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    Offensively bad films from otherwise great directors... go!

    The one that gave me the idea for the thread is Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure, which I just saw on the way home from my excellent internship interviews.

    It's way too sensationalist, and all the finger-pointing was the opposite of interesting. And if I have to see one more shot of a boot stepping into a puddle of water in slow motion, I'll scream. It was seriously tremendously awful.

    Your turn!

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    I'd have to say Altman's H.E.A.L.T.H. (sorry iosos). I have really negative memories of the humor mined from Burnett's character.

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    John Schlesinger - Marathon Man.

    Arrebato (Zulueta - '80) 89
    Elegia (Huszarik - '65) 95
    Szinbad (Huszarik - '71) 77
    Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu - '09) 80
    Marguriete of the Night (Autant-Lara - '55)62
    Kadin Hamlet (Erksan - '77) 52
    Passion of a Darkly Noon (Ridley - '94) 79
    Endangered Species (Rudolph - '82) 65
    Made in Heaven (Rudolph -'87) 20
    High Hopes (Leigh - '88) 74

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    Bruno Dumont's Flandres.

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    Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August. Not offensively bad, but still bad. Especially after Gere shows up.

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    Altman's PrĂȘt-Ă*-Porter. Quite possibly the most painful theater viewing I've ever had.

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    Quote Quoting Kurious Jorge v3.1 (view post)
    John Schlesinger - Marathon Man.
    I wouldn't say offensively bad but yeah it was un-good.

    I wouldn't say these are offensively bad either but they weren't good.

    Clouzot - Manon
    Kazan - Last Tycoon
    Kurosawa - The Idiot
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
    The Hobbit - C-
    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
    The Odd Couple - B
    Red Rock West - C-
    The Hunger Games - D-
    Prometheus - C
    Tangled - C+

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    Quote Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
    Altman's PrĂȘt-Ă*-Porter. Quite possibly the most painful theater viewing I've ever had.
    Good call.

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    Dead Poet's Society.
    A Dirty Shame.
    Letters from Iwo Jima.
    Howl's Moving Castle (though I totally want to give this one another shot).
    Year of the Dragon.
    The Spiders.
    Wise Guys.
    The Weight of Water.
    What Lies Beneath.
    The River (I didn't expect it to be so conventional... I need to see it again).
    Fire and Ice.
    The New World.
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    Quote Quoting iosos (view post)
    A Dirty Shame.
    Indeed, what a piece of shit.

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    I don't know about "offensively bad," but...

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    Guy Maddin: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
    Louis Malle: My Dinner With Andre
    Lindsay Anderson: Brittania Hospital
    In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
    Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
    True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
    Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
    The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
    Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
    The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
    Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7

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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    I don't know about "offensively bad," but...

    Hook
    Yeah..this was my first thought too, but I didn't want to...you know...instigate..


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    The New World?

    You so crazy, iosos.
    Sure why not?

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    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    A lot of these choices don't seem to fit the "offensively bad" label that the thread suggests...
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    A lot of these choices don't seem to fit the "offensively bad" label that the thread suggests...
    All but about maybe three of the films I've suggested I would not hesitate to call "very bad", although the "offensively" pejorative is used hyperbolically in this instance. Think of it as "very", I suppose.

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    Quote Quoting origami_mustache (view post)
    Louis Malle: My Dinner With Andre
    :cry


    Sam Peckinpah - Convoy

    Arrebato (Zulueta - '80) 89
    Elegia (Huszarik - '65) 95
    Szinbad (Huszarik - '71) 77
    Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu - '09) 80
    Marguriete of the Night (Autant-Lara - '55)62
    Kadin Hamlet (Erksan - '77) 52
    Passion of a Darkly Noon (Ridley - '94) 79
    Endangered Species (Rudolph - '82) 65
    Made in Heaven (Rudolph -'87) 20
    High Hopes (Leigh - '88) 74

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    Quote Quoting iosos (view post)
    The one that gave me the idea for the thread is Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure, which I just saw on the way home from my excellent internship interviews.

    It's way too sensationalist, and all the finger-pointing was the opposite of interesting. And if I have to see one more shot of a boot stepping into a puddle of water in slow motion, I'll scream. It was seriously tremendously awful.

    Your turn!
    It builds an intriguing case in a subtle way, but yeah, Morris never wants to push his point past subtext and here it just comes off as pussyfooting. And what we're left with is definitely more than a little monotonous.
    The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
    Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
    American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
    The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
    Passion (De Palma 12) - B

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    Quote Quoting Bosco B Thug (view post)
    It builds an intriguing case in a subtle way, but yeah, Morris never wants to push his point past subtext and here it just comes off as pussyfooting. And what we're left with is definitely more than a little monotonous.
    I found it to be unbearably sensational. All the slow motion hovering dust amplified sound computer graphics bombastic score... it embodies practically everything that people who rightfully deride "Hard Copy"-type journalism criticize.

    And it is very very monotonous. Nothing new is ever offered. Same old story, again and again and again. It was shockingly awful. And Morris's tactic of cutting to black in order to segue his interview clips was unbearable this time around.

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    Quote Quoting Kurious Jorge v3.1 (view post)
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    The problem I had with this film is that it doesn't fully utilize the medium. It is aesthetically unappealing and in all honesty My Dinner With Andre would be much better suited as a stage play. I found the acting to be very theatrical, and the monologues unnatural, pretentious and heavy handed. Not to say the performances were bad (they work just fine as a theatrical performance), but I just didn't believe these were real people. Instead they represented ideologies and archetypes.
    In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
    Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
    True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
    Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
    The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
    Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
    The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
    Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7

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    Richard Linklater, Bad News Bears
    Robert Altman, Beyond Therapy
    Woody Allen, Hollywood Ending/Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Spike Lee, Girl 6
    Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
    Park Chan-Wook, I'm A Cyborg but That's Okay
    Tim Burton, Planet of the Apes

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    Quote Quoting iosos (view post)
    Howl's Moving Castle
    The River
    The New World.
    False.
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
    The Hobbit - C-
    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
    The Odd Couple - B
    Red Rock West - C-
    The Hunger Games - D-
    Prometheus - C
    Tangled - C+

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    Spielberg's War of the Worlds, because it oscillates so sharply between moments of brilliance and moments of brain-defying stupidity.

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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    Spielberg's War of the Worlds, because it oscillates so sharply between moments of brilliance and moments of brain-defying stupidity.
    Well yes and no... it's pretty consistent in it's visual brilliance and also pretty consistent in it's narrative stupidity.
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
    The Hobbit - C-
    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
    The Odd Couple - B
    Red Rock West - C-
    The Hunger Games - D-
    Prometheus - C
    Tangled - C+

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