Awful Films

PostRe: Awful Films by **Lee** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:02 am

Anything by Godfrey Ho. A flatmate and I recently discovered this genius filmmaker, whose films never fail to entertain, though usually not in the way Ho probably intended...

Sometimes considered the Ed Wood of Hong Kong cinema, he is best known for his Ninja films, a series of 1980s martial arts films made with a cut-and-paste technique. Ho would film footage for one film, and then edit and splice the shots together in a different order, often adding in footage from other films, and then dubbing over the result to create an (almost) coherent finished product. This allowed him to create four or five films with the budget of one, though it is often difficult to discern how much of the finished product he actually filmed himself. Ho has directed over 90 films, of which approximately 40 contain the word "ninja" in the title.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Ho

Here's a little taster:

PostRe: Awful Films by **Scotticus Erroticus** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:06 am

is that serious? :lol:

PostRe: Awful Films by **Lee** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:07 am

I have five of his films on DVD. He's for real. :lol:

PostRe: Awful Films by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:20 am

I sat through Dragonball Evolution on Sunday. I have never seen a bigger pile of gooseberry fool in my life. :fp:

I curse the families of everyone involved in it.

PostRe: Awful Films by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:27 pm

Lee wrote:Anything by Godfrey Ho. A flatmate and I recently discovered this genius filmmaker, whose films never fail to entertain, though usually not in the way Ho probably intended...

Sometimes considered the Ed Wood of Hong Kong cinema, he is best known for his Ninja films, a series of 1980s martial arts films made with a cut-and-paste technique. Ho would film footage for one film, and then edit and splice the shots together in a different order, often adding in footage from other films, and then dubbing over the result to create an (almost) coherent finished product. This allowed him to create four or five films with the budget of one, though it is often difficult to discern how much of the finished product he actually filmed himself. Ho has directed over 90 films, of which approximately 40 contain the word "ninja" in the title.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Ho

Here's a little taster:

PostRe: Awful Films by **Dolph Wiggler** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:36 pm

We thought it'd be a good laugh to get drunk and laugh at this film. It wasn't. The memory of watching it still haunts me to this day.

PostRe: Awful Films by **Rightey** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:40 pm

Brerlappins little hat wrote:Space Mutiny
Pumaman

Pumaman and Hobgoblins in particular are absolute abortions, but the mst3k episode featuring pumaman almost made me piss myself laughing, its the only way to see these awful films without wanting to kill yourself

"Help I'm falling at a 90 degree angle which is technically impossible!" :lol:

And Big McLargehuge!

PostRe: Awful Films by **Count Nood** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:02 pm

Carlos wrote:(more recently) Push: The trailer seemed to show every action scene in the film, which amounts to about 3 minutes. A cheap rip-off of heroes. I expect superheroes in films to actually use their powers.

Yep, that's dire. It even makes Heroes look good.

PostRe: Awful Films by **floydfreak** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:15 pm

Super Mario Bros :fp:

PostRe: Awful Films by **RamSteelwood** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:55 pm

"Savate" is a fantastic crap film. french kick boxer* wanders around the wild west, ridiculous over the top german bad guy (with a legitimately fantastic 'evil guy' sequence that deserves a better film), terrible acting, devolves in to a strange wrestling tournament in a frontier town, ending with the traditional "he's not quite dead" fight sequence.

* think jean claude van damme but with less charisma or acting skills.

PostRe: Awful Films by **hideous_enigma** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:05 pm

I love awful films.

In fact, as far as I'm concerned, the only good film is an awful one.

PostRe: Awful Films by **Dandy Kong** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:11 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:

Ah, so that's where that gif is from! Italian Spiderman is great, by the way.

My contender: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/ for most cringeworthy characters and dialogue in a movie ever. Saw it while on a plane, still felt it was a waste of time.

PostRe: Awful Films by **PuppetBoy** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:12 pm

Has anyone else seen Troll 2? That was amazing. Beyond awful. Very funny though.

Just about every animal ever has had a comically gooseberry fool horror film made about it. Octopus, Spiders, Piranha and Piranha II (I think James Cameron directed this - it had flying piranha's that made this brilliant whistling whewwhewwhew noise when they flew through the air), and my personal least favourite, Frogs.

Here's a scene from Frogs.

I hated that film so much, that when HMV wouldn't allow me to return it, I posted it along with a note of apology through a random letterbox. I simply couldn't bear to look at it anymore. Awful.

PostRe: Awful Films by **Count Nood** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:16 pm

Most animated Dreamworks films.

PostRe: Awful Films by **Loire** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:44 pm

Oh my God!

PostRe: Awful Films by **PuppetBoy** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:48 pm

Loire wrote:
Wiggles wrote:

We thought it'd be a good laugh to get drunk and laugh at this film. It wasn't. The memory of watching it still haunts me to this day.

Oh my God!

Wow.

The worst part is, I can really see myself watching this. :fp:

PostRe: Awful Films by **Skarjo** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:49 pm

Starship Troopers 3.

So fantastically gooseberry fool it even has a song.

PostRe: Awful Films by **karl_fletcher** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:02 pm

PostRe: Awful Films by **Henke** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:12 pm

Boss ******

PostRe: Awful Films by **Godzilla** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:37 pm

The full movie of Troll 2 is on YouTube, I've not seen it but Troll was strawberry floating awesome and gooseberry fool scary when I was a kid.

Also this site has loads of reviews, clips and audio from bad movies

http://www.badmovies.org/

and loads of great Godzilla movies.

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