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Originally Posted by realdealblues
Nothing in that list that I necessarily absolutely "love", but over half of them I still watch and enjoy. Some of them aren't meant to be "good" or "enjoyed".
I remember seeing a special showing of Salo almost 20 years ago. Several people literally threw up and left. It's not exactly a "great" film you watch to "enjoy" but it was a definite statement from Pasolini on several frontiers. Same thing with Baise Moi. While Baise Moi was no where near as artistic as Salo or with such deep rooted ideas of ideology, morality or corruption, it was never meant to be a "good movie". Sharknado and Troll were never meant to be great cinema either, but I still find them enjoyable. I'm also starting to think I must be the only person who actually enjoyed the Friday The 13th remake...lol.
Anyway, worst film I saw this year.
Lords Of Salem by a landslide.
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Yeah, I don't really hate any of these films either, except maybe The Final and Guinea Pig 3 (zzzzz). I don't watch many films that I end up disliking because I do some research before each film, and save myself the time of sitting through garbage. It wouldn't surprise me if most of these films are enjoyed by a good number of people, it's just the bottom of my barrel for the year (and easy to query because I keep a list with my personal ratings). Most of these are rated somewhere around 5/10 for me.
My problem with Salo was all that artsy fartsy poetry reading. I had such a hard time staying awake. If not for those long, boring stretches I would have liked it much better, and I'm actually a big fan of arthouse cinema. Base Moi just annoyed me. I guess I don't need to see unsimulated sex in a film. Friday the 13th started out promising... in fact I first watched only the first half in the theater (waiting for another film to start) and I actually really liked it. But when I finally watched the whole thing I thought it was pretty cliché.
A lot of this, of course, comes down to personal taste. I loved Lords of Salem. :)