h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Someone uttered something about the real clunkers are the ones made by actual studios. i think it was in a different chain, but in that case whoever gave the go-ahead decision for Jurassic Park I, II, and II should be drug out into the street and shot...once for the first one, twice for the second, and thrice for the third!

FT

Seconded!

What about all of the Nightmare on Elm Street films (apart from the first one, which is actually quite good)?

There have been lots of truly terrible films mentioned here. However my own personal worst film is Pearl Harbour.

It just wouldn't end!

QB

I think the test of a good or bad film is if one feels a need to check their watch part way through . . .

Pearl Harbour was a horrible film, god I hate Tubthumping, Flag Waving crappy films

Pearl Harbour was a horrible film, god I hate Tubthumping, Flag Waving crappy films

Re "Pulp Fiction," it was interesting enough, but when it was over, I said, "So what?" What was the point? (A friend of mine told me the point was that there was no point. Oh!! Duh... Silly me.)

hi Big Red,

I totally adored Pulp Fiction when I first saw it. So stylish, very clever. Fabulous dialogue. Funny. Tarantino's masterpiece, IMHO.

az

Has anyone seen Haiku Tunnel? It's an atrocious indie flick based off the monlogues of horrid Josh Kornbluth, whose performance as a temp worker who deals with the torments of going "perm" at an office leads to all sorts of hijinks. Mainly a lengthy attempt to get the audience worked up over Josh's inability to actually do any work. If you like Office Space, watch Office Space and do not watch rent or let anyone say the words "Haiku Tunnel" to you.

Re "Pulp Fiction," I saw it about the same time as "Natural Born Killers," and liked "Killers" SOOO much better. It too was funny and stylish, and it had a *point.* Here I reveal myself as a right-brained, 20th-century type.

IMHO I cannot see how Pulp Fiction deserves any place in a discussion about "the worst films ever".

Whereas I'd have to say that Stone's oh so tedious and use an A-bomb to crack a moral walnut 'Natural Born Killers' probably does.

Franjkly, all films that 'have a point' should be put down at birth.

Hmm not so sure about that blues, I thinks films with a point can be good; however films without one shouldn't be necessarily marked down for a lack of an obviuos point.

hear hear!

What happened to pure escapism entertainment?

"having Amanda Donohoe and Elizabeth Hurley dressed up as flight attendants and wrestling!"

Don't think it was Elizabeth Hurley, was it? I thought it was Catherine Oxenberg.

Iam known for my wild inaccuracies so you could well be right.

I'm with Blues Shark on the NBK vs Pulp Fiction front. Pulp Fiction was clever, often very funny, stylish and fun. NBK was witless, overblown, strident, deeply unfunny and (I think) morally hypocritical.

It was interesting to read interviews with Oliver Stone at the time of NBK, where it was painfully obvious that he was trying to be 'down wiv da kidz' and really cool, whereas (at the time, at least) Quentin Tarantino was genuinely cool.

The biggest sin with NBK was that it *wasn't* funny. Except for one visual gag involving (IIRC) snake venom antiserum.

Oh, come on. She shoots the guy while they're having sex and then mutters, 'Worst head I ever had?' That's not funny?

(More important, will this get past the censors or have I goofed?)

Natural Born Killers seemed too in love with itself for me. It was all style and no substance. I then got the screenplay that Christmas and it was brilliant. If only they'd stuck to the way it was written, but I'm sure that could be levelled at loads of films