SWC75
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This subject somehow came up in the discussion of the alleged Michael Carter-Williams "incident" over the weekend, (see the basketball board). It belongs here.
I put the question in three categories:
1) What film have you seen that you would least like to see again?
For me it's Ken Russell's "The Devils". I'd liked the director's previous work and actually dragged my parents to this, which turned out to be simply an attempt to see how many horrific images could be thrown at the audience before they ran from the theater. We made it perhaps 60% of the way through and I had I had to apologize to Mom and Dad all the way home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)
2) What film was so incompetently made that it was actually funny and thus entertaining on that level?
Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is the most famous so-bad-it's-funny film of all time but I think Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster" takes the cake. They didn't have enough money in the budget for a "robot" suit but a friend of Phil's had a gorilla suit so they just took off the head and put the top of a diving suit over it. The Robot Monster destroys the earth, except for a few people who were having a picnic with a "death ray" repsented by something called the "automatic billion bubble machine".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster
3) What was the most disappointing film you've seen, considering the resumes of the people in it?
I'm a big Audrey Hepburn fan and respect Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Shariff, Irene Papas and Romy Schneider. Terrnce Young has directed some good films, inclduing several James Bond movies. Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite movie composers, ("The Good the Bad and the Ugly, etc.). And they all came together to make this incredible piece of crap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodline_(1979_film)
I put the question in three categories:
1) What film have you seen that you would least like to see again?
For me it's Ken Russell's "The Devils". I'd liked the director's previous work and actually dragged my parents to this, which turned out to be simply an attempt to see how many horrific images could be thrown at the audience before they ran from the theater. We made it perhaps 60% of the way through and I had I had to apologize to Mom and Dad all the way home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)
2) What film was so incompetently made that it was actually funny and thus entertaining on that level?
Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is the most famous so-bad-it's-funny film of all time but I think Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster" takes the cake. They didn't have enough money in the budget for a "robot" suit but a friend of Phil's had a gorilla suit so they just took off the head and put the top of a diving suit over it. The Robot Monster destroys the earth, except for a few people who were having a picnic with a "death ray" repsented by something called the "automatic billion bubble machine".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster
3) What was the most disappointing film you've seen, considering the resumes of the people in it?
I'm a big Audrey Hepburn fan and respect Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Shariff, Irene Papas and Romy Schneider. Terrnce Young has directed some good films, inclduing several James Bond movies. Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite movie composers, ("The Good the Bad and the Ugly, etc.). And they all came together to make this incredible piece of crap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodline_(1979_film)