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Originally Posted by Fred Bang
Let's put a spin on the other thread "Your favorite movie by...."
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(Ah...Newbie geek Whatzabest threads are devalued out of all currency, but there's just something about a "worst" thread--
Either you can never-forget against a lost crime, or defend some poor persecuted martyr....In this case, I'll pick on the bad ones.
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Note that the worst may not mean that it is bad. Also, in my case, I'm putting movies I actually saw, so there might be worse.
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Noted, and same rules here--Except that when I pick them, they ARE bad.
1. Steven Spielberg:
A.I. (Take Somebody Else's Project that had been rewritten and redrafted out of all original plot, let Steve pick his own toybox of flavor-discovery actors to play with, and let those gushy-parent obsessions roll...)
4. Alfred Hitchcock:
The Trouble With Harry (Yes, Hitchcock could do humor,
except when he was making a comedy...And even then, the humor wasn't always this puzzlingly arch or weird.
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5. Woody Allen:
Broadway Danny Rose (I've reconciled that "Stardust Memories" was supposed to be 8-1/2, and even he admitted that that movie was supposed to be a dream sequence...But WTH was he thinking on this salute to New Jersey??)
6. Peter Jackson:
The Frighteners (
Please give Peter Jackson big budget epics and chick-flick dramas...Keep him
as far as possible from the cheap low, low, LOW-comedy gags of his gonzo-Ozploitation roots.
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8. Martin Scorsese:
New York, New York (Martin, we know you want to do at least one musical...I'd even love to have seen what you'd have done with a real B'way show. But first, we have to understand the basic concept of
why people watch musicals in the first place--And it was the punishing 3-hr. melodramas that killed off the Big-Budget 70's Musical in the first place.)
11. Ron Howard:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Although I'll grant EdTV as hard to beat...But the first of the "Dr. Seuss as sitcom yuppie-allegory gags" deserves to have been directed by a much lesser talent.)
12. Robert Zemeckis:
Death Becomes Her (It's not the Goofy-FX, it's the misogynism--Someone had
too much fun writing this movie, and it gets a little creepy. And if it wasn't for that, I was that close to picking Roger Rabbit.)
16. John McTiernan:
Rollerball
22: Wes Anderson:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (I've only seen one, but I'll accept they're all bad for the SAME REASON. And it's enough.)
23. Brian DePalma: Femme Fatale
24. Stanley Kubrick:
Killer's Kiss (Saw "The Killing", and thought, "
This is a first-film? Seems rather competently done, doesn't seem to first-filmish to me...." Turns out, the chronology may have been off, and he may have made another one
before that....Okay, THIS one looks like a first-film.
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25. John Carpenter: Haven't seen "Ghosts of Mars", so
Prince of Darkness will have to fill in this space. (And only because "They Live" had such promise for Roddy Piper as a breakout actor.)
26. Clint Eastwood:
Bronco Billy (I so wanted to like this movie...I even
did like it, every time Sondra Locke and her goofy subplot wasn't onscreen.
And that's only because I haven't seen any of Clint's 70's Hal-Needham phase of "Every Which Way But Loose")
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27. Georges Lucas (the great French director): Howard the Duck
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Nooo, that's Willard Huyck's worst film--And boy, is it ever, even counting "Best Defense" and "French Postcards". 15 point penalty for Common-Goof Cliche'
We're referring to Lucas's
own work, and I
dare you to sit through all of the "artistic" film-student (complete with obligatory faux-Godot "Characters in a box" scene common to that decade) 70's dystopia of
THX-1138.
Oh, btw, for the list, the OP forgot
27a. Robert Altman:
Quintet
and for the
exact same reason: Everyone had to get one out of their system back then, and it wasn't just John Boorman and "Zardoz" as some isolated fluke. Norman Jewison and the original "Rollerball" made it all look so easy.
28. Oliver Stone:
Born on the Fourth of July (I am a patient and fairly stoic filmgoer in the theater, and in only ONE drama have I ever literally laughed out loud at a movie's excesses....Oh, Caroline Kava, you had a thankless task.)
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9. David Lynch: Blue Velvet (can't understand the love for this one)
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...Then you've never seen
Wild At Heart (The first of the new "Okay,
now he's just making crap up, at this point" Lost-Highway Lynch phase, whereas BV was the transitional film from Dune, and still had some dreamlike artistic intent.)
30. Sam Raimi:
Spider-Man 3 (Sam? Stop with the Silver-age villains. No, really. Just STOP. Even if it was the studio still trying to cram The Osbornes down our throat again, we paid to see Venom, live with it.)
31. David Cronenberg:
Crash (Y'know, I'm starting to
miss "eXistenZ", knowing we'll never, ever get another Videodrome?
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32. James Cameron:
Avatar (Give overly green-intentioned White-Guilt enough money to play with, and watch it make a flat-out clown of itself. Cameron is
wayyy too White to be accepted by half the causes he considers himself the lone-crusader for, when we know he just wanted the nekkid warrior catgirls anyway.)
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