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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 11, 2018 22:36:41 GMT
I just about remember The Worst Of Hollywood, shown in Channel 4's early days in 1983. The host Michael Medved was a sneery git. Personally I'd rather watch an Ed Wood film than 'The Rise Of The Krays' that was on channel 5 a few days ago, have you seen that? Two actors who look & seem nothing like Ronald & Reginald, it was never going to work. Britain has been responsible for some stinkers in recent years, be it 'London gangster' nonsense or zombie codswallop, especially when you consider that this country used to make some of the best films on a budget. The Sunday Sport quote at 40 seconds in
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Post by Charles Bronson on Nov 11, 2018 23:53:43 GMT
These film producers always seem to find some rag to say it's the 'Greatest ever' Maybe they slip them a bung or something Arthur. I didn't think the 'Worst Of Hollywood' series was that far back , but you"ll be correct Arthur. Scary the way the years slip by.
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Post by Cartman on Nov 12, 2018 8:25:22 GMT
Ed Wood was so bad he was good. The biography of him with Johnny Depp was also very good. The plan 9 film, he actually got funding for from one of the many crackpot American religious cults. He told them he would make a religious film of some sort, and the first couple of minutes of it were, then he just went into space monster mode.
He just used to make cardboard cut outs of things, like gravestones, etc which didn’t look realistic at all, and if they fell over he would just leave it in.
On gangster films, I thought Lock Stock and two smoking barrels was crap, as is almost anything else by Guy Ritchie.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Nov 12, 2018 9:12:27 GMT
Ed Wood was so bad he was good. The biography of him with Johnny Depp was also very good. The plan 9 film, he actually got funding for from one of the many crackpot American religious cults. He told them he would make a religious film of some sort, and the first couple of minutes of it were, then he just went into space monster mode. He just used to make cardboard cut outs of things, like gravestones, etc which didn’t look realistic at all, and if they fell over he would just leave it in. On gangster films, I thought Lock Stock and two smoking barrels was crap, as is almost anything else by Guy Ritchie. That bit in Plan Nine with Criswall the clairvoyent was one of the funniest scenes Cartman.
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Post by Villain on Nov 12, 2018 11:09:57 GMT
Got a 'two for one' deal with the worst film I've ever seen, gentlemen, I give you the truly awful 'The Rise Of The Krays' and the follow up 'The Fall Of The Krays'. They were both shown on TV last week and I tried to like them but they are by a long chalk the worst gangster films I've ever seen, with a large dose of bad acting, over acting and none at all from some of the cast. The two 'actors' playing Ronnie and Reggie looked nothing like them, they were far to small and skinny with one of them trying to impersonate every comedy cockernee geezer you can think of in one go in an attempt to convince anyone daft enough to be watching that he was as hard as nails, failing miserably. It was dire, it really was. The only redeeming feature was the presence of the period cars. Avoid! 'The Krays' with the Kemp brothers and 'Legend' with Tom Hardy are much, much better. Villain Edited to add : oops, just seen Arthurs post at the top of this page, oh well never mind, the sentiment remains
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 12, 2018 15:10:04 GMT
Didn't realise there was another one! I notice that Stoppo Driver's Billy Murray produces an awful lot of these films, so they must make money somehow. I saw one with Dave Courtney a few years ago, 'Full English Breakfast', that has to be seen to be believed, all the audio is dubbed & they've used generic PC-created sound effects for noises like doors opening. The first film I saw that uses this technique was another recent British turkey 'Before Dawn', a zombie film directed by Emmerdale actor Dominic Brunt. If the films weren't inept enough already, the dubbed audio makes them practically unwatchable, I turned both off part way through.
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Post by Cartman on Nov 12, 2018 16:06:50 GMT
Talking about horror films, I had to turn one called Inbred off a week or two back on one of the film channels. It was British, about 2010 ish and it was appalling. In general, I don’t like British horror films, apart from the old Hammer ones.
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Post by The Saint on Nov 12, 2018 16:25:53 GMT
Didn't realise there was another one! I notice that Stoppo Driver's Billy Murray produces an awful lot of these films, so they must make money somehow. I saw one with Dave Courtney a few years ago, 'Full English Breakfast', that has to be seen to be believed, all the audio is dubbed & they've used generic PC-created sound effects for noises like doors opening... I have seen 'Full English Breakfast' Arthur, it certainly was dire! The Saint
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 12, 2018 18:36:28 GMT
Didn't realise there was another one! I notice that Stoppo Driver's Billy Murray produces an awful lot of these films, so they must make money somehow. I saw one with Dave Courtney a few years ago, 'Full English Breakfast', that has to be seen to be believed, all the audio is dubbed & they've used generic PC-created sound effects for noises like doors opening... I have seen 'Full English Breakfast' Arthur, it certainly was dire! The Saint Should've called it 'Dog's Breakfast' or 'Motorway Breakfast'.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Nov 12, 2018 21:41:06 GMT
I have seen 'Full English Breakfast' Arthur, it certainly was dire! The Saint Should've called it 'Dog's Breakfast' or 'Motorway Breakfast'. If it was so shite perhaps it should have been called "Parking the Breakfast" Sam
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