I just watched The Swarm on vid, this is the first time I've seen it in god knows how many years and what a big pile of elephant stink it is, it's so bad I sort of enjoyed it. I'm surprised the likes of Caine, Widmark, Ross et el could even muster such straight faces while having to utter such banal drival!

...and Goldsmith plays it straight (as any professional would) and delivers a classy score that seems silly at times given the tawdry images he has to compose to.

Anyways...Give me your opinions on what are really terrible movies. The only rule is that said movies have to be legit money spinners, please, no obvious choices like Plan 9 From Outer Space or Robot Monster's

• The Rock
  
• Con Air
  
• Armageddon

After Towering Inferno, Paul Newman and William Holden tried another
disaster movie that really was a disaster. When Time Ran Out was about an
active volcano on a tropical island. Newman, Holden, and Lalo Schifrin were
saddled with a turkey of a film that included grade Z special effects.

I loved Saturday Night Fever. I found this coming of age film multi-layered
and illuminating. And Travolta, in those days, could DANCE. I eagerly awaited
Staying Alive and was sorely disappointed by the insipid, uninspired sequel.

Now don’t shoot me because I’ve seen so many of you talk about how much
you’ve enjoyed Hitchcock’s The Birds. I’ve tried and tried to find something
redeeming in the movie, but I can’t. He destroyed the great story it was based
upon, he gave no real reason for the events, and worst of all, Tippi Hedren
delivered every SINGLE line and word like a totally taped up 2000 year old
mummy. I wanted to inject her with some kind of upper so that she could
deliver a line with even a slight inflection. I’m not watching it again. Maybe
Herrmann could have helped. (No lawsuits, please!)

As for Staying Alive, watcha expect Mom, Travolta got all buffed up and went all Chorus Line on us and Stallone directed...nuff said

Con-Air, The Rock, 60 Seconds, Armageddon = souless noise!

HERCULES starring Lou Ferrigno of Incredible Hulk fame is a fantastic unintentionally hilarious film, witness the part where he fights a huge bear...

An obvious doped up bear in one frame, followed by a man in a bear suit for another frame followed by a really stiff dummy (that's the Bear NOT big Lou ) for when Herc flings it into outer space where it becomes the great bear star system...man I'm laughing about it even now as I remember it

Just wondering man?!

Clayton

Let the bricks fly.

KEN

Starhsip Troopers
GI Jane
Spawn
Tomb Raider
Mission to Mars

Poor old Lew Grade. Many of the films he produced have that unmistakable scent of turkey. I didn't see RAISE THE TITANIC, but from what I hear it's not good. CAPRICORN ONE was great, but some people say that THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL is terrible (though I like it very much). THE MEDUSA TOUCH, that one with a telekinetic Richard Burton: that was quite interesting, but had a few laughable scenes, like when the Queen of England appeared and a cathedral nearly fell on her.

So much for Lew Grade, but the music was always superb in those movies. Oh, let's not forget LIFEFORCE, a fatally flawed extravaganza which includes such hilarious scenes as Frank Finlay going all weird ("Here I go!"- though I'm prepared to believe that that was intentionally funny), and wimpy Peter Firth in a nice jumper trying to look tough and soldierish (which was surely NOT meant to be funny.) Great music again though.

What else? TURBULENCE, the one with Ray Liotta hijacking a plane had some scenes which could have come straight out of AIRPLANE. And what was that late AIRPORT sequel- AIRPORT 80? which had Alain Delon and Sylvia Kristal (?) on board Concorde, dodging flying missiles.

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Originally posted by Graham Watt:
I also agree with [..] Marian's view of AIR FORCE ONE, both almost good or even great movies which just topple over into the ridiculous.

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Con Air
Dungeons and Dragons
Mission to Mars
The Fast and the Furious
Tomb Raider
Hannibel
Pearl Harbor
Mission: Impossible 2
The Mummy Returns
Batman and Robin
American Pie
There's Something About Mary
Mad Max

and that's just off the top of my head.

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Originally posted by nightwing:

BTW, I like Air Force One, I can always go for Harrison Ford kicking some booty.

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No wonder I didn't agree with any of your choices... You like crappy movies and hate good ones! (I am just playing, I actually liked the hijacking scene in Air Force One, a really intense sequence!)