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Re: Monday Morning Diversion
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Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:02:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler wrote:
> What's the worst film that you ever saw in a first-run, full-price theater?
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> Or, if you can manage it, how about the top five worst?
I've been fortunate in that I've very rarely picked a movie to watch that I
truly abhored. Rarely, but not never. Hmmm...lessee:
5. Star Trek: Nemesis
4. The Fifth Element
3. Batman Forever
2. Wing Commander (I mostly watched it for the TPM trailer, so...)
1. Batman and Robin
Not only is that my top (bottom?) five, but it pretty much exhausts my ability
to recall bad movies that I've paid full fare for (as an avid Bat-fan, I've been
pointedly avoiding watching Berry's Cat-Ho, but eagerly anticipating the
impending release of Batman Begins). Now, I have had the misfortune of watching
a number of movies that completely failed to live up to my expectations, but
that were still mildly satisfying (ST: Insurrection comes to mind immediately as
a "this would have been much better if they'd cut out the pointless
love-interest story and used the rest as a 1-hr episode" movie), but the
majority of those were watched on TV or rented video.
And I'm in the group of people who really "got" TPM and AOTC, and feel that they
more failed to live up to over-inflated expectations than that they failed to
live up to the quality of the original trilogy (except for the AOTC Imax cut,
which screwed up the pacing and left weird gaps in the story...but was worth
watching once for the super-sized fight sequences).
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| (...) I like The Fifth Element, though I accept that it's darned goofy, and the "love is the answer" bit *is* pretty weak. Wing Commander--good call. I didn't see that one in the theater, but you're right that it's a major stinker. If I had to list (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| What's the worst film that you ever saw in a first-run, full-price theater? Or, if you can manage it, how about the top five worst? Here's my list, in ascending order of foulness: Superman IV Striptease Robocop II Highlander II Howard the Duck I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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