It's a simple question, but a very fascinating one to discuss, I would feel.
I was inspired to ask this after watching the trailer to the Dungeon Siege movie (or rather, 'In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale' - seriously, who the fuck came up with THAT title? Oh right - Uwe Boll. Never mind), and wondering about the bad movies I have seen. Now, I'm not much a movie person, but I watch a few occasionally and I have my definite favourites and a few steaming piles of shit that I like to poke fun at every now and then.
And so, let's share a few of them - for crack, for laughs, or as warnings for all the others.
One of the worst that I still remember has to be Uwe Boll's (heh, who else) Alone in the Dark. Seriously...disjointed, nonsensical, and purely idiotic in terms of 'story'. Hell, there wasn't even a story. It was more like somebody stringing together poor action scenes situated almost entirely in the dark without any regard for how much sense they would make.
And all of that is putting it kindly, without any name calling towards Uwe Boll. Hell, the paragraph above is probably the first time I've described one of Boll's works of 'art' without any negatives shot directly at him.
Most recently, I also managed to watch a certain movie called Dragon War: D-War, or D-War, as it's apparently called here in North America.
Take a visually and absolutely amazing and thrilling movie like Transformers - but take away the Autobots and Decepticons and replace them with dragons, as well, strip away the plot, the story, and anything that -GASP- might actually make sense, and tack on a rather half-assed attempt at bringing Korean mythology into the movie and you'll get the asinine mess that is D-War.
The script was poorly written (...any one of us here could have written one better, actually), the male lead was actually hotter than the female lead, the story was childish, the development made no sense...ARGH.
After watching it, I was actually too scared to try and add anything onto an original story that I was writing recently. Why? After watching D-War, I felt stupider and I was scared that same stupidity that drove the direction of D-War might find it's way into my story.
And there you have it - two of the worst movies I have seen that I can immediately recall. If you've got any, feel free to share them, so that the rest of us might be warned beforehand on what we should be avoiding or pointing our fingers to in fits of laughter.
I was inspired to ask this after watching the trailer to the Dungeon Siege movie (or rather, 'In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale' - seriously, who the fuck came up with THAT title? Oh right - Uwe Boll. Never mind), and wondering about the bad movies I have seen. Now, I'm not much a movie person, but I watch a few occasionally and I have my definite favourites and a few steaming piles of shit that I like to poke fun at every now and then.
And so, let's share a few of them - for crack, for laughs, or as warnings for all the others.
One of the worst that I still remember has to be Uwe Boll's (heh, who else) Alone in the Dark. Seriously...disjointed, nonsensical, and purely idiotic in terms of 'story'. Hell, there wasn't even a story. It was more like somebody stringing together poor action scenes situated almost entirely in the dark without any regard for how much sense they would make.
And all of that is putting it kindly, without any name calling towards Uwe Boll. Hell, the paragraph above is probably the first time I've described one of Boll's works of 'art' without any negatives shot directly at him.
Most recently, I also managed to watch a certain movie called Dragon War: D-War, or D-War, as it's apparently called here in North America.
Take a visually and absolutely amazing and thrilling movie like Transformers - but take away the Autobots and Decepticons and replace them with dragons, as well, strip away the plot, the story, and anything that -GASP- might actually make sense, and tack on a rather half-assed attempt at bringing Korean mythology into the movie and you'll get the asinine mess that is D-War.
The script was poorly written (...any one of us here could have written one better, actually), the male lead was actually hotter than the female lead, the story was childish, the development made no sense...ARGH.
After watching it, I was actually too scared to try and add anything onto an original story that I was writing recently. Why? After watching D-War, I felt stupider and I was scared that same stupidity that drove the direction of D-War might find it's way into my story.
And there you have it - two of the worst movies I have seen that I can immediately recall. If you've got any, feel free to share them, so that the rest of us might be warned beforehand on what we should be avoiding or pointing our fingers to in fits of laughter.
