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one of the worst films of all time


I remember the first time I saw this movie and liking it. Recently, I watched it on cable and thought to myself "What in the hell was I on when I watched it the first time?" It's horrible and painful to watch. Bruce Willis acting like Bruce Willis with his smirk, Kim Basinger just all over the place, bad jokes, bad writing and bad direction. I'm surprised that Bruce's acting career has lasted this long since he's always the same in all of his movies (with the exception of The Sixth Sense and the first Die Hard movie) and am glad that Kim's career went up with roles in L.A. Confidential and The Door On The Floor. Wonder what they think of their roles now, 20 years later.

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-Matt Beemish

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Same here, I remember laughing so hard the first time I watched it, except I watched it until about halfway through (I think it was around the point where Bruce Willis gets drunk at a reception). The second time I watched it (a couple of years later) it just failed to make the same impression on me, plus the ending was totally lame!

For Bruce Willis it was a disappointing big screen vehicle, just like his music career, at least he had Moonlighting to fall back on (like George Clooney with ER around a decade later) when times were bad.

For Kim Basinger it probably wasn't the best period either, with duds like My Stepmother Is An Alien, Nadine, and this one.

As we all know, though, a certain big-budget actioner set in a skyscraper and the cinema adaptation of the adventures of a black-clad avenger were only just around the corner.

The rest, as they say, is history...

-Goodnight, mother of six!
-Goodnight, father of two!

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I completely agree. I just tried to watch it again and cannot for the life of me understand how anyone could possibly think of this as funny. There were a few little snickers in it for me like when he went to his brothers used car lot and found out his brother over-charged him for a car, but that lasted all of about two minutes. First he is told NOT to let her drink (she gets "Wild") and what does he do before an important business dinner with his boss? He buys her alcohol. Oh boy real funny.
The scenes just keep getting dumber and dumber after that! Like when her boyfriend is chasing them he runs his car into a pet shop (animals get in the car oh how three stooges original) and then the paint shop (what paint store leaves open cans of paint out??) then they get into a stooges style fight at the disco, THEN, they get to her "friends" house and with absolutely no explanation at all in the middle of the night the house gets taken away by a truck?? WTF is that?
Then he gets held up by three girls who throw a gun in his car. WHOEVER wrote this piece of dog doo MUST have been COKED OUT!! I shut it off at that point. It was not funny to me at all and I will laugh at just about ANYTHING IF it is half way believable. I am truly amazed the studio execs let this dog be released.I am convinced the ONLY reason it made money was because of who was starring in it.

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Yep. I remember liking it as a kid (maybe ten years old) and just caught it for the first time as an adult and wow...embarrassingly bad.


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