Let's Talk Movies #36 - 2020 - Yep it is a new decade

[LeafOnTheWind]

For me, it would be 'Ghostbusters'.

The all female ghostbuster version was by far the worst. That said I kind of have high hopes for the new one coming out/already out(?) with the next gen of Ghostbusters. I'm willing to give it a shot.

 

[vgerdes]

What is the WORST movie you have EVER seen?

Hardcore Henry or Romper Stomper. There are very few movies that I walk out of/turn off before I finish watching them, but both of these qualified as a complete waste of my time. IMO.

 

[cygnus]

Worst Movie? Wheels of Fire- a dreadful Mad Max ripoff from the mid 1980s. We watched it while trying to be neighbourly when we first moved on to the army base. I thought if we were watching a crappy movie, we could at least have fun with it and make snarky comments. Apparently not. We lived there for 4 long years.

 

[Sarrie]

Battlefield Earth. I will never forgive my mom for dragging me to see it

 

[PeterG]

What is the WORST movie you have EVER seen?

Airport '77.

Lucy.

For me, it would be 'Ghostbusters'.

Hardcore Henry or Romper Stomper.

Worst Movie? Wheels of Fire

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

The Lighthouse. The 2019 horror drama starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as two lighthouse keepers who descend into madness after being stationed on an island for....four weeks. What?!?! You can't handle four weeks on a remote island...were there no other jobs available to you?? Dafoe and Pattinson do probably their best (worst?) over-acting of their careers in this. The director surely abandoned them. But it's hard to "descend into madness" and not look ridiculous. Even for these two actors who are normally great in other movies.

Also, The Lighthouse barely has a plot. These two men are basically on this island without anyone else...and it's TOUGH, dude! There is a sub-plot around mermaids, one of which Pattinson has sex with, but I assume this is a delusional encounter within his mind. The mermaid is stranded on land and is tangled up in weeds. Is this mer-rape?? Other than this slim storyline, it's just the demanding, gruff older superior harping on the newbie employee at every turn. Boring, repetitive movie cliché, there.

The Lighthouse is directed and co-written by Robert Eggers, who was behind the wonderful 2015 movie The Witch (starring Anya Taylor-Joy, who is now better known for The Queen's Gambit). But Eggers dropped the ball with this one. In order to create mood, he uses black and white cinematography and films the movie in a rarely used screen ration where the movie shows on the screen in a square shape, rather than rectangular. I suppose he meant to "box in" the viewer and make us feel claustrophobic. I'm sure that's what whoever saw this movie in the theatre felt like!

So this is my current selection for Worst. Movie. Ever.

 

[MacMadame]

These two men are basically on this island alone

But if there are two of them, how can they be alone???!

 

[Buzz]

Although I have never actually seen the movie (The Lighthouse) I always thought it was inspired by the story of the missing lighthouse keepers. Guess not. LOL

The mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers.

What drove three experienced lightkeepers to abandon their post on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides?

www.historic-uk.com

 

[PeterG]

But if there are two of them, how can they be alone???!

I edited my post. Hope it makes more sense now.

 

[Kruss]

Worst movie for me was probably Tommy Boy. Not funny. At all.

 

[Yehudi]

For me it was this Family Man ripoff starring Kevin Sorbo and Kristy Swanson (finance bro with a Porsche Kevin gets in a car accident and wakes up married to Kristy and is a preacher). I clicked on it by accident and it ruined my Netflix algorithm for several months.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Anyone plan on seeing House of Gucci next week? I think I want to see it

 

[smurfy]

Worst movie I have ever seen .....
New York, New York with Liza Minelli and Robert Deniro. I was so bored. And to think such a great song came out of it and it was directed by Scorsese

 

[Davy88gtbwxyc]

"Monkey Kingdom" by Disney Nature is a documentary about macaque monkeys in South Asia.

It was narrated in such a way that made it fun and endearing to watch.

I found it to be quite interesting how human-like these mammals can be because of how social they are.

Social hierarchies amongst the monkeys depicted in this documentary were also quite notable, and it made me reflect alot about human hierarchies as well.

Maya, the lowest ranked monkey amongst her troop ends up rising to the top, which made me glad because I was really rooting for her.

This was a quality documentary that I appreciated watching. ?

 

[manhn]

Poorly made movies don’t cause a heck of a lot of upset in me. Kinda like a higher ranked but disappointing skater causes more anger in me than the last place skater.

So, I choose American Beauty. Gawd, I hated that movie.

 

[emason]

Worst movie I have ever seen .....
New York, New York with Liza Minelli and Robert Deniro. I was so bored. And to think such a great song came out of it and it was directed by Scorsese

I wanted to walk out of this halfway through because I hated it so much, but I was with a friend so I had to stay to the bitter end. Hate the movie, also hate the song. I did successfully manage to walk out of The Wiz in the middle; I was with a different friend that time and he wanted to leave as badly as I did.

 

[MacMadame]

Being There. Only film I've ever walked out on.

 

[PeterG]

I did successfully manage to walk out of The Wiz in the middle; I was with a different friend that time and he wanted to leave as badly as I did.

I loved that movie. Diana Ross...Michael Jackson...Ease On Down The Road... Movie magic!

 

[emason]

I loved that movie. Diana Ross...Michael Jackson...Ease On Down The Road... Movie magic!

It was on a double bill with Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke. We thought Up in Smoke was hilarious and the highlight of the afternoon. The Wiz was truly awful and we couldn’t wait to flee about halfway through.

 

[Cachoo]

My friend liked a movie so much that she asked me to go with her for a second viewing. I think this might have been worse than "Airport 77." It was "Howard the Duck." To this day I don't understand what she found to like in that movie.

 

[quartz]

Worst movie - Xanadu.
Worst movie that I liked - Phantom of the Paradise. Honourable mention to Flesh Gordon.


The husband has been picking out our movies lately so we have watched 40 year old Virgin, and Horrible Bosses. I don’t need to see either of those ever again.

 

[mjb52]

I've been watching a bunch of classic movies I'd never seen, first a bunch of the Universal Horror movies in honor of Halloween, and now Night of the Hunter this week-end. I didn't realize until near the end that one of the characters was played by Lillian Gish, although I could tell it was probably someone famous. Mitchum is incredible - one of those movies you've heard so much about that you don't know if it can match up to the acclaim but it really did.

 

[watchthis!!]

While not the worst movie I have ever seen, The Paperboy is a horrible movie. And it has such a great cast! Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo, John Cusack and Macy Gray make up that cast and most are horrible because they have a horrid script and confused direction. So I was shocked to see at the end of the movie that it was directed by Lee Daniels! The guy who directed Monster’s Ball and Precious. What happened here? The movie is about two reporters who research the jailing of a southern man for murder and who is facing the death penalty. Zac Efron plays the younger brother of one reporter (McConaughey) and Macy Gray is their family maid. Efron and Gray are the only good thing about this movie, giving wonderful performances while everyone else over-acts so badly. I wish the movie had been about Efron and Gray’s characters. Another plus is how much the camera loves Efron in this movie. I can’t remember the last time somebody on screen was presented in such a truly beautiful way.

 

[DreamSkates]

Has anyone else seen Dune? That was an experience like no other movie I've ever seen.

 

[vgerdes]

Has anyone else seen Dune? That was an experience like no other movie I've ever seen.

Best movie I've seen in quite a while. I have HBO Max, so I've watched it... a few times since I saw it in the theater. It felt like I was swept away to a different world. Visually stunning, and the acting is top notch. I can't recommend it enough to anyone who loves epic fantasy and sci-fi.

 

[MacMadame]

Has anyone seen House of Gucci? I'm thinking about seeing it this weekend but I can't decide if it's going to be good, so bad it's good, or just bad.

 

[SandraMGfan]

Has anyone seen House of Gucci? I'm thinking about seeing it this weekend but I can't decide if it's going to be good, so bad it's good, or just bad.

I’m planning to see it at some point this weekend. I have moderated expectations as it’s been really hyped.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Has anyone seen House of Gucci? I'm thinking about seeing it this weekend but I can't decide if it's going to be good, so bad it's good, or just bad.

I don’t care if it’s camp, good or bad I’m going to see it. Although living here in Hollywood I do hear Oscar buzz for it

 

[watchthis!!]

I thought that News of the World is a decent enough western. The one with Tom Hanks and a child actress from Germany, Helena Zengel. The movie is about Hanks finding a girl named Johanna who has been separated from members of a Kiowa tribe who adopted her after the death of her family. (I was unclear as to who exactly killed her family...the Kiowa, with everybody just assumed the ones who killed the family were "savage Indians"...or bandits who knew everybody would assume it was Indians.) The movie has a real old-time feel to it, as if it could have been made in the 40’s or 50’s. On the DVD features, the director talks about wanting to make a classic western movie. I thought that overall the movie was quite good, but not overwhelmingly in any specific way. If you’re feeling nostalgic for movies of old, but want something with today’s production values, this is your movie.

 

[Spikefan]

Not worst movie but Mr. SFan has gone on for years about how I need to see Office Space. It’s expiring on Hulu so we watched it last night. It was a waste of 90 minutes.

I’ve walked out of two movies in my life, Natural Born Killers and Getting Even with Dad. The later was definitely the worst.

 

[Integrity]

Watched "Belfast" in a cinema this week. I always love Ciaran Hinds. He and the young actor Jude Hill were the standouts for me. The movie is described as Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical depiction of how he experienced "the Troubles" as a young boy in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s.

The film also touches on the beginnings of Branagh's love of movies. Belfast was filmed in black and white, but still Caitriona Balfe just glows. Jamie Dornan and Judi Dench also star is the movie. This is certainly not a documentary about the conflict, but as seen through the eyes of a nine year old, I guess that makes sense.

Jamie Dornan sings Everlasting Love in one scene. I love this song and he does a good job with it. I put this in a spoiler because Dornan's character is often on the edge of being harmed or killed. This scene is toward the end of the film.