50 Least Influential Movies 157
radagast writes "Gamepro.com has an awesome story up now listing the 50 Least Influential Movies ever - although I have to say The Garbage Pail Kids movie and Mac & Me both had a profound impact on my childhood. Check out the 10 Least influential TV list too.
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And to Think (Score:1)
The Amy Fisher Story [imdb.com]
As usual, very US centric (Score:1)
The Wizard cast a spell on me (Score:3)
Re:JESUS H CHRIST (Score:1)
There are holes everywhere! (Score:1)
I was glad Chuck Noriss got a mention although he probably deserved four, what about Stephen Segal. C'mon! Stephen Segal has made some really shit cinema. In fact, I can't think of anything he's made that hasn't been awful, although rumour has it that there's been a movie in the last five years in which he gets killed, early, and somebody deserves some respect for that.
Yahoo Serious / Mr. Accident (Score:1)
Missed one (Score:2)
Last Action Hero (Score:1)
50 Least Influential Movies (Score:1)
Re:least influential in the past 25 years maybe... (Score:1)
Sadly, I do not see any evidence of "Cool World" on this list. Maybe it made #51 . . .
Re:Sorry -- Wing Commander should have been there (Score:1)
Re:#37: SuperFuzz (Score:2)
Yes, but his lameness was what made him so endearing. That and his wierd accent. Or was it that they had him re-dub all his lines with no lip sync whatsoever? Maybe that was it. And with that kind of airplay, you can learn to love almost any bad movie. Must be related to that hostage syndrome (Stockholm syndrome?)
I actually would pay to have this one on DVD. Well, 10 bucks anyhow. And if you have a problem with that, some friends of mine are nuts about Thundercats, which I thought was pretty uninfluential myself. (Though I've heard its last season wasn't so bad, when the series was left to die, and the writers were left alone and wrote scripts that weren't aimed at six year olds.)
Which brings up the idea of variations on this theme. Certainly there should be an uninfluential TV series list. And then another one specifically for kids TV series.
I nominate Quark, staring Richard Benjamin, (which I was nuts about back in 1979) for the regular TV series list. Ah, the wonderful adventures of the United Galaxy Space Patrol. And Battlestar Galactica '80, which I absolutely hated, because it used the very same premise (they find Earth, but it's Earth in 1980) that had appeared six months earlier as a parody in Cracked magazine [cracked.com].
Re:No! Two of my favorite movies are #2 and #1!!! (Score:2)
OK! So you dared comparing the Holy Grail with American comedies? Bring forth the executioner.
What? Let's look here... the first comparison was with "Reckless Kelly" (Austrailian), the next was "Strange Brew" (Canadian, SCTV spinoff), and finally "Kentucky Fried Movie", which, though American, is a abberant case of a funny American Comedy.
The first film by the Zemekis (sp) Brothers, it was done before they were under studio influence (Airplane was great as well, but after that, they started going downhill. They do get points for casting William Shattner in the second best spoof of his Star Trek career). If you've seen this on the Comedy Channel, you haven't seen it. If you remember "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed against a glass shower door, then you've watched the real thing.
Actually, I think the great American comedies are things like "Blues Brothers". But "Reckless Kelly" was the topic, and it's brand of humor is different, much closer to the movies I listed.
So yes, I did compare MP's QftHG to three movies, one of which was American. The movie I picked, however, is a shining example of similar humor - something that is consistently funny, varied surreal fun on a few different levels (slapstick to cultural references), and appeals to a variety of people.
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Evan
the dept? (Score:1)
Re:No drama movies I see (Score:1)
Re:No drama movies I see (Score:1)
All these failed to MOVE me in anyway whatsoever - eg NO emotional reaction - when I saw these movies all I thought was "Why the hell did they make this crap?" Not "Gee that was some great special effects!"
I want a movie that has at least some substance to the story. Not just be a vehicle for making money
As far as the Lion king goes ... all my nieces and nephews watched it once. Wallace and Grommet: The Wrong Trousers, and Mouse on a Motercycle they would ask to see over and over again. IMHO I thought Beauty and the Beast was MUCH better by far that LK could ever be.
BTW: Wallace and Grommet: the Wrong Trousers was THE most funny movie I have see in a long time. It even had a evil penquin in it (hehehe) The person who did this later went on to do 'Chicken Run'
10 Least influential TV list (Score:1)
And does anyone remember the name of that series with the untalented little girl who played a robot? Not quite as bad as "Manimal," but it comes close...
Re:The Wizard cast a spell on me (Score:1)
Oh wait, that was The Wiz, sorry
-Man, Jimmy was good at Mario Bros.
non-influential of note...ZOMBIE(1979) (Score:1)
Anyhow, the tagphrase was:
"A Zombie and a shark fight....and guess who wins?"
damn, how could i NOT rent that right then and there? i mean, who wins? well I know. If a shark and a zombie get into a fit, the shark wins. just so you know.
more about his film here [imdb.com] and here [houseofhorrors.com].
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Re:Deja Vu (Score:1)
Oh man, no doubt (Score:2)
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Titanic worst film ever (Score:1)
Leonardo caprio (whatever) is not that bad in other movies. Like that film he did with Robert De Niro.
Re:Gee... (Score:1)
This movie is not that bad. That man with the fake eye ruled.
The Rabbit Test (Score:1)
He's the first pregnant male.
No, I've not seen it, I just have a good memory for useless triva...
Truth in advertising and The Stupids (Score:1)
Re:No! Two of my favorite movies are #2 and #1!!! (Score:1)
>Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed >against a glass shower door, then you've watched >the real thing.
I was about 13 or 14 when I saw this movie, so this is actually the -only- scene I remember. What was this movie about?
Re:What is really sad.... (Score:2)
I kinda liked Runaway's robots, but the movie wasn't that interesting.
I remember watching Superfuzz hundreds of times when we first got HBO(not cable, JUST HBO for starters), as well as Midnight Madness, starring Michael J Fox.
I must have seen the boxcovers to ALL these movies at least a hundred times. Working at a video store, you can't avoid it.
mac & me (Score:1)
"Mac & Me"? What about "PC & Me"? Surely there can be a PC equivalent of a Mac movie
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Courtney Cox, f'reaven's sake!! (Score:2)
I can't believe... (Score:1)
#6 - Riptide? (Score:2)
Am I the only geek in the world (ok, maybe those German sites know something) who watched and enjoyed Riptide as a youth (beat out Miami Vice in my book)? Am I the only geek who owns a copy of K-Power with the Riptide stars on the cover (actually, that may be true!).
I loved the orange robot! It had guns, chase sequences, a robot and a nerd/geek/programmer for crying out loud! Between this and Whiz Kids, what young geek could want more???
I support the EFF [eff.org] - do you?
oh my freakin god (Score:2)
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with those childhood horrors of cable TV.
Eeeeeeh... (Score:1)
Re:#37: SuperFuzz (Score:1)
Profound Movie (Score:1)
This is blackmail fodder.
Link to beginning of list (Score:1)
These opinions are my own and not necessarily
Re:mac & me (Score:1)
Captain Ron (Score:1)
Taking Wagers! (Score:1)
"Midnight Madness" (Score:1)
About posting this type of story... (Score:1)
GNOME ADDS A NEW DEFUALT BUTTON TO THE PANEL!!!!! LINUX USERS REJOICE!!!! KDE PLANS COUNTEROFFENSIVE WITH NEW DESKTOP BACKGROUND!!!!! This may change the course of GUIs on Linux forever.
And of course....MOZILLA M192282 ON FTP MIRRORS EVERYWHERE!!!! Project leaders "Strangely similar to the last 192,00 versions, how odd."
Not to mention Kernel 2.6pre939393 REALESED!!!!! Linus: "I am not quite sure what I did, I think a friend of mine got drunk and copied all the source and then pasted it in again at the end commented out.....might as well send it out, eh?
11 - Spaced Invaders - huh (Score:1)
so it was here that I first was introduced to SpacedInvaders. I liked it so much I marked it down as lost and took it home with me
I would say this movie influenced me greatly. I taight me that sometimes BAD is GOOD and that cliches are there because they have always been there. But mainly it taught me that some actors turn up in the most unusual of films..
Good write up though
My Contribution (Score:1)
Jugular Wine [imdb.com] -- hands down, the worst horror film ever made. Not even influential enough to get people to watch through the first twenty minutes.
-Chris
Re:"Midnight Madness" (Score:1)
I'm heading down the the Pabst Brewery, anyone need anything?
#37: SuperFuzz (Score:2)
For those of you who may not have seen this movie, this is a bit like Satan showing up on your doorstep and telling you that your "a little bit too evil" in his view.
I don't think there was an afternoon between May and September of 1985 that this movie didn't get played on HBO. This Dave Speed guy made the Green Lantern look like a kick-ass superhero by comparison.
On a more serious not, I'd like to know where the hell Pizza Man is? Surely any movie with Bill Maher and the phrase "Exploding Sausage" deserves to be top 20 at least!
poor quality American movies (Score:2)
Well the movies seem to be predominantly crap and from the USA...
Can we have favourite East European motorbikes next week?
Terrence Hill Cooler than the Beatles (Score:1)
spaghetti westerns used the music of Ennio Morricone,the man who put the ultra cool jams in
"The Good,the Bad and the Ugly"."My Name is Trinity","My Name is Nobody" and "Boot Hill"each more than make up for the superfuzz faux passe.
Boring (Score:1)
Re:A few they overlooked (Score:1)
Re:A few they overlooked (Score:1)
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OT on sneak previews (Score:1)
Re:The Wizard cast a spell on me (Score:1)
Young Einstein!!! (Score:1)
How can you not remember Young Einstein? It has to be one of the funniest movies ever! How can you claim a movie showing live kittens being made into a pie at a Australian Psychiatric Hospital is NOT INFLUENTIAL!!!!?????
When I worked at a video store, I would loop this movie endlessly!
Too funny... (Score:2)
#25, Teen Wolf Too: "Apparently the original Teen Wolf just didn't say everything that needed to be said about the joys and tough life lessons of being both a teen and a wolf. Only instead of featuring a basketball-playing Michael J. Fox, the producers of Teen Wolf Too dragged out one of the Bateman kids (Jason) to play Fox's cousin as a wrestler or a boxer or some sort of wrestler/boxer. Bonus points are awarded because the filmmakers were inspired enough to include a frog-fight in the science lab, but the film's most touching and glorious moment comes when Teen Wolf Too, faced with sudden and unexplained popularity, sings and dances and jumps on a trampoline at a mansion pool party."
#46, The Wizard: "Fred Savage has an autistic friend who's also a video gaming savant, so they drag him to the Grand Video Game Championships and force him to perform for the ravenous Nintendo-loving crowd. It's like The Who's Tommy for the video game generation, except without the music, social consciousness, or thinly veiled drug metaphors. Oh, and The Wizard doesn't become a demi-god, either. A useless movie when it was released, this one gets even better with age because its big draw is a sneak preview of Super Mario Brothers 3. I tell ya, even after all those years... seeing that Tanooki Suit still makes me cry." (Go check out the memorable quotes [imdb.com] on us.imdb.com)
I'm terribly ashamed I know this... but on the Garbage Pales Kids writeup, they mention one of the characters as "Fat Matt..." it was "Fat Pat..." (at least in card form). There was even a Garbage Pale the Kids TV Series [imdb.com]. Tee hee!
Too funny, too funny...
Re:Young Einstein!!! (Score:1)
Re:Logan's Run (Score:1)
Re:Top 50 (Score:3)
Are you sure? It looks like he gave it the most prestigious department...
"from the dept."
Which department? The department.
Crocodile Dundee 2 (Score:1)
Crocodile Dundee 2, however, was completely worthless. Whereas the first movie promoted/embarrassed Australia to the rest of the world, the sequel was able to do nothing but suck.
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What is really sad.... (Score:1)
Re:They missed on #1! (Score:1)
Re:Mac and Me!!!! (Score:2)
A 95 minute commercial...
From the user comments [imdb.com] on us.imdb.com:
Proof that the LIM does not exist (Score:1)
Since our assumption in 2 leads to a contradiction, there is no LIM' ordering relation on m, and thus there is no such thing as the Least Interesting Movie.
The Most Insipid Movie (MIM) is another matter. "Heartbeeps"?? Yeah. Ack. Pfft.
Some more they missed... (Score:1)
Top 50. I actually saw this one in the theater. All I remember
is that it was a comedy/monster movie, and it had Ed Begley, Jr. as
either a monster or a mad scientist. I think it also had a number
of members of the cast of SCTV (or was it Fridays?) in it. I think
I actually walked out of this movie when I was a teenager.
Another movie that I considered walking out on was yet another
SCTV cast-member vehicle; Armed & Dangerous [imdb.com]. This one cast
John Candy and Eugene Levy as bumbling security guards. I think
they probably got involved in breaking up some big heist, through
some wacky hijinks, but I can't really remember.
Of course, you could probably make an entire list of Least
Influential Movies from a combination of SCTV and SNL cast vehicles.
These are just the ones that scarred me as a teenager.
I never saw Supergirl.
Thank goodness, I'm not crazy (Score:1)
Hey, Sci Fi Channel! How about a double feature of "Heartbeeps" and "Electric Dreams"?
"from the dept." (Score:1)
Posted by Hemos on Sat August 19, 01:36 AM
from the dept.
Uh-oh. This one is from "the dept." Either Hemos forgot to fill something in when he posted this, or...or.... this one is from "The Department." (Kind of like The Man).
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Robot Jox (Score:1)
God, that was an aweful movie. I could never muster up enough courage to see the sequel.
Zucker (Score:1)
Re:This is much better... (Score:1)
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Re:10 Least influential TV list (Score:2)
Small Wonder [imdb.com]. The show was pretty terrible...
Where was BioDome? (Score:2)
One more to add... (Score:1)
Re:Garbage Pail Kids Movie?!?!? (Score:2)
Re:No drama movies I see (Score:1)
Forrest Gump: How many Academy Awards do you need to get before you're considered influential? FG scored *five* with another *five* nominations. Although this may mean little to you, we are talking about the effect a film has on its audience.
Face/Off: Utter crap, I agree.
Driving Miss Daisy: Another Academy Award winner. This time four Oscars and another five nominations.
Lion King: The kids you know must be on something. You don't get huge ticket sales ($700+ worldwide) like LK did without having repeat viewers. Besides, LK was one of the movies that is credited for reviving animation on the big screen. Those 2 Oscars didn't hurt either.
Barney, Teletubies: Didn't see either.
I realize I just probably got caught hook line and sinker. Oh well.
jedrek
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Re:Mac and Me!!!! (Score:1)
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I guess you missed my sarcasm...
My favorites from the list... (Score:1)
Okay, obviously what kid doesn't want to get to do something like this. I mean, the movie foretold the Quake tournaments that so many of us enjoy now. Of course there are other movies about video games, but Tron and The Last Starfighter reward the gamer in unrealistic ways.
32 - Howard The Duck
It's from the great and almighty himself. It must be a quality movie in the tradition of ESB and RotJ. Okay, I'm kidding about that one.
26 - Jade
Reasons to watch this movie: you have an insatiable fetish for Linda Fiorentino. Okay, that's the only reason to watch this movie.
That's my take of a few choice picks on the list. I chose from the movies I have seen on that list, so I have no idea about some of those strange movies like "10 - Lambada, The Forbidden Dance".
Re:Top 50 (Score:1)
No! Two of my favorite movies are #2 and #1!!! (Score:4)
Okay, I really love Heartbeeps. It's a great movie in my eyes... sort of a deconstructed Blade Runner crossed with Max Max and produced by Troma with a crew of SubGenius. Not only that, but Bernadette Peters (who is scorchingly hot normally) plays a Soriyama style Gynoid.
Okay... so I can understand people who don't "get it". That's fine - I own the video and my significant other loves it as well. But don't you dare say that "Reckless Kelly" isn't great.
Oh, sure, I'll buy "little influence", but it's a classic like "Kentucky Fried Movie", "Strange Brew" or "Monty Python and Quest for the Holy Grail". Haul it out every once in awhile with a group of people - it's pretty much guarenteed to appeal to most everyone. Over the top humor, (Nuns in lingere, gun phones, "Big Mac-Beth", a character quoting Shakespeare while chowing on a burger and playing a bagpipe) that hits at many levels (okay, mostly low humor) makes Reckless Kelly a wide appeal film.
At the *very* least, you get to see Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith from the Matrix) in his full, Austrailian accented glory, partner up with fellow bad guy Alexei Sayle (the Balowski family from the BBC's "Young Ones").
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Evan
Re:It's been done... (Score:1)
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Re:Young Einstein!!! (Score:1)
Or it could be that these movies were just too ridiculously great. But I think it was the live kittens.
Re:Zardoz (Score:1)
A few opinions... (Score:2)
#33 - I loved masters of the universe when I was a kid. I had all the action figures. Maybe he's right and in reality the movie did suck, but I don't appreciate my childish fantasy world being broken.
#32 - Yes, this movie sucked, but I think the reviewer missed the point with the "trapped in a world he never made" tagline. This is a direct quote from the "Howard the Duck" comic book, which is nothing less than one of the most brilliant humor books ever published. The "real" comic book howard was witty, satirical, biting, and nothing at all like the horrible mis-representation that is his movie version. The tagline is not intended to make sense.
#24 - This is actually one of my favorite movies. It was way underrated when it came out, but its actually an incredibly funny comedy which is also somewhat touching. Al Franken is great as Stuart (I love his work in general), and the scenes with his family being dysfunctional are really rolling-in-the-ailes quality. I don't see what he has against this movie. Am I crazy here? Does anyone agree with me?
#20 - Wow. Is this a joke? I have never, ever heard of anything like this before. A live action Garbage Pail Kids movie. I'm really glad I never watched this.
#3 - Sidekicks. How could this not be #1?
There you have my rantings. Take them for what they're worth. Keep in mind its 3am.'
-W.W.
Re:Young Einstein!!! (Score:1)
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Re:star wars holiday special (Score:1)
They have it in real format, among other atrocities, like the 1980 Star Wars- Sesame Street crossover.
Don't blame me if you are feeling suicidal after you watch this shit
Sorry -- Wing Commander should have been there (Score:2)
Seriously, The movie had everything! Bad acting! Bad plot! Bad 3D graphics! Come on --you can see the seams in the texture maps if you look carefully.
Cool As Ice!!!! (Score:3)
Re:Lambada??!! (Score:2)
Re:It's been done... (Score:2)
But it influenced the writers of GURPS Cyberpunk into listing it in the 'Inspirational Watching/Reading' section of their book. It might have been crap, but it had some influence.
While I'm earning my (-1, Offtopic), I'd like to mention a movie that had entirely too much influence in the sense that it managed to get funding for at least four sequels:
Witchboard 1-5. These movies are seriously the most terrible, heinous excrement I have ever had the misfortune to witness. If someone is compiling a list of "Top 50 Movies That Would Make Visiting Aliens Doubt Human Sentience", Witchboard should be at the top.
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I apologize for Carpool (Score:2)
David Paymer is a good guy and I have a lot of respect for him, but people like Tom Arnold should never be allow anywhere near a film set. One of the highlights of the whole experience was putting Tom and Rod Steiger in the same room and watching the battle of the egos. No contest. At least Rod earned his ego and has a golden statue or two to back it up.
The real tragedy was that before Carpool made it to the theatres and proved to the world that Tom had no business starring in movies, they let him make The Stupids and McHale's Navy. All three made the top ten list of that years least profitable films.
Trickster Coyote
Illusions are real.
Re:What people are missing (Score:2)
I'm afraid that's not quite true. Spirit of '76 had a stupendously small budget, opened to no fanfare, and then basically went straight to the Rep joints and video stores. Something like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is more what you're describing. Frankly, I'm not sure why the Spirit of '76 makes this list at all, since it actually has some decent scenes, and didn't aim high enough to have failed expectations.
One other bizarre inclusion on this list is Zardoz. Now, Zardoz isn't "a masterpiece" as some weirdos have believed, but it is one of the most hilarious movies ever made. Oh, wait: I forgot that it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. Never mind. :-)
Two movies not on this list which should be, though, were the early 70s remake of Lost Horizon and the first picture that Joan Rivers directed, Rabbit Test. The fact that you just said "Huh?" twice is strong evidence for my position. :-)
Re:Stupid discusioon!! (Score:2)
My moderation results said that I moderated this as +1 (Normal). And sure enough, it gained the point. How bizarre. Anyway, I'm posting this to undo that random act of moderation.
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Re:No drama movies I see (Score:2)
I only disagree with one of the picks (Score:2)
Anyhow, it wasn't that bad - worth a rainy night rental.
How could they have put "Cadillac Man" on the list when there are dozens of overlooked Kevin Costner movies to choose from?
- -Josh Turiel
A few they overlooked (Score:2)
I have to confess renting "Spaced Invaders", having seen it in the theatres. Yes, I did enjoy it a little.
Re:Garbage Pail Kids Movie?!?!? (Score:2)
Could it have been the "Movie that the kids put in the garbage paid?"
Deja Vu (Score:4)
Now THOSE were useless.
-jay
Check out Leisure Town [leisuretown.com]. It's funny.
Re:Lambada??!! (Score:2)
What people are missing (Score:2)
Re:Rather talk about most underated than worst (Score:2)
Anyway:
The point I was trying to make in my oh, so iconoclastic (clumsy?) way was that only the superficial elements of the story were influential... the actual theme of the movie was not, because no one seems to have gotten the point. E.g. It could very well be that Fargo wouldn't of happened without Pulp Fiction, but that doesn't really mean very much, because Fargo also has nothing of any importance in common with Pulp Fiction.I dunno, maybe I didn't put this very well:
what is happening to Slashdot? (Score:3)
I am apalled.
Mac and Me!!!! (Score:2)
Capturing up aliens with vacum cleaners! Strange hippie orphan girls living alone in tents on the edge of town! It was something to be remembered.
However, Mac and Me has been lost to history....how sad....we really need a Mac and Me Special Edition.