What's the single worst film you've ever seen?

Joe (1970)

Not a fan of this one, though Peter Boyle was real good and his character interesting. This seemed like one of those cheesy 1970s black exploitation films, only it's more like hippie exploitation. I thought the first 30 minutes with the silly caricature dope dealer was meant to be comical. He was kind of funny and reminded me of Huggy Bear from the old Starsky and Hutch TV show.

The production was low budget, but far worse was some of the actors were horrible. You can literally hear them reading their lines, they're that flat.

I had to laugh when the two nice blonde girls are buying heroin from the jive talkin' drug dealer....and they're so upbeat about it! I liked their negotiation skills! Actually that might have been the best part of the movie.

Really, Junior hasn't been mentioned yet and that disturbs me.

Any Steven Seagal movie!

TIL OSS is a series that started in the 1960s (EDIT: 1950s!). Have you seen any of those older ones, Yoda?

Lust for Frankenstein. I thought it would just be a cheesy sci-fi horror b-movie with some sexy scenes. Turned out to be a really fuzzy softcore porn film with ugly bodies having sex to psychedelic camera effects combined WITH the fuzz, terrible audio quality so you couldn't make out what was being said, and no plot or scares. So far, it's the only porn film I've ever seen. I mean, Frankenstein is one of my favorite books, and this movie ruined everything about it.
Screw you, Jesus Franco.

I have not! Are they at all similar?

I've watched so many bad films and not the fun bad either but whatever my single worst film is it's probably a musical.

Darn...."not available for streaming" or a $36 DVD. I think I will miss this one.

The Music Man (Morton DaCosta, 1962)
Imdb

Date Watched: 10/16/19
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: 20th MoFo Hall of Fame, nominated by Citizen Rules
Rewatch: No.

If my count is correct, this is my 16th Hall of Fame in five years. In all this time and all those threads, I've had to watch a lot of movies that I didn't want to watch. And through all those films, never have I had such a strong urge to research a film on Wikipedia and bulls*** my way through a review.

And damn do I wish I had. F*** integrity. I hated absolutely EVERYTHING about this film - the characters, the music, the songs, the pacing, the costumes, the story, and did I mention the songs? I was cringing so hard it felt like I was in actual pain and each song seemed somehow worse than the last - culminating in the absolutely horrid "Shipoopi" ("A woman who'll kiss on the very first date is usually a hussy"? F*** you, movie).

As for those characters? I wanted to reach through the screen and punch each one of them in the damn face. Yes, even little Ronny Howard (who I actually respect as a director). Actually maybe especially little Ronny Howard with his stupid lisp and his terrible singing. But then there's that idiot Susan Luckey as Zaneeta Shin, with her shrill voice and rage-inducing exclamations of "Ye Gods!" And the primary characters were no better. Harold Hill was a scumbag and Marian was a doe-eyed dumbass.

I am strongly reminded of my feelings for Bringing Up Baby in the 11th HOF, but - as much as I despise that film - it at least had the decency to keep its BS under two hours. If I had to sum up my experience with The Music Man in just a few words, I'd call it cruel and unusual punishment.


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"When Peter Boyle saw audience members cheering the violence in Joe, he refused to appear in any other film or television show that glorified violence. This included the role of Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971)."