Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
On 2002-12-08 15:36, Paul wrote:
Yeah, Kevin, I agree. Signs was also a big disappointment to me. Even the characters didn't make sense. It seemed like a half baked kid's movie kind of like that Star Wars Phantom Menace fiasco.
Gene Siskel once railed against a terrible movie, resenting that it stole two hours out of his life that he'd never get back.
Sadly ironic he died so young.
I miss him--I liked to watch Siskel and Ebert and average out their opinions (or side with Gene). I could trust that I wouldn't waste my money or more precious time.
My nomination is Armageddon. I really enjoyed the first half, as corny as it was. The second half of the movie was pure garbage. There were too many sound effects to hear any of the dialog. Maybe that was a good thing. The pseudoscience was way too wrong (Homer Simpson must have been a technical consultant) and the sheer number of completely impossible events (generally death and planetary anihilation was cheated about once every six seconds beating 10,000,000,000,000,000 to 1 odds each time.
Personally, I think "Manos, Hands of Fate" is the worst movie ever made, as it manages to be B movie bad, without any of the usual camp value of virtually any of the other B movies out there. I suspect it damaged MST3K's will to live as the show never seemed to be quite the same after they tried to work over that one!
On 2002-12-08 16:20, dakotamouse wrote:
I am the second vote for "Ishtar"...
It was supposed to be a comedy.
It was supposed to be a comedy? Eewww, that makes it even worse. I guess that's why Beatty and Hoffman never became the new Lewis and Martin. Actually, I knew it was billed as a comedy, but when I watched it I just sat there with a puzzled look on my face. Then I fell asleep with a puzzled look on my face.
Woody Allen allegedly purchased the "free adaptation" rights of a B-series Japanese spy movie.
Then he just ganged friends and actors in the dubbing studio--none understood Japanese--and they just said whatever they felt like, understandably deconstructing the plot...
This "worse than worse" got close to brilliant
I should have 1st mentioned John Huston is the director! Peter Sellers is J. Bond too, like the new one sorta replacing David Niven. The villain is Woody Allen though Orson Welles is mighty naughty, too, and the main JB girl is none else than Arsula Undress, if I got it straight this time
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I just rented Imposter w/ Gary Senise last weekend. It sadly could have been a cool movie, but the plot holes were so huge you could jack-knife a big rig in one and not touch the sides. I don't want to spoil it in case someone just has to see for themselves.
My teenage son says all of his friends hated Reign of Fire, which I believe is pathetic. (I might rent it anyway, I don't know. Just to spite myself.) The ad on the sides of buses looked so cool.
Tony
Here are my two votes. My first vote goes to "Ghost". I had heard so many good things about it, and was majorly disappointed. Way too easy to figure out the plot, and the "scary" ghosts cracked me up.
My second vote: "Cabin Boy". Did anyone else see that? Truly painful to sit through.