The Worst 2: Continued

[mrgodot]

These are my picks for the worst movies of all time (following the rules from the previous post

Comments

[orfeo517]

I've only seen three of the films on your 0-to-6 list all the way through.

Jaws: The Revenge...I just have to say that I feel sorry for Michael Caine. He's always been one of my favorite actors, ever since I saw Sleuth. I hope they paid him very well to squander his talent in this horrible and badly-wrought sequel.

Bram Stoker's Dracula...I can't say it's anywhere near my least favorite film, but Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder made me cringe every time they opened their mouths. It did have two of my favorite actors, though: Gary Oldman (Nosferatu!) and Richard E. Grant (Dr. Seward). They tipped the scales, so to speak.

Signs? M. Knight Shyamalan (sp?) needs to find a good book to adapt into a movie. His direction shows a little bit of borrowed style, but his scripts are anemic. The Sixth Sense got some Oscar nominations. That's when I stopped watching the Oscars.

The Village

[mrgodot]

I just saw the Village I thought it was good. Nothing amazing but the script showed some talent. Unfortunately I already knew the twist but I felt the movie had a lot to offer vis a vis the human drama. A quality home rental. I want to write a screenplay to Ramayana and Mahabharata. It would be nice to see Night direct. If only I had the time and energy to devote to those screenplays.

Re: The Village

[orfeo517]

What are Ramayana and Mahabharata? Pardon my ignorance:-)

I haven't seen The Village. My sister told me about it, but she didn't make it sound like mandatory viewing. I'll look for it at the local video rental place, though. Like I said, the man has some talent. He's one of the more recent litmus tests for style over content. By all means, send him a script!

Re: The Village

[mrgodot]

William Buck did a great translation of these two Indian epics. You should check them out. I have copies of them and I've read parts but I haven't read the entirity of either one. The way I know about it is because I've watched the video Hindu movies by the filmmaker Raman Sagar. Hard to tell the story because it's complicated but check them out at amazon. One of these days I'll read over the different versions of that story and write those novels or screenplays or both. You got to keep the classics alive otherwise we forget how great they are

[javabean]

Thanks for picking Jaws: The Revenge on this- that was a horrible, ghastly movie. Is Bride and Prejudice the movie set in Bollywood? I've heard a lot about it, but mixed reviews.

[mrgodot]

Yeah Bride and Prejudice is basically Bollywood meets Jane Austen. Every time the movie started to get good, there was a song and dance number. Quite annoying. So typical of Bollywood. Of course I had to hate it. It's the epitome of what I hate in Indian cinema. And movies like Moulin Rouge in my opinion is just Hollywood doing Bollywood. But at least the acting was good.

[prabhakar_m]

So far I have not seen Bride and Prejudice. It flopped in the country of it subject i.e., India. I enjoyed Moulin Rouge. I found JAWS abominable. But my friends used to rave about it. Other movies I have not seen.

[mrgodot]

B&P flopped in India really? The plot had potential since it was taken from a Jane Austen novel but as I said above everytime it started to get good, they'd break off into a self parody in musical form. Quite annoying. Definately not worth my time. But so typical of Bollywood.

I don't think Aishwarya Rai will make it in Hollywood, you need more acting talent to really make it here.

Rai

[prabhakar_m]

Ms Rai always got away with her looks with little histrionic ability. In bollywood there are really few actors. Most of them are proud enough to be stars. Even very much talented persons aftering getting used to the rut of stardom rarely explore their acting abilities.