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50 Least Influential Movies
radagast writes "Gamepro.com has an awesome story up now listing the 50 Least Influential Movies ever - although I have to say The Garbage Pail Kids movie and Mac & Me both had a profound impact on my childhood. Check out the 10 Least influential TV list too.
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All this chatter and we forget the best movie ever made
The Amy Fisher Story
"retro-fitting for the unwitting"
England failed to have any worthwhile film industry for the whole of the 80's. We came up with Morons from Outer Space! I'm sure we probably managed a few films that were so non-influencial that they didn't get released over there. Which is a problem with this type of list. The most suitable films tend to get forgotten.
I still remember the night I saw The Wizard. Being a little Nintendo freak (Sega sucks!) how could I miss it? That was the day I realized that there were adults out there who would do anything to get a few $ from anyone. Just slap a popular brand name on anything no matter how much it stinks, as long as it gets the $ from the kiddies. I still have my free little Nintendo Power mag that they gave out for free to get kids to subscribe.
Well well, what a mature, self-conscience, wise, constructive, positive, friendly, well mannered, stable character you are...
Maybe I missed something, but I've just read everything, and I didn't see *one* mention of the 'lovable animal' genre of films. Surely bad-dog-films (k9, that one about the genetically engineered guard dog who understands words and climbs trees and tries to kill reporters or something, etc, etc, etc) would have a page just to themselves. And remember - it's not a true dog film unless it dies horribly near the end but the now romantically-united owners discover sublings and enjoy a bittersweet ending together.
I was glad Chuck Noriss got a mention although he probably deserved four, what about Stephen Segal. C'mon! Stephen Segal has made some really shit cinema. In fact, I can't think of anything he's made that hasn't been awful, although rumour has it that there's been a movie in the last five years in which he gets killed, early, and somebody deserves some respect for that.
Believe with me, my saplings.
Over here in Australia, Mr. Accident movie posters have begin to appear on bus station walls. The rumour need be unsubstantiated no longer.
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Mr. T's motivational video "Be Somebody, Or Be Somebody's Fool" should probably be in that list somewhere.
LAS was the ultimate parody movie. The problem was the 12-16 year olds of time (now writing for Gamepro) were too STUPID to understand this movie.
Jeez..I dunno, I LIKED the Never Ending Story 2 and Howard the Duck. What a load of crap. Notably missing however, where the 'Ernest' movies all of which only went on to inspire all subsequent 'Ernest' movies.
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It can't be "of all time." The least essential movies made more than 25 years ago were so inessential that they've been forgotten.
Sadly, I do not see any evidence of "Cool World" on this list. Maybe it made #51 . . .
Okay, I'll agree with you that there was bad acting.. plot was definantly lacking. Graphics, well, okay, I liked 'em, dammit. But hell, if you paid $8 for a fucking trailer, you got what you deserved. And pretty impressive for a movie that got nothing but kitchen scraps from the studio. I mean, it cost $30 million. You try making something with $30M. Besides, they had a guy named Ensign Fuck.
I don't think there was an afternoon between May and September of 1985 that this movie didn't get played on HBO. This Dave Speed guy made the Green Lantern look like a kick-ass superhero by comparison.
Yes, but his lameness was what made him so endearing. That and his wierd accent. Or was it that they had him re-dub all his lines with no lip sync whatsoever? Maybe that was it. And with that kind of airplay, you can learn to love almost any bad movie. Must be related to that hostage syndrome (Stockholm syndrome?)
I actually would pay to have this one on DVD. Well, 10 bucks anyhow. And if you have a problem with that, some friends of mine are nuts about Thundercats, which I thought was pretty uninfluential myself. (Though I've heard its last season wasn't so bad, when the series was left to die, and the writers were left alone and wrote scripts that weren't aimed at six year olds.)
Which brings up the idea of variations on this theme. Certainly there should be an uninfluential TV series list. And then another one specifically for kids TV series.
I nominate Quark, staring Richard Benjamin, (which I was nuts about back in 1979) for the regular TV series list. Ah, the wonderful adventures of the United Galaxy Space Patrol. And Battlestar Galactica '80, which I absolutely hated, because it used the very same premise (they find Earth, but it's Earth in 1980) that had appeared six months earlier as a parody in Cracked magazine.
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OK! So you dared comparing the Holy Grail with American comedies? Bring forth the executioner.
What? Let's look here... the first comparison was with "Reckless Kelly" (Austrailian), the next was "Strange Brew" (Canadian, SCTV spinoff), and finally "Kentucky Fried Movie", which, though American, is a abberant case of a funny American Comedy.
The first film by the Zemekis (sp) Brothers, it was done before they were under studio influence (Airplane was great as well, but after that, they started going downhill. They do get points for casting William Shattner in the second best spoof of his Star Trek career). If you've seen this on the Comedy Channel, you haven't seen it. If you remember "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed against a glass shower door, then you've watched the real thing.
Actually, I think the great American comedies are things like "Blues Brothers". But "Reckless Kelly" was the topic, and it's brand of humor is different, much closer to the movies I listed.
So yes, I did compare MP's QftHG to three movies, one of which was American. The movie I picked, however, is a shining example of similar humor - something that is consistently funny, varied surreal fun on a few different levels (slapstick to cultural references), and appeals to a variety of people.
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That is my point. It was originally marketed at babies, not children 2 and up. The original makers of the show admitted that the audience it was aimed at was not even interested in the show at all (eg babies)
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All these failed to MOVE me in anyway whatsoever - eg NO emotional reaction - when I saw these movies all I thought was "Why the hell did they make this crap?" Not "Gee that was some great special effects!"
I want a movie that has at least some substance to the story. Not just be a vehicle for making money
As far as the Lion king goes ... all my nieces and nephews watched it once. Wallace and Grommet: The Wrong Trousers, and Mouse on a Motercycle they would ask to see over and over again. IMHO I thought Beauty and the Beast was MUCH better by far that LK could ever be.
BTW: Wallace and Grommet: the Wrong Trousers was THE most funny movie I have see in a long time. It even had a evil penquin in it (hehehe) The person who did this later went on to do 'Chicken Run'
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Their "10 Least influential TV list" missed the boat entirely. Any such list that doesn't include "Manimal" and Automan" is lacking indeed!
And does anyone remember the name of that series with the untalented little girl who played a robot? Not quite as bad as "Manimal," but it comes close...
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Anyhow, the tagphrase was:
"A Zombie and a shark fight....and guess who wins?"
damn, how could i NOT rent that right then and there? i mean, who wins? well I know. If a shark and a zombie get into a fit, the shark wins. just so you know.
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Thanks man.... never saw that before. Quite funny.
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Titanic is bad very bad, I hate it.
Leonardo caprio (whatever) is not that bad in other movies. Like that film he did with Robert De Niro.
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7 - Last Action Hero Wow... I still remember this movie... it's not really that bad! Remember Arnold's Red T-shirt + brown jacket with that gun?
This movie is not that bad. That man with the fake eye ruled.
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Billy Crystal, Joan Rivers..
He's the first pregnant male.
No, I've not seen it, I just have a good memory for useless triva...
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On the box for the video are the words "Tom Arnold Is Stupid" in big letters. That's the best example of truth-in-advertising I've ever seen.
Microsoft's VP of Customer Service is Helen Waite. If you are having problems with their products go to Helen Waite.
>If you remember "Catholic High School Girls in
>Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed >against a glass shower door, then you've watched >the real thing.
I was about 13 or 14 when I saw this movie, so this is actually the -only- scene I remember. What was this movie about?
"Tomorrow's forecast: a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!" - Stewie Griffin
I take it you have HBO? Several years ago when I had cable, they managed to scoop up all the bad straight-to-video movies, as well as duds featured on the list.
I kinda liked Runaway's robots, but the movie wasn't that interesting.
I remember watching Superfuzz hundreds of times when we first got HBO(not cable, JUST HBO for starters), as well as Midnight Madness, starring Michael J Fox.
I must have seen the boxcovers to ALL these movies at least a hundred times. Working at a video store, you can't avoid it.
although I have to say The Garbage Pail Kids movie and Mac & Me both had a profound impact on my childhood
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"Mac & Me"? What about "PC & Me"? Surely there can be a PC equivalent of a Mac movie
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Wow, even when she was a kid, she was cute -- see the cast photo for Misfits of Science Nice wheels, Court. :o)
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...they didn't mention Mission to Mars. That was by far the biggest crock of shit I've ever seen.
I know I am too late for this to be read, let alone moderated, but I must protest!
Am I the only geek in the world (ok, maybe those German sites know something) who watched and enjoyed Riptide as a youth (beat out Miami Vice in my book)? Am I the only geek who owns a copy of K-Power with the Riptide stars on the cover (actually, that may be true!).
I loved the orange robot! It had guns, chase sequences, a robot and a nerd/geek/programmer for crying out loud! Between this and Whiz Kids, what young geek could want more???
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I can't believe there are THAT many posts about Midnight Madness and Superfuzz being played HOURLY on HBO's earlier days.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with those childhood horrors of cable TV.
The last 10 from the link there were enough to make my flesh crawl.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I remember not being allowed to watch this as a kid. My parents forbid me to watch it due to it's adult content. Now that I am older, it is completely obvious that there fears where not in the adult content of Superfuzz and being exposed to that at that young age, but that I would have been made dumber by the experience. Now if I could only shake off the damage that Ice Pirates did....
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- One day we may discover that this film is, in fact, the cinematic Dark Tower, the enigmatic structure which binds countless parallel universes together. Until that day comes, I guarantee that a rarely touched copy of Captain Ron will remain undisturbed on your local video store shelf, slowly gathering dark, obscure forces to its beck and call... watching... waiting...
Anyone who's a fan of Stephen King will love this reference to his Gunslinger series. I know it made my day."Prejudice is wrong; you should hate everyone the same."
Okay, how many hits from this post do you think IMDB.com will get tonight/today?
"retro-fitting for the unwitting"
Argh! I am the only one that remembers this midnight romp?
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Some people have, and will complain about /. posting this kind of story. However, this has to be one of the most nerd-centric stories articles to show up in a long time.
This is a welcome break from the screaming headlines like:
GNOME ADDS A NEW DEFUALT BUTTON TO THE PANEL!!!!! LINUX USERS REJOICE!!!! KDE PLANS COUNTEROFFENSIVE WITH NEW DESKTOP BACKGROUND!!!!! This may change the course of GUIs on Linux forever.
And of course....MOZILLA M192282 ON FTP MIRRORS EVERYWHERE!!!! Project leaders "Strangely similar to the last 192,00 versions, how odd."
Not to mention Kernel 2.6pre939393 REALESED!!!!! Linus: "I am not quite sure what I did, I think a friend of mine got drunk and copied all the source and then pasted it in again at the end commented out.....might as well send it out, eh?
My part time job as a teen was working in a Video Rental store. Much better then the rest of my peers who spent their freetime working stocking shelves in supermarkets. ;-) This movie oozes cliches farce and comedies of errors. Bad acting mixed with truly corny lines made this sci-pie flic a tru master of the ironic fantasy. Surely the reveiwers missed the Warner brother toonesque moments involving the DOD (Donut of Death). The Captain Biptoad flattened on a truck radiator grill. The 12 Story High Harvester Droid
so it was here that I first was introduced to SpacedInvaders. I liked it so much I marked it down as lost and took it home with me
I would say this movie influenced me greatly. I taight me that sometimes BAD is GOOD and that cliches are there because they have always been there. But mainly it taught me that some actors turn up in the most unusual of films..
Good write up though
And thats why Firecrackers and kittens don't mix.
Jugular Wine -- hands down, the worst horror film ever made. Not even influential enough to get people to watch through the first twenty minutes.
-Chris
The film nearly achieved immortality after being played repeatedly on cable during the mid-80s, but faded into obscurity after Ernest Borgnine himself is rumored to have found the movie "a bit lacking."
For those of you who may not have seen this movie, this is a bit like Satan showing up on your doorstep and telling you that your "a little bit too evil" in his view.
I don't think there was an afternoon between May and September of 1985 that this movie didn't get played on HBO. This Dave Speed guy made the Green Lantern look like a kick-ass superhero by comparison.
On a more serious not, I'd like to know where the hell Pizza Man is? Surely any movie with Bill Maher and the phrase "Exploding Sausage" deserves to be top 20 at least!
Well the movies seem to be predominantly crap and from the USA...
Can we have favourite East European motorbikes next week?
Yeah but you gotta admit Terrence Hills cowboy movies made him cooler than Clint Eastwood and John F*%kin' Wayne rolled together on even a good day.Not to mention that those"cooler than jesus"
spaghetti westerns used the music of Ennio Morricone,the man who put the ultra cool jams in
"The Good,the Bad and the Ugly"."My Name is Trinity","My Name is Nobody" and "Boot Hill"each more than make up for the superfuzz faux passe.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
I'm NOT reading this article. period. I've got too much work to do and i'm already distracted enough. I'll just say one thing... I hope RobotJox was number one....
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
Michael Dudikoff? You should have known better.
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I must confess, that I liked Blind Fury. Of course, I saw it on video in college with Rutger Hauer fans, so that prob helped
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How can you not remember Young Einstein? It has to be one of the funniest movies ever! How can you claim a movie showing live kittens being made into a pie at a Australian Psychiatric Hospital is NOT INFLUENTIAL!!!!?????
When I worked at a video store, I would loop this movie endlessly!
#25, Teen Wolf Too: "Apparently the original Teen Wolf just didn't say everything that needed to be said about the joys and tough life lessons of being both a teen and a wolf. Only instead of featuring a basketball-playing Michael J. Fox, the producers of Teen Wolf Too dragged out one of the Bateman kids (Jason) to play Fox's cousin as a wrestler or a boxer or some sort of wrestler/boxer. Bonus points are awarded because the filmmakers were inspired enough to include a frog-fight in the science lab, but the film's most touching and glorious moment comes when Teen Wolf Too, faced with sudden and unexplained popularity, sings and dances and jumps on a trampoline at a mansion pool party."
#46, The Wizard: "Fred Savage has an autistic friend who's also a video gaming savant, so they drag him to the Grand Video Game Championships and force him to perform for the ravenous Nintendo-loving crowd. It's like The Who's Tommy for the video game generation, except without the music, social consciousness, or thinly veiled drug metaphors. Oh, and The Wizard doesn't become a demi-god, either. A useless movie when it was released, this one gets even better with age because its big draw is a sneak preview of Super Mario Brothers 3. I tell ya, even after all those years... seeing that Tanooki Suit still makes me cry." (Go check out the memorable quotes on us.imdb.com)
I'm terribly ashamed I know this... but on the Garbage Pales Kids writeup, they mention one of the characters as "Fat Matt..." it was "Fat Pat..." (at least in card form). There was even a Garbage Pale the Kids TV Series. Tee hee!
Too funny, too funny...
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
The new Logan's Run movie is going to be produced by Joel Silver, who also produced The Matrix. It is NOT going to be directed by the Wachowski Brothers, who directed The Matrix.
Search first, ask questions later.
Are you sure? It looks like he gave it the most prestigious department...
"from the dept."
Which department? The department.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
Crocodile Dundee 2, however, was completely worthless. Whereas the first movie promoted/embarrassed Australia to the rest of the world, the sequel was able to do nothing but suck.
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is how many of those movies I have seen. What is really really sad is how many of those movies I've seen more than once.
It obviously made quite an impression on you. Note that it's the list of "least influential" movies, not worst movies.
Search first, ask questions later.
A 95 minute commercial...
From the user comments on us.imdb.com:
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
Since our assumption in 2 leads to a contradiction, there is no LIM' ordering relation on m, and thus there is no such thing as the Least Interesting Movie.
The Most Insipid Movie (MIM) is another matter. "Heartbeeps"?? Yeah. Ack. Pfft.
I'm suprised to find Transylvania 6-5000 didn't make the
Top 50. I actually saw this one in the theater. All I remember
is that it was a comedy/monster movie, and it had Ed Begley, Jr. as
either a monster or a mad scientist. I think it also had a number
of members of the cast of SCTV (or was it Fridays?) in it. I think
I actually walked out of this movie when I was a teenager.
Another movie that I considered walking out on was yet another
SCTV cast-member vehicle; Armed & Dangerous. This one cast
John Candy and Eugene Levy as bumbling security guards. I think
they probably got involved in breaking up some big heist, through
some wacky hijinks, but I can't really remember.
Of course, you could probably make an entire list of Least
Influential Movies from a combination of SCTV and SNL cast vehicles.
These are just the ones that scarred me as a teenager.
I never saw Supergirl.
After all these years, I was beginning to wonder whether I had only imagined watching "Heartbeeps." I was about to conclude that the movie never existed, since even USA and WTBS (truly the bottom feeders of the cinematic aquarium) seem to have shunned it. OK, so it wasn't "Soylent Green,", but surely it was no more ridiculous than, say, "Earth Girls are Easy"?
Hey, Sci Fi Channel! How about a double feature of "Heartbeeps" and "Electric Dreams"?
50 Least Influential Movies
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from the dept.
Uh-oh. This one is from "the dept." Either Hemos forgot to fill something in when he posted this, or...or.... this one is from "The Department." (Kind of like The Man).
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At least, I thought that was the name. Maybe it was Robot Jocks.
God, that was an aweful movie. I could never muster up enough courage to see the sequel.
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The makers of KFM were the legendary Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker trio, not Zemekis. This film, together with Airplane, Airplane II: The Sequel, Top Secret (Val Kilmer in his first and best role) and The Naked Gun should be in anybody's comedy-collection.
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I can't believe BioDome didn't make it... I usually make it a point not to see Pauly Shore movies, but my friends dragged me to this one... the only movie I've left in the middle (although I had very strong urges to walk out of Space Cowboys last weekend...
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
The least influential movie I've ever seen would have to be 'Bloodsucking Freaks'. A pseudo-porn flick I caught at the local art house theatre during Haloween. If you like midgets, doctors sucking the brains of a person with a straw and lots and lots of gratuitous nudity and blood, this is the movie for you. The movie's rights have been bought by Troma (makers of Tromio and Juliet and other "great" flicks), if that says anything. And the last I heard, you can even buy it on DVD. Huh.
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Not only was there a movie, but there was also a TV series... and collectors cards, I acutally bought a couple of packs when I was a kid...
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I think we need to remember that is a list of the 50 least influental movies, not of the 50 worst.
Forrest Gump: How many Academy Awards do you need to get before you're considered influential? FG scored *five* with another *five* nominations. Although this may mean little to you, we are talking about the effect a film has on its audience.
Face/Off: Utter crap, I agree.
Driving Miss Daisy: Another Academy Award winner. This time four Oscars and another five nominations.
Lion King: The kids you know must be on something. You don't get huge ticket sales ($700+ worldwide) like LK did without having repeat viewers. Besides, LK was one of the movies that is credited for reviving animation on the big screen. Those 2 Oscars didn't hurt either.
Barney, Teletubies: Didn't see either.
I realize I just probably got caught hook line and sinker. Oh well.
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46 - The Wizard
Okay, obviously what kid doesn't want to get to do something like this. I mean, the movie foretold the Quake tournaments that so many of us enjoy now. Of course there are other movies about video games, but Tron and The Last Starfighter reward the gamer in unrealistic ways.
32 - Howard The Duck
It's from the great and almighty himself. It must be a quality movie in the tradition of ESB and RotJ. Okay, I'm kidding about that one.
26 - Jade
Reasons to watch this movie: you have an insatiable fetish for Linda Fiorentino. Okay, that's the only reason to watch this movie.
That's my take of a few choice picks on the list. I chose from the movies I have seen on that list, so I have no idea about some of those strange movies like "10 - Lambada, The Forbidden Dance".
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Okay, I really love Heartbeeps. It's a great movie in my eyes... sort of a deconstructed Blade Runner crossed with Max Max and produced by Troma with a crew of SubGenius. Not only that, but Bernadette Peters (who is scorchingly hot normally) plays a Soriyama style Gynoid.
Okay... so I can understand people who don't "get it". That's fine - I own the video and my significant other loves it as well. But don't you dare say that "Reckless Kelly" isn't great.
Oh, sure, I'll buy "little influence", but it's a classic like "Kentucky Fried Movie", "Strange Brew" or "Monty Python and Quest for the Holy Grail". Haul it out every once in awhile with a group of people - it's pretty much guarenteed to appeal to most everyone. Over the top humor, (Nuns in lingere, gun phones, "Big Mac-Beth", a character quoting Shakespeare while chowing on a burger and playing a bagpipe) that hits at many levels (okay, mostly low humor) makes Reckless Kelly a wide appeal film.
At the *very* least, you get to see Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith from the Matrix) in his full, Austrailian accented glory, partner up with fellow bad guy Alexei Sayle (the Balowski family from the BBC's "Young Ones").
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Overdrawn just kind of depressed me. I mean, it a John Varley story, done by American Playhouse (I think they did it, can't remember for sure), with a talented actor like Julia, should have been well...watchable. The worst thing about it is a sneaking suspicion that I have that it may have prevented the PBS production companies from taking on sci-fi, which I think they could do a better job at than the networks (or cable channels) have been doing.
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Zardos is a cult classic. How can you put down a movie with a giant floating head. I rented this flick several times just to show people the first five minutes.
OK, this is a very funny link, but I do take issue with a few things:
#33 - I loved masters of the universe when I was a kid. I had all the action figures. Maybe he's right and in reality the movie did suck, but I don't appreciate my childish fantasy world being broken.
#32 - Yes, this movie sucked, but I think the reviewer missed the point with the "trapped in a world he never made" tagline. This is a direct quote from the "Howard the Duck" comic book, which is nothing less than one of the most brilliant humor books ever published. The "real" comic book howard was witty, satirical, biting, and nothing at all like the horrible mis-representation that is his movie version. The tagline is not intended to make sense.
#24 - This is actually one of my favorite movies. It was way underrated when it came out, but its actually an incredibly funny comedy which is also somewhat touching. Al Franken is great as Stuart (I love his work in general), and the scenes with his family being dysfunctional are really rolling-in-the-ailes quality. I don't see what he has against this movie. Am I crazy here? Does anyone agree with me?
#20 - Wow. Is this a joke? I have never, ever heard of anything like this before. A live action Garbage Pail Kids movie. I'm really glad I never watched this.
#3 - Sidekicks. How could this not be #1?
There you have my rantings. Take them for what they're worth. Keep in mind its 3am.'
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"Well it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology...
go to www.x-entertainment.com :). It's so bad I clicked it off after 2 minutes.
They have it in real format, among other atrocities, like the 1980 Star Wars- Sesame Street crossover.
Don't blame me if you are feeling suicidal after you watch this shit
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
Anybody else remember paying $8.00 to see the Star Wars Episode I trailer and then sticking around for a 2 hour movie that should have been more appropriately titled "The Search for the Medic?"
Seriously, The movie had everything! Bad acting! Bad plot! Bad 3D graphics! Come on --you can see the seams in the texture maps if you look carefully.
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Three other movies on the list which I felt are undeserved, meaning I they were entertaining enough to watch a second time
Freejack - its got Mick Jagger!
Solarbabies - unique film with some special moments
Jade - Linda Fiorentino is hot!
There, I'v said it!
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It was actually 53% new footage. I am appalled and outraged that these people could not check their sources. On a Simpsons quote no less!
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The worst movie of all time wasn't even mentioned: ISHTAR Any movie with blind camels MUST be on the list.
I simply refuse to accept the fact they ignored "Cool As Ice", Vanila Ice's motion picture debut! What a classic.
I find it odd that all these movies are generally recent. How can they skip over such profoundly uninfluential movies such as "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." Raul Julia stars in a movie produced by a public television network in which characters take vacations by going into VR as monkeys, or into Casablanca.
Anything that MST3k featured, has to be on there. Wasn't there one they did called Agent from H.A.R.M.?
Heh! I thought the movie was related to Half-Life game hehe.
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#40 on the list, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, has been very influential to old school Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans.
I mean, really. How much material did we get from that one?? The Patrick Swayze Christmas song alone was one of the great formative experiences of my childhood. Well, sorta. OK, no. But it was damn funny!
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Bah, I liked The Wizard and Last Action Hero! I dunno why Last Action Hero did so bad, the kid wasn't funny but I think Arnold was in that at least =).
I agree that Zardoz has no place in a "least influential" list. I could see it in a list of "most far out" or "worst", but that movie, which I saw on TV when I was a kid, is one of a dozen or so that leave me still today with a sense of mystery, of "what the hell was that?", of "wow". This is a result of growing up in the '70s, when everybody's getting high except you. Oh, nice intertextual title, too.
How about: Real Genius A truly excellent movie, really funny, but rooted in reality in a weird way. It went nowhere because it pushed the idea that it's good to be intelligent, and Joe 6 don't like that egghead shit. Nice soundtrack too. Seems profoundly weird to me that most people seem to think more highly of junk like "Revenge of the Nerds".
The Undead. A Roger Corman flick, which is to say it's a quickie with a lower budget than early Doctor Who... but it's a really interesting, strange melange of science fantasy. Main character travels into the past following another persons hypnotic regression link, contends with the devil, etc. Gravedigger goes around singing strange songs, dilly doggerel, but funnier than Shakespere. If people paid any attention to things like this they'd realize high budget effects just aren't necessary -- and might even be counterproductive -- to making good movies.
Pulp Fiction. Okay, it was really popular, but it couldn't be "influential" because I don't think anyone understood it. The theme here is everyone's self image is tangled up in stories about themselves that they want to believe (Brain Pulp Fiction?). There's also the suggestion that the bible may be just more pulp. But as far as I can tell, everyone got into watching it because bad people are cool and stupid people are funny, and if everyone's bad and stupid at the same time you got the best of both worlds.
I think many many many many people who read slashdot would agree that The Wizard was not bad and did influence their life. I mean, the nintendo power glove in the flesh before it was released was cool in and of itself. Personally, Howard the Duck and Masters of the Universe had special meaning for me as well. Some of the picks were just plain off.
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Well at least one of the turkeys I worked on made it on the list (#12 Carpool). I am partly responsible for bringing this travesty to the big screen in a one-of-the-little-people sort of way. I even got my name in the credits. Unfortunately they don't let crew members remove their names from movies like directors can. (Yes, I used to be an MPAA stooge, but I'm feeling much better now.)
David Paymer is a good guy and I have a lot of respect for him, but people like Tom Arnold should never be allow anywhere near a film set. One of the highlights of the whole experience was putting Tom and Rod Steiger in the same room and watching the battle of the egos. No contest. At least Rod earned his ego and has a golden statue or two to back it up.
The real tragedy was that before Carpool made it to the theatres and proved to the world that Tom had no business starring in movies, they let him make The Stupids and McHale's Navy. All three made the top ten list of that years least profitable films.
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I disagree. It will be people complaining about the article. A close second will be the combined category of spam, trolls, and offtopic.
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Items are detaikled as shown in some fairly rational order 1.)I'm Drunk!! 1a)Jack And Coke!! 2)When the JD ran out I had Jim Beam 3.) wtf? I went to college for , like, math and cs and shit. why disvcuss movbies? 4.)people who dicsvuss mobies are loser who mojpred in engklisg or pholiplhy and cannot afford fine liquorz
I'm afraid that's not quite true. Spirit of '76 had a stupendously small budget, opened to no fanfare, and then basically went straight to the Rep joints and video stores. Something like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is more what you're describing. Frankly, I'm not sure why the Spirit of '76 makes this list at all, since it actually has some decent scenes, and didn't aim high enough to have failed expectations.
One other bizarre inclusion on this list is Zardoz. Now, Zardoz isn't "a masterpiece" as some weirdos have believed, but it is one of the most hilarious movies ever made. Oh, wait: I forgot that it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. Never mind. :-)
Two movies not on this list which should be, though, were the early 70s remake of Lost Horizon and the first picture that Joan Rivers directed, Rabbit Test. The fact that you just said "Huh?" twice is strong evidence for my position. :-)
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Cherry 2k seemed like a teenybopper flick meant soley to show T&A at first. But, after I watched the whole thing, it made me realize just how much electronic inventions influence society. Every review I've seen condemns it as a low budget piece of crap, but I loved it.
I look forward to the day when robots like Cherry2k will be for sale. The nice folks at realdoll.com have made a good stab at it, but their product simply gives me the creeps. If you don't know what Cherry 2000 is about, then go look it up at imdb.
One day in the future we're going to have affordable, realistic robots and a lot of bored frustrated human females. :)
Come on! That must be the most stupid Top50 and Top10 ever listed. The least influential movies can't be listed! They had so abysmal influence on the viewer that he/she forgot them as soon as possible, therefore not being able to list them years later.
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If you remember it, it has most likely had some influence on you.
On the other hand, the list can be quite fun to look through for a joke anyway!
how can they pay this out?!! it was an awesome movie.
Blind Fury wasn't *that* bad, the worst Rutger Hauer flop was one called "Crossworlds." That movie was digustingly stupid, like a low budget TV pilot. "The Hitcher" I believe would have been one of the best (along with "Bladerunner.") Maybe "Blast" is the worst R.H. movie, not sure. :)
I really hated "Mars Attacks" in the spirit of bad Martian movies.
How is it the Wizzard made the list. Perhaps if that movie did not exist, there may not have been as many computer game loving geeks in the world. I myself would never have wanted to play video games for a living if that movie didn't exist. I can't believe a site like gamepro would allow that movie to make the list. They should have place the epic story "The Posse" starring Mario Van Peeples in its place.
Forrest Gump - "life is NOT like a box of chocolates - it's written on the box whats inside"-not my quote
Face Off - To me the premise was totaly contrived - even if it was sorta scifi
Driving Miss Daisy. - Nuff said
Lion King - Its the one kids movie that was never watched more than once by any kid I know.
Barney - The song, the song
Teletubies - Aimed at babies, and failed utterly
IMHO Why is drama considered to be the highest form of movie? Seems that the critics are more likely to have a 5 star rating on a drama than any other movie type.
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Ishtar was pretty bad, but it's nowhere near the worst movie of all time, and I'd say it was fairly influential (hey, Gary Larson did a comic about it).
Look to Manos, the Hands of Fate (unbearably bad) and the ungodly Red Zone Cuba for examples of truly bad movies.
In ratio to its enormous budget, though, yeah. Ishtar. Wow.
Last night while watching Logan's Run, I was wondering when they would remake it.
I'm willing to bet that the new one won't have any of the cool special effects that only were done a few decades ago. Who could forget the Ft Worth water park, mat paintings and all that plexiglas tubing.
I must admit I did like the costums.
Looks like I was right.
I know this is just mindless nolstalgia but I remember The Wizard as one of the coolest movies of my childhood (not too long ago!) and my best friend and I would sit around after seeing that moving playing Mario brothers and thinkin "I could be the wizard!"
anyway it was pretty stupid true but the movie wasnt as bad as its subject and peopl still cherish arcade games even the extent of OWNING THEM.
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Like Hemos said, how could they put Mac and Me up there?!?!...Me and my girlfriend rent that atleast once a year...And The Wizard! Another excellent movie...And what I really couldn't believe is Captain Ron...that's on TV every once in a while and I think it's a good and funny movie...just my 2 cents...
"Cadillac Man" wasn't by any means a great film, but it really wasn't bad, either. Williams' character was fairly interesting and entertaing ("God, I love to sell!"), and Tim Robbins played his old-style Dumb White Guy part well. The only lost points I saw in it were from letting Fran Drescher have an opportunity to speak on the big screen - I hate that voice!
Anyhow, it wasn't that bad - worth a rainy night rental.
How could they have put "Cadillac Man" on the list when there are dozens of overlooked Kevin Costner movies to choose from?
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Am I the only person that got screwed and actually paid to see "River of Death" (w/ the ever shakespearean Michael Dudikoff), "Eve of Destruction" (Greegory Hines & some cyborg chick), or "Blind Fury" (I worshipped Rutger Hauer until I saw this nightmare).
I have to confess renting "Spaced Invaders", having seen it in the theatres. Yes, I did enjoy it a little.
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I, Rafael, predict the majority of comments posted to this article will be lusers sharing their experiences with their least favorite movie.
To help fulfill this prophecy, and elevate Rafael above Jean Dixon status, I list my least favorite movies of all time:
1. The Black Hole;
2. Any Star Wars movie;
3. Any Patrick Wayne movie;
4. Any Doug McClure movie;
5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Note that these are listed in no particular order.
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Pfft. This is a clear rip-off of The Onion's Least Essential Albums of the 90's.
Now THOSE were useless.
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city of angels is definately the worst movie of all time, but its probably more influential than say, funny farm (chevy chase)
This is funny. this is good. HOWEVER it does not rate "of all time" kind of status. I mean check these movies were made in the last 25 years. at least 90% of them. That says one of two things: the author is one of these (supercool like me) pop culture addicts who considers anything before iggy pop to be non existent OR filmmaking might be THAT attrocious in the past 25 years that that's the worst of ANY period EVER. I opt for the former. Though the article is still funny.. and surprisignly insightful AND nostalgic. I put my vote in for Von Stroheim's Foolish Wives or Kieslowski's pretensious uninformative Decalougue for least influential.or maybe those films influenced current idiocy. shrug. o0o0o0 my first slashdot post ever. i'm so excited...
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If there were ever a list of the 50 stupidest slashdot articles, this would be at the top. Hemos didn't even think of a department for this.
Thank you... you appreciated my point exactly.
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I think this list is flawed for the fact that it completely forgot about Highlander 2. In my book that's in the Top 10.
I thought hollywood ported all theire *crap* straight to europe, but it seems they missed some..
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And all shrines are razed. This is the most idiotic thing I've seen in a while. Why are we wasting time (myself included, flaming, as it were) on picking out the dumb movies?
Why don't we spend more time exalting the good movies, with identifyable heroes and conflicts, movies that affirm the good parts of life and morality, instead of cheering a series of bad films???
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Is that the movies listed aren't just obscure movies, they are movies that had reasonably large budgets and which were well hyped in advertisements when they came out, but flopped horribly. People really expected "Heartbeeps" to do well when it came out in 1981. But it not only flopped, it practically deleted itself from the collective subconscious. Sure some low-budget grade Z movies are more obscure, but they had no chance of not being obscure.
Anyway, I can think of many movies worse than Sidekicks that didn't make the list--Titanic and Armageddon for instance.
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Say what you want about the film, but the soundtrack was really good. For us AC/DC fans, it fed us with the deep, meaningful song "Big Gun", which at least kept us going until the Ballbreaker album came out. The other songs are good too: 01. Big Gun - AC/DC 02. What The Hell Have I - Alice In Chains 03. Angry Again - Megadeth 04. Real World - Queensryche 05. Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard 06. Poison My Eyes - Anthrax 07. Dream On - Aerosmith 08. A Little Bitter - Alice In Chains 09. Cock The Hammer - Cypress Hill 10. Swim - Fishbone 11. Last Action Hero - Tesla 12. Jack The Ripper - Michael Kamen And The Los Angeles Rock And Roll Ensemble Featuring Buckethead Kamen
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I am apalled.
My God, how can anyone who's seen Redneck Zombies not rate that #1? That
has to have been the dumbest movie [if you can call some guy running around
with a video camera a movie] in existance. Apart from bad acting, 0 special
effects budgeting, and a ludicrous screen-saver looking "acid trip", there
wasn't anything redeemable about the movie.
Am I the only person on this forum who thought Zardoz kicked ass? Sure, it was obtuse, bizarre, and pretentious, but it _did_ have the erotic Charlotte Rampling in, and Sean Connery looking pretty buff. Besides, can a movie directed by the same man who brought us Deliverance, Excalibur, and Hope and Glory really be on a "least influential" list?
Zardoz was at least as good as Barbarella, and I don't see Barbarella on the list!
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If Big Sister 2000 isn't on the list I will be seriously upset.
That movie stank. It had to be absolutely the worst quality movie any way you want to measure it. From having watched it I get the feeling it was a Porn director with a couple days to kill and none of his male actors able to get more erections, or maybe there was an outbreak of crabs from the quality of acting ( Bad by porn star standards ).
I watched it twice too ( Masochistic ? ) just so I could find out if there was actually a plot. Then again when you have female actors in big coveralls playing male rolls it ought to be a tip-off that something's odd here.
Strangely enough the best thing in it was the opening sean where a naked girl wearing only combat boots "locked" in a jail cell squeezed her 40-D silicone implants through the bars and ran away. Only to be caught a few minutes later by "men" in coveralls. It had 1 redeeming feature. She was good looking.
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Ohmagod! I can't believe someone remembers Mac and Me! I must of been 7 years old when that came out (1989, right?) that movie was the shit even at such a young age, I was struck by the magnitude of what I was seeing.
Capturing up aliens with vacum cleaners! Strange hippie orphan girls living alone in tents on the edge of town! It was something to be remembered.
However, Mac and Me has been lost to history....how sad....we really need a Mac and Me Special Edition.