Re: Worst movie of all time
As of late, has anyone been watching the main digital cable channels late at night, and seeing the fucking sub-terrible Anna Nicole Smith 1996 direct-to-video actioner "Skyscraper" ? Fuck it's bad!
In a strange "paying homage to the departed", I watched it in memory of her, and because I had only untill now watched a moment or two from it over the years, and knew very well that like most of her filmography, it was (forgive me a bit here) pretty fucking unwatchable.
It's just pure horse shit on so many levels. Bad excuses to show nudity. Pitiful "acting" and a lot of over-acting. Bad squib work used for the gumshot shoot out sequences. Model shots (painfully obvious) inserted for the skyscraper building whenever the plot requires for a villian to fall off it. Anna herself should have been allowed to lose some weight before hand, as she was filmed as she was beginning to gain weight in the mid '90s, and was not at her most flattering. Dropping 40 lbs would have perfectly done it, I'd say.
And that's to say nothing of the hysterical set pieces. Like when a female villian (I don't remember her having any lines) takes a shoulder-placed rocket launcher and fires at these L.A. fire fighters who are trying to help, and insteed of killing both of them (two are on the lader), and blasting the steel frame off, it has a hysterically implausable effect. That's to say nothing a moment later when she blasts a helicopter and it doesn't crash into the building (so close as it should have).
It also contains the usual Xenophobic assumption of having all the bad guys be foreigners who terrible, and I can't stress how FUCKING TERRIBLE AND PHONEY they're accents were. There was just no excuse, even for a roaster of typical '90s straight to the vhs tape bin and late night cable emsamble cast.
Also the sound and music mixers did an absolute shit job of assembling the stuff for speakers. I mean the sound FX are hysterical. Just so phoney. Maybe in the top worst FX lists of sounds ever.
While it does feature some (gratutious) nudity scenes of the recently departed Anna Nicole, it is of course strange for me to watch it these days, since ya know, I'm one of those who has trouble, no matter how fetchingly beautiful, having feelings for an on-screen beauty who's dead in real life. I dunno; there is just something inherantly sad about it, and so I can't fully enjoy it.
To be seen, but only for very curious Bad Movie buffs such as me and others here ...