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Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen...
A very close second for me would have to be the Mars movie with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and a few others.
Wow that was dumb. Makes you want to gag. Somebody please make some good SF in the coming decade.
At least remakes of shit series seem on the decline. Because they've done them all already.
Studio Vulture says: "FUCK THAT! LET'S MAKE A NEW SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN STARRING NICOLAS CAGE!!!"
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One of my favourite movie review quotes is about this, by Roger Ebert: "The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."Battlefield Earth would be up there. What a fucking dismal piece of shit.
PLACE THE CAMERA FLAT YOU IDIOT!
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Saw it for a laugh on DVD but it was too shitty to even laugh at.
I think it easily qualifies as one of the worst films ever.
Saving Private Ryan? Schindler's List?
Comparing them to Leni Riefenstahl or Goebbels' commissioned propaganda?? Come the fuck on, man.
Yeah, we all know technically Leni Riefenstahl was 'great' - so, you've taken film history 101. Hurrah.
There were 'maudlin' moments in both SPR (the grave scene with the superimposed face or flag or aging or whatever it was - and the near ending of SL was overdone (I could have saved another, etc.) but as a whole they were both pretty fucking decent pictures. They are important, whether or not they appeal to your aesthetic sensibilities and it's irrelevent that Speilberg made ET and dino movies before.
And, most films on some level are fucking entertainment. Some are also art.
Bad movies: reserve that for Clint Eastwood's films with the orangutan or the live action Scooby Doo or a million student films poorly copying Jim Jarmusch.
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In other words, why is Battlefield Earth not so bad that it is good again? Will it become a cult movie in 20 years, with people laughing their asses off, because it is so ridiculous?
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I wonder what makes a movie like Battlefield Earth so bad that it is hated by (almost) everyone, while other movies also tank (Showgirls, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc.), but gather a cult following over time and are in general enjoyable and funny with the right mindset (i.e. when you're drunk and watch it with other people). quote]
It already has a cult following. They're called Scientologists.
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I wonder what makes a movie like Battlefield Earth so bad that it is hated by (almost) everyone, while other movies also tank (Showgirls, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc.), but gather a cult following over time and are in general enjoyable and funny with the right mindset (i.e. when you're drunk and watch it with other people).
In other words, why is Battlefield Earth not so bad that it is good again? Will it become a cult movie in 20 years, with people laughing their asses off, because it is so ridiculous?
Battlefield Earth will not become a cult classic. Showgirls and Rocky Horror are fun to watch. They are quoteable. They have WTF scenes.
Battlefield Earth is just downright boring above all else.
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In other words, why is Battlefield Earth not so bad that it is good again? Will it become a cult movie in 20 years, with people laughing their asses off, because it is so ridiculous?
Uh, Battlefield Earth is a cult movie, but not in the good sense.
Also, anyone who disavows "Every Which Way But Loose" is dead to me. I'm with Chapel there.
edit: Damn, Jay beat me to it...
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The great Eastwood films (for me) are still the Leone westerns and that's all there is to it.
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Okay,okay!!! I'll give the orangutan another chance... but only if 'the dead to me' meme is used on the Fortress less than ten times a day. That fucking meme has far too much space here, it almost makes me want to answer 'it burns ussss...'
The great Eastwood films (for me) are still the Leone westerns and that's all there is to it.
You don't dig Gan Torino & Million $ Baby? In the Line of Fire? Dirty fuckin harry?
You are Catle Ravenloft to me.
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"Every Which Way But Loose" is a fine film in the 70s urban redneck genre. I haven't seen the sequel in a lot of years, but I don't recall it being all that good, or being horrible. The first one is good despite being a movie with a monkey, because the monkey is sort of an incidental character. Like the bikers, with the same sort of teeth.
I mean, if you're going to play WTFisTHAT? with Clint Eastwood, I'd put "Paint Your Wagon" at the front of the line (although I love that weirdass musical western farce as well...)
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Yeh, as for EWWBL - a whoppin' 33 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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