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On a whim, just checked. I've seen 104 of the Internet Movie Database Top 250 and only 12 of the IMDB Bottom 100.
It's amazing how many of the bottom 100 I had decided I wasn't going to waste my time on, though I do have a couple on them still on my 'to see' list.
What prompted this was voluntarily watching Alone in the Dark last night.
I watched it because it was a reasonable computer game that I helped Sharon out with. Shaz likes puzzle based games. This had puzzles but also bits where you had to fight the monsters, so when a monster bit would come up, she'd save the game and wait for me to visit, I'd kill the monster then she'd continue with the game. It was from way back before we got married.
I knew Sharon would have been curious to see the film. I knew it was going to be bad, and she doesn't share me appreciation of crap cinema. So I hired it for $1 and watched it last night.
When I watch a film for the first time, generally I like to concentrate on it fully. If I have to do something, I will pause it. I texted Sharon halfway through the film, telling her 'Alone in the Dark is less fun than a rectal exam performed by someone wearing large metal gauntlets, boring and non-sensical in that special way that belongs only to people on lithium & bad Italian SciFi. You need *never* see this film.'
That goes for all of you, too, though I know I'm too late for some of you.
This film is not so-bad-it's-good. It is dull, very dull, Solaris-remake dull. And it's meant to be an action film. It makes less sense than Underworld with the sound turned up.
There are films where I say they are so bad, you should wait until they get down to $1 a week and then get someone else to pay for it. No-one should ever part with money for this film. No-one should lose time to this film.
It's amazing how many of the bottom 100 I had decided I wasn't going to waste my time on, though I do have a couple on them still on my 'to see' list.
What prompted this was voluntarily watching Alone in the Dark last night.
I watched it because it was a reasonable computer game that I helped Sharon out with. Shaz likes puzzle based games. This had puzzles but also bits where you had to fight the monsters, so when a monster bit would come up, she'd save the game and wait for me to visit, I'd kill the monster then she'd continue with the game. It was from way back before we got married.
I knew Sharon would have been curious to see the film. I knew it was going to be bad, and she doesn't share me appreciation of crap cinema. So I hired it for $1 and watched it last night.
When I watch a film for the first time, generally I like to concentrate on it fully. If I have to do something, I will pause it. I texted Sharon halfway through the film, telling her 'Alone in the Dark is less fun than a rectal exam performed by someone wearing large metal gauntlets, boring and non-sensical in that special way that belongs only to people on lithium & bad Italian SciFi. You need *never* see this film.'
That goes for all of you, too, though I know I'm too late for some of you.
This film is not so-bad-it's-good. It is dull, very dull, Solaris-remake dull. And it's meant to be an action film. It makes less sense than Underworld with the sound turned up.
There are films where I say they are so bad, you should wait until they get down to $1 a week and then get someone else to pay for it. No-one should ever part with money for this film. No-one should lose time to this film.
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On the other hand, I'm leery of a list that doesn't include the first fantastic Four movie in the bad column...
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But that was never officially released, was it?
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I've got a Bad Film Diary in my head about the first FF movie, because it's such a tragic tale - no one told the cast that the film wasn't going to be released, and they honestly believed it was going to be their big break in Hollywood.
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Besides which, I'm highly amused by the idea that more people have seen Anus Magillicutty than Starship Troopers :)
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'Starship Troopers' also has over 650 votes - it has a total of 40,770, of whom over 10,000 gave it 9 stars or higher.
Sorry.
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I enjoyed the Resident Evil movie. But then, I liked the Solaris remake, too..
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I'm so ashamed.
It was Spice World.
*runs and hides*
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Strangely "Spiceworld" was the only one I had seen too.
What is it about that movie? Ah, that's right! It had Richard E Grant in it, who can clearly have too much fun even in a bad movie.
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Can I follow you to your hiding place? :)
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Spice World was lame, sure, but it had some laughs. I particularly remember the special effects for the bus. (See?! Now you have to see it just to find out what I'm on about.)
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Oh, and it turns out that thus far I've seen none of the bottom 100 - I'd confused Ghoulies with The Goonies :)
86 of the top 250..
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But I haven't seen any of the bottom 100 at all. Whew.
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Not sure how I managed this.
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I note that all 6 of the Star Wars films are listed.
Of the bottom 100, definately 2, maybe 3. Can't remember if I've actually seen 'Leonard Part 6'. I'm not sure that 'Spice World' deserves to be on that list. Sure, it's no masterpiece (and I can't see how anyone would have expected that it would be), but I remember it being quite fun.
Simon