• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, that’s an embarrassing one I haven’t thought about in years. I should check the credits and see how many Alan Smithees worked on it.

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            9 months ago

            Most movies have a bunch of Scientologists working on. This Battlefield Earth is spacial what with being based on a Hubbard book. Like most cult leaders, he hated psychologists and named the villains Psychlos. Some real high class subtle writing.

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        9 months ago

        I mean, Nick Cage when he’s trying is great. There are just those “Collect a Paycheck” movies he does that should be stuck in a separate category.

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        9 months ago

        That movie and his role in it made me realize how much money was stolen from him and what he would do to get it back.

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          9 months ago

          “stolen” his lack of money was because he had failed to pay taxes on the enormous income he spent. He was taking any job to recover from his tax bill

          To his credit he did a good job on that crap film

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      9 months ago

      The worst objectively bad movie I’ve ever seen I thought was called something like “Kong: King of the Jungle”. However, I just tried to search for it and couldn’t find anything like it. So either it was so obscure that no one knows about it, or my brain has garbled the memory of it into uselessness.

      But seriously, it had no beginning, it just started in the middle somewhere with no explanation of how things started. It had no end, as in a conclusion. It lacked plot, characterization, direction, consistancy, anything resembling competent sfx (even primitive ones). It was like a class project by college students who went on to fail film school. 🤮

      Has anyone else seen this? Am I remembering the name even remotely right?