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| 4 | ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and How They Got That Way)'' is a 1978 non-fiction book by Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss that lists, according to them, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what are the fifty worst movies of all time]]. |
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| 6 | And "of all time", it means "[[TheSeventies as of the writing of 1978]]", of course. |
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| 8 | This book can kinda be seen as an early precursor of "bad movie riffing" that would later be made popular by the likes of the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' and many internet reviewers starting from the TurnOfTheMillennium. |
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| 10 | The movies listed include: |
| 11 | * ''[[Film/AbrahamLincoln1930 Abraham Lincoln]]'' (1930) |
| 12 | * ''Film/{{Parnell}}'' (1937) |
| 13 | * ''Film/TheGoldwynFollies'' (1938) |
| 14 | * ''Film/SwingYourLady'' (1938) |
| 15 | * ''Film/TheTerrorOfTinyTown'' (1938) |
| 16 | * ''Film/JamaicaInn'' (1939) |
| 17 | * ''Film/NewMoon'' (1940) |
| 18 | * ''Film/NorthWestMountedPolice'' (1940) |
| 19 | * ''Film/TheBigNoise'' (1944) |
| 20 | * ''Film/IvanTheTerrible'' (1944) |
| 21 | * ''Film/DickTracyVSCueball'' (1946) |
| 22 | * ''Film/ThatHagenGirl'' (1947) |
| 23 | * ''Film/TwilightOnTheRioGrande'' (1947) |
| 24 | * ''Film/DaughterOfTheJungle'' (1949) |
| 25 | * ''Film/RobotMonster'' (1953) |
| 26 | * ''Film/KingRichardAndTheCrusaders'' (1954) |
| 27 | * ''Film/SwampWomen'' (1955) |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheStoryOfMankind'' (1957) |
| 30 | * ''Film/JetAttack'' (1958) |
| 31 | * ''Film/SayOneForMe'' (1959) |
| 32 | * ''Film/SolomonAndSheba'' (1959) |
| 33 | * ''Anime/AlakazamTheGreat'' (1960) |
| 34 | * ''Film/{{Dondi}}'' (1961) |
| 35 | * ''Film/LastYearAtMarienbad'' (1961) |
| 36 | * ''Film/{{Eegah}}'' (1962) |
| 37 | * ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'' (1964) |
| 38 | * ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' (1964) |
| 39 | * ''Film/BoyDidIGetAWrongNumber!'' (1966) |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Spinout}}'' (1966) |
| 41 | * ''Film/ThreeOnACouch'' (1966) |
| 42 | * ''Film/TheAmbushers'' (1967) |
| 43 | * ''Film/HurrySundown'' (1967) |
| 44 | * ''Film/ValleyOfTheDolls'' (1967) |
| 45 | * ''Film/APlaceForLovers'' (1968) |
| 46 | * ''Film/Che1969'' (1969) |
| 47 | * ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' (1970) |
| 48 | * ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' (1970) |
| 49 | * ''Film/GodzillaVSTheSmogMonster'' (1971) |
| 50 | * ''Film/TheLastMovie'' (1971) |
| 51 | * ''Film/ReturnOfSabata'' (1971) |
| 52 | * ''Film/TheAssassinationOfTrotsky'' (1972) |
| 53 | * ''Film/TroubleMan'' (1972) |
| 54 | * ''Film/JonathanLivingstonSeagull'' (1973) |
| 55 | * ''Film/LostHorizon'' (1973) |
| 56 | * ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfAlfredoGarcia'' (1974) |
| 57 | * ''[[Film/BillyJack The Trial of Billy Jack]]'' (1974) |
| 58 | * ''[[Film/{{Airport}} Airport 1975]]'' (1974) |
| 59 | * ''Film/AtLongLastLove'' (1975) |
| 60 | * ''Film/{{The Omen|1976}}'' (1976) |
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| 62 | ---- |
| 63 | !!Tropes: |
| 64 | * AccentuateTheNegative: The text certainly likes to nitpick and mock any flaw it can find in the movies. After all, what do you expect with the title? |
| 65 | * AccidentalNightmareFuel: Invoked with Creator/MaeWest looking like a creepy, barely alive corpse in ''Myra Breckinridge''. |
| 66 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Che Guevara and Fidel Castro from ''Che!'' are interpreted as a married couple of which the relationship is in danger of falling apart. |
| 67 | * DancingBear: Invoked as the main defining trait of ''Terror of Tiny Town'': The entire cast consists of little people. |
| 68 | * GratuitousFrench: A viewer of ''Ivan the Terrible'' is described as heckling at the screen: ''"Well, ''mon vieux'', kick the bucket and then we can all go home!"'' |
| 69 | * HollywoodHeartAttack: An old lady in ''Hurry Sundown'' is described as supposedly having a heart attack... but flailing around more like she is having a severe case of epilepsy. |
| 70 | * IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: The ''Che!'' review jokes about Omar Sharif's performance being his best when he plays Che Guevara's dead body... ''thrice''. |
| 71 | * ItIsDehumanizing: Elvis' character in ''Spinout'' describes a girl as ''"it has to be someone I pick"'' and the text calls him out on referring to her as "it". |
| 72 | * MisplacedAccent: One criticism about ''Solomon And Sheba'' is how all the main characters speak in different anachronistic accents. |
| 73 | * NightmareRetardant: Invoked with Ro-Man from ''Film/RobotMonster'', how pathetic his design is and that the only scary thing about his appearance is his fatness. |
| 74 | * SarcasmMode: Happens quite a few times, such as inserting quotes directly from the movie in a section called "Immortal Dialogue". |
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