sethian@acf4.UUCP (sethian) (03/06/85)
Look. I'm no film reviewer, but my new nominee as the Worst Movie ever put out for general distribution is "Torchlight", with Pamela Sue Martin. Until I saw this movie, the title was held by Altman's "Quintet". Has anyone elso seen either of these two movies, with or without similar reactions?
abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) (03/08/85)
My democratic right to express my opinion on just exactly is the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME is hereby used to nominate "The Monitors." This is to my mind the pits of the pits. I think it's so bad that I love to see it, just to confirm my old opinion that it's the worst. First saw it in '73, I think, back in Room 10-254 at MIT where LSC had their summer movie series (never mind if you don't understand). It's about an alien civilization which comes to Earth and dresses up in derby hats. They patrol the streets and invade people's privacy just like Orwell told us would happen by last year. It seems these superior beings just can't stand the thought of any kind of conflict! If there's a fight, they'll stop it--immediately and peacefully. But there's no freedom. It doesn't sound bad? Well, then I challenge you to actually sit through it on a full stomach! Maybe this should be moved to net.flame, but the thing about it is that the movie does kind of backhandedly get at the bullsh*t of strategic posturing in which people are constantly claiming to be peace-loving when they're really out to control the other guy. Kind of like the United Nations, or the Catholic Church (did I say that? Who was that masked man?). Boy I can't wait till it's on the tube! --J. Abeles
leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (03/08/85)
REFERENCES: <1110004@acf4.UUCP> >Look. I'm no film reviewer, but my new nominee as the Worst >Movie ever put out for general distribution is >"Torchlight", with Pamela Sue Martin. Until I saw this >movie, the title was held by Altman's "Quintet". Has >anyone elso seen either of these two movies, with or without >similar reactions? Yes, I once was exposed to QUINTET. It would have made an interesting short but was just incredibly dull as a full length film. If some films are good in spite of themselves because they unintentionally make the viewer laugh for a moment or two, this film is better. It can unintentionally bring on a whole good night's sleep. It was far more competant than most films discussed under this category. Actually, I would like to object to the whole category of worst films. A very good film usually will come to people's attention, a very bad film will be so bad, it won't get release and virtually nobody will ever see it. There are apparently thousands of films so bad they never get release. When I was growing up, there was a movie house in Massachusetts that called itself REJECT THEATER. It showed only films that did not get release. Don't ask me where they manager got them. (Also take this with a grain of salt, I talked to people who had been there, but I never went myself.) I heard of one film about mad scientists with guns that turned humans into leaves. There would often be scenes in which the boom mike was filmed by the camera or members of the crew could be seen accidently walking into the scene. Thousands of films like this are left in well-deserved obscurity. In the light of this, the worst films nobody on the net would have ever seen. It makes sense talking about the worst film some one person has seen, not the worst ever made. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper
ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) (03/08/85)
> >Look. I'm no film reviewer, but my new nominee as the Worst > >Movie ever put out for general distribution is > >"Torchlight", with Pamela Sue Martin. Until I saw this I haven't seen "Torchlight," but I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this awful, also with Pamela Sue Martin: "The Creature Wasn't Nice." I'm serious. I know the guy who designed the creature; the head of it, a four-foot tall, four-foot-round vaguely conelike drippy red thing, is still in his studio... --Ellen
jla@usl.UUCP (Joseph L Arceneaux) (03/11/85)
Have not seen (nor plan to) "TORCHLIGHT", but I did see "QUINTET" when it
came out and thought it was quite good, if perhaps a bit inaccessable.
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Joseph Arceneaux
USL Computer Science Department
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