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most movies he's been in lately have been excruciating !!! the pressure to pay off his gambling debts has forced him to appear everything just shy of PORN!! AH HA HA HA!!
lex T Although maybe don’t be a condescending dick about it in the case of Silent Night Deadly Night (not saying it’s good ,but...dear god even my Internet standards that’s incredibly arrogant)
SpookyRoseV The writer of the list on this video is showing his typical "I'm right you're wrong" attitude and trying to shove his personal opinion to our throat.
hellrzr1966 since you're probably wondering, i really don't think _my_ mother has any opinion on the matter. sure, she'd likely respond with a "good to know," but that just means she doesn't give a sh*t. sorry.
I was fully expecting JEM to be on this list. It's the one time I've thought a movie would have been better off with Michael Bay directing it. At least he would have kept the explosions and 80s aesthetic from the original show.
29AndreG Likely because of the contest the director had for fans to share their love for Jem for a chance to appear in the movie, then took all those videos and edited them so they would appear to be praising the MOVIE instead of the cartoon series. I don't feel bad for him AT ALL.
Naah, you're good, it's a prequel. However, there are some plot points you won't get unless you've seen Goats Gone Wild 5 first, most importantly where that raw goat meat came from in that one climactic scene.
No, the plot isn't too exposition heavy and much of the success comes from it's respect for the viewer to cum to their own conclusions. I do feel like the GGW5 references were a bit forced and a little hard to swallow.
You should use the machete order. Watch Back Door Whores - A New Hole; Back Door Whores - Revenge of The Dicks; and Back Door Whores - Red And Raw. Don't even bother watching Back Door Whores - The Phantom Fuckhole.
Where's Jem and the Holograms? Not only did fans flip when they saw the trailer had virtually nothing to do with the original Source Material, but so few people saw it that it was pulled from theaters in just 2 weeks.
Nick Cage is my favourite actor. I love watching him chew the scenery in every single role (unless it’s horror, I don’t watch those). He puts everything he’s got into every role he takes & when it works, *IT WORKS*... When it doesn’t work, it’s still fun to watch
Jessica Ralston All 4? But there are 5! :D Sharknado Sharknado 2: The Second One Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Gotta love them just for those titles XD There are also Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness , which is a mockumentary style comedy, and Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy, which is an actual documentary about the Sharknado movies phenomenon.
Jem and the holograms, anyone? No just me it only lasted either 2 weeks or it's opening weekend. It had little to nothing to do with its 80's predecessor.
In the 80's I worked at the HQ of one of the nations largest theater chains. When we ran Popeye, it was pulled from the screens after 3 days and replaced by a Chinese kung fu movie with subtitles.
dbergerac Forget what year that disasterpiece came out, but I remember going with my mom to the AMC 309 to see it as a young kid. Loved all things Popeye, walked out 10 minutes in. Same thing with the He-Man live action abomination. Went in, realized it was a Star Wars ripoff and left so angry. At five years old, I believe.
heresy. Robin Williams was perfect as Popeye. The film made three times its budget at the box office so it was actually for 1980 standards a moderate success.
I liked the movie myself. Nonetheless, my statement about it being pulled from hundreds of screens in the middle of the first week and replaced by a Chinese movie was accurate. If it was the biggest blockbuster film of the era, it still happened.
toomanyaccounts I haven't gone back and watched it, at that young of an age you want to see on the big screen what you see on TV, you know? Hell, I had no idea Williams was Popeye. I do remember hating whoever was Olive Oyl. I guess it's time to go back and watch, seeing that you and the OP enjoyed it. Cheers gents.
That is such a shame about The Swarm. Irwin Allen did so well with his Tv shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, and Time Tunnel. Then he did The Swarm movie, and fell to Earth as hard as Spielberg did with 1941!
How could you miss Stuart Saves His family starring now Senator Al Franken as his Stuart Smalley character and considered the worst SNL movie until the next one was released. Also more controversial might be 1977's The Message a film that caused a hostage crisis just before it's release in the US.
Max Nobel I totally agree. I actually enjoyed it. I do know I’m one of the very few that saw it in theaters. Hell I didn’t even know Geostorm was even released it was gone so quickly. I was slightly interested in seeing it.
The Swarm was actually not that bad considering the disaster films of that era. It did pretty well on Showtime where I saw it in the early 80's. Next to 2-Minute Warning, Earthquake, any of the airport movies this was very watchable.
It was a bad movie, yes. The _true_ horror is that it faithfully reproduces the sixth-grade writing of L. Ron Hubbard. Yeah, the same guy who douched society with Scientology. Most of his characters are about on par with Jar Jar..
Crap, you beat me to it. :) Apparently, "Battlefield Earth" clung on to a 6 week cinema run, but bombed spectacularly from a bottom line standpoint even despite this. Matters weren't helped when the distributor, Franchise Pictures, went bust after it was sued for fraud by the German financiers, who alleged that they were ripped off to the tune of $31 million. The courts agreed with this assessment, and FP was handed a whopping £121 million damages bill. Reviewers of the film were almost queueing up to enjoy sticking the knife in this turkey. Some of the comments made about the film constitute *legendary* levels of scorn and derision. Ironically, lovers of bad movies now collect this, just to revel in its awfulness.
Broken Bridge It's "panache", but no disrespect intended. Thank you for using a great word I thought the world had forgotten about! There are still smart people out there...
ramen_no_broth sorry, but no smart person would ever spell _panache_ as _pan-ash._ an opinion that becomes an objective *fact* when internet access is evident. it even got hyphenated, yo. yikes. no disrespect.
He did, and it was as terrible as you'd expect. Knowing Doucheberg, he probably bitched when he found out that his evil character loses in the ending and chewed out the directors for not putting him over. On a related note, Hulk Hogan did a terrible Santa movie as well. Because of course he did. Santa with Muscles. He's not an evil Santa, but it is widely considered one of the worst movies ever made.
The worst Christmas movie I've ever seen was Santa Baby...though I'll admit that most Christmas movies are terrible. I just sit in my basement, drink vodka and watch Eastern Promises for most of December!
While I don't disagree with your list I will say I personally enjoyed Blackhat, loved Silent Night, Deadly Night and liked Rise: Blood Hunter. I was fortunate enough to see them all in theaters. I was only 12 years old when I saw SNDN and was a huge fan of all things horror at the time. Thanks for the list.
Another Nic Cage movie that belongs here is Trespass (2011). It had a budget of 35 million, but it only made $16,816 in it's one week of release. $10 of that was from me.
One film that I remember hearing about (but never watched for obvious reasons) is a movie called Zyzzyx Road, a film with a budget of $1.2 million and earned only $30 in the box office.
My wife's uncle actually made that movie so I have an explanation, it didn't take too long to make but it took years for someone to actually pick up the movie to put into theaters that by the time it got pushed out it was really dated.
How could you forget "United Passions", starring Tim Roth,Sam Neil and Gerard Depardieu. A film about a young Sebb Blatters struggle to make fifa the greatest sporting organisation in the world all for the love of football. Came out the same month as a load of top Fifa officials were arrested on coruption charges. Cost $20 million and made $900 in the theatres.
You should read Michael Caine's biography. I think this was his first film he made when he moved to L.A. and he did it to help get his green card. He has some funny stories about when the actors were first working with the bees.
Magpie One Dutin Hoffman. The movie sported a nugget of 55 million and opened with $4.3 million. It grossed $14.4 million in the US. It was number one at the box office during the opening week, but fell to 4th place when Beverly Hills Cop opened the following weekend.
jordan isle Any video that features that bloke with the " S**t videos for w**kers" or whatever he says; it's like he created a catchphrase for juveniles...or Kevin Smith fans.
"The Black Cauldron" I saw this Disney movie in Seattle at a pre-release showing. They took a survey after the showing. Near the start is close-up of a main character, a cute little pig. It's face filled the screen. 50 kids and ran screaming in fear up the isles and out of the theater, followed by bewildered adults that just watched their kids run away.
might want to brush up on history just a little bit before you say something like it's "weird" that a South Korean man would look up to Douglas MacArthur.
It's weird that anyone would look to one person enough to want to contact their spirit psychically. And while MacArthur did help preserve South Korea's independence, why would a South Korean want to make a movie about an American when there are plenty of Korean war heroes to choose from? And it's not like MacArthur's contribution was that great anyway; General Ridgway was the one who really saved the American war effort.
While working as a projectionist in Atlantic City in the 70's. We were showing Exorcist 2. We got a letter telling us to cut the last 10 mins, & splice in a different ending.
Malcolm Boyd yes, it came out around the time the FIFA scandal started. I think it did really, really bad. United Passion. A budget of 25-32 million. Only made 200,000 world wide.
The Swarm is glorious in its awfulness. I am so happy Warners put the extended edition on DVD and hope they'll put it on Blu someday. (Sadly, Irwin Allen's equally-craptacular When Time Ran Out is only available on DVD in a severely cut edition that's actually shorter than the theatrical release.)
You forgot STORAGE 24 man!! Released in US in 1 theater for one day and made $67 (in the US box office, approx $640000 USD world wide on a £1.6 million budget
I watched "Shawshank Redemption" once . . . and, never again. Not a movie I'd call "timeless." "Goodfellas" has great scenes and great acting -- but, never works for me as a whole film. So, it's another I've watched once, period. "Jaws" scared the heck out of me as a kid. But, again the question: Did it create or resurrect the "monster/beast" genre? No, it did not. Unlike "Goodfellas," any imitations of "Jaws" were few . . . and, likely, to have been a *sequel* of the original!
I don't think that one ever even made it to theatres. I remember seeing ads for it and I was super excited and then saw the trailer and knew it was a dud
As someone who lives in Milwaukee...which became one of the centers of the *Silent Night,Deadly Night* backlash...the producers of that film had no one but themselves to blame,for advertising it on TV during prime time. They were practically inviting upset parents,already tiring of the then-popular slasher genre,to protest. And it was all utterly pointless...that movie spawned four sequels and a remake...and it's not even the first horror movie to feature a killer dressed as Santa Claus!
I don't care what anyone says... I love "It's Pat". I own a DVD copy of it and every once in a while I sing out the line "I played with the ween, I played with the ween!" :`)
It's Pat. Made because Lorne Michaels loves trying to stretch a barely developed character to two hours and strike while the iron is room temperature and waiting till barely anyone remembers the character.
I'm confused, if the Santa one made back double it's budget before being pulled for being offensive and is considered a cult classic then how does it count as a film that was pulled because it was terrible? O.o
I got a bad haircut in the 5th grade and some of my classmates called me Pat from SNL...at the time I never watched SNL so I had no idea who they were talking about. I guess they thought I looked androgynous? xD
I've never seen it, but from what I've heard the #1 on this list should be a movie called "The invisible boy", it was so terrible that it only got a few seats in the box office total, and was pulled moments after its release. The very studio that made it denies they did, or that it exists.
Wendell gibson-williams well he's poor, and a collector of weird shit like shrunken heads and dinosaur skulls among other things, plus owing 6.3 million in property taxes, so he's gotta make money somehow! He can't really ask his Uncle Francis Ford Coppola to loan him some money!
The Swarm is a thoroughly entertaining film, and I wouldn’t wish it even a minute shorter. Michael Caine and Richard Widmark are perfect for their parts.
Nick's food some good movies, but also some god awful movies, an example of one I liked is called Knowing. An example of one I hated is called Bangkok dangerous.
I believe there was a film that told the story of how FIFA (world football organisation) was created, released in the United states and only made something in the region of $700, and this was recently
_The Swarm_ was actually good as a TV movie. You had the poor dog all full of bees at the beginning and a bee covered VW Beatle bug car refrigerated inside the Houston Astro Dome at the end to kill the bees off.
The list of movies so awful they *should've* been pulled from cinemas would just be 10 Michael Bay films, half of which would be the Transformers series.
ecchi xo You have no fucking clue what you're talking about because it didn't fail at all. That 2.5 mil was made in 2 weeks of a regional test run for fuck's sake! Based on that, Trimark estimated the national release that was planned for December could pull in $30-40 million ($75-100 million in today's ticket money). Even without it (thanks to bigoted self-righteous crusaders) the film packed theaters, doubled its investment, and made millions more in its video release. That spells "failure" to you? The only "horrible fail" is you thinking you could make some definitive statement just cause you went to fucking boxmojo!
The Gong Show Movie was so bad it not only was pulled from theaters but also never given an official video release... until 2016. Before then it was also nearly impossible to pirate the movie too!
Literally the only thing I can remember about the movie Delgo (which oddly is avaliable as a DVD at my library) is that the main female lead was called Princess Kyla. I'd like to say 'Yay! A TV character with my name! And a princess at that!' but... no. Just no.
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