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Best: The 39 Steps

Worst: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

I used to love reading Sherlock Holmes books when I was younger, but I haven't seen that. Unless that was about him somehow
going into suspended animation and waking up in the 1990s?

How about Glitter?

I can't be the only person that found that movie hilarious, can I? That and From Justin to Kelly?

Hilarious in a want-to-electrify-the-television way.

And thank God I've never seen the second one.

I just wanted her to trip on her 5 inch heels so he boobs would pop out. I guarantee it happened. It's probably in the blooper reel.

Would've been a huge hit if they'd kept it in.

Tell me about it. That woman is stacked and apparently has no concept of sizing. That would have been amazing.

...Good call.

Arthur 2: Arthur on the Rocks.

For best or worst?

Best, obviously.

I say the worst are any movies with killer plants.

Hey hey hey! That Little Shop of Horror movie was great.

Okay, I amend: any movie with killer plants that tries to make them SCARY. The Little Shop of Horrors was a comedy. :P

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was awesome too. I have a drinking game to that one.

Also a comedy!

Actually, it's a rated a B horror. Most people just find it funny. Like Grindhouse. Or anything with Bruce Campbell.

B-movie horror = comedy, though! You cannot tell me The Evil Dead wasn't comedic gold! No one makes those movies with the intent of them being scary!

It was but check the commentary on Evil Dead. It started out a serious project. It wasn't until they took more and more liberties that they realized they should just go all out, let it be a B-movie horror, and just laugh at themselves. But that doesn't necessarily make it a comedy or even technically a satire. We find them funny because of how cheesy and over the top it is but that could be said for any horribly made film.

And for the record there are different classifications of horror. Not all are shock horror. You have gore, disaster, supernatural. Some of them don't even have sound spikes. *laughs and sticks her tongue out*

Oh, I know there's different types of horror! The ones that play mind games are the ones I find most scary, and for obvious reasons the gory and the shock really don't do anything for me (life scarier than anything they can throw at me, FTL?) but I can see where others would find them scary. I'm talking about movies that are trying too hard to take themselves seriously, that are upping the dramatic music and the camera angles and then you find out the bad bad things are....killer plants.

Who the hell is scared by killer plants? I mean, seriously?!

botanophobists?

Is that a real word?

Yeah. I had to google it to be sure. http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/phobia-of-plant.html

God, I love phobias.

*laughs* Me too.

*grins*
They can be funny. I still don't believe a friend of mine who insists
he's got soceraphobia, though.

*Go go gadget google*

Ha! I think all my married friends have this.

*thinks the funniest phobia, however, is of penguins*

It does seem to be universal.

Or killer kewpie dolls, or clowns from outer space.

I'd have to say the worst is Star Potter Reloaded. It was possibly the most overblown jumbling of movie tropes I've ever seen, I don't care what the fanboys say.

*tries to picture that, boggles*

Is there such a genre as 'What were you smoking when you produced that? 'cause yeah. Definitely I'd say that fit.

Probably, if the 1960s are anything to go by. Though, really, I think this could best be defined as 'genre wank' or 'genre gluttony'. Trying to combine too many of the favourite elements from too many genres eliminates all the good that could have possibly come from this.

Edited 2008-09-17 23:46 (UTC)

Best: Trainspotting, Full Metal Jacket, Reservoir Dogs, Boondock Saints, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Se7en, Alien...

Worst: High School Musical (and all sequels), 2/3 of singer/rapper turned movie star movie and anything Lindsay Lohan (except the legless stripper movie)

*nods* Only seen two of those, FMJ and Platoon. I'll have to check out the rest.

Oh yeah. I love musicals when they're done right, but seriously? Despite the cliche, most of us don't look back longingly on high school.

Oh man, you should see all those and when you do let me know. I can give you another 10.

I liked that Rent one even though everyone was gay and dying of aids. Never could make it through The Phantom of the opera. Oh! But Hairspray did crack me up. The whole movie I was waiting for Walken and Travolta to make out.

You want what we think are the best ones ever made, or just our personal favorite. I think the best movies ever made are probably Dr. Strangelove or 2001: A Space Odyssey, though I'd make a case for the usual standard of greatness, Citizen Kane. My favorite movie though would easily be Saturday Night Fever.

The worst movies ever? I Spit on Your Grave, and especially Cannonball Run II.

I think you'd find a lot of people agreeing with you, 'specially about Citizen Kane.
...I've heard of Cannonball Run, but I didn't know there was a sequel. Never heard of the other one.