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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Totally Bad Movies
Message-ID: <760@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 11:49:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 11:49:09 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <314@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>So I went around and polled some of my colleagues, to see if they could
>name some movies that were totally bad. The criteria for acceptance were:
>	(1) It must be a movie made for theatres (TV movies don't count;
>		they would probably overload the list).
>	(2) There must not be one single good thing to say about it; if
>		the movies were bad overall, but had one good scene or
>		good direction, or a short clip of good cinematography,
>		it would not qualify as a totally bad movie. There must
>		be ABSOLUTELY NOTHING good to be said about any part
>		of the movie in order for it to make the list.
>	(3) The film need not be horrible in all respects (i.e., it may be
>		mediocre on some points); but it MAY NOT HAVE ONE SINGLE
>		thing that could be said to have been done well, or
>		even the least bit above mediocre. And it must have at
>		least one thing which is done truly badly.
>
>So far the nominations are:
>
>	Sheena of the Jungle (No plot, bad acting, didn't even show
>		any good skin. Direction mediocre at best.)
>	
	Well, I can say one(or maybe two) good things about it. It was
filmed on location in East Africa and showed some really beautiful
wilderness scenery, and some of the cinematography in the film was
actually fairly good(especially in filming the scenery). Ah well, it
came *close* to being totally bad.
	I nominate Supergirl. It was even worse, and showed even less
skin. And the special effects were *lousy*.

>	Silent Night, Deadly Night (This is the only movie that I
>		saw Siskel and Ebert actually get furious at. It was
>		so offensive and bad that many theatres wouldn't show it.)
>
>	Sword and the Sorcerer (Just plain boring.)
>
>	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (A spoof that didn't come off.
>		Had a maudlin ending, and terrible acting.)
>
	I haven't seen any of these others either.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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