"The 50 Worst Films of All Time"...
01-22-06, 02:25 AM
#1
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Thread Starter
"The 50 Worst Films of All Time"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fif...ms_of_All_Time
I just found it interesting that The Omen made this list...but once you find out that the list was compiled in 1978, 2 years after the release of The Omen, I guess it makes sense....sort of. I think it's a really good movie. Just that.
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Alakazam The Great (1961)
The Ambushers (1967)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
At Long Last Love (1975)
The Big Noise (1944)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Che! (1969)
The Conqueror (1956)
Daughter of the Jungle (1949)
Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball (1946}
Dondi (1961)
Eegah (1962)
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1973)
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I and Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jet Attack (1958)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1971)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
The Last Movie (1971)
Last Year at Marienbad (1962)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
New Moon (1940)
Northwest Mounted Police (1940)
The Omen (1976)
Parnell (1937)
A Place for Lovers (1969)
Return of Sabata (1972)
Robot Monster (1953)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Say One For Me (1959)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Spinout (1966)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Swamp Women (1955)
Swing Your Lady (1937)
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
That Hagen Girl (1947)
Three on a Couch (1966)
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
Trouble Man (1972)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (1948)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifty_Worst_Films_of_All_Time"
Airport 1975 (1974)
Alakazam The Great (1961)
The Ambushers (1967)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
At Long Last Love (1975)
The Big Noise (1944)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Che! (1969)
The Conqueror (1956)
Daughter of the Jungle (1949)
Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball (1946}
Dondi (1961)
Eegah (1962)
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1973)
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I and Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jet Attack (1958)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1971)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
The Last Movie (1971)
Last Year at Marienbad (1962)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
New Moon (1940)
Northwest Mounted Police (1940)
The Omen (1976)
Parnell (1937)
A Place for Lovers (1969)
Return of Sabata (1972)
Robot Monster (1953)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Say One For Me (1959)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Spinout (1966)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Swamp Women (1955)
Swing Your Lady (1937)
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
That Hagen Girl (1947)
Three on a Couch (1966)
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
Trouble Man (1972)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (1948)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifty_Worst_Films_of_All_Time"
I just found it interesting that The Omen made this list...but once you find out that the list was compiled in 1978, 2 years after the release of The Omen, I guess it makes sense....sort of. I think it's a really good movie. Just that.
01-22-06, 03:03 AM
#4
Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
The book was written by Michael Medved.
If you're unaware, Michael Medved is an asshat (and probably the worst film critic out there).
If you're unaware, Michael Medved is an asshat (and probably the worst film critic out there).
01-22-06, 03:07 AM
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 499
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Posted by Matthew Chmiel: The book was written by Michael Medved.
If you're unaware, Michael Medved is an asshat (and probably the worst film critic out there).
01-22-06 02:25 AM
If you're unaware, Michael Medved is an asshat (and probably the worst film critic out there).
01-22-06 02:25 AM
And I noticed all of the movies listed are not necessarily bad movies, The Omen included.
01-22-06, 03:40 AM
#6
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by Cancer Man
So what you basically saying, Matthew Chmiel, is that Michael Medved is a really bad critic and is the movie world's equivalent of Robert Bianco, am I right?
And I noticed all of the movies listed are not necessarily bad movies, The Omen included.
And I noticed all of the movies listed are not necessarily bad movies, The Omen included.
01-22-06, 06:25 AM
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles and Amsterdam
Posts: 654
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I thought, much like Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind are considered the best, Plan 9 from Outer Space was considered the worst (though Santa Claus Concurs the Martians was a close runner-up), yet it didn't even make this list.
01-22-06, 08:52 AM
#9
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Woah, for a second there I saw Lost Horizon and thought it was Frank Capra's Lost Horizon. If that had been the case, I'm afraid I would have had to rip into this list, but as it is, I've never seen the '73 version.
01-22-06, 08:54 AM
#10
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by H8nXTC
I thought, much like Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind are considered the best, Plan 9 from Outer Space was considered the worst (though Santa Claus Concurs the Martians was a close runner-up), yet it didn't even make this list.
01-22-06, 09:30 AM
#11
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 91
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Medved is an ass-hat (giving away the ending to Million Dollar Baby alone gives him that status), the list is typical for the day...(everyone loved to spew hatred for Lost Horizon, Dolls, Myra, etc) although i liked Airport 75...(Karen Black as the plucky stewardess forced to fly the plane when disaster strikes, whats not to like?) and picking on Spinout is stupid...its a later day Elvis movie...what did you expect?
01-22-06, 09:44 AM
#12
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Medved is ultra-conservative and ultra-religious, so he tends to go overboard whenever he thinks a movie is portraying Christianity or Judaism in a negative light. Given that, him thinking The Omen is one of the worst films ever isn't surprising in the least.
On the plus side, he can (or used to be able to) write funny, and his The Golden Turkey Awards book is quite a humorous read.
On the plus side, he can (or used to be able to) write funny, and his The Golden Turkey Awards book is quite a humorous read.
01-22-06, 10:35 AM
#13
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Near the Great Salt Lake
Posts: 1,400
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
"Last Year at Marienbad" and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" both make Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies, and rightfully so, in my opinion. (Though, admittedly, the latter got especially mixed reviews.) And putting the great "Ivan the Terrible" on this list is surely a sin. "The Omen," "Zabriskie Point" and "Valley of the Dolls" have certainly gained some appreciation through the intervening years, but I can understand why he'd include them on his list at the time. Otherwise most of the films on there are pretty crappy.
01-22-06, 11:31 AM
#18
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Northern California
Posts: 1,259
Likes: 0
Received 14 Likes
on
10 Posts
Originally Posted by dhmac
Medved is ultra-conservative and ultra-religious, so he tends to go overboard whenever he thinks a movie is portraying Christianity or Judaism in a negative light. Given that, him thinking The Omen is one of the worst films ever isn't surprising in the least.
On the plus side, he can (or used to be able to) write funny, and his The Golden Turkey Awards book is quite a humorous read.
On the plus side, he can (or used to be able to) write funny, and his The Golden Turkey Awards book is quite a humorous read.
01-22-06, 11:42 AM
#19
DVD Talk Special Edition
Well, as asserted, Medved is a major league dillhole. And if you've ever heard or read any of his film 'criticism' (and I use the term loosely), it's pretty obvious that it has a clear political/cultural agenda that has nothing to do with the actual qualities of the material he's critiquing, which is pretty much a no-no for any critic that wants to be taken seriously (and of course, Medved is not). He's really more a self-appointed arbiter of morality then anything that has to do with actual critical analysis of art.
The fact that he filled out his list with films of bad repute from the decades prior to the year the list was compiled, doesn't make his opinion of badness particularly relevant. Several of those films aren't even particularly bad, and as mentioned a few (Ivan the Terrible, Last Year at Marienbad) are genuine acknowledged classics (if not everyone's cup of tea). I'm guessing they were probably too dull and hard to understand for Medved's tiny brain, and thus "bad."
The fact that he filled out his list with films of bad repute from the decades prior to the year the list was compiled, doesn't make his opinion of badness particularly relevant. Several of those films aren't even particularly bad, and as mentioned a few (Ivan the Terrible, Last Year at Marienbad) are genuine acknowledged classics (if not everyone's cup of tea). I'm guessing they were probably too dull and hard to understand for Medved's tiny brain, and thus "bad."
01-22-06, 11:50 AM
#20
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Originally Posted by me12321
"Last Year at Marienbad" and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" both make Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies, and rightfully so, in my opinion. (Though, admittedly, the latter got especially mixed reviews.) And putting the great "Ivan the Terrible" on this list is surely a sin. "The Omen," "Zabriskie Point" and "Valley of the Dolls" have certainly gained some appreciation through the intervening years, but I can understand why he'd include them on his list at the time. Otherwise most of the films on there are pretty crappy.
01-22-06, 02:07 PM
#22
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 91
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Medved also wrote a decent book about his high school reunion...class of 59? at least i remember it being decent...at the time i had nothing else to read so i wouldve enjoyed reading the back of a toothpaste box. We should create a new updated list of the 50 worst of all time: i hearby submit "the lonely lady" with Pia Zadora...truly awful and not quite bad enough to be good (ala showgirls) although the acting was groan-inducing. the only movie i almost walked out of...
01-22-06, 05:59 PM
#25
DVD Talk Legend
I've never heard of this guy, and I've never heard of most of the movies listed. He may be correct, but judging from people's reactions, I'm guessing he isn't.
I liked The Omen a lot.
I liked The Omen a lot.
