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(#8) Staying Alive
- John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone, Janet Jones, Finola Hughes, Sarah Miles, Kurtwood Smith, Frank Stallone, Cynthia Rhodes, Joyce Hyser, Michael Higgins, Audrey K. Baranishyn, Julie Bovasso, Helen Kelly, Kevyn Morrow, Michelle Johnston, Norma Donaldson, Michael Rooney, Steve Inwood, Tony Munafo, Ben Lokey, Kate Wright, Viktor Manoel, Charles Ward, Gary Chapman, Jesse Doran, Dennis Daniels, Michael Mallory, Erica Jordan, Deborah Jenssen, Ross St. Phillip, Forrest Gardner, Derryl Yeager, Nanci L. Hammond, Smith Osbourne, Nanette Tarpey, Robert Martini, Randy Allaire, Patrick Brady, Helene Phillips, Peter Tramm, Frances Morgan, Karen Bryson, Paula Beyers, LaLanya Fair, Melita Brock-Warner, Rona Edwards, Jim Thompson, Lee Anne Loomis, Kathy Shippen, Carolyn Poppert, Valerie-Jean Miller, Trac DiPonzio, Rick Sullivant, Marvin Tunney, Mark Reina, Steve Bickford, Francine O'Neill, Polly O'Malley, Cindy Perlman, James Ko, Anita Morales, Rhonda Hairston, Bill Burns, David Chavez, Reggie O'Gwin, Reggie Leon, Daniel Lorenzo, Susan Olar, Karin Smith, Nell Alano, Rochelle G. Jones
Saturday Night Fever is one of the best films of the 1970s. Its sequel, Staying Alive, is one of the worst films of the 1980s. John Travolta is back as Tony Manero. He's moved off the disco floor and is trying to make it on the Broadway stage. That's a pure abandonment of the original, which was fundamentally about, you know, a guy who finds meaning in his life at a disco. Where Fever had a soundtrack of classic Bee Gees tunes like "How Deep Is Your Love," Staying Alive is stuck with their less-remembered songs, such as "The Woman in You."
Oddly, the movie was directed by Sylvester Stallone. Having an action star helm a film about dancing was ill-advised, but at least it gave us one of the all-time most bizarre directorial cameos, as Travolta inexplicably bumps into Stallone on a New York City street. Move over, Alfred Hitchcock!
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(#11) Supergirl
- Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Helen Slater, Peter Cook, Brenda Vaccaro, Hart Bochner, Marc McClure, Simon Ward, Maureen Teefy
Long before Melissa Benoist rose to fame playing the title character on TV's Supergirl, Helen Slater played the heroine on the big screen. After the success of the first two Christopher Reeve Superman pictures, a related movie focusing on the Man of Steel's cousin seemed like a no-brainer.
Savage reviews frightened audiences away, leading to an embarrassing $14 million gross - less than half its budget. Was the world just not ready for a female-led comic book movie in 1984? Was Supergirl secretly ahead of its time? No, it's just a dopey flick with cheesy effects and a disjointed story. No sane fan of the character would choose to watch this outdated relic over the TV show.
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(#3) Revolution
- Al Pacino, Annie Lennox, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Robbie Coltrane, Joan Plowright, Graham Greene, Richard O'Brien, Steven Berkoff, Dave King, Sid Owen, Dexter Fletcher, John Wells, Frank Windsor
A great movie makes history come alive. A mediocre movie makes history seem dull. Revolution is the latter. On the surface, this 1985 film looked like a sure bet for the Oscars. Acting legend Al Pacino! Oscar-nominated Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson! Important historical subject matter!
In spite of an impressive pedigree, Revolution pales in comparison to dozens of other historical dramas. Even reading a high school textbook is more enthralling. And let's not forget Pacino's Brooklyn accent, which seems hilariously out of place in 1776.
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(#4) The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
- Jim Cummings, Anthony Newley, Phil Fondacaro, Arturo Gil, Mackenzie Astin, Debbie Lee Carrington, Lynn Cartwright, Katie Barberi, Kevin Thompson, Bobby Bell, Susan Rossitto, Marjory Graue, Ron MacLachlan, J.P. Amateau, Larry Green
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is based on a popular series of stickers that spoofed the Cabbage Patch Kids. A movie based on stickers? Has there ever been a flimsier inspiration for a feature-length film? ("Hold my beer," says The Emoji Movie.)
The Kids are designed to be gross and repugnant, which the film certainly follows up on. One has sores all over his face, one has a perpetually runny nose, and another repeatedly wets his pants. Hard to believe children were turned off by that, isn't it? Add in the creepy large-headed costumes, and you've got nightmare fuel for a month. Perhaps most perplexing of all is that the filmmakers hired Anthony Newley to star - because what child doesn't love that British singer and stage actor from the 1960s?
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(#5) Mac and Me
- Jennifer Aniston, Nikki Cox, Danny Cooksey, Christine Ebersole, Andrew Divoff, Squire Fridell, Tina Caspary, Laura Waterbury, Jack Eiseman, Jonathan Ward, Ivan J. Rado, Lauren Stanley, Jade Calegory, Vinnie Torrente
It's bad enough that Mac and Me is a shameless ripoff of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Like Steven Spielberg's classic, it's about a young boy who befriends a lost space alien looking to be reconnected with its family. What's worse, though, is that the movie is more or less a 90-minute commercial for Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Product placement is rampant. Everyone in the movie guzzles Coke. The teenage girl next door works at McDonald's. The alien is seen wearing a "McKids" t-shirt at one point. Then there's the mind-blowingly stupid scene in which a bunch of people break into an impromptu choreographed dance routine in the middle of a McDonald's.
The only way this picture could stoop lower would be if a McDonald's employee showed up at the home of anyone watching it to ask if they want fries with that.
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(#16) Howard the Duck
- Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones, Lea Thompson, Mel Blanc, Thomas Dolby, David Paymer, Holly Robinson Peete, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Kiley, Miguel Sandoval, Richard Edson, Jordan Prentice, Liz Sagal, Chip Zien, Virginia Capers, Debbie Lee Carrington, Ed Gale, Richard McGonagle, Monty Hoffman, Nancy Fish, Miles Chapin, John Fleck, Kristopher Logan, Tommy Swerdlow, Paul Comi, Timothy M. Rose, Garry Littlejohn, Sheldon Feldner, Peter Baird, William Hall, Steven Kravitz, James Olea, Denny Delk, Wanda McCaddon, Dominique Davalos, Lisa Sturz, Lee Anthony, Wood Moy, Tom Rayhall, Mary Wells, Steve Sleap, C. Andrew Nelson, James Lashly, Ed Holmes, Martin Ganapoler, Anne Tofflemire, James Brady, Ted Kurtz, Carol McElheney, Jorli McLain, Maureen Coyne, Reed Kirk Rahlmann, Tom Parker, William McCoy, Marcia Banks, Lol Levy, Jeanne Lauren
Howard the Duck was the very first Marvel movie to be released theatrically. Fortunately, and perhaps miraculously, it wasn't the last. It's hard to say what's most off-putting about this bizarre film. Is it the endless bird-related puns? The weird costume actor Ed Gale is forced to wear? The creepy suggestion that Lea Thompson is falling in love with a duck?
Actually, it's all of the above. Howard the Duck may have been aimed at kids, but even they realized there's something fundamentally disturbing about the movie's content.
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