Worst Movie with the Best Cast?
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Posted on: 2011-08-23 19:45 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Only thing that helped Kevin Costner's Robin Hood was Sean Connery appearing at the end.
Public Enemies.
Batman and Robin
At least the camp in #3 was tolerable, this one.... shesh....
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Wow, I loved the Untouchables.
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I bet none of you have seen this one. The only reason I saw it was that a few friends of mine were extras in the film. And I actually sat through the entire thing to try to catch them in the background. Horrible movie.
The Visitor (1979)
Staring:
Mel Ferrer (actor, writer, director, former husband of Audrey Hepburn)
Glenn Ford (actor, including Jonathan Kent in Superman, the Movie)
Lance Henrikson (actor, best known as Bishop from Aliens)
John Huston (actor and acclaimed director, won 2 Oscars)
Sam Peckinpah (mostly famous as a director and writer, including The Wild Bunch)
Shelly Winters (actress, won 2 Oscars)
The movie was the absolute worst movie I have ever paid money to see. It made Plan 9 from Outer Space seem coherent and well acted. All of the movies previously mentioned were masterpieces compared to the original theatrical release of The Visitor. Here's part of a review I found:
"Plot: Satan, the intergalactic dictator, has succeeded in fathering a child on Earth to Barbara Collins, a genetically perfect woman. The resulting ten-year-old girl Katie has amazing powers. Satan’s board of directors on Earth explain to Barbara’s lover Raymond that he must marry her and father a similar boy. But when Barbara refuses him, Satan’s minions arrange that she be abducted by a UFO and artificially inseminated.
The results are bizarrely incoherent to say the least. What makes the film halfway watchable is its often surreally striking but totally non-sequitir imagery – Glenn Ford gets attacked by an overgrown clay pigeon; John Huston, who presides over an intergalactic group of bald-headed children, spends the film on top of a building amid flashing blue landing lights; Linda Blair-like Paige Connors spends the film wearing oversized sunglasses and when she removes them reveals gleaming metallic eyes underneath – and in the opening few minutes psychically blows up the ball at a basketball game; and in a wonderful parroting of the Close Encounters highway scene Joanne Nail gets kidnapped by a UFO and artificially inseminated, and is later gets shoved through a glass fishtank. Much pseudo-mystical twaddle is bandied, absolutely nothing makes sense.
[The director] assembled an amazing cast of American marquee names – including the likes of John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Sam Peckinpah and Glenn Ford, as well as a young Lance Henriksen. All seem to wander through the film clearly having very little idea what they are supposed to be doing and no doubt looking for the paycheck they must have been in dire need of."
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Not with you on The Untouchables. I still think that's a good movie, and I know it's railway station scene is pretty well regarded by movie critics. Heck, if Leslie Nielsen spoofed it, you know it had to be decent. |
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Title says it all.
I'll nominate: The Untouchables (Dis)Honorable mention: Ocean's Twelve What about the rest of you? Have you ever seen a movie filled with actors and thought their presence alone should have redeemed a film that failed to deliver? |
I would go with Ocean's Twelve, but I found Thirteen to be even worse. There's still an element of fun to Twelve, but man, everyone seems tired of things with Thirteen, the spark is gone.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Only thing that helped Kevin Costner's Robin Hood was Sean Connery appearing at the end.
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It was pretty bad. I couldn't believe how bad The Untouchables was. And I couldn't believe Ennio Morricone scored it because either the music sucked or the music was used so incorrectly it appeared to suck. Kevin Costner was a cartoon, Robert De Niro was underused, Andy Garcia's character was ridiculously thin, and the plot was supposed to be out of the Prohibition Era, not the direction.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
What was it you were saying to me the other day about Durakkenian levels of wrongness?
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They abused the hell out of slow motion for the station scene and it was too jarring. I watched it recently for the first time when I rented it from Netflix because I remember seeing part of the end of it on TV and wondering what it was. Not sure if seeing it a while back may be giving some folks nostalgia vision or if we're just that far apart on it.|
Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Not with you on The Untouchables. I still think that's a good movie, and I know it's railway station scene is pretty well regarded by movie critics. Heck, if Leslie Nielsen spoofed it, you know it had to be decent.
I would go with Ocean's Twelve, but I found Thirteen to be even worse. There's still an element of fun to Twelve, but man, everyone seems tired of things with Thirteen, the spark is gone. |
As for Ocean's Thirteen, it was basically the same plot as Eleven, but at least it was a plot. I felt Twelve really just wandered around until the 90 mins were up.
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Even that is not a sure win. Just look at Highlander II. Even the presence of Sean Connery couldn't save that one.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Only thing that helped Kevin Costner's Robin Hood was Sean Connery appearing at the end.
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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Indeed. I was going to say that Alan Rickman *made* that movie entertaining. He chewed the scenery, digested it, and extruded gold bricks.
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Seriously? You need your heart cut out with a spoon if you honestly think that.
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Its hard to compete with the combined talent of a dozen actors when trying to go for "best cast" but Independence Day should be in there somewhere.
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Why a spoon, GP? Why not a knife, or... ?
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Seriously? You need your heart cut out with a spoon if you honestly think that.
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I'll let him say it. >.>
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Why a spoon, GP? Why not a knife, or... ?
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- CaptainFoamerang
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Why a spoon, GP? Why not a knife, or... ?
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I'll let him say it. >.>
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- Garielle
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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Ishtar feels like it should get mentioned here.
Prince of Thieves rocked.
My choice would be same as Tymers; Batman and Robin. All-Star lineup, terrible terrible movie.
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So ... It's not exaclty the best cast (I don't know if much starring Robert Urich counts as 'best cast') but The Ice Pirates has some head-scratchers.
On the one hand you have space herpes, then on the other hand you have Ron Perlman, John Carradine and oddest of all Anjelica Huston.
To be fair, I rather like the movie, but that's part nostalgia and part being so bad it's entertaining.
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I think both Prince of Thieves and the Untouchables are great.
My nomination would be Alexander. The only movie ever during which I actually fell asleep. (not counting some for tv only pulp I just watch in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.)
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Ooh, good one. I forgot about that movie and I'm at war with myself over whether to thank you or destroy you for reminding me.
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Originally Posted by TrueMetal
My nomination would be Alexander. The only movie ever during which I actually fell asleep. (not counting some for tv only pulp I just watch in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.)
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Battlefield Earth probably deserves mention. Travolta might not be the greatest actor ever, but the cast rounded out pretty well with Barry Pepper and Forrest Whitaker.
And I'll throw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull out there. Okay, I don't care at all for LaBoof, but Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Kate Blanchette, Ray Winstone and John Hurt should have been enough to carry any movie. (Well, except this one.)
And all 3 Star Wars prequels:
Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Liam Neeson, Ian McDiarmid. How do you mess this up? (Oh,wait...Lucas...)
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All the Star war original trilogy...
JJ. Abrams Star Trek
*puts up geek shield*
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Minus Ford, could you really call the original Star Wars trilogy an 'All-Star' cast? Weren't they all relative unknowns at the time?
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Originally Posted by Durakken
All the Star war original trilogy...
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yes but that doesn't mean they're bad or untalented and since it' not about known or unknown at the time of filming... i stand by it.
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Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
Minus Ford, could you really call the original Star Wars trilogy an 'All-Star' cast? Weren't they all relative unknowns at the time?
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Title says it all.
I'll nominate: The Untouchables
(Dis)Honorable mention: Ocean's Twelve
What about the rest of you? Have you ever seen a movie filled with actors and thought their presence alone should have redeemed a film that failed to deliver?
- CaptainFoamerang
Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
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