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Subject: Re: Worst Movie Ever
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 21:48:35 EST
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 >Look.  I'm no film reviewer, but my new nominee as the Worst
 >Movie ever  put out for general distribution is
 >"Torchlight", with Pamela Sue Martin.   Until I saw this
 >movie, the title was held by Altman's "Quintet".  Has 
 >anyone elso seen either of these two movies, with or without
 >similar reactions?

Yes, I once was exposed to QUINTET.  It would have made an interesting
short but was just incredibly dull as a full length film.  If some
films are good in spite of themselves because they unintentionally make
the viewer laugh for a moment or two, this film is better.  It can
unintentionally bring on a whole good night's sleep.  It was far more
competant than most films discussed under this category.

Actually, I would like to object to the whole category of worst films.
A very good film usually will come to people's attention, a very bad
film will be so bad, it won't get release and virtually nobody will
ever see it.  There are apparently thousands of films so bad they never
get release.  When I was growing up, there was a movie house in
Massachusetts that called itself REJECT THEATER.  It showed only films
that did not get release.  Don't ask me where they manager got them.
(Also take this with a grain of salt, I talked to people who had been
there, but I never went myself.)  I heard of one film about mad
scientists with guns that turned humans into leaves.  There would often
be scenes in which the boom mike was filmed by the camera or members of
the crew could be seen accidently walking into the scene.  Thousands of
films like this are left in well-deserved obscurity.  In the light of
this, the worst films nobody on the net would have ever seen.  It makes
sense talking about the worst film some one person has seen, not the
worst ever made.

				Mark Leeper
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