Worst films you've seen...

[nudeyorker]

Greta Garbo's Two-Faced Woman....a horrible mess of a film.

I just watched that again yesterday. I think I am one of the few people who enjoyed that movie. Because if the changes they had to make for the censors it ended up being kind of a mess and making Garbo look silly. But it was fun to see her laugh and dance. Sadly it was her last film.

 

[2322]

Tarantino and Agnes Moorehead in the same paragraph. Congrats on pulling that one off, Jason. Agnes was the greatest lesbian film actress of the 20th Century. Garbo comes in second, but just doesn't have Moorehead's range.

Worst movie: The original, the remake, and and future iterations of Last House on the Left. Even Plan 9 from Outer Space had some redeeming social value -- albeit not much.

Plan 9 From Outer Space isn't that awful. I think Ed Wood's movies belong in the so-bad-they're-good category in that they're entertaining. People have asked the Best Brains why they never did Plan 9 on MST3k and they simply answered that it wasn't that awful compared to such unwatchable films like Manos or Monster A Go-Go which are hideously dull on their own.

I'm a huge Moorehead fan. I've loved her ever since I saw her on Bewitched! When I heard her do Sorry, Wrong Number, which was originally a radio play, I was taken by how much better she was than Stanwyck who did the movie.

If she was indeed a lesbian then Morehead is quite the last name! :wink:

Agnes

Thanks for that!!! I'm dying to listen to it tonight before I go to bed! I love old radio shows!

Somehow I'm not surprised at all. She never gave me the "warm fuzzies" much as I respect her work in Double Indemnity and Stella Dallas.

The only "lanky everyman" from the 1930s (Fonda, Stewart, etc) I've ever found appealing was Gary Cooper. But he supposed to be as dumb as a box of hair.

Cooper was a good actor and I respect his ability. Being a leading man is difficult because you're always the same character doing different things.

One leading man from that period I've always had an eye for is Joel McCrea. He's just beautiful. Look at that shot of him with Dolores Del Rio in Bird of Paradise. WOW!

I just watched that again yesterday. I think I am one of the few people who enjoyed that movie. Because if the changes they had to make for the censors it ended up being kind of a mess and making Garbo look silly. But it was fun to see her laugh and dance. Sadly it was her last film.

Absolutely. The film was ruined by the Hayes Office. See her in A Woman of Affairs and you'll see the kind of sensuality of which she is capable outside of the censors' hands.

 

[D_Tintagel_Demondong]

I'm a huge Moorehead fan. I've loved her ever since I saw her on Bewitched! When I heard her do Sorry, Wrong Number, which was originally a radio play, I was taken by how much better she was than Stanwyck who did the movie.

I loved her performance in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. This is the only example that I could find, where Olivia de Havilland pushes her down the stairs:

YouTube - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Velma's death

One would barely recognize her.

 

[2322]

I loved her performance in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. This is the only example that I could find, where Olivia de Havilland pushes her down the stairs:

YouTube - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Velma's death

One would barely recognize her.

I'd like to see a double feature of Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? de Havilland could be quite the bitch. As she says in The Heiress, "I was taught by masters." That whole running feud with her sister was no act.

 

[elegant20]

I know Greta Garbo has a sense of humor about herself and whatnot. I know she was not always the serious type that was portrayed on MGM flicks, but I thought they were trying to make her the next Jean Harlowe for Two Faced Woman. I mean, I am not always right on these. I could be wrong. But that's just my opinion and I respect yours as well.

 

[B_New End]

Con-Air. A plane full of racist stereotypes, and the child molester gets away.

 

[elegant20]

As for Lou Diamond Phillips...his career hasn't recovered since Young Guns........it's all downhill from there on. His career became B movies after B movies.

Some of them you listed are not worth mentioning.

 

[D_Deceptivus Wrongpeter]

Worst films? The ones I've walked out on in the theater!

1.There's Something about Mary... too stupid for words. It's like a movie where every character is played to the hilt by Jerry Lewis imitators each trying to out "Jerry" the other... Walked out when they guy got his nuts caught in his fly. Yuck Yuck Yuck.

2. Lost in Space... Walked when they brought out the lame chimp-beast. Now if they could have got a good porno going with Matt LeBlanc fucking both of the daughters.... hubba hubba.

3. The last three Star Wars movies. What a betrayal. I didn't exactly walk out on these, but the first one was so incompetently done, I waited for the last two to come out on DVD and watched them at home. And by "watched" I mean they ran in the background while I cleaned the house, did the laundry and sat down with a crossword puzzle. They were really just the world's most expensive Muzak

 

[cdarro]

Too many to list. I don't go to theatres any more, and rarely rent because there are so many godawful flicks out there that are so overhyped. But from time to time there are some decent ones on HBO, Movie Central or Superchannel

 

[naughty]

I'd like to see a double feature of Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? de Havilland could be quite the bitch. As she says in The Heiress, "I was taught by masters." That whole running feud with her sister was no act.

Speaking of "The Heiress" that is my favorite of her films. Ralph Richardson's rejection and subtle dismantling of his daughter is chilling. I thought that "Washington Square" which took Henry James' original title was a bit ham handed for my taste. Jennifer Jason Leigh merely looked depressed, she did exhibit the range in emotion needed for the role.
This is the scene that won her the Oscar and contains the above most chilling line...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWL4AvGr2c

 

[whatireallywant]

If Yahoo Serious is still alive I think he and Carrot Top need to join forces and make a film together.

I'd actually like to see that! :biggrin1: I'm weird that way.

Plan 9 From Outer Space isn't that awful. I think Ed Wood's movies belong in the so-bad-they're-good category in that they're entertaining. People have asked the Best Brains why they never did Plan 9 on MST3k and they simply answered that it wasn't that awful compared to such unwatchable films like Manos or Monster A Go-Go which are hideously dull on their own.

I agree about Plan 9! I think it's hilarious! They showed Monster A Go-Go on TCM recently but I haven't seen it (with or without MST3K). Another one that is considered among the worst but I haven't seen it since I was a kid so I don't remember much of anything about it, is The Horror of Party Beach!

Oh yeah, and then there's THIS one...

YouTube - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Part 1

 

[elegant20]

No one ever heard of this movie, but it was pretty bad. Dueces Wild, I think. It starred Debbie Harry, Fairuza Balk, Frankie Muniz, Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Vincent Pastore, Balthazaar Getty, Norman Reedus, Drea De Matteo, Max Perlich, and a special cameo appearance by Matt Dillon. It was a horrible rip-off of The Outsiders and some of the scenes were just plain bad. Not campy bad. Just bad all around.