[quote]Spike9726 wrote:
Several close calls:
Death becomes her was, well, death. Rented an obscure movie called “Boca” because I think Rae Dawn Chong is hot, Was awful. Saw about 15 minutes of Rhinestone were Stallone tries to be a country singer, was really bad. And props to the above poster who said Jim Cary, liked some of his stuff but Me, myself, and Irene was just brutal.
Oh, some folks have mentioned Starship Troopers. The movie was based on a very excellent book by Robert Heinlen, I’m sure a lot of T-men would enjoy his work. The movie was a bit cartoonish but fortunately I saw it before I read the book. I saw there was a sequal, can’t imagine it’d be too good.[/quote]
I think Robert Heinlein’s a really lazy philosopher; ie his thoughts on life are poorly thought out, but he is a good writer.
Worst movie ever: Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Don’t they understand that a movie is only funny if it’s unintentionally bad?
[quote]AZMojo wrote:
At least kids seem to like it.
Can’t say the same for “The Life Aquatic”. Truly, the worst movie I’ve seen in a long, long time.[/quote]
thats on my tv right now, it’s horrendous! it’s like they tried to do a “the royal tannenbaums” type script that’s just a big leadup to a slightly funny but mostly stupid finish
If TV series are accepted - “Sex and the city”. I was actually tricked into watching a full episode. I waited the entire duration for the movie to begin. But then it ended. I’m, like: “WTF? I want my 20 minutes back!”
BTW, Starship Troopers, the movie, sucks ball bearings if you read the book first. Without the book, I’d imagine, it might be just about forgetable.
Toho wasn’t very happy about it either. Toho gave Hollywood permission to use their biggest screen star and Hollywood fucked it up. Made him into a giant Iguana. Toho makes a statement about this in the newly released Godzilla Final Wars (just watched it last night) where the big guy actually gets to kick that American wanna-be’s ass. Takes him out in about a minute. Excellent.
Worst Toho Godzilla movie: Godzilla versus Megalon. He actually does a flying drop kick…twice.
Hollywood has a long history of taking excellent books and making horrible movies out of them:
Anyone here ever read a Robert E. Howard Conan novel? I grew up reading Conan novels and knew the character and stories very well. Now, I always liked Arnold, but he made a horrible Conan.
Then there was the unforgiveable casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with a Vampire. Ann Rice was openly upset about it until she somehow got turned by the studio (I think they threatened to sue her or never use another one of her novels).
Troy. Not quite as bad as I feared, but they took out all the gods interference with man which is what started the whole thing to begin with.
Exactly. That movie, while not on the same level as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, still set a standard as far as “high school movies” go.
I do agree with the guy who wrote about Darkness. I don’t think a “horror movie” can get worse than that. It didn’t even have an ending. Driving into a freeway tunnel is not an ending.
Toho wasn’t very happy about it either. Toho gave Hollywood permission to use their biggest screen star and Hollywood fucked it up. Made him into a giant Iguana. Toho makes a statement about this in the newly released Godzilla Final Wars (just watched it last night) where the big guy actually gets to kick that American wanna-be’s ass. Takes him out in about a minute. Excellent.
Worst Toho Godzilla movie: Godzilla versus Megalon. He actually does a flying drop kick…twice.
Hollywood has a long history of taking excellent books and making horrible movies out of them:
Anyone here ever read a Robert E. Howard Conan novel? I grew up reading Conan novels and knew the character and stories very well. Now, I always liked Arnold, but he made a horrible Conan.
Then there was the unforgiveable casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with a Vampire. Ann Rice was openly upset about it until she somehow got turned by the studio (I think they threatened to sue her or never use another one of her novels).
Troy. Not quite as bad as I feared, but they took out all the gods interference with man which is what started the whole thing to begin with.
Hollywood…idiots.
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Hey gojira,
Are you going to see the new Peter Jackson King Kong? the trailers look pretty good,
Much better than the 1976 crappy version. My favorite Godzilla movie is Godzilla vs Detroyer. As for Conan, I love the character. Arnold’s movies are a pale comparison.
