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Sunday Brunch Blog – 12/07/2014

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Once again it’s time for the weekly Sunday Brunch with ZA Maxfield! This week, we have two awesome friends joining us! Please welcome Charlie Cochrane and Jet Mykles!

This week’s question is: “What’s the worst movie you ever saw?”

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Let’s hear from Charlie first!

BestCorpseForTheJob_1800x2700HiResWell, there’s a question. How long have we got?

In my I refuse to state precisely how many years of life, I’ve seen some real rubbish, some of which I have consigned straight away to the part of my brain marked, “destroy immediately”. Some films are so bad, of course, that they become wonderful entertainment (“Plan 9 from Outer Space” springs to mind) but for the purposes of this piece, I’ll confine myself to the toe-curling and cringe worthy.

First I’d like to give a (dis)honourable mention to “Fantastic Four”, Ioan Gruffudd version. Rarely have I been so underwhelmed by an experience as when I saw that film in the cinema; the standard of acting was at Infant school nativity play level, the script was naff and even the special effects couldn’t rescue it. FF, however, shines like “Lawrence of Arabia” when compared to the top of my hit (with a hammer) list…

The Eagle.

Channing Tatum looking and sounding like no Roman legionary ever looked or sounded, botched version of the original book, chock full of anachronisms, actors chewing the scenery left right and centre. Even Jamie Bell couldn’t save it. Luckily I watched it on DVD, because if I’d paid good money to see it I’d not have been best pleased. Indeed, if I had a choice between seeing it again and sticking a fork in my eye, the fork would win, hands down.

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Now let’s here from Jet!

JM_RG3_naughtyandnicecoverlg_1I’d be willing to bet good money that every one of us has seen a really bad movie that we just adore. You know the one. The script is trite, the acting leaves a lot to be desired and there are plot holes that’d accept Mac trucks with room to spare. But you love it. There’s just something about it that trips your wire.
So I’m going to talk about my favorite one of those. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Do you know it? Someone in the ’70s got the bright idea to take a bunch of Beatles music and craft a musical out of it. The idea sounds good, right? It’s the Beatles. It’s got to work. To make sure it worked, they got some of the biggest rock stars (other than the Beatles) of the time to star in it. They even added some big name actors. We’re talking The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and Earth, Wind and Fire. Steve Martin and George Burns. How could it go wrong?
Well…
It goes wrong. It’s such a bad movie. Really. The acting is not good. The music is great, of course, but the performances leave a lot to be desired. The script is just silly. The good old boys in the Hearts Club Band have a meteoric rise to stardom, get chewed up by fame and fortune, then they need to abandon it all to save the world. Okay, save their town. From some truly silly villans. Seriously.
But I absolutely 100% adore this movie. I’ve been asked many times and I couldn’t tell you why. I’m the first to admit and point out just how bad it is. But I’ve watched it many, many times and the music is stuck in my head. In fact, that movie had a lot to do with my listening to the Beatles. I’d heard them before then via my parents, but seeing that movie had me borrowing my mom’s albums and playing them for myself. That movie introduced me to Aerosmith and made the love The Bee Gees. That movie showed me Alice Cooper’s sense of humor. Besides, it’s a light fluffy story about a rock band. If you know me, you’ll understand why that appeals.
So, yeah. I can’t in good conscious recommend the movie without issuing my warning first. But if you’re so warned and you’re still curious, I’d say check it out. It’s good fun. You’ll laugh. I always do.

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Thank you to  Charlie Cochrane and Jet Mykles for joining us this week!

Comments

  1. The worst movie I ever saw is Norbit (2007) with Eddie Murphy. What a waste of good talent!

  3. I’d have to go with Baby Geniuses, which my son wanted to watch non-stop when he was 5 or Super Troopers because Denise Richards smiles through that whole movie even though she’s supposed to be a soldier in a war. It was incredibly annoying. But for a recent movie that is just horrible, it’s After Earth with Jaden Smith. Oh it was so bad.

  4. One of my favorite worst movies ever would have to be Mr. Accident .They try to dominate the world by putting nicotine into eggs. It’s just so bad you have to laugh.

  5. Oh, I’ve seen The Eagle! Yes, it’s indeed that bad. And as for The Fantastic Four and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, definitely up there. 🙂

    There have been some truly awful ones over the years, but they seem to have faded to the back of my mind (much like labour pains do) and damned if I can think of any. But I have my own Truly Bad but I Love It movie, which is Megaforce, starring Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck and Persis Khambatta. Cringe-worthy? Oh, you betcha!! But I watch it regularly, telling myself it’s for the Butts of Bostwick and Beck. *LOL* It’s really, really bad.

  6. District 9 is terrible. It’s like a car crash to me – I just have to watch it. I’ve cringed through it 3 times so far and every time tell myself I’ll never watch it again – and yet I do. WHY? Lol.

  7. The Batman Returns with the Penguin and Catwoman (Michelle Pfieffer), was a prime feature that was so horrible IMO.

  9. One of the worst was Jurassic Park III . We went to the theater to see it and we were the only 2 people at the showing. A real stinker IMHO.

    • Oh yes, I’d forgotten that pile of pterodactyl poo!

      It’s all the scientific nonsense in the Jurassic Park films that bugs me, as well.

  10. Apparently I was in the minority for my opinion at the time, but my husband and I walked out about 15 minutes into “Ordinary People.” Could not believe it got the great reviews, oscars, etc.

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