Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahutb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!ahuta!ahutb!leeper From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Worst Movie Ever Message-ID: <533@ahutb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 21:48:35 EST Article-I.D.: ahutb.533 Posted: Thu Mar 7 21:48:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 06:58:30 EST References: <1110004@acf4.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 35 REFERENCES: <1110004@acf4.UUCP> >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 ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper