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One Good Scene Saves It
Hollywood Elsewhere —
One Good Scene Saves It Among Joe Queenan 's choices of the worst films ever made , he puts Futz ('69), about a man who falls in love with a pig, at the top of the list, followed by La Grande Bouffe , A Walk With Love and Death , Pier Paolo Pasolini 's Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom ("as vile as any film I have ever seen") and Sydney Pollack 's The Way We Were for being "as treacly and flatulent as any movie I know of." I've also found portions of Pollack's 1973 film grating -- I want to reach out and strangle Bradford Dillman 's ...
The worst of the worst
MovingPictureBlog —
Joe Queenan of The Guardian argues that, despite what you may have read elsewhere, The Hottie and The Nottie is not one of the worst movies ever made. Bad as it might be, he says, it's not nearly bad enough to be counted among other titles in his "dark, Bizarro World pantheon" of "phantasmagoric disasters." Money quote: "[T]o qualify as one of the worst movies ever made, a motion picture must induce a sense of dread in those who have seen it, a fear that they may one day be forced to watch the film again -- and again -- and again. To ...
Simply the worst
scanners —
... How good, or bad, does a movie have to be in order to make an impression -- enough of one, anyway, so that you can remember it, or even still feel like talking about it, 15 minutes after you've seen it? Inspired by "The Hottie and the Nottie," Joe Queenan suggests criteria for The Worst Movies of All Time ("From hell") in The Guardian. ...
Bad Movie Mojo
Coosa Creek Cinema —
... Maybe it’s more difficult to define what a truly bad one is. Are the worst movies the ones that are poorly made, with shoddy direction and worse acting, with a script that was written by a catatonic chimp and editing that looks like a four-year-old went at it with his mama’s pinking shears? Or are the worst flicks the ones that offend at the most deeply visceral level, ones that leave you in the blackest pit of despair, without a shred of hope that you’ll ever see a good one again? Joe Queenan at the Guardian gives this problem no small amount of thought. Mr. Queenan ...
