness, pre-schoolboy prank, and bad taste (cf, that scene where Nukie decides to produce a series of pink, heart-shaped fireworks to amuse the two human brothers).
Let's also give a special mention to one of the most appaling characters ever shown in a kids' movie : Charlie, a talking chimpanzee (WHY??) who has absolutely no point in the whole flick, except randomly going freestyle on stage, destroying a candy jar, and discussing chimpanzee fashion...
Give it a try if you want, but you've been warned : either you will be in for years of therapy after, or you will simply develop a cancer.
If you could somehow edit Anna Nicole Smith's character out of the movie it'd at least be cornball fun. but her character is so obnoxious and annoying that it takes a mediocre movie and makes it awful.
For the good? the villain/ess is played by Chyna! (the former wrestler)
For me anything with Megan Fox in it, she only gets the part so they can have her bend over and have the film audience perv at her behind.
Anything Michael Bay is bad (got a massive plot hole - put an explosion in it!) - but for some reason I still end up watching them.
I liked Godzilla '98, yes that's right, I LIKED GODZILLA '98
I tried to get a choice as to what film I hate the most but I just couldn't decide so it has to be between U-571 that rewrote history and in my view has absolutely no redeeming qualities or the abysmal 2003 remake of The Italian Job, a film that never needed remaking to begin with, was turned into a complete waste of time and effort, by the numbers, crud pile. The only reason I think it got made was because some studio exec owed a favour to someone and didn't want his knee caps broken!
All that said if you want to see some good movies take a look at:
Falling Down (1993) Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall
The Conversation (1974) Gene Hackman
L.A. Confidential (1997) Kevin Spacy, Russel Crowe
The Usual Suspects (1995) Kevin Spacy, Gabrial Byrne
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I actually have my own personal head canon on Godzilla '98. Misidentification. The witness who saw Zilla first only saw the dorsal plates. Never saw the whole creature. So by only having seen the dorsal plates, the witness thought it was the only creature he knew of that had that feature, Godzilla. This way... it explains Zilla's eventual inclusion into the Kaiju Pantheon of Godzilla Monsters as a seperate entity from Godzilla himself.
Essentially, Godzilla '98 was all a big misidentification of the Kaiju, and the United States had no time to compare notes with Japan on "Godzilla" until after the creature was taken down by missile hits to the neck, most likely severing the jugular vein while entangled in suspension cables.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation, the first one was bad enough but OMG...
I was going to say Alien resurrection, but I think that was trumped by AVP/AVP2 in terms of JUST how TRIBBLE that was.
Which brings me on to Predator 2, that film was so bad that as I recall the director was so ashamed of it he used a well known alias in the credits used by directors who do not want to be associated with the film publically.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
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The '98 G film (Tri-Star released) is just bad. Script, monster, script, script, ect... Why do you think Toho did G2K? Because the G '98 was that bad.
Lost in Space was just a insult to both the Iwrin Allen Family and to LiS fans in general. It was a over-blown, over-SFX'ed, and idiotic TV pilot made into a theatrical film. But then again, it was done in the late 90's, so go figure...
Keep in mind I saw both in the theaters at the time....
Thank you for the time...
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.. so we know they are TRIBBLE, but others will not. yes i know it's a dead horse, but that ranks one of the worst even so.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
In Godzilla: Final Wars, the original flavor kills the '98 fish-eating lizard in about 3 seconds. It's hilarious.
You do NOT f*ck with my Godzilla! Godzilla is love! Godzilla is life!
Cadet to Captain? Check.
Red Matter? Check.
Black Holes changing function based on plot? Check.
A BAT CREDIT CARD???!!?!!?!?!?!!?
The name of this... abomination... is Batman & Robin.
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
As someone who read at least some of the comics.... The new Dredd is better than the previous movie. The other Judge Dredd movie made the character far too flamboyant. I don't quite get the excessive violence thing... Dredd isn't Batman, he doesn't believe in being nice to criminals. Just one example from the comics: a criminal goes into a mall and starts beating people to death with a large, but non-functional gun. Dredd shows up to stop him and they fight... eventually the criminal ends up impaled on a broken water pipe, and Dredd handcuffs the girl who was dumb enough to help the guy. Enh... Ninja Turtles is pretty standard fare giant-toy-add really. Hasn't it always been that way?
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Worst one, though?
The Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage. Utter garbage.
I actually rather enjoyed Dredd, a decent sci-fi action flick. Only problem I had with it, is that it wasn't in any way about his character. It was just about something that happened to him. Could have slotted in any Judge into the situation and you'd have had the same movie.
I also have a soft spot for Alien 3. I wouldn't say it's very good, but I wouldn't say it's the worst ever. However I've got no problem with a new Aliens film ignoring it. As much as I love District 9, I just hope Blomkamp tones down his hyperactive filming/editing style. An Alien film needs to be more stately, more composed.
The sight of Connery in a red, patent-leather bondage outfit, was and is, a total turn-off even for my rampant S&M sensibilities.
:eek:
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Food Fight.
I cannot describe how bad it is without filling up a page, so I'll let someone else do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf85ZaAfixM
The Expendables was actually pretty good if you take it on its merits (those being "silly testosterone-laden action movie with lots of Stuff Blowing Up (TM)"). And at least it was better-plotted than ST2009. Actually I'd say it was better-plotted than most of the stuff in this thread, come to think of it.
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Expendables was pretty good, and I don't think it was meant to be serious. Its a "Lets get all the old action stars together in a movie and have fun" kind of movie.
And to whoever said Howling 2 was a good "Get drunk with friends" movie... Christopher Lee himself said "The less said of that movie, the better."
I wonder how many of these movies have been graced with the talents of Mystery Science Theater 3000 or rifftrax.com?
Maybe it's a case of it being a good "Get drunk with friends" movie because it makes you WANT to get drunk just so you can't remember watching it! :P
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
Touche. :cool:
I thought people didn't need a reason to get drunk?
Precisely. Dude is ashamed of that piece of ****. Hell, I remember he was looking more and more pissed off in each scene he was in.
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Agreed. Followed by Hudson Hawk, and Ford Fairlane.
My character Tsin'xing
The scenes ( yes multiple scenes ) of the lead woman getting other people vomet in her mouth was not sickening enough, they also went stupid with trapping a demon in a goat, which could then talk, and secured with a piece of string.
Douglas MacArthur - Quote on the dedication plaque of the U.S.S. Ranger NCC-97332-A Armitage class Fleet Heavy Strike Wing Escort.
I would personally label the movie Nukie (1988) as one of the most blatantly and shamelessly failed motion pictures in cinema history.
The plot, in short :
Two alien brothers (who accessorily look like walking turds) from a distant planet crashland on Earth, ending up being separated on their way down. One of them (Miko) is captured by America Space Agency and experimented on (Oh, the Baddies !!!), while the other (Nukie) ends up in the African savannah, where he befriends two young boys named Toki and Tiko (Note the latent racism in that oh-so-simplistic and stereotypical representation of traditional african names...) Will Miko survive the scientists' experiments? Will Nukie ever be reunited with his space-travelling bro? And will the producer of such a crime against humanity be eventually caught and rightfully punished for belching such an unspeakable horror in the face of humanity?
Not only this movie shamelessly proclaims itself to be "In the tradition of E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (according to its trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9Orl29wyg ), but it is also an incredible fest of doltishness, pre-schoolboy prank, and bad taste (cf, that scene where Nukie decides to produce a series of pink, heart-shaped fireworks to amuse the two human brothers).
Let's also give a special mention to one of the most appaling characters ever shown in a kids' movie : Charlie, a talking chimpanzee (WHY??) who has absolutely no point in the whole flick, except randomly going freestyle on stage, destroying a candy jar, and discussing chimpanzee fashion...
Give it a try if you want, but you've been warned : either you will be in for years of therapy after, or you will simply develop a cancer.
If you could somehow edit Anna Nicole Smith's character out of the movie it'd at least be cornball fun. but her character is so obnoxious and annoying that it takes a mediocre movie and makes it awful.
For the good? the villain/ess is played by Chyna! (the former wrestler)
My character Tsin'xing
Anything Michael Bay is bad (got a massive plot hole - put an explosion in it!) - but for some reason I still end up watching them.
I liked Godzilla '98, yes that's right, I LIKED GODZILLA '98
I tried to get a choice as to what film I hate the most but I just couldn't decide so it has to be between U-571 that rewrote history and in my view has absolutely no redeeming qualities or the abysmal 2003 remake of The Italian Job, a film that never needed remaking to begin with, was turned into a complete waste of time and effort, by the numbers, crud pile. The only reason I think it got made was because some studio exec owed a favour to someone and didn't want his knee caps broken!
All that said if you want to see some good movies take a look at:
Falling Down (1993) Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall
The Conversation (1974) Gene Hackman
L.A. Confidential (1997) Kevin Spacy, Russel Crowe
The Usual Suspects (1995) Kevin Spacy, Gabrial Byrne
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Essentially, Godzilla '98 was all a big misidentification of the Kaiju, and the United States had no time to compare notes with Japan on "Godzilla" until after the creature was taken down by missile hits to the neck, most likely severing the jugular vein while entangled in suspension cables.
I was going to say Alien resurrection, but I think that was trumped by AVP/AVP2 in terms of JUST how TRIBBLE that was.
Which brings me on to Predator 2, that film was so bad that as I recall the director was so ashamed of it he used a well known alias in the credits used by directors who do not want to be associated with the film publically.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".