Top 10 Worst Movies of the 1970s
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Some films are so bad they’re good and others are so bad they're hilarious… but sometimes, they're just plain bad. Join DoYouRemember.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Worst Movies of the 1970s. The 1970’s had one of the best crops of hilariously bad movies of all. Silly disaster movies, unscary horror pics, laugh-less comedies - this decade had everything! I’m Nostalgic Nick for Doyouremember, and today we’re counting down 10 of the worst movies of the 1970s! Alright, get your popcorn ready
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"Surely the 'Airport' franchise gave us 'Airplane', though." "It did. And don't call me Shirley."
Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor.
@@ACRScout57 Allons-y, Alonso! (Oops, wrong franchise!) 😁
1957's Zero Hour!
@Rick Smith "I speak jive."
"Zero Hour" actually gave us "Airplane"
Caligula is too compulsively jaw dropping and watchable to be on this list. It’s never boring.
Uhh... I think know what you’re talking about. 😆
The barge scene is particularly....gripping.
It is a good movie if you watch it for the sex. It is rather hard to find now, though.
@@mexicanspec I did manage to see the original version in Germany long time ago. Later i saw the edited version. Too much editing
Under no circumstances is it a bad movie. It should have been a best picture nominee if it weren't for the behind the scenes shenanigans
The best thing about the Airport movies that kept getting worse and worse was that they gave rise to the MUCH BETTER Airplane movies that made fun of them.
Good point 😂
"Airplane" was a satire of "Zero Hour" a Canadian airliner disaster movie about a decade before Airport. It was nearly a line for line comedy of the wooden dialog. That's why the sound of the jet was always a quad engine prop plane. The producers bought the rights to Zero Hour to not infringe the copywrite.
But Airport The Concorde was by far the worst. Jimmy Walker playing the sax while two french bimbets dance in a alcove of the plane 's cabin the size of a small closet....haven't seen the movie in years and I still can't get that scene out of my head!
@@STho205 Yes, it was a satire of Zero Hour but also utilized elements from the airport movies--hence the similar name. Airplane made fun of disaster movies in general which were big in the decade leading up to Airplane.
@@GrnXnham Surely you can't be serious!?
I don't think Michael Caine ever reads a script, he just negotiates a fee.
He's stated that he would take a movie based on a good filming location.
@@johnf.kennedy5454 At least he doesn't lie about that!
I can respect that. Most actors bullshit you about "artistic integrity." Riiiiiggghhhhtttt!
@@AvengerII I agree. An actor acts. In the old B&W days they might make 5-10 movies a year, all in studio. I've never understood the reluctance of some to wait for the "right" movie. I say choose the right director and start filming ....
@@johnf.kennedy5454 And then your career and reputation will take care of themselves: a fine, practical, professional approach.
Robert Mitchum felt the same way: "I don't see how you can call that movie a failure--I got paid."
@@AvengerII I’ve just watched a movie called a very violent year ffs completely shit haha
Waterworld was NOT bad, just panned by the critics. And the more I watch it, the more fun it is...
I know. It wasn’t a bad movie. Not the kind this guy is putting on his list.
It ended up going way over budget and ended up being one of the most expensive movies made at it’s time. It became a source of ridicule from comedians and talk show hosts even before it’s release. They didn’t know anything about the movie but the ignorant Hollywood “image” machine told these assholes they were supposed to make fun of it.
It got released, reviews weren’t bad and it did well enough in the box office to make its money back. I hate when people says ignorant things based on stupid perceptions even if it’s just a movie.
@@pauljackson2473 Well, the Catamaran alone cost $1.5M.
It was pretty bad. Perhaps with time, you learn when to go fix dinner without missing a beat.
I will say though that I dug all of the sailboat contraptions! Those were awesome.
It wasn't as bad as the evil media portrayed it. They told their shills, like Letterman, to bad-mouth it before it was even released.
It needed to be half as long and have three times as much action. The bad guys on jet-skis were cringeworthy. Also, filming it at sea was a terrible idea. It inflated the budget by $200,000,000. Absurd. If Costner wouldn't make it on a set, then don't make it. Easy as that.
Irwin Allen would have done a much better job with Waterworld.
And for about 1\3 as much money.
@@pauljackson2473 Letterman was one of the first to bad-mouth it when he hadn't even seen it. That's when I started to lose my respect for him, for that and for being a hypocrite and a bully. Too bad. He was really funny once. Now he's a jerk who looks like a wino, like Jim Carrey. How are the mighty fallen.
I've spent fifty years tryin' to forget.. then one night I click on your video. THANKS!
"Night of the Lepus" was pretty bad, too. Giant invading rabbits, ouch!
Those look pretty bad.
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk I like both of those movies :)
I love that movie. Mainly because when I first saw it in the 90s I had a gray dwarf rabbit who , I swear, had a number of older relatives or ancestors in the movie.
That also featured Janet Leigh.
@@williamwingo4740 Janet did not give the poignant performance that Henry did. Are you just spouting trivia?
Caine was also in one of the 80s worse movies; Jaws: the Revenge
That's true.
It's reported that he once said about Jaws:the Revenge, "I've never seen it. But I have seen the house that it paid for." LMAO!
Dont forget The Hand !
@@brentcanfield8883 He is also reputed to have said something along the lines of:
"If you want a high standard of living, you sometimes have to make a low standard of movie".
That one was a disaster 🤣🤣🤣
Every one of these movies was better than Captain Marvel.
@Rob M I wouldn’t know I gave up on Star Wars after kyblo killed Han
It’s pronounced Mar-Vell
Absolutely! 🖒
Ms Marvel*
Rob M 3*
Uh they weren’t honey bees in The Swarm. They were Africanized killer bees.
Which are honey bees
Africanized killer bees are a type of honeybee 🐝
@@jjmanzano9 Is there a bee that's not a honey bee?
Wrong. They are the Democrats' Murder Hornets
Oh please...they were peaceful protesters.
I probely would’ve added “Empire Of The Ants” starring Joan Collins 1977. In fact it should be somewhere on a UA-cam.
Just don't tell the Ants what you thought of their movie!
She starred in several howlers, another being I Don't Want To Be Born, an astoundingly bad occult "thriller" from 1975 which is well worth a look if you need cheering up.
i would
Also phase IV.
"Empire Of The Ants" was indeed a BAD movie! Joan Collins must have been desperate for something to do. A MUCH better ant movie is "Them".
You forgot "Rabbit Test." Who would have thought that Billy Crystal could be in a flop?
I think the fact that Joan Rivers was the director was the main problem with that hilarious movie. She always did seem to put noses out of joint and step on toes. Personally, I loved that woman, and I loved that movie. Can't find it anywhere.
So bad it was good:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
9:19 Hey, it's Lily von Schtupp! lol
Moment By Moment Starring Lily Tomlin and John Travolta
PLEASE...I'VE JUST HAD DINNER! THAT STINKER IS IN A NO-CLASS BY ITSELF WHEW
Oh boy... do/don’t tell that to Brad!
@@bretthess6376 🤣
@@dianeweilheimer2142 I don't know what that squiggle means but I assume it is a gesture of amusement. I still think the winner of this vid is the comment, "Burt Reynolds dances like a drunk trying to kill cockroaches." Don't get me wrong. I loved and respected the man. It's just a great line.
@@bretthess6376 🤣
Who remembers "The Frogs?"
The 1937 " Lost Horizon " is the best.
The Concorde lands in a grass field, and people just get out and walk.away.
😆
I have it on my Amazon Prime watchlist
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk it was Sam Elliot
This just made me miss Mystery Science theatre 3000 Imagine what they could with these films
True. Brilliant idea
OMG, YES!!
MST3K has a Twitch channel. 24/7 MST3K with a decent chat room; good folks. You can also watch your choice of episodes when you want on shoutfactorytv.com. These 2 have become my go-to when I need a fix.
MST3K was utter shit. Its not missed by me.
Your thumbnail scared me when I saw the Exorcist! I was actually saying to the screen ' Are you MAD the Exorcist was the greatest horror movie of all time '. Lol.. whew I need to switch to decaf. I knew you wouldn't let me down lol.
I believe Plan 9 From Outer Space was made in the 1950s--1959 to be exact.
Yeah, it wasn't actually on his list...
@@andyfletcher3561 But it was dated as 1960's.
@@jasoncollins1702 Fair enough, but then again, it was released in July, and probably in drive ins for at least a year and a half. But what I was really intending was so what, it wasn't listed as the 70's which is the period this video was actually about.
He didn't say Plan 9 was from the 70's, he gave it as a bad example for a 50's film. (1957)
But to be fair it had zero budget and should not be included on any big budget bad film lists.
@@MrK623 no he said plan 9 was in the 60s. It wasn't released in 59, but it was actually made in 57, with even older footage of bela lugosi thrown in. Were just correcting the video.
How 'bout "The Big Bus" (1976) with Stockard Channing & Joseph Bologna. That was a comedy about the world's first nuclear powered bus.
A real disaster movie!
It was brilliant!
Beware! The Blob! (or Son of Blob) could be included. Directed by Larry Hagman, called "The film that J.R. Shot!".
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk Oh, yeah, watching the original The Blob as a kid in the 70s in black and white was probably the first real horror film I ever saw, that and The Invisible Man. Good times.
@@LaikaLycanthrope
That's odd, I thought "The Blob" was in color.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Nope, it was _colourized_. The original was black and white, and all the scarier for it.
@@LaikaLycanthrope This is incorrect. The Blob was in color. Both the original movie poster and the film's opening credits read "Color by Deluxe." Deluxe was a color film process introduced in 1950. It eventually became the replacement for the three-strip Technicolor process. If you saw it in the 1970s, it's very possible that you watched it on a black and white television, but it was definitely shot on color film and shown in color in theaters and drive-ins in the late '50s.
@@caponyourleft4212 Huh. Maybe I'm just thinking so far damn back, we only had a black and white television. I swear I remember the Blob being black as a slug.
"The Incredible Two Headed Transplant" title tells you all you need to know.
Really?
I'll have to check it out.
I'm sure it's on UA-cam somewhere.
Is that the 1 with Roosevelt Greer? Or was it The Thing With Two Heads?
Rosie Greer and Ray milland.
"The Thing with Two Heads" (1972). I can't believe that's not on this list.
Laserblast
@@tr7198 "Two-Headed Transplant" (1971) starred Bruce Dern as the head-transplanting--although not his own--scientist [1]. "Thing" (1972) starred Ray Miland as the bigoted scientist transplanting his own head onto Rosie Grier to escape his own failing body. There's the classic line where Rosie's girlfriend (Chelsea Brown) first meets Rosie with Ray's head on his shoulder: "You get into more s___. Have you got two of anything else?" [2].
Then there was "The Manster" (1959) which I remember seeing as a kid; but which doesn't have a lot of detail on IMDB. IIRC, in that one the two-headed construct eventually split in two [3].
1. www.imdb.com/title/tt0067245/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
2. www.imdb.com/title/tt0069372/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
3. www.imdb.com/title/tt0055139/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
You can tell I haven't wasted MY life....
Not to mention "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant."
Robert Wilson hey I like that movie lol
robert - yeah that was a classic lol
The Exorcist II was all about showing off Linda Blair's developing assets. I can't say I didn't enjoy watching it, but Richard Burton? How desperate was he for a paycheck?
Desperate, remember he was married to Elizabeth Taylor I'm sure he was broke when they divorced 😂😂
@@blackgold63 I'm sure he'd have agreed privately that Elizabeth Taylor was a bigger disaster than any movie he appeared SHORT OF the movies that starred in together!
The original script for Exorcist 2 was really great. That's the film that Linda Blair and Richard Burton signed on to make. However, as often happens in Hollywood, the production was plagued by multiple director changes, studio interference and script rewrites. They messed with the story until they had nothing but garbage left. Both Blair and Burton tried to get out of their contracts for making the film, but were unable to. At least Linda looks great in it!
@@AvengerII Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe is a classic and Cleopatra is actually pretty good too. And for fun---add HAMMERSMITH IS OUT---well worth a watch.
As desperate as Micheal Caine was for his flops that he had no need to be in. All the big names chose massive garbage even just on the rise to the apex of their careers
You missed the worst one of all: Rabbit Test.
Oh wow
omg, is that the one where Billy Crystal got pregnant? I saw that as a kid, thinking wtf am I watching
@@DonMilo Yup.
a joan rivers project.
I didn't see it. I refused to see it.
Any Jaws after Jaws stunk.
I think most of them were in the 80's though. If memory serves me, there was a rather big block of time between the original and the 2nd one.
@@joeheid4757 Yes sir. Those movies where perhaps good movies to some, they just do not have the same reality and great dialogue as duh-duh duh-duh JAWS. Robert Shaw was uncomparable and so was the rest of the monster crew.Thank you for commenting. I never considered the lapse of time between movies. Great point. Peace.
@@todddavis4274 I actually did some research and since you commented back I'll tell you the 2nd one was in the 70's. And while it was bad, I'm not sure it was top 10 bad. The rest were in the 80's. And you're spot on with Shaw. He made the 1st one. His Indianapolis monologue, done in 1 take I think, was Academy award worthy on it's own.
@@joeheid4757 The sequels were not the worst. It's just hard to follow the original,you know? I've respect for all JAWS. I wonder who else has seen those shooting stars?
@Phil Kirk I had my 2nd date with my first wife and we watched Jaws 2.I have to be honest. You are right Phil. It wasnt too bad! Ha! Seriously, 2 wasnt bad but I guess the first one is just so good, nothing can compare,you know?
You left out "Moment by Moment". A 1978 film starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin. Travolta had just become a big star after being in "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". When he did this movie about a young drifter's affair with an older woman. The dialogue, creepy relationship, and the sight of Tomlin's skinny backside were more terrifying than any horror movie. This movie was so bad, that I believe it has never had a DVD release.
I grew up with these movies and certainly don't want to grow old with them.
I liked Waterworld.
I liked waterworld too. But his best was "Dances with wolves".
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk First, no such film on his resume. "Thirteen Days" on the other hand was boring, the acting horrible and over the top, and the film took far too much "artistic license" with the real life characters. "The Postman" was a decent film, not great, but it was good. "Waterworld" was great. His best was "Open Range"...
It's one of the Socially Relevant Hollywood movies. All they learned from this was to make these as tax write-offs. And that the public doesn't "get it", so don't bother trying to make them understand.
I liked it and The Postman, both were good movies.
I enjoyed, and still enjoy Kevin Koster movies......because Kevin Kostner😊
You obviously never saw "Trog" starring a washed-up Joan Crawford trying to stop a caveman from going on a killing rampage 😆
@UCaQp37O5GN2wxB3a6xyT0GA I have. Directed by Larry "JR Ewing" Hagman.
Sassy Fassy. She was never much of an actress anyway , now Bettie Davis there was an actress.
Where's "Sgt Pepper's Lonele Heart Club's Band" and Disney's "Matilda" about the boxing Kangaroo?
Sassy Fassy
So bad it was good. Poor Joan, that was her final film.
British ripoff of the Creature.
I saw Poseidon Adventure in the thumbnail and nearly had a heart attack. I felt relieved when you just talked about the sequel
Lol
There's got to be a morning after.....so we can make a bad sequel.
I swear I saw that and clicked just so I can chew out the channel for even thinking of putting that movie on a list like this. I was as relived as you... nice clickbait lol
@@davidbranin969 Poseidon Adventure 2 was somehow worse than Exorcist 2 and Beneath the Planet of The Apes
Yeahp, he got me as well! If it was made for the views, great job!
The Bad News Bears Goes to Japan is underrated comedy gold
84 year old woman as a sex symbol a "tad bit unrealistic" ha ha
Lol...well she did look good for her age.🤣😂
And super gorgeous Timothy Dalton in scenes with Mae West?? What a waste of a man!!
Besides, I've seen 1 or 2 old Mae West movies from her b&w heyday and she was disgustingly hideous when she was young.
😝
Fabulous. The original cougar.
You obviously haven't met some of the old gals I have.
@@nancydemoss8421 Mae was middle-aged when she started in movies. She wasn't beautiful, she was far more than that. She was an original. Glamorous, saucy, and funny. Nobody has ever equalled the way she moved and spoke.
People usually mention Empire of the Ants (1977) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977) too but I don't agree with it. Call me mad but I like both films
YOU'RE MAD... MAD I TELL YOU! BWA HA HA HA! MAD!
GIBBER FROTH TWITCH SPAZ SNURK SPROING MAD.....
YOU'RE MAD! MAD I TELL YOU! BWA HA HA!
GIBBER FROTH TWITCH SPAZ SNURK. MAD
By the way your thumbnail is smokin'. My compliments.
Empire of the Ants was classic B-moviedom. Don't recall I.M.Man. I'll have to search it out. Incredible Shrinking Man was good but outside the bounds of this 70's Whizzo Quality Assortment, both by date and quality. I remember watching it on a Black-and-white tube TV back around 1965. Yes, I'm really freaking old. But I've aged like fine whine.
I love both of those.
i saw empire of the ants for the first time last year. i liked it except the whole plot about they are working with humans to give them sugar. if they had kept it as large ants killing folks. i could digest that.
They should remake it.
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk Giant ants also like eating people based on this movie.
Wow...I was surprised not to see "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" on here. Now, mind you, it came out when I was about 14 and it was just about custom-made for me, so I loved it...and love it still...but even I have to acknowledge that it's not great cinema; and even Peter Frampton blames it for hurting his career. It's made just about every other "Worst Movies of the '70s list.
I think we have to agree. It’s a different style of movie though.
I Love that Movie .... and Soundtrack ..
But it redeemed itself with the "Earth Wind and Fire" cover of the Beetles tune.
It's my favorite bad movie of all time
St Peppers was an awful album
How did you miss Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Now that really was a stinker of a film!😜😜😜
True
How a film with so many stars could be so bad is an absolute mystery. It did have a few bright spots but very few.
@@lajimi Beegees, Frampton, George Burns, and Beatles tunes, imagine my disappointment after such a promising buildup!😝
It made money. 😁
KISS meets the phantom should have been included. Even as a life long KISS fan, this movie just plain socks. And I love bad movies that are so bad, they're funny.
Wow did that hit theaters?
Straight to tv....... Gee, no idea why
@@DYR In Europe it did. Stateside it was made-for-TV. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are STILL apologizing for this...!
I was a huge KISS fan at the time. Couldn't wait for this TV movie to come out. I was so embarrassed when I had to face my friends at school the next day.
same here. I LOVE bad movies, but uh, this one is on a whole other level.
The sad reality was that all you needed to bring down the Concorde was a thin strip of metal on the runway.
Now I understand why musicals despaired until Disney’s Little Mermaid
"It's Alive!"
What about Blacula, The Mack, They Call Me Mister Tibbs?
I agree with all 10, what I don’t agree with is you saying Waterworld was one of the worst of the 90’s, I think it’s one of the best.
Agreed.
Difference of opinion
I didn't like Waterworld, but it's not as bad as The Postman.
I don't like Kevin Costner movies, but waterworld was ok. Not as bad as people say it is.
I don’t think any of these movies are as bad as the movies today!!!!
It’s a 1970s list though. 🤔
i'd see any of these in the theater over the crap today
Maybe with the exception of Caligula.
Raise The Titanic.
Debbie Schultz name the most recent movie you saw at cinema? All decades produce good and bad movies. In the last decade we’ve had twelve years a slave.Joker,The Irishman,Get Out and Us. Are you realistically saying these great movies are worse than the crap on this list?! I’m 53 but I don’t consider myself a stuck in my ways old fart. A good movie is a good a movie whenever it was made. I’m guessing you’re one of those old farts who think today’s music is crap compared to the sixties music?! I could give you a list of both movies and music from the supposed ‘good old days ‘ that are crap,there were then and still are
The novel that The Swarm is based on by Arthur Herzorg is actually pretty good, but it seems to have been overshadowed by the film
Yes unfortunately
Well, a swarm of bees that large would cast a shadow.....ha ha
Was "Laser Zap" from the '70s? I would say "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" also.
"Dances like a drunk trying to kill cockroaches " lol ! That is some funny shit . 😆
Very funny!
Saw the 1979 remake of Hurricane in a crowded theater in Southern California, the night it went into wide release. Word was that the writing was thin, but special effects were amazing. Thing is, there wasn’t enough money in the world to save this star-studded, over-produced calamity. What’s funny is that all 300+ people in the theater where I saw it seemed to turn against the movie at the same moment, about 20 minutes in, in response to the umpteenth forgettably stupid line of dialogue-but no one walked out! Several dozen of us heckled the screen for two hours, with the audience laughing uproariously at the jokes, but mostly at the unintentional humor in the movie itself. The kind of spontaneous mob reaction you couldn’t wish into existence. One of the best times I ever had at the movies. Big-budget bombs are the best bombs to laugh at, because they have no excuse.
That’s too funny! Wonder if you’d get a reaction that now a days?
DoYouRemember? I swear these puns aren’t intended: It was a lightning-in-a-jar kind of thing, a perfect storm of everyone being in the same mood for subversive laughs at the same time. Good thing. Had this rebellion manifested in the form of anger, it might have become dangerous for the theater staff. I think we had just enough industry people in the house to have the perfect mix of understanding everything that was wrong with the picture and its hype, and just enough distance from LA for it to be safe to laugh out loud, without putting industry jobs at risk. Might need a team like the people at RiffTrax or Mystery Science Theater to get something like this going again. Everyone had already started laughing out loud at the “drama” before the heckling started. Throughout, it was the movie itself that kept unintentionally generating most of the laughs. Most of the house jumped up to applaud when the words, “The End”, appeared on screen, and we were definitely applauding the fact that it was over.
Check out the back story on this movie. This picture, “Can’t Stop the Music”, and “Howard the Duck” got at least a few people in Hollywood to understand that massive hype and huge budgets couldn’t keep audiences from noticing if a movie sucked.
I had almost the opposite experience, when I saw Fargo at the Uptown Theater in the semi-hip Uptown district of Minneapolis at the one of the first matinees. We were a couple miles where the Coen brothers grew up, and from many of the locations in the film, and from places referred to in the movie.No audience could have appreciated the movie more. You have to have done time in Minnesota to understand why, “Go, Bears!”, and the mention of Normandale College brought that particular house down.
Jason Robards was in "Hurricane," and in many others of the same caliber. He took a similar view to Robert Mitchum and Michael Caine: he was making movies just to make enough money to go back to New York and do real theatre.
He did "By Love Possessed" (1961) with Lana Turner and George Hamilton; "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" (1966) with Henry Fonda and Joanne Woodward; "Divorce American Style" (1967) with Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds; "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967, playing Al Capone!) directed by Roger Corman; "Isadora" (1968) with Vanessa Redgrave; "The Night they Raided Minsky's" (1968) with Britt Ekland, Elliot Gould, and Bert Lahr in his last role; "Fools" (1970) with Katherine Ross, which I would nominate for his worst; "The War Between Men and Women" (1972) with Jack Lemmon and Barbara Harris; "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) with James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan (!); "Hurricane" (1979, already mentioned) with Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, and Trevor Howard; "Raise the Titanic" (1980, top-billed) with Richard Jordan, Sir Alec Guinness, and Anne Archer; "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981, playing president Ulysses S. Grant*) with Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, and Christopher Lloyd; and "Quick Change" (1990) with Bill Murray, Randy Quaid, and Geena Davis. Not all of these were as bad as "Hurricane," but it's still a long list of mediocrities, spanning thirty years.
And along the way in between, he made some good ones, too, especially "A Thousand Clowns" (1965) with Martin Balsam and Barbara Harris; and "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) with Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale--and Henry Fonda.
*He was also the voice of Ulysses S. Grant in Ken Burns' "Civil War" TV series (1990).
RIP, and thanks for the memories.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001673/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
William Wingo All the President’s Men was also among his good ones.
@@vincegay986 And also "Tora! Tora! Tora! " (1970) both with Martin Balsam.
Do You Remember: Would please do a video on the worst movies in 1980's? Thanks for your help as always!
Anyone remember Rollercoaster?....
Yes
Yes!!!! Great movie!
Isn’t that the one staring Timothy Botums where he put bombs on roller coasters?
1 of my favorite movies.
these were the movies we would see at the drive in for a triple feature for 1.50 and bring your own beer or girl friend to make out to.
"The Swarm" was the bee's knees.
😂😅
Did nobody have smoke in that movie?
That's nice, honey.
@@mexicanspec "Killer" (Africanized) Bees were the "world-ending invasive species of the week" at the time, that were going to Kill All Humans and crash the honey supply.
@@LaikaLycanthrope Did they change their minds and not do that?
"Tommy" was pretty bad. The Who is my favorite group, and I love the album, but the movie, directed by Ken Russell , was just bad.
I saw that with Listomania 🥺 at the drive in. It was woeful!
Yeah, but at least Ann Margaret was nominated for an Academy Award. She was great in it.
@@pjangels609 Ann Margaret, I'd still tap that!
The hot dog and baked beans scene was pretty memorable.
I watched Caligula and barely remember the plot. I remember a lot of other things things though...
Telly Savalas in Beyond The Poseidon Adventure and Martin Sheen in a skintight jersey on a doomed train ride to nowhere.
That was Casandra's Crossing or something like that, also with Sophia Loren, Richard Harris and Burt Lancaster. I enjoyed the film when I was about 9 years old
I happen to think 'The Towering Inferno' was a good movie with a lot of 'A' list actors at the time. It is still one of my favorite all time movies. My GAWD it featured Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Robert Wagner, Susan Black. Hell it even featured OJ Simpson before he became a wife beater and double murder. (Oh C'mon, we all know he IS guilty of that but got away with it!) How can you diss such and epic movie as 'Towering Inferno' or call it BAD? (*ShakesHeadInDismay*) (grins)
MrBlack-- it’s supposed to be bad movies not a movie that you liked.
he never said TI was a bad movie
@@mrlafayette1964 YES that is true but he showed it right at the beginning and so he included it as a bad movie and it was anything but BAD.
No, it was included as an example of the disaster genre, not as a bad movie.
@@JBofBrisbane Ok I'll buy that.
Sexttete looks so embarrassing. I can’t believe that script got passed by anyone.
I watched it one time because Ringo Starr had mentioned working with Mae West in that movie. Although the plot itself was stupid I enjoyed Ringo's performance and when Alice Cooper performed "Next! Next!"
got passed by anyone
I'm also not sure Ringo qualifies as an A-list star. He's a B-list musician and C-list actor who happened to be in a band with other musicians who were phenomenally talented. (I believe it was Lennon who said "Ringo's not the best drummer in the world... he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles.")
@@brucetucker4847 C list actor but under rated as a musician due to certain rumors.
Harrison was suppressed and sidelined as well. Basically, they allowed him one song per LP, but he not maligned like Ringo was.
@@matthewronson5218 he was okay, but not as talented as Harrison, and nowhere near the league of Lennon and McCartney. He was by far the most replaceable member of the band. I'd contrast him with Charlie Watts, who had a lower star profile but was a more indispensable component of the Stones' sound. And nowhere near the level of contemporaries like Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, or Keith Moon.
Frogs, Godzilla vs the Smog Monster, Willard, Billy Jack...too many to mention. The movies, like the music and the fashions of the 70s, were so cheezy but I love them.
In 7th grade which would have been 1971 for me, we saw a classic. Frogs!The girls got scared and hung on to us, so that was cool.
Lol Frogs
Never watch Frogs stoned...you will choke on your Doritos laughing at you. Lost Horizon is like self abuse...with sand paper....
I wish I would have found this page earlier, it’s a good topic and fun. Right about now you need fun conversations compared to all the negative, good job to your page.
Thanks
It's Alive 2, Tentacles, Empire of the Ants, Giant Spider Invadion, Squirm, Puma Man, Up From the Depths, Barracuda, Alien Factor, Oozing Skull, and Chuck Norris films should be mentioned.
Wade Carmen squirm was ok, it’s alive bad baby lol
@@m.a2905 It's Alive baby much preferable to the government.
Wade Carmen lol
dont start on Chuck Norris there were hundreds of worse action stars than him making films during the 7os
Brian Jones yup. He had some good ones.
Anyone mention The Thing With Two Heads? Starring 1950-60s NFL star Rosie Grier and Academy Award winner Ray Milland, their heads share a body, and hilarity ensues.
Ray Milland must have been desperate for cash to make The Thing With Two Heads. I mean, come on, the guy had actually won an Oscar.
Anybody ever seen the cult classic "It Came From Hollywood"? Funny dialogue with some of the best comedians from the late 70s and 80s. They show a clip from The Thing With Two Heads. Funny!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@nancydemoss8421 Ray Milland was also in "Premature Burial" (1962), "Panic in Year Zero" (1962), "X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes" (1963), "Love Story" (1970), "Frogs" (1972), "The Last Tycoon" (1976), "Oliver's Story" (1978), and "Battlestar Galactica (1978). He has 174 acting credits on IMDB. You make that many movies, there are bound to be some clunkers.
A lot of big names from the 1930's and 40's took somewhat questionable roles in their later years. Henry Fonda in "The Swarm," "My Name is Nobody," "Tentacles," "the Great Smokey Roadblock," "Meteor," and others; Laurence Olivier in "Inchon" and "Clash of the Titans"; I could go on and on.
I think one of the reasons that "hilarity ensued" in "The Thing With Two Heads" is because Ray Milland's character is a bigot, so naturally, he resents sharing his body with the head of a black man (Rosey Grier's character). It's sort of the equivalent of the film "Watermelon Man," which is about a white racist who turns into a black man after eating an entire watermelon.
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I believe Ray Milland won his Oscar for "The Lost Weekend," which also won for Best Picture.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I liked the scene where they wake Ray up after he's attached to Rosie and he is saying how strong the body feels. He's very happy until he holds up Rosie's arm and looks at it, and his facial expression is absolutely priceless.
Then there's Rosie's girlfriend (Chelsea Brown) on seeing Rosie with Ray's head on his shoulder for the first time: "You get into more s----. Have you got two of anything else?"
Sextette also featured Alice Cooper, performing the duet with West, "Next, Next."
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I think Hollywood critic and gossip columnist Rona Barrett appeared in "Sextette" as herself.
And Keith Moon, probably the only reason to watch the movie.
He was the best part of the movie!
The Swarm wasn’t bad when it premiered on TV. Mainly because it added deleted scenes lol
2 films you forgot was : Heaven's Gate and The First Nudie Musical Starring Cindy Williams
Heaven's Gate was an atrocity, even in the 70's. 😉
@@bongdrop heaven's gate is an 80s' movie.
I like Caligula, when it comes to the sex, nudity and phallic stuff, it’s probably closer to the real Romans, compared to what is seen in other movies.
Still makes me laugh that a great actor like John Gielgud is in a film with hardcore porn.
Lol
I think they thought it was going to be a serious historical drama when these thespian agree to appear in it and when it was reshoot to be more smutty I bet those actors were mortified that they were associated with the film .
Zardos and Caligula double feature. When Star Trek Generations came out I was like "That's the guy from Caligula". You just can't forget the face of the guy who corn holed his fist.
@@danielwfosterii2363 Reckon if anyone asked him about that role he probably would tell you he doesn't want to be reminded of it😂😂👍
@@danielwfosterii2363 Zardoz. It does reference The Wizard of Oz.
I actually enjoyed The Swarm. Killer bee attacks and flamethrowers, I'm all in, man!
Exorcist 2 I do agree was a hot mess. I couldn't get through the original the first time I saw it because it scared the crap out of me. I couldn't get through the sequel because it bored the crap out of me.
John Rust oh goodness yes it lost me completely, leave the classic alone.
Yes the Swarm isn't that bad especially the initial scene when it attacks the town.
Don't forget City on Fire aswell!..ua-cam.com/video/PCgNk8LfGaQ/v-deo.html
_Cabaret_ showed that it was quite possible to make a fantastic musical in the 1970s. In fact, I'd rate it as one of the best Hollywood musicals of all time, possibly THE best. It won two (very well-deserved, IMO) acting Oscars plus best director, and the only reason it didn't win best picture was that it had the misfortune to be released the same year as the Godfather. The ones on your list had no excuse.
Bruce Tucker it had a major advantage Bob Fosse not to mention Liza M and Joel Grey. Plus an incredible dark story and every single musical number was a hit. The movie is definitely one of the best movies ever,
That famous line "Bees! Bees!" from The Swarm reminded me of what my ex-husband exclaimed when a wasp dive bombed him by the garage! At the time I tried to keep a straight face so as not to embarrass him I still LMAO to this day just thinking about it! By the way he avoided getting stung by the wasp.
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Macho, macho man....
these "BAD" movies are better than the shmuck we have today
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What about Ape? The King Kong ripoff where the ape gives the finger to some planes that are attacking him.
Lol
Amen.
First movie that comes to mind is “Ssssssss.” A snake movie starring Dirk Benedict. Worst ending ever in a movie
I remember that movie. He's eaten by a rodent...lol
I NEVER forget Sssssssss! Starring Strother Martin.
OMG! I forgot about that movie.
Sounds horrible 🤣
dan cussin I’m pretty sure the movie ends with a girl screaming. Then credits roll
No mention of Alice Cooper in Sextette? That’s it, No More Mr. Nice Guy!
Oh no 😆
I didn't think Sextette was that bad a movie. I did love Alice Cooper's performance during his number "Next! Next!"
Didn't mention Keith moon either
Alice Cooper's Hollywood career went nowhere after Sextette.
"KISS and The Phantom In The Park" should rate here somewhere...
Agreed
@@DYR In his biography, Paul Stanley from KISS said that at the premiere, he wanted his seat to swallow him up
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk Later the bad guy in a Star Trek movie
Love that movie for the cheesiness.
STAR CHILD
I did like the special Penthouse scenes in Caligula back when I was going through puberty LOL
2:21 Mae West had what can only be described as a "toilet voice". Everything she said sounded filthy and obscene, even if she was just telling you the time of day.
Interesting description. Toilet Voice 🤔😆
@@DYR Yes! Toilet Voice! Every word that came out of Mae West's mouth sounded filthy and obscene. She could make a shopping list sound like X-rated pornography!
@@neilforbes416 "Let's see...Bananas...Doughnuts...Whipped Cream..."
@@williamwingo4740 Yeah, even those words! Mae West made every word she uttered sound vulgar and obscene.
Neil Forbes you’re sounding like an old misogynistic fart. Sex is not vulgar nor obscene and neither is Mae West. She was a smart cookie who popularized sexual parodies to the max and made a bundle while doing it. Over the top yeah, and she was one woman in a room full of dirty old men 😂!
Night of the Lepus, Food of the Gods, Zardoz...
No..zardoz had hot, barely dressed ladies
When I was a kid…………my friend’s mother had a Caligula viewing party………😂
Now if you dropped a huge swarm of killer bees into the dance scenes of Burt Reynolds' "At Long last Love".....now you got a good movie!!
OK the visual on that had me in TEARS!
Does anyone remember Bad Ronald or Ben ?
Bad Ronald was a TV movie. Creepy as heck.
Omg who could forget Bad Ronald??? 🤣😂😂 I gotta admit, my 8 year old self had a serious Psycho-nerd crush on Ronald Wilby aka Scott Jacoby lol But those sisters were so irritating, I actually found myself rooting for him. I miss the 70's sighs.... 😔
KPLR in St. Louis used to play Bad Ronald a lot in the early 80's.
I’m surprised Bad Ronald hasn’t been adapted to the big screen
Stanley Jedrzejczyk Or if Blumhouse did it now
don't forget the Frogs1972
And Kingdom of the Spiders, a TV movie starring William Shatner and Tiffany Bolling, terrible movie. Of course as a young man then I would gladly watch Ms. Bolling sit in a chair for two hours...
"Frogs" was a pretty terrible movie, even if it was filmed in my home town.
@@GeorgePenton-np9rh i lived in Panama City and remember them say it was filmed around the area
@@randycapsall735 It was fimed at Point Washington, just over the county line in Point Washington.
@@GeorgePenton-np9rh i couldn't remember the name of the town thanks
Michael Cain never refused a paycheck. I remember he wasn't present to accept his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters because he was on location filming Jaws: The Revenge. I'm glad you focused on big targets. Low budget flicks are easy targets. I would have included The John Travolta film Moment by Moment. The film is the reason Tarantino had to revive his career. The Seventies were still the greatest decade for films, though.
What about 'Frogs' with Sam Elliot? Damn that thing was awful.
"The End" with Burt Reynolds. Worst movie I ever saw. If I hadn't been on a date, I would have left the theater.
Really? I didn't think it was so bad. Dom deLouise was amusing. It had a couple of good scenes, It's production quality was good.
Personally, I've seen so many poopy films that I have to divide them into categories, such as "Golden Turkeys", " Cringeworthy", and "I hate this movie beyond all description". " Eraserhead" is in the hate category. The only movie I've ever seen that made me feel physically sick. Actually, I might rate Eraserhead as the worst movie ever made.
Poor Madeleine Kahn deserved better
I agree,such a TALENTED woman who done better movies.
@@montygreen6228 She was fantastic in _Young Frankenstein_ - although so was everyone else. One of the best comedies ever.
@@brucetucker4847 And Blazing Saddles too!
@@montygreen6228 Don't forget "Paper Moon"!
@@lisamckennon3025 She is a laugh riot in Paper Moon. It's a shame she last on 20 minutes in Paper Moon.She is too good to be true.💗💗💗💗.
I was a teen in the 70s and keen movie goer. I can't remember any of these, thank god!
No mention of Olivia de Havilland's EPIC slo-mo "NOOO!!!" You obviously didn't REALLY watch the whole movie. (But who can blame you?)
I've seen "Caligula" 15 times, only for Helen Mirren (And if she redoes it as she is now I will see it again)
Lol
Dang So gorgeous
Yum. Morgana in _Excalibur_ was her best role in that regard, though.
Was she naked?
@ she gets it from behind in Caligula
I loved the Bad News Bears Goes to Japan
Really 🤔
Caligula was actually a very interesting movie, and historically fascinating..... it was grossly misunderstood..... The documentary on Gore Vidal and the making of Caligula enhanced the movie significantly.
Too riskay
@@DYR Risque does not in and of itself make it a bad movie.
I liked Caligula. Mannequin (in the mid 80s) was the first movie I ever walked out on. A humorless comedy with no talent actors and cringe worthy dialogue.
I remember Mannequin.
My wife and I also walked out on Mannequin . We were later surprised to find it was popular.
I just recently watched Mannequin. I liked it. A sweet love story.
You forgot At Long Last Love killed the career of Peter Bogdonavich, who many considered to be the best director in Hollywood. They made a successful movie about this bomb, Irreconcilable Differences
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How about " Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or " Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid ?"
Those were stinkers, but are they from the 1970s?
One could argue that "Killer Tomatoes" is intentionally bad, to parody the genre... Much like the Toxic Avenger movies --they're campy...
@@AndrewAMartin I barely remember " tomatoes" but one of my favorite scenes was where the black dude was undercover , dressed like a tomato , and sitting around the campfire with other " tomatoes " and said " Pass the ketchup " , He was done !
@@DYR Believe it or not, "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" is from 1977 (I was 10 Y.O. when it came out). Unless u count the San Diego Chicken (the Padres' mascot), there were no notable celebrities who were "Stars" in the movie. In fact, there was a very cheesy song called "Puberty Love" (which was played 2 "shrink" the tomatoes back 2 normal size. Furthermore; any1 who uttered "Tomato" drove people in2 a chaotic, fucked-up frenzy 4 no reason whatsoever. As bad as that movie is, it's funny when u r drunk off ur fuckin' ass.
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk I h8 2 say this but "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" was 1977 (B.F.D.; rite). Nvrthlss, shitty movie sober; fuckin' HILARIOUS drunk.
Now I want to see ALL these films!
My dad took my brother & I to see "The Swarm". We were 4 & 6 yrs old at the time. It scared the hell out of us. Still have nightmares from it. Mom was angry with him to say the least.
I was wondering why was there a image of THE EXORCIST in a video for cheesy movies?? Now I know.
Concord: Airport 79 could be Airplane: the Origin.
My least favourite part of 1970s films is the fad of having actors sing their own musical numbers, regardless of how talented they were as singers.
How bad does a movie have to be for Michael Caine to say "no"?
As I've grown up, I think the James Bond movies could fit in to this category. Five minutes of plot and 85 minutes of "chase."
Wash your mouth out! I LOVED the James Bond flicks - well, most of them.
There were certainly a few during this era that were questionable looking back.
Moonraker was bad.
From Russia With Love was an absolutely fantastic movie in every regard. (One might quibble over Daniela Bianchi's acting, but the way she looked in that movie, who cares about her acting? Most gorgeous Bond girl EVER! And the fight between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw is flat-out the best and most brutal hand-to-hand fight ever on screen.. today all you get is Jason Bourne shaky-cam 30-cuts-per-second shlock.)
Many of these movies came out in 1979. fortunately I was in college that year and had better things to do than going to lousy movies.
I was 13 and had literally nothing better to do. Although I discovered D&D at the end of that year which was something.
There were some really good movies in the '70's too!! Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters. Lots more. How about those?
For "Exorcist 2," when the movie was shown to preview audiences in Los Angeles, audience members threw things at the screen.