(05-31-2022, 11:17 AM)Mikey Wrote: going on topic, this is going to be a challenge for me. Partly because uh, things I did in college mean that remembering forgettable movies 10-15 years past are nearly impossible.

For backstory, I was a manager at our local Blockbuster for a few years. The stores had a policy that team members got 5 free rentals per week, with encouragement to rent the upcoming releases so that we could make informed recommendations. I never ever never bothered with mainstream movies like Twilight, Dark Knight, etc, because even if I told people they were tripe, they were still gonna take them home. More often that not, I'd grab the 1-copy releases our stores would get from the independent production houses, and most of these were horror flicks that stank out loud.

There were the occasional "recommend this to everyone" titles like Joshua, He Was a Quiet Man, Mr. Brooks, etc. But more often they were the "get ten friends who are also in your film class and  a camcorder, and let's put our class project on DVD" that had zero post-production, horribad dialogue, or miserable effects work. Thankfully most every one of them are likely unpossible to track down at this stage and I've long since forgotten the titles.

I'm not counting bad movies that were watched because they were bad (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Manos: Hands of Fate) or even shock value theater (I've seen several Faces of Death releases, early John Waters flicks would apply too).

American Movie bored me to tears. Basically a movie about a guy begging for money to finish a movie he didn't have money to make. It's literally him getting told no or odd-jobbing his way to a few bucks, completely wasted time. Movies like Shrooms and the Ruins were CGI nightmares or just horribly acted. Movies like Semi-Pro and the Hammer that are billed as comedies, and you fail to laugh at all.

I could write paragraphs on political/lopsided "documentaries", but I don't want to start any rabbit trails that get any of us on the wrong side of mods' good favor.