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06 Mar 2008, 2:26 pm

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Eragon, but any film based on a book so poor is going to be appalling.


I liked that movie... until I read the book, which I actually liked; and it made me furious at how much amazing imagery, set pieces and characters had been left out. In light of that, I can understand how the movie could be criticized, but I never understand why the books are so often lambasted. :? I mean, for god's sake! There's a talking dragon in it! :rambo:


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06 Mar 2008, 10:31 pm

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Will Ferrel's movie .... ermmm burgundy something....not sure with the title



Anchorman...and thank you. it's nice to know i'm not alone in my disdain for that movie.

all my friends love it, the only people who don't like it are me and my screenwriting teacher. it's infuriating.


Yeah its stupid, but its supposed to be. Not everyone 'gets' stupid humor, but I enjoyed it. Then again I also happen to love things like Kung Pow: Enter the Fist and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

But if you want to talk completely idiotic movies that aren't doing so for humor value and have no reason to exist, Its really hard to top Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.... Somehow I've ended up with 2 copies on DVD...


the level of "stupid" humor in Anchorman and Aqua Teen Hunger Force are two completely different things. In fact, Aqua Teen I wouldn't even call stupid, i'd call absurdist. Anchorman tries to be absurdist but ends up just being ret*d. Also, it has this assumption that a lot of comedy writers seem to have that the 70's were automatically funny. if your sense of humor begins and ends with a leisure suit or an afro chances are I don't care for you.

And movies like Santa Claus Conquers the Martians are in a different lexicon of stupidity altogether. Movies like that (along with Ed Wood's body of work) are a level of stupidity that almost achieves a level of brilliance.


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07 Mar 2008, 4:58 am

Aridarr wrote:
Purplefluffychainsaw wrote:
Eragon, but any film based on a book so poor is going to be appalling.


I liked that movie... until I read the book, which I actually liked; and it made me furious at how much amazing imagery, set pieces and characters had been left out. In light of that, I can understand how the movie could be criticized, but I never understand why the books are so often lambasted. :? I mean, for god's sake! There's a talking dragon in it! :rambo:


Read the sequel and/or watched Star Wars? "Eragon, I am your brother".

That's not the only thing he stole as well.

TBH the book's writing style isn't that bad, just full of purple prose. It kept me amused for an hour or so, anyway, until I went back and reread it and realised just how much Paolini had stolen. Plus, he's allergic to the word said.


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07 Mar 2008, 10:10 am

I'd go with Sulla Terra- an Italian Alien rip-off..



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09 Mar 2008, 12:17 am

Putney Swope - a ...I dunno...looks like a film school something. Shooting hoops with suitcases full of money. If the phrase WTF hadn't been invented yet, this would have spurred it on.

Speaking of film school - THX1138. If you think Lucas was always as good as Star Wars...think again...;) Side note - the combination comes up in several movies (that 50s flick, it was Harrison Ford's license plate, Star Wars, a bit of dialog, etc...;)



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09 Mar 2008, 2:26 am

The Doom movie. It was just plain bad.



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09 Mar 2008, 1:59 pm

I'm going to say "Sewage Baby".

It's about an underground abortion clinic/whorehouse run by "Big Mama".
This pregnant woman and her boyfriend to there to ask about an abortion, and they drug the woman and abort her baby.
They just flush it down the toilet, umbilical cord and all.
So down in the sewers, the baby comes back to life and morphs into this evil demon-looking thing.
It's umbilical cord reaches out of the toilet and beheads someone.
Then, it covers the whole house in a protective layer of gunk so they can't get out.
It slowly begins killing people.

Worst idea for a movie ever.
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter wasn't quite as bad as this.


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10 Mar 2008, 1:03 pm

Umm....I can't believe I'm about to confess this, but here goes. I think I've got a title that tops even "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" in terms of stupid fun, which I've actually seen all the way through.

It's... :oops: "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"! :oops:

Granted, I was only 13 at the time, but even at that age, I felt like I'd wasted 90 minutes of my life I'd never get back, heh. :P



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10 Mar 2008, 1:13 pm

The_Cinephile wrote:
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter wasn't quite as bad as this.


this probably speaks volumes of my own taste but i thought Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter was better than Passion of the Christ itself.


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10 Mar 2008, 8:51 pm

Hands down:

The Pokemon Movie. I took my son to see it years ago and it seemed like the first 15 minutes of it was nothing but dancing Poke-creatures. I felt like I was watching a screen-saver.

Runners-up:
- "Night of the Lepus" (killer bunny rabbits]
- Monty Python's 'Holy Grail' (the launching-cows scene was pretty funny, though - I giggled slightly)
- Dumb and Dumberer
- All the 'Scary Movie' movies and subsequent spin-offs, including 'Epic Movie'
- Anything by Pixar, but especially the surfing penguin movie
- Cartoons of any sort
- 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' (I think that's the title)
- Any romance movies
- 'Team America'
- 'Legally Blonde'
- Anything with Sandra Bullock in it

There are more, but the list is too freakin' l-o-n-g....


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10 Mar 2008, 8:58 pm

The_Cinephile wrote:
So down in the sewers, the baby comes back to life and morphs into this evil demon-looking thing.
It's umbilical cord reaches out of the toilet and beheads someone.
Then, it covers the whole house in a protective layer of gunk so they can't get out.
It slowly begins killing people.


Ohhh, that one sounds bad... Even worse than 'The Killer Brain' (A flying brain with evil googly eyes goes rogue, bum-rushing unsuspecting people left and right, then choking them with its spinal cord. I remember thinking at the time, "Why doesn't someone just hit it with a baseball bat?")


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11 Mar 2008, 12:11 am

I don't remeber the title but it was a movie about a teenage boy getting his brain transplanted into a t-rex and him having to cope with the problems that follow this accident.



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12 Mar 2008, 3:09 am

all the American pie films.
the scary movie films.
basically all American teen movies ive seen



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12 Mar 2008, 3:26 am

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I don't remeber the title but it was a movie about a teenage boy getting his brain transplanted into a t-rex and him having to cope with the problems that follow this accident.


Tammy and the T-Rex.



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12 Mar 2008, 4:45 pm

Timothy Lea's Confessions of a Window Cleaner, soft core porn with just enough plot to get a cinema release.
Police academy, One the buses movie, any movie spun off of a seventies british sitcom.



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20 Mar 2008, 7:03 pm

1 ) Napoleon Dynamite
2 ) Made In Heaven
3 ) The English Patient
4) As Good As It Gets
5) K-Pax
6) Fun With Dick And Jane
7) The Bone Collector
8) Kill Bill Part 2
9) From Dusk to Dawn 2
10) Once Upon A Time In Mexico