MY 100 WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME

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A Farewell to Arms   (1932)

A Fish Called Wanda   (1988)

A Fistful of Dollars   (1964)

Adam's Rib   (1949)

Alice Adams   (1935)

Anna Christie   (1930)

Anna Karenina   (1935)

As Good As It Gets   (1997)

Australia   (2008)

Boom   (1968)

Braveheart   (1995)

Brief Encounter   (1946)

Bringing Up Baby   (1938)

Casablanca   (1942)

Cat Ballou   (1965)

Catch 22   (1970)

Chinatown   (1974)

Citizen Cane   (1941)

Dead Man   (1995)

Dirty Harry   (1971)

Don Juan De Marco   (1995)

Dracula   (1931)

Dr Strangelove   (1964)

Dr Zhivago   (1965)

E.T. Extra Terrestrial   (1982)

Fantasia   (1940)

Fiddler On The Roof   (1971)

Fight Club   (1999)

Fort Apache   (1948)

Frankenstein   (1931)

Gaslight   (1944)

Genevieve   (1953)

Georgy Girl   (1966)

Get Shorty   (1995)

Halloween II   (2009)

Heat   (1995)

Hondo   (1953)

How the West Was Won   (1962)

I Know Where I'm Going!   (1945)

I'm Not There   (2007)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom   (1984)

Jerry Maguire   (1996)

Kenny   (2006)

Key Largo   (1948)

Kind Hearts and Coronets   (1949)

La Dolce Vita   (1960)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider   (2001)

Laura   (1945)

Laurence of Arabia   (1962)

Little Women   (1933)

Love Actually   (2003)

Love And Death   (1975)

Mad Max   (1979)

Mata Hari   (1931)

Men In Black   (1997)

My Man Godfrey   (1936)

Ninotchka   (1939)

Notorious   (1946)

Outrageous Fortune   (1987)

Paint Your Wagon   (1969)

Play It Again, Sam   (1972)

Pulp Fiction   (1994)

Pygmalion   (1938)

Queen Kelly   (1929)

Red Dog   (2011)

Rio Grande   (1950)

Rosemary's Baby   (1968)

Ryan's Daughter   (1970)

Saturday Night Fever   (1977)

Secret Ceremony   (1969)

Sex and the City   (2008)

Sex and the City 2   (2010)

Shane   (1953)

Shining Through   (1992)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen   (1988)

The Castle   (1997)

The Craic   (1999)

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course   (2002)

The English Patient   (1996)

The Expendables   (2010)

The Fast and the Furious   (2001)

The Godfather   (1972)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly   (1966)

The Magnificent Seven   (1960)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance   (1962)

The Mummy   (1932)

The Night of the Hunter   (1955)

The Petrified Forest   (1936)

The Philadelphia Story   (1940)

The Postman Always Rings Twice   (1946)

The Maltese Falcon   (1941)

The Son of the Sheik   (1926)

The Sound of Music   (1965)

The Wrestler   (2008)

To Have and Have Not   (1944)

Top Gun   (1986)

2001: A Space Odyssey   (1968)

Waiting to Exhale   (1995)

Women In Love   (1969)

Young Toscanini   (1988)

[amber-eyed-girl]

I understand the context of Strangelove, I just don't think it was a black comedy...just overwrought. Not a Kubrick fan really.


well, at least you enjoy that 5 minutes...

So you see, for me those four are about a bit of a "personal" connection through stories. Though I never met him as I wasn't born yet.

[amy030]

Ditto. On my list of the MY 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME (which I've just posted) I did include The Shining but most of his movies he purposely skewers the story into incomprehension to distract the audience from the fact that he can't tell a story.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Flynn was referred to as "beautiful" by male columnists at the time 🙂

When he and his wife (a French Hollywood star) would walk into a restaurant, all heads would turn and the room would fall silent...

with everyone in there being superstars, and he was completely unknown at the time.

[amy030]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
I understand the context of Strangelove, I just don't think it was a black comedy...just overwrought. Not a Kubrick fan really.


well, at least you enjoy that 5 minutes...

So you see, for me those four are about a bit of a "personal" connection through stories. Though I never met him as I wasn't born yet.

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Amber, part of my opinion on Bogart has to do also with stories I have heard but they were positive ones. My aunt had a friend who ran a tiny Bed and Breakfast in Santa Barbara in the 50's. It was out of the way and very chi-chi and several famous people came to stay. She says the stars were mostly nice but two were impossible: Humphrey Bogart and Joan Crawford. Perhaps the latter's behaviour can be excused because the B&B used wire hangers, but Bogart doesn't have an excuse.

Have you ever read My Wicked Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn? It was written just before he died. Great read, although, like Mickey Rooney's autobiography, I think you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

[amy030]

I'm not surprised the male columnists went gaga over Flynn, he was renowned for being a bisexual. Lili Damita, Flynn's wife, was a minor movie star when they married and she was furious that he was getting all the attention 😉 I think he preferred women but would take a man when a lady wasn't available. He and Tyrone Power had a long running assignation...

[amy030]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Unfortunately the audience never stopped worrying.

They had a lot to worry about at the time. Remember the Cuban missile crisis?

Anyway, that film has some good and interesting reveiws. They might help you to understand it better.

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"In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr. Strangelove's jet-black satire (from a script by director Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern) and a host of superb comic performances (including three from Peter Sellers) have kept the film fresh and entertaining, even as its issues have become (slightly) less timely.. . . . "

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dr_strangelove/

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acacia, I never listen to reviews. I almost always disagree with critics. They are mostly failed actors, directors, writers who are jealous that these artists have made it and they haven't. Also, critics in general seem to love war and westerns - two genres I can't stand. Yes, in retrospect I understand the plot and point of Dr Strangelove a little better but as amber said, the attempts at humour don't work and I find Sellers completely unfunny at the best of times.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Sellers was a driven perfectionist. Sometimes, that can mean a lack of naturalness that tips the performance into just a little bit wrong...

I have a story about Bogie being a nice guy.

He made a movie with Gene Tierney, when she was having a breakdown and couldn't remember her lines.

He was famously impatient with the "unprofessional", but saw that something was wrong.

He patiently went over her lines with her, take after take, and didn't lose his temper.

Now that, I think is special...because noone knew she was ill at the time, least of all herself, and because he was a difficult man to be not perfect around.

[amy030]

Oh you are right, amber! I recall a documentary I saw on Gene Tierney; yes, you are indeed correct, he was very sensitive to her and sensed her mental frailty at the time. However, on the flip-side I heard a story from the director Billy Wilder who said that Bogie treated Audrey Hepburn terribly on Sabrina - making fun of her accent and putting the young girl in tears day after day. I think Bogart was from the school of respecting people who suffered and pretty youing Hepburn probably appeared too much the princess to him (although Hepburn had a terrible childhood at the hands of the Nazis in occupied Holland and once spent a month in the bottom of a cellar dying of starvation)

Gene Tierney also had a tragic life - her firstborn was born mentally disabled because a fan with German measles came and gretted her at the Hollywood canteen one night. Years later the same fan met Tierney and told her she was under quarantine but had escaped to meet her favourite star. Tierney was speechless that here she was meeting the smiling woman who had ruined her life. Tierney, turned around and silently walked away. At her peak she had a supernatural beauty and mystery that would still plasuable to an audience - I guess those are the ingredients to be a star. She had alot of shock treatment later in life which closed off her mind completely. Although she wasn't as bad as Frances Farmer who was lobotmised.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Seeee...he had his good points. He could see she wasn't putting on an act or intoxicated or something.

Audrey Hepburn drove Billy Wilder nuts too you know.

I saw you had Laura on your bads list. While it isn't a great movie on the whole, Gene Tierney is an absolute stunner and her frailty lends her that calm, otherwordly aura I think...

and she can act.

In lesser movies, the moment she appears it lifts the picture.

[amy030]

Really? I've never heard any bad stories about Audrey Hepburn but if you have any goss, do share!