Was just checking out the "best running movie" thread and thought it would be interesting to hear what you think is the worst.
I have a decent collection and lots of them are awful, for lots of different reasons. Bob Newhart runs New York in "Marathon". Michael Douglas at the Marathon Trials in "Running". The story of Miki Gorman in, well, "The Miki Gorman Story".
My vote for worst goes to "Golden Girl" because it doesn't even try to get it right.
Your thoughts?
I haven't seen many but with Chariots of Fire about 90% of it is boring. The actual running scenes are brilliant and some of them really capture the joy of running or the competition of running and I loved those scenes but I hated most of the rest and struggled to get through the whole film which I only did cos it was a gift. So... Chariots of Fire gets my vote, sorry!
So, "Chariots" is sorta like porn... just show me the good stuff and skip the plot?
If that's the criteria, there are still lots that are worse because many have bad plots AND bad running scenes.
Maybe you'd like "Personal Best"... good running and a bit of porn, too!
Saint Ralph made me want to ralph.
Running sure has to be up there. Wasn't Michael Douglas unning to work with a necktie around his noggin and Nike Waffle Racers on his feet?
The running scene in "Forest Gump" an insult to every 40+ mpw runner who ever laced up a pair of Nikes.
Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:
Running sure has to be up there. Wasn't Michael Douglas unning to work with a necktie around his noggin and Nike Waffle Racers on his feet?
"Running" wins hands down. So god awful that it's hilariously funny. The running equivalent of "Killer Tomatos" or "Plan 9."
"Running" with Michael Douglas may be the worst...compared to the thing with Newhart or "Goldengirl," which mainly just contemplated Susan Anton's derriere, "Running" actually attempted to be serious and deep.
There was also a TV movie of the week, a bio of Ellen Hart Pena, that starred an actress who didn't look like she'd ever even run 200 meters in one stretch.
That Brad Pitt one...
Across the Tracks
"Billie" - many years ago but I remember it....was about girl beating the boys
and close second..."The Loneliest Runner"
Billie (1965)
Billie is a teenager who, with the help of rock 'n roll music, can outrun every boy on the high school track team much to the dismay of her politically motivated father.
RuKiddingMe! wrote:
Billie (1965)
Billie is a teenager who, with the help of rock 'n roll music, can outrun every boy on the high school track team much to the dismay of her politically motivated father.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800162184/info
Good catch - this one was pretty god awful too in a very cheesy 60s sort of way
Wow,Thanks! More movies to track down for the collection.
"On The Edge" was pretty good except the end which was gawd awful. My copy has the deleted scene with Bruce Dern's super-fine ex-girlfriend coming back for a one-nighter on his houseboat. She shows up unannounced, jumps his bones in a big way, and then is gone. Gotta love a little gratuitous sex! The scene never made the theater cut which is too bad. It might have made it a box office success.
Bin Der Dun Dat wrote:
Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:Running sure has to be up there. Wasn't Michael Douglas unning to work with a necktie around his noggin and Nike Waffle Racers on his feet?
"Running" wins hands down. So god awful that it's hilariously funny. The running equivalent of "Killer Tomatos" or "Plan 9."
Don't forget the scene where there are approximately 523 guys in contention in the last stretch of the Olympic marathon trials. To be fair, they did have him spur-of-the-moment run up a big hill the day before the Olympic marathon, which is no doubt where a young Renato Canova developed his hill sprint ideas.
Not Roger Ebert wrote:
...My copy has the deleted scene with Bruce Dern's super-fine ex-girlfriend coming back for a one-nighter on his houseboat. She shows up unannounced, jumps his bones in a big way, and then is gone. Gotta love a little gratuitous sex! The scene never made the theater cut which is too bad. It might have made it a box office success.
Pretty sure that ex-girlfriend was Pam Grier.
I have an original VHS copy of "Raw Courage," a fine film about three ultramarathoners in the southwest who run into a gang of desert biker survivalists. Really, really bad, but I can't help but love it.
1980 PSU 800 meter runner Steve Black appears in the trailer for the remake of "Plan 9 from Outer Space". He's in the blue shirt running away from zombies in the middle of the trailer.
http://psutafalumnigolf.blogspot.com/2009/11/hollywood-bound.html
The Answer My Friend wrote:
There was also a TV movie of the week, a bio of Ellen Hart Pena, that starred an actress who didn't look like she'd ever even run 200 meters in one stretch.
Ellen Hart movie was "Dying to be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Peña Story" and she was portrayed by Crystal Bernard.
Very bad movie but Crystal Bernard was good eye candy.
mcgato wrote:
Pretty sure that ex-girlfriend was Pam Grier.
I have Bruce's home #. I guess we could just call him and ask. Go Bruce!