A death sentence for a film
November 29th, 2012 at 11:00 am by David FarrarThe Herald reports:
An Egyptian court has convicted in absentia seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.
If you get death sentences for making crappy films, then someone should kill all the cast and crew of All The King’s Men! That is the 2006 version, not the 1949 version.
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November 29th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Except the film didn’t “spark riots”, it was used as an excuse for Sept 11 rioting and murder.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Peter Jackson would be fucked. King Kong and The Lovely Bones would be two of the most shambolic pieces of crap ever made…
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:06 am
The worst film I’ve ever seen was “Alexander.” Couldn’t even last until the end.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:06 am
Are we making our own list? I nominate the makers of the 10:10 exploding children video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Mw5_EBk0g
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I’m with iMP on Alexander. Also, Tom Green deserves to be stoned to death for Freddie Got Fingered.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Certainly the biggest disappointment nod has to go to Prometheus.
How Ridly Scott could take a prequel for a fantastic movie (Alien, which he made) complete with big budget etc and completely cluster fuck it is beyond me.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:20 am
The term “Egyptian court” is a joke and oxymoron.
The vile “religion of peace” would love to exterminate the rest of us who do not share its primitive and backward-looking view of the world.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Brokeback Mountain is apparently a pathetic movie. I nominate that!
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Attack of the Clones was pretty dire.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:22 am
It was an excuse in some places. In other places, I’m pretty sure there were protests against the film. That’s why the pretext worked for a while. It took the protests in some places and transplanted it to another.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Some absolute crackers amongst this lot-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst
Heh, I had forgotten about Howard the Duck
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:23 am
longknives – lol king kong was just terrible. i cant believe he filmed the boat ride to the island in real time.. 37 days in the theatre was just too much.
oh yeah – lol @ islamic countries. morons.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:30 am
I hope everyone who makes such threats to kill is placed on a travel ban from their Neanderthal habitats.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Anything with Steve Martin in it is usually a safe bet. In fact, he has invited jihad upon himself for the completely piss poor effort in reprising the Clouseau role.
Outside the movies: well, hard to go past the bad acting that is John Cambell. [serious deep voice font] “Ooh, look at me, I’m a Thunderbirds puppet”. Blurghh.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Yes, but it was still an excuse. Just depends on who was using it – the Obama administration or those who organised the riots.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:39 am
@iMP. absolutely. I stopped watching Alexander half way through. I’m not into torturing myself.
@Murray. Yup. the Libya incident on 11 Sept that resulted in the death of the American ambassador has since been confirmed as a pre-planned terrorist attack.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Oh, and my nomination is Southland Tales.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Hm, looking through that Wiki list I’d have to add Highlander II as a runner-up deserving only a light beating.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:51 am
And this somehow proves that no-one anywhere in the World rioted against the film?
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Yet Coptic Christians posing as Jews doesn’t rate a mention.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 11:59 am
This is surely one of the worst of all time.
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November 29th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
@noskire
Vote:Movies as bad as that are actually kinda watchable. So bad they are good.
November 29th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Anything with Adam Sandler in it!
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
It is a little known fact that Osama bin Laden actually destroyed the WTC to punish New York for making the film Sgt Kabukiman NYPD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Kabukiman_N.Y.P.D.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
@noskire
Exactly! The best thing about the movie sadly, was the title. How you could screw up a movie that was basically killing Surf-Nazis in inventive ways, is beyond me. This is the perfect B-movie plot. That takes a level of incompetence that frankly, astonishes me.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
In which case he should have targeted Australia for perpetrating those infamous castrati the Bee Gees on the rest of the world…
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Rise of the cannibal confederates was pretty bad.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
@ChardonnalGuy, it’s only logical to conclude you don’t like castrati.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Independence Day took the cake for being the crappiest, most overhyped piece of trash I confess to paying my money and sitting through. All the cast and crew should be shot (barring Harry Connick Junior as his character was killed off early). I cried when I realised that my 10 dollars could be better spent elsewhere.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Have been entertaining the 8 year old recently with classic 1990s dumb blockbuster movies from my teenage years.
She found Independence Day boring but loved Jurassic Park and Small Soldiers.
We’ll probably leave Aliens & Starship Troopers until she’s a bit older…
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
@Grizz
“Mr President, they are using our own satellites against us”… cheap arse aliens. Serves them right to be nuked for forgetting to pack their own satellites.
Oh that movie sucked.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
I have nothing against eunuchs, Manolo, but I don’t like unnaturally soprano Australian pop band voices…
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Independance Day- The movie where the Alien mothership with technology infinitely superior to ours is hacked into by a 1996 Apple Mac…
Not to mention Will Smith knocking an enormous and physically superior alien out cold with one punch. “Welcome to earth”!
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
2012
Vote:just dumb, plain dumb
November 29th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
“Independance Day- The movie where the Alien mothership with technology infinitely superior to ours is hacked into by a 1996 Apple Mac…”
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Longknives – Despite Peter Jackson making the worst films imaginable, I can’t see New Zealand re-instating the death penalty just for him.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
I doubt Obama or the State dept will be making any phone calls on this one.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Peter Jackson has made some crappy films, but I guess is constrained in what he can do now he is a genuine movie mogul. I’d like him to do something as good as Heavenly Creatures. I’d settle for a good Dambusters but even if it gets made I won’t hold my breath.
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November 29th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
“Hamnida (892) Says:
November 29th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Longknives – Despite Peter Jackson making the worst films imaginable, I can’t see New Zealand re-instating the death penalty just for him.”
What about if the Labour get back in in 2014. PJ has been certified as an “enemy of the people” by the left hasn’t he. I expect he will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes, along with the Mad Butcher, etc.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
He might only suffer the ultimate penalty for his fashion crimes.
Vote:November 29th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Let the punishment fit the crime I say. Perhaps the threat of a month hooked up to KB might deter this kind of thing.
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