You'll regret getting me started on this, here's a small selection:-
Against All Odds - 1984 Jeff Bridges in one of his worst
Attack of the 50ft Woman - - 1993, Reminder, if you read 2 reviews for the same film, believe the bad one. This attemps B movie status and fails completely.
The Doctor & The Devils - 1985, Plenty of big names, Timothy Dalton, Twiggy, Jonathan Pryce, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart, and Mel Brooks producing. They'd probably all like to keep quiet about this dire film, awful acting and stereotypical script, about the quest for cadavers for anatomical research.
Thank God Its Friday - 1978, Daft 70's disco film, no music or dance to speak of. Not spoof or awful enough to really be funny, just a waste of time.
Then there is the death of the Carry On series - what a way to go:-
Carry On Emmanuelle - 1978, So dreadful this heralded the end of the Carry Ons (until the 92 resurrection). I couldn't keep awake through this tripe.
Carry On Columbus - 1992, Plenty of people are ashamed of this one, though essentially following the same formula of previous films, this falls totally flat. An empty plot, but it could have been saved by the gags, even the stars fail completely, demonstrating how to get comic timing completely wrong. The last nail in the Carry On coffin.
Dancers - 1987, Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov in this drama around ballet, a dreadful story badly acted, and not saved by the dance, which is patchy and unoriginal.
The Devil's Own - 1997. Harrison Ford plays a New York cop on the beat. He gives a home to an Irish guy (Brad Pitt), not knowing his history or the fact that he is an IRA terrorist. A tedious an unrealistic film. A real shame as Ford is one of my heroes, especially after I was mistaken for him once
Distant Voices, Still Lives. This film demonstrates how quickly "innovation" becomes thoroughly tedious. Scouse family life flash backs, forwards, & sing songs. The critics highly rated this
Girl On A Motorcycle - 1968 Marianne Faithfull looking very youthful rides her m/c, lots of shots of this. Maybe this was erotic at the time, but how many women really get orgasmic over their Nortons? (Time for another poll?) Nowadays it looks like pretentious tripe, using naff special effects to try & cover its inadequacies.
Indecent Proposal. Robert Redford offers Demi Moore a million to spend the night. This is slow, crap, a film with high morals, but just too daft and boring.
And of course anything that needs "Erotic" in the blurb to try and sell it.
Greg
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