The 2nd MoFo Hall of Infamy : Son of Infamy

[PHOENIX74]

I've watched all the movies. Just need to find time to review them.

Nearly there!

[TheUsualSuspect]

Leap: Rise of the Beast

https://i.postimg.cc/s26mnVcJ/leaprise-of-the-beast2.jpg

Another Christian flick here, this time with action and sci/fi elements. We open with a PARKOUR chase sequence that then leads to the absolutely slowest fight scene I have ever seen in my life. It's almost as if they filmed the rehearsal where they were learning the moves and they just went with it.

The film is full of bad audio (stock audio files of people running are laughably bad) and terrible ADR. A film can look bad, but if it sounds bad, good luck. The Vatican has taken over and the Antichrist is here to poison our minds. Gawd.

I hate that I watched this.

[TheUsualSuspect]

The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats

https://i.postimg.cc/d1bkCjHy/kinky-coaches.jpg

Of course this movie is bad, but when you watch it in these circumstances with the other trainwrecks we're all forced to watch, it elevates the film a bit.

Effort people, if a little bit of effort is seen in the filmmaking, I'm giving the film a pass and this gets a pass from me. Yes it is a boring laughless film that doesn't really live up to the title. I guess I expected more kinky sexcapades and was left with a chore of a watch.

I did get a kick out of the family sitcom style opening credits though.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Wild 90

https://i.postimg.cc/pXsBJc9D/Wild-90.jpg

Well that felt self-indulgent.

If you're going to stick the audience in a room with only 3 characters, make them at least a little bit interesting. Make their conversations have meaning, their actions have consequences, and the audience have intrigue. Why am I sitting here with these buffoons for over 80 minutes?

The black-and-white cinematography isn't enough to give the film a sense of style. It was so damn repetitive and watching someone slur his way through his lines is just not my sense of a good time.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Submitted.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Are we waiting for the last user or no?

[Siddon]

Are we waiting for the last user or no?


I think the poster left the board

[KeyserCorleone]

In that case, with the Jorgen voice, IT... IS... TIIIIIME!

[beelzebubble]

Wild 90

https://i.postimg.cc/pXsBJc9D/Wild-90.jpg

Well that felt self-indulgent.

If you're going to stick the audience in a room with only 3 characters, make them at least a little bit interesting. Make their conversations have meaning, their actions have consequences, and the audience have intrigue. Why am I sitting here with these buffoons for over 80 minutes?

The black-and-white cinematography isn't enough to give the film a sense of style. It was so damn repetitive and watching someone slur his way through his lines is just not my sense of a good time.
This sounds like a winner.

[PHOENIX74]

TheUsualSuspect Allaby KeyserCorleone Takoma11 ueno_station54 Siddon

Okay - we'll do the reveal in around 12 hours* time. Sadly, Leap : Rise of the Beast and The Misty Green Sky are disqualified due to ueno_station54 seemingly departing MoFo for good. So I'll recalculate without those two films, and we'll see which of these babies is the absolute worst.

7am West Coast of U.S. - 10am East Coast of U.S. - 3pm Britain

[KeyserCorleone]

^ Honestly, that actually upsets me.

[SpelingError]

Here's hoping ueno returns someday :heart:

[PHOENIX74]

Here's hoping ueno returns someday :heart:

I really hope so too. If there's anyone reading this who has contact with ueno outside of these forums, let her know she's missed and that we'd love for her to come back.

As to the winner about to be unveiled in 6 hours or so - it was one of two that dominated the voting, and got the win by the barest of margins.

[PHOENIX74]

Okay! I don't know if anyone is here yet, or if this reveal time schedule is convenient for anyone but I'm watching Avengers : Endgame and really want to know what happens so I'll drop a reveal every 10-20min or so and see.

I'm pretty happy that we ended up with a strong consensus on two films, and a clear winner (even if it was by the smallest of margins) - it's a shame ueno and her two picks didn't get to the end, but I think the two films in question were going to be the two at the forefront either way. So, for the 2nd MoFo Hall of Infamy - here we go....


12th
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1998)


18 points (8th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 11th, 12th)


https://i.postimg.cc/HkvHppq6/12thimage.jpg


TheUsualSuspect : "Wes Craven, may he rest in peace, should be embarrassed that his name was attached to this."
Allaby : "I don't plan on ever watching this one again."
KeyserCorleone : "The movie can't get its hallucinations and surreal behavior straight.
Takoma11 : "Part of what stinks about this movie is that it steals the premise from the 60s film and reimagines it in just the dumbest way possible."

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[PHOENIX74]

Although we all pretty much agreed on Carnival of Souls as being the best film amongst the nominations here, it's general awfulness goes to show just how dedicated everyone was in nominating the worst film they could possibly think of. Well done everyone.

[PHOENIX74]

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Equal 10th
CANDY (1968)


31 points (2nd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 11th)


https://i.postimg.cc/yxn9xgXJ/10thcandy.jpg


KeyserCorleone : "This is the single dumbest movie I've ever seen."
Takoma11 : "It's hard to rate a movie like this, where what works on purpose and what is just a fascinating trainwreck starts to blur together."
PHOENIX74 : "It's simply an amazing collection of talent behind and in front of the screen being directed by some jerk who goes on to let it all go to waste."
Siddon : "This...this was painful."

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Equal 10th
THE LEGEND OF THE TITANIC (1999)


31 points (6th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 9th, 10th)


https://i.postimg.cc/mgZ47c3L/10thtitanic.jpg


PHOENIX74 : "I honestly don't know where to start with The Legend of the Titanic."
Siddon : "They made the sinking of the Titanic funny I can't hate on that."
TheUsualSuspect : "Even with the bogus ending, the film feels cold to the touch."
Allaby : "The plot of the movie is inherently offensive and problematic as it tries to rewrite history and put a happy ending on a tragedy."

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[PHOENIX74]

I feel somewhat wiser for knowing that Candy and The Legend of the Titanic exist. Brando lamented the former as being the worst film he ever appeared in, and the latter is simply insanity in animation form.

[PHOENIX74]

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Equal 8th
BRENDAN SCHAUB: YOU'D BE SURPRISED (2019)


34 points (3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 11th, 12th)


https://i.postimg.cc/TPDQN0fT/8thsurprised.jpg


PHOENIX74 : "Honestly, I felt a bit sorry for Schaub. He doesn't seem to really have it, and I wonder where this man is going to."
Siddon : "I wonder if Showtime was that desperate for content that they needed to release this but this was pre-COVID though you'll feel like you have a disease watching it."
TheUsualSuspect : "It's just unfunny. Bad delivery, bad set-ups, bad jokes...I mean...did no one tell him this wasn't funny?"
Allaby : "How did this guy get a comedy special?"

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Equal 8th
THE KINKY COACHES AND THE POM POM PUSSYCATS (1981)


34 points (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 9th)


https://i.postimg.cc/4xmTdDbw/8thkinky.jpg


TheUsualSuspect : "Yes it is a boring laughless film that doesn't really live up to the title. I guess I expected more kinky sexcapades and was left with a chore of a watch."
Allaby : "I was hoping it would be fun and amusing, but it was not."
KeyserCorleone : "This is officially one of the worst sports movies I've ever seen."
Takoma11 : "I have nothing very nice to say about it."

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[PHOENIX74]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Brendan Schaub is not going to make it as a comedian.

The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats was like absolutely nothing expanded out into 90 minutes - I didn't even know that was possible.

[PHOENIX74]

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7th
AIRPLANE MODE (2019)


37 points (2nd, 2nd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th)


https://i.postimg.cc/hvD5YYSH/7thairplane.jpg


KeyserCorleone : "Joke after sex joke after joke after sex joke, the majority of this movie is either unfunny or just gross."
Takoma11 : "Is this movie unbearable? Yes. Did I expect it to be unbearable? Also yes."
PHOENIX : "There didn't seem to have been enough oversight and thought put into Airplane Mode, and it plays about as well as you'd expect."
Siddon : "It's a cheap homage to better films that always takes shots at the lowest hanging fruit."

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[PHOENIX74]

Airplane Mode feels like a whole new kind of bad movie made by people who have become famous doing stupid things on YouTube - and there were backers who lost big money on that.

[PHOENIX74]

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6th
A TALKING CAT!?! (2013)


38 points (3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 7th, 12th, 14th)


https://i.postimg.cc/BbRwvn5G/6thcat.jpg


TheUsualSuspect : "Talk about a poorly produced crap fest."
Allaby : "The acting was pretty poor for the most part."
KeyserCorleone : "Probably worse than the new Marmaduke."
Takoma11 : "Very silly. This is a very silly film."

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[PHOENIX74]

It was inevitable for Eric Roberts to turn up somewhere in the Hall of Infamy, in A Talking Cat!?! he's the voice of 'Duffy', a really drunk cat.

[PHOENIX74]

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5th
THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1959)


39 points (1st, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th)


https://i.postimg.cc/yYvynd36/5thpetrified.jpg


PHOENIX74 : "A film that can't seriously be recommended to anyone other than the incurably curious."
Siddon : "The film is almost like a TV bottle episode where the whole film takes place in a single room redressed for each scene."
TheUsualSuspect : "Despite being a rather tediously boring movie, points for a shark vs octopus fight."
Allaby : "It's listed as action, adventure, and sci-fi on imdb, but isn't really much of any of them."

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[PHOENIX74]

Incredible Petrified World was the absolute worst movie I could think of, but I have been shown there is worst out there. Much worse.

[PHOENIX74]

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Equal 3rd
TITANIC : THE LEGEND GOES ON ... (2000)


43 points (2nd, 4th, 6th, 5th, 7th, 10th)


https://i.postimg.cc/Y21vtstJ/3rdtitanic.jpg


KeyserCorleone : "The movie is so packed with horrific Disney-knockoff subplots that it's not even funny unless you riff it."
PHOENIX74 : "As a whole the project reeks of the most cynical kind of knock-off moviemaking."
Takoma11 : "This film veers into that can't-look-away trainwreck territory. I actually laughed out loud when the dog started rapping. It's bad, but kind of compellingly so. The overt plagiarism alone makes it kind of interesting viewing."
TheUsualSuspect : "The film is an insult to the senses and the memories of those who died that day."

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Equal 3rd
BANE (2008)


43 points (3rd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 12th)


https://i.postimg.cc/nLBXMRvj/3bane2.jpg


Takoma11 : "This is a film that raises some interesting questions, only for the answers to be either completely obvious and stupid or incredibly frustrating and nonsensical."
Siddon : "What sticks out most about this film is the pretentious film making. Dutch Angles, flashbacks, quick cuts, playing with light and shadows, and close-ups...good lord this film loves closeups."
TheUsualSuspect : "This is something that film students would try and throw together at the last second for a passing grade."
Allaby : "This is a poorly made horror film that doesn't work as a horror film or as a good movie."

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[PHOENIX74]

At the heart of every really bad movie is a spirit of laziness, corruptness and contempt, and nothing better illustrates that as much as Titanic : The Legend Goes On... does.

Bane is really hard to describe - it can only be experienced.

[PHOENIX74]

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2nd
WILD 90 (1968)


59 points (1st, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 7th)


https://i.postimg.cc/htpBs9cy/2ndwild.jpg


Allaby : "Seriously, one of the most boring, dull, and uninteresting films I have ever seen."
KeyserCorleone : "This is one of the most boring things I've ever seen."
Takoma11 : "The nerve, the absolute nerve, that it takes to ramble through a mostly-unstructured improvisation is pretty staggering. And because it's so poorly executed, even the motivation stays obscured. Is this meant to be funny? Like, a parody of tough guys? Is this meant to be actually interesting and dramatic?"
TheUsualSuspect : "Well that felt self-indulgent."

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1st
LOQUEESHA (2019)


60 points (1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th)


https://i.postimg.cc/yxsKnngG/1stloqueesha.jpg


Allaby : "I suffered through Loqueesha. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen."
Siddon : "2 agonizing hours."
KeyserCorleone : "I DID NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE."
PHOENIX74 : "It was a horror to watch - and surely one of the absolute worst movies ever made."
Takoma11 : "I think that this film deserves its infamy. It's a special kind of depressing."
TheUsualSuspect : "This film is so tone-deaf and unfunny that it hurts."


THE WINNER :

https://i.postimg.cc/ZKqz2RHs/loquposter.jpg
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[PHOENIX74]

I think amongst all of us that looked at these films, Wild 90 and Loqueesha stood apart as being in a whole other category of unpleasant, awful, depressing, bad and downright horrifying. The worst of the worst - both of them. Loqueesha took the crown, and it was really deserved. Citizen Rules - put that movie in the Hall of Infamy, where it belongs. I couldn't be happier that this horrible film is up there with Going Overboard.

[SpelingError]

I kind of want to check out Loqueesha to see how bad it is.

[Siddon]

1. Wild 90
2. Candy
3. Bane
4. Titanic the Legend Goes On
5. Brendan Schaub You'd Be Surprised
6. The Misty Green Sky
7. Loquesha
8. A Talking Cat!?
9. Leap
10. Kinky Coaches and Pom Pom Pussycats
11. The Incredible Petrified World
12. Legend of Titanic
13. Airplane Mode
14. Carnival of Souls



Congrats to the winner...don't think I agree with it Loquesha was competently made which is more than you can say for my "top four" but oh well

[Citizen Rules]

I think amongst all of us that looked at these films, Wild 90 and Loqueesha stood apart as being in a whole other category of unpleasant, awful, depressing, bad and downright horrifying. The worst of the worst - both of them. Loqueesha took the crown, and it was really deserved. @Citizen Rules (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=84637) - put that movie in the Hall of Infamy, where it belongs. I couldn't be happier that this horrible film is up there with Going Overboard.Done!
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1836291#post1836291

Congrats to everybody those look like some pretty crappy films:D
:up: Excellent hosting Phoenix

[Allaby]

This was torturous fun. I loved suffering through it!

[Citizen Rules]

I've only seen one of these The Incredible Petrified World (1959) and I kinda liked it. It was like a C budget film and could've been so much better but there was some interesting aspects to the character dynamics. And of course I love cheesy b 50s sci fi flicks.

[Takoma11]

Thank you so much to Phoenix for running this hall! It was a lot of fun!

[PHOENIX74]

1 - The Incredible Petrified World
2 - Loqueesha
3 - A Talking Cat!?!
4 - Wild 90
5 - Bane
6 - The Legend of the Titanic
7 - Titanic : The Legend Goes On...
8 - Candy
9 - The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
10 - Carnival of Souls
11 - Brenden Shaub : You'd Be Surprised
12 - Airplane Mode

The winner being Loqueesha reminds me of how a film can still break through and be the "worst" even if aspects like cinematography, sound and acting manage to rise to a level of competency. I faced a similar kind of thing with God's Not Dead in the previous Hall of Infamy, with the film itself and it's message being so odious that it manages to tunnel itself below the likes of Plan 9 From Outer Space (not nominated), which was horribly made, but innocent fun.

[KeyserCorleone]

1. Wild 90 (1968)
2. Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
3. A Talking Cat (2013)
4. Brendan Schaub: You'd Be Surprised (2019)
5. The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
6. Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats (1981)
7. Loqueesha (2019)
8. Carnival of Souls (1998)
9. Leap: Rise of the Beast (2011)
10. The Misty Green Sky (2016)
11. The Legend of the Titanic (1999)
12. Airplane Mode (2019)
13. Candy (1968)
14. Bane (2008)

Of all of this I only found one movie that I felt was worse than my first nomination. Honestly, the first five on my list were the only ones I really hated. I admit that I almost liked Band and Candy. Both movies had high levels of style actually attempting to mold into the plot.
Wild 90 was just pretentious self-indulgence whereas A Talking Cat was everything wrong with kids movies, making Garfield look like a masterwork. It's also safe to say that I am official HATER of the works of Jerry Warren. Of course, Face of the Screaming Werewolf was worse. But I also admit that I was hoping Loqueesha wouldn't win because it was the standout "political" one and because now that means TUS won two in a row, which means the political choice might be a more common type of nom and I don't like watching political message movies of eother side of the spectrum. And it's a shame that Uneo's just gone now because she put up a couple decent choices.

Anyway, I'm not disappointed with the results of my mom's. Actually, I'm pretty happy with the way my noms turned out because I got further confirmation that The Legend Goes On is indeed the worse of the two animated Italian Titanic movies, and that I didn't really "miss" anything when I compared the two. But I have one question: DID ANYBODY WATCH THE ONLINE RIFF OF THE LEGEND GOES ON? I really hope at least one other person did because it's a damn good riff.

[Allaby]

My ballot:

1. Loqueesha
2. Wild 90
3. Brendan Schaub: You'd Be Surprised
4. Airplane Mode
5. Candy
6. The Incredible Petrified World
7. Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
8. Bane
9. The Misty Green Sky
10. The Legend of the Titanic
11. Leap : Rise of the Beast
12.Titanic: The Legend Goes On
13. Carnival of Souls
14. A Talking Cat

[TheUsualSuspect]

I guess I need to re-evaluate my life winning two of these in a row.


I'm sorry everyone.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Both The Misty Green Sky and*Leap: Rise of Faith placed high on my list.*

[PHOENIX74]

Both The Misty Green Sky and*Leap: Rise of Faith placed high on my list.*

For me, The Misty Green Sky was amongst the three films I felt most deserving of winning this - the other two being the frontrunners Wild 90 and Loqueesha. I had it high on my list as well, before Ueno went AWOL and her noms were rubbed out. To have won, she'd have had to have put it at the top of her ballot, and Loqueesha and Wild 90 at the very bottom.

[Siddon]

The Misty Green Sky was terrible but I liked the tone and concept of it. reminded me of The Quiet Earth(1985)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHoYtBzdX0

[KeyserCorleone]

I guess I need to re-evaluate my life winning two of these in a row.


I'm sorry everyone.


Wanna see my top 100 worst movies ever list? And by see, I mean a marathon?.

[KeyserCorleone]

So when are we doing HoF 3: Season of the Worst? I've already got my nom.

[PHOENIX74]

If there's enough interest I'd like to host the third after the current Hall of Fame finishes.

[Citizen Rules]

If there's enough interest I'd like to host the third after the current Hall of Fame finishes.👍 I bet there will be alot of interest, just let people know it's taking place...build it and they will come.