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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:00 am
by Graham Kennedy
Stealth.
There's an hour and a half of my life I will never get back.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:46 pm
by Foxbat
So many choices, so little time...
Off the top of my head, 'Hudson Hawk' and 'GOR' (or, according to my friend - Giant Obstruction of the Rectum) are neck and neck for worst all time...
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:18 pm
by Serapha
GOR? As in based on
John Norman's Gor Gor? That would be hideous.
Personally I vote for
The Killer Shrews.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:20 pm
by Sionnach Glic
From what I remember, the film was based on the GOR books.
The MST3K version of it was hilarious, though. "Cabott! Cabott! Cabott!"
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:49 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Speaking of MST3K, I think the film
Devil Fish deserves an honourable mention in the List of Shame.
By the way, welcome to the forum, Serapha.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:54 pm
by Enkidu
They arrested members of a religious cult based around those novels in the north of England a year or so. Takes all sorts......
Here's a website that does reviews of bad movies, both mainstream and B flicks like Plan 9 and Manos.
http://www.agonybooth.com/
It mutated from a site dedicated to the worst Trek episodes, hence the name.
I'm not sure if they are featured on Agony Booth, but here's some more,
Hawk The Slayer, which is so bad it's good, and Universal Soldier: The Return (US 4). I've watched a lot of really, really crap Jean-Claude Van Damme films lately, but that one is so completely incompetent in all respects it stands out from the crowd.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:12 pm
by Sionnach Glic
AgonyBooth is a pretty good site. I like their review of Threshold and Bakashi's versoin of The Lord Of The Rings in particular.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:52 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Welcome, Serapha.
Any MST3K movie's automatically bad. Although
The Incredible melting Man was one of their worst. Oh, and Sidehackers.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:00 am
by Blackstar the Chakat
GrahamKennedy wrote:Stealth.
There's an hour and a half of my life I will never get back.
Why does everyone I meet on the net think that Stealth is a bad movie? Everyone I talk to in RL liked it.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:37 am
by mwhittington
Stealth wasn't that bad, because the only redeeming feature was the eye candy that is Jessica Biel in a bikini. As for worst movie, I saw this one movie my dad rented when I was still in high school. I think it was the British version of Journey to the Center of the Earth, made absolutely no sense whatsoever...Oh, also the made for TV version of same movie, with Tim Russ and F. Murray Abraham.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:29 am
by Mikey
I agree with your assessment of Stealth - in other words, there's about ten good minutes in it, as long as you watch it with the sound off.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:24 pm
by Sionnach Glic
I've never seen Stealth and I don't particularly plan on doing so. A movie about a sentient fighter-jet that goes mad because it got hit by lighting sounds stupid enough for me to avoid.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:05 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
Rochey wrote:I've never seen Stealth and I don't particularly plan on doing so. A movie about a sentient fighter-jet that goes mad because it got hit by lighting sounds stupid enough for me to avoid.
Sure, but yet a man brought to life by a lightning strike and a madman who then goes crazy goes down as a classic. It wasn't sentient, well not exactly. It was an AI who began malfunctioning from a lighting strike. He briefly focused on a fake scinario, but afterwards EDI also began developing feelings. The action sequences were impressive, the concept was great, and I really wish they had made the sequal.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:14 pm
by Captain Seafort
Not to mention a certain military robot that getting hit by lightning and subsequently deciding that it's alive.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:23 pm
by Graham Kennedy
ChakatBlackstar wrote:Rochey wrote:I've never seen Stealth and I don't particularly plan on doing so. A movie about a sentient fighter-jet that goes mad because it got hit by lighting sounds stupid enough for me to avoid.
Sure, but yet a man brought to life by a lightning strike and a madman who then goes crazy goes down as a classic.
It's not the theme, it's the execution.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is about flying saucers coming to Earth. It's a classic.
Plan 9 From Outer Space is about flying saucers coming to Earth. It is widely thought the worst movie ever made.
One is a thoughtful exploration of how people might cope with an alien contact. One is not.
Frankenstein is a thoughtful exploration of the implications of creating a life.
Stealth is a pile of garbage whose only redeeming feature is that the female lead has a nice body and waves her hooters at the camera for some of it.
The "action" is utterly absurd and totally unrealistic. I mean, for those who haven't seen it, here's but one example. The computer drone plane flies up to an airborne refuelling system at one point. The system (which is unmanned) refuses access since the plane is a rogue. The plane uses its cannon to shoot the end off the pipe, and then shoves its refuelling probe into the shredded end of the pipe and takes on fuel through that.
This is so utterly impossible that it's beyond laughable. It's the kind of thing that leaves anybody who knows anything about aircraft slack jawed in amazement.
And this is not even remotely close to being the silliest moment in the movie.