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| By far the worst I've ever seen was called "Yor, the Hunter from the Future."
I don't think anyone actually bought tickets for this movie. They were giving out free passes. It was so horrible that it was more a commedy than a drama, and after about 15 minutes people in the audience were cheering for the bad guys and booing the supposed "hero." It was so horrific that it was actually fun to watch, because it became audience interactive. So, tell. What's the worst movie you've ever seen? |
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- Posted by browntoestoo (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 04 at 2:15
| "Moon Over Parador" with Richard Dryfuss as the dictator of a fictious South American country. "Sister Act 2" was terrible. One cliché after another. "My Blue Heaven" with Steve Martin as a mobster in the witness protection program was another stinker. That one I walked out of. "Ishtar" really IS as bad as the critics all say. "Galaxy Quest." No, I have no excuse for seeing this movie.. |
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| I LIKED Galaxy Quest! I thought it was a fantastic parody of the entire Star Trek/Trekkie/Captain Kirk psychosis that grips so many people... |
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| For a long time I insisted that the worst movie I ever saw was a mid-80s Charles Bronson movie called "The Evil that men do". It was incredibly boring. Then I saw a movie which took over first place. Without a doubt "Super Troopers" is the worst movie that I have ever seen. This film is so bad it makes Ed Wood look like Spielberg in comparison. |
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- Posted by Clairabelle (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 04 at 10:11
| Million Dollar Hotel with Mel Gibson. Oh the shame. |
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| Eyes Wide Shut and Hey Dude, Where's My Pants |
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- Posted by BizzyLizzy (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 04 at 16:00
| Barbarella, probably because I'm not a man, but I can't imagine men liking it all that much either. Second I would probably say is League of Extra-ordinary Gentlemen, but I only could stand watching about the first 3 minutes of it (rental). |
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| Without a doubt the movie "SSSSSSSSSSSS" about a mad scientist (I think it was Strother Martin - must have fallen on hard times) who turns his "helpers" (i.e. unsuspecting university students) into cobras. It was made in 1973 and without a doubt it is one of the biggest turkeys I have EVER encountered!!! |
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- Posted by manny_in_ny (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 04 at 17:32
| 95 percent of all movies are bad anyway.But the attack of the giant killer tomatoes comes to mind quickly. |
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| 95%? and I thought I was overly critical! That said you guys haven't seen bad movies if you really think those are among the worst ever made. |
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- Posted by blackcat333 (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 04 at 20:38
| Hey Dude, Where's My Pants... is that the x-rated version of Dude, Where's My Car? LOL |
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| In my mind a truly bad movie is something that cannot hold the attention and so dull it induces sleep. "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is a bad movie but at least it is not dull. Plan 9 is pretty entertaining as you can laugh at the bad acting and ridiculous dialogue, not to mention those paper plates set on fire which are supposed to be flying saucers. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" was made to be a bad movie, and it is, but movies like "Plan 9" are unintentionally bad, and thus, hilarious. Incidentally, I have seen "Yor, hunter from the future" and it is great compared to "Super Troopers". Another bad, bad film is "Night of the Lepus" made in the 70s. It is about an attack of giant killer bunnies. It fits the "so bad it is good" category. |
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| I think it was called AI (Artificial Intelligence) by Steven Spielberg. It was agony trying to watch it. |
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- Posted by RubberJohn (My Page) on Mon, May 31, 04 at 14:43
| I have never seen the film, but I'm going to nominate American Psycho 2, because from reading the synopsis, the people who decided to finance, write and make this film absolutely didn't get what the original film/book was all about. Nothing anyone can say can EVER change my mind nor make me watch this disaster. |
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| I can't think of a movie so bad (last night I watched Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy, though,and it was pretty darn bad!). I just needed to also add I LIKED Galaxy Quest! Rose |
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- Posted by browntoestoo (My Page) on Mon, May 31, 04 at 19:56
| I have to correct myself! It was NOT "Galaxy Quest I intended to pan! I posted late at night in a half stupor and have NO idea where "Galaxy Quest" came from in my post. Now that I am wide awake I have no clue which movie I had in mind! But it will come to me. Honestly, I think something took over my fingers! I happen to like that movie! There are much worse movies out there than the ones I posted, I know this. These were movies I thought might actually be decent and turned out to be terrible. I tend not to deliberately waste either my time or my money! Some movies you just KNOW will be bad. |
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| "American Graffiti". I know that everyone and their mother loves this movie, but I don't. It has no plot. All the characters do is cruise around town all night. Not even remotely interesting. |
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- Posted by browntoestoo (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 04 at 13:18
| "American Graffiti" holds interest for me. I live in Modesto, where the movie was to have taken place (it was actually filmed elsewhere in a town whose name escapes me that more closely resembled Modesto during that time period). My former boss, an old hot rodder, went to school with George Lucas. Cruising used to be a passionate summer pastime in this area for many, many years. The first weekend after school let out was the big one. People used to converge on Modesto for a spontaneous event called "Graffiti Night." As the popularity of this event grew, it became a night of mahem as well fun due to the influx of many out-of-towners. Local folks tried to organize it. For a couple of years this sort of worked. It was controlled mahem but things got out of hand again. ALL cruising was banned and while this weekend is commemorated it is done so at a venue out in the country which hosts a vintage car show and music. No more cruising on McHenry, the main drag. I have no personal nostaglia for cruising, I didn't grow up here and I'm a too young to have come of age in the 50s. I don't miss the cruising, I live a few blocks off of the main drag and it got crazy here. The trash left after the weekend was appalling. It is a nice little coming of age movie about leaving high school life behind and the transition to college and adult life. Who makes it and who gets stuck. If you need a lot of action rather than dialogue to drive a plot, this movie isn't the one for you! |
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| The two worst movies I've seen are both Icelandic. One tries too hard to be an American-style psychothriller and the other is just boring. The worst movies I have seen that you are likely to be familiar with are Ishtar and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Wild Wild West and Red Sonia are near the bottom as well. |
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| Dracula -Dead and Loving it.Utter rubbish. BARBERELLA-I AGREE absolute *$"!. |
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- Posted by blackcat333 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 2, 04 at 10:42
| I just saw IN THE CUT last night, and it was pretty bad. Meg Ryan should've kept her clothes on! |
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| I forgot about that dreadful vampire movie with Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. |
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| Have to agree with "Wild, Wild West" which probably killed any chance of a revival of the old tv series of the same name. The TV series was wonderful, the movie stunk bad. |
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- Posted by TheLurkerKing (My Page) on Wed, Jun 9, 04 at 11:35
| Well, BizzyLizzy, I am a man, as one can tell from my moniker, and "Barbarella" is the worst movie I've ever seen, as well. Anybody can make a "bad" movie, but, there was so much talent involved in "Barbarella" . . . The director was Roger Vadim ("And God Created Woman.") The writer was Terry Southern ("Dr. Strangelove.") The producer was Dino De Laurentis ("La Strada.") It starred Jane Fonda ("Barefoot in the Park".") Also starring John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, and Marcel Marceau. And to come up with so little . . . ? That is what makes it "bad." (IMHO) But has anybody seen the comic upon which the film is based? As a side note, I must have an affinity with "bad" movies, having seen . . . "Galaxy Quest" Liking some of them. Disliking most of them. But, none of them are as "bad" as "Barbarella" (IMHO) |
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| I liked Barbarella - it so incredibly kitsch that I couldn't help liking it. Usually I don't like movies where so much talent is wasted (like Wild Wild West), but this one is an exception. Other bad movies I liked are Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Grease 2. Both are so sincere that it's hard not to like them. |
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| "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" was made to be a bad movie. It was never serious to begin with so it really shouldnt be counted among all time bad "classics" like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "Robot Monster". Incidentally I understand that the truly worst movie ever is "Mesa of Lost Women". It just isnt very well known. I havent seen it so I cannot verify this. Though "Barbarella" was kind of bizarre and is badly dated, it is far from being the worst movie of all time. |
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| I have to admit, I also liked Barbarella... |
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| I liked Barbarella also! I thought it was hysterical! Of course I kind of like bad movies as long as they aren't trying to be more than they are. I hate movies that think they're teaching me something! The movie I've hated the most: AI, I thought Haley Joel Osmond was great in it but I almost left during the scene where the 'mother' abandoned the boy robot in the woods and he kept crying for her not to leave. I was getting physicaly ill and was actually out of my seat when the scene was finally over. |
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| Barbarella was probably cutting edge when it was released in the 60s. |
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- Posted by browntoestoo (My Page) on Sat, Jun 12, 04 at 11:08
| Let's not forget "Anaconda". Woof! I mean hiss! |
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- Posted by Vawoodnymph (My Page) on Mon, Jun 14, 04 at 9:12
| "Maid in Manhattan" |
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| How about the remake of "Rollerball"? |
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| Master and Commander. I think in order for a movie to be the worst, it has to be hyped up to be the best first. |
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- Posted by reggie_van_gleason (My Page) on Wed, Jun 16, 04 at 0:39
| How did everyone forget "Battlefield Earth" for the worst scifi movie of all time? And for the worst political movie of all time, how about "Primary Colors"? This movie was so long and so painfully dull. It was worse than having your knee drained. And for the worst love story of all time, how about Moment by Moment with Lily Tomlin playing the woman that men drool over! Seriously! And guess who was the male lead in all 3 movies? |
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- Posted by Phillip_in_Alabama (My Page) on Wed, Jul 7, 04 at 21:25
| Blair Witch Project |
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- Posted by Scarlett2001 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 8, 04 at 2:56
| Oh, yeah- I had actually forgotten about the Blair Witch thing -hard to beat that for the all-time clinker. My nomination for second worst would be Chasing Amy. And although lots of people liked it, I walked out of Moulin Rouge. |
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- Posted by Scarlett2001 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 8, 04 at 3:12
| The Matrix Re-loaded or re-evaluated or re-gurgitated or whatever it was. |
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| Scarlett -- I definitely agree about Moulin Rouge. I refused to watch it in the theatres and, when it came on The Movie Network, I tried to watch it. I couldn't stand the first 10-15 minutes and I had to change the channel! As for The Matrix, I'd say Matrix Revolutions (the third movie) was AWFUL! The Matrix was clever and cool. The third movie simply blew chunks. :D |
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| Oh, I also forgot -- what did you guys think of Waterworld? The Three Amigos? Last Action Hero? And while there are bad movies that were meant to be bad, I don't think there's anything more pathetic than a serious movie that just BECAME bad. I remember something from the 80s called The Vals! |
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| The Three Amigos as the worst movie ever? Did you see the scene with the singing bush where Chevy Chase shoots the invisible horseman? That's a funny movie, especially if you are fighting your own El Guapo. |
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- Posted by reggie_van_gleason (My Page) on Sat, Jul 10, 04 at 9:32
| For worst drama, you could not do worse than the "The Sweethearts Dance" with Don Johnson and I believe Susan Sarandon. This was like peeling paint it was so unremittingly dull and awful. For worst comedy, if that is what this movie was meant to be, how about "Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man". That also starred Don Johnson. And we won't even get into Dead Bang! |
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| Oh goody, I get to share the crud I wished I'd never laid eyes on - in my humble opinion, some of the "honors" go to: Eraserhead ... and the worst dreck I remember recently: Pay it Forward (Oh my eyes!!!!) -------------- I'm not counting "bad" and "scary" flicks I went to see with my friends as teenagers because it was fun: Night of the Lepus |
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| Joe and the Volcano |
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- Posted by snickerdoodle564 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 9, 04 at 22:55
| I'm going to ignore all the made for TV flicks here, because those are generally just laughable automatically (things like Tremors come into mind).... Worst ever, hands down, Best In Show. It wasn't even funny. |
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| I wasn't real impressed with "Reds." Much of the dialogue was using contemporary slang, even though the movie was supposed to be historical. The language clash was a big distraction for me. |
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- Posted by Amy_z6_swPA (My Page) on Tue, Aug 10, 04 at 10:39
| WORST I've ever seen in my life: Return of the Living Dead Part THREE. It was on TV so I didn't lose too much by seeing it LOL Oh, and definitely Anaconda. For the record, I like some of the movies already listed--- Twister, a fun summer must-see for my hubby & me---we have both done field research and LOVE it. |
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| The worst for me is a toss up between "Poltergeist" and "Ghostbusters." |
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| Anything starring Julia Robert, and or Bruce Willis. Most of the above named. Many years ago my older son and I watched a German made vampire film which was uproariously funny. The newly risen vampire finds a doctor's house, recognizable by the brass plate outside. It's the first time he's been out since the 15th Cent. but he's a quick learner. He knocks. The door opens. "Oh, you poor man! Your clearly need medical attention!" Famous last words. In the same film, a mad doctor reassembles his dead wife using body parts from females who resemble her. "You mean you're going to cut off her hands without asking her permission?" His horrified assistant asks. This was in the small hours and we laughed so much my husband came downstairs and told us off for waking him up. |
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| Oh...ROFL...Tremors! I remember sitting watching it with my ex-boyfriend, absolutely amazed that he LIKED it. Yeesh. But...I LIKED Moon Over Parador (I like Richard Dreyfuss - it was supposed to be campy and had its campy charms), liked Independence Day quite a bit, Forrest was not my fave but not bad really. I hated Titanic. Also hated Pulp Fiction - few movies I've seen are so bad I can't even sit through them; fortunately this was a rental. Austin Powers. Anything involving a tornado. Are hurricane movies any better? :-) Oh, how about Castaway? Tom Hanks is truly a gifted actor. Few actors could have made a movie that is 80% comprised of interactions between a man and a volleyball remotely interesting. And for me, it was just that - remotely interesting. As in, I'm glad I have a remote. WILSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --PK |
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- Posted by DeicidalManiac (My Page) on Fri, Aug 13, 04 at 0:38
| Street Fighter Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Nutty Professor II House of 1000 Corpses |
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| I always have to laugh when people say "Titanic" was the worst movie they ever saw. I dont even think they believe that themselves. What I think they dislike is the fact that so many people DID like it. I believe this was the reason it became fashionable for a while to say you hated it. Tremors was a great film. Scary and lots of fun. What more could you ask for? The sequels were pretty bad though. |
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| Um...giant worms? Gimme a break. :-) |
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- Posted by DeicidalManiac (My Page) on Sat, Aug 14, 04 at 0:38
| You like your horror/sci-fi more realistic?? |
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- Posted by Des_Arc_Ya_Ya (My Page) on Mon, Nov 29, 04 at 6:11
| Heartland Sharkey's Machine Blair Witch Project |
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| Eyes Wide Shut A Walk in the Clouds (thought Keanu's acting was horrible) Joe vs. Volcano Night of the Lepus (had to laugh when I read this -- those rabbits gave me the creeps, lol) Xanadu Grease 2 Frieda... Poltergeist & Ghostbusters? Loved both of these movies! |
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- Posted by reggie_van_gleason (My Page) on Mon, Nov 29, 04 at 21:25
| How about the Bruce Willis vanity project "Howard Hawke" or something like that. It's hard to recall much about this dreadful vanity project. But for true awfulness, it would be hard to top the Madonna-Guy Richie bomb of "Swept Away". |
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- Posted by Bill_zone6 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 30, 04 at 17:34
| I rented a video last year, a version of "Phantom of the Opera". It was, it appeared, to be a cam recorder shooting of a stage play. I have never seen so many lousy actors on one stage at a time. The camera person, if we can call it that, had a case of the shakes, or their shoe needed tied quite a bit. Cost of this film would be in the area of one to two cases of beer. |
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| Maybe not the worst I've ever seen, but the first big-budget movie I remember thinking was awful was "The Oscar" from 1966. It was an adaptation of a popular Richard Sale novel, with dozens of top stars appearing in it, including Tony Bennet and Elke Sommer, but the script was just plain bad. Harlan Ellison was one of the screenwriters, and even he makes fun of the movie, referring to it as the "low point" of his career. |
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- Posted by suchaprince82 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 1, 04 at 9:20
| reggie, did you actually watch "swept away"? if so, you must be one of 12 people on the earth who saw it. |
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| Shockwaves. (Former Nazi trying to create amphibian/humans.) Thank goodness it was on tv and we didn't pay to see it! |
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- Posted by bluemoon28 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 2, 04 at 21:58
| Godzilla, 1998 version Not because it technically is the worst movie I've ever seen, but because it encapsulates everything I hate about the current movie market--soulless, big budget, special effects-laden movies with stilted dialogue and continuous product placement. These movies are made only to sell toys, soundtracks and other merchandise, not because anybody is interested in making a good movie. reggie, the Bruce Willis movie you're thinking of is Hudson Hawk, and yes, it is truly awful. If you can get your hands on it, you should read Richard Grants's(the British villain in the movie) diary of making Hudson Hawk. It was a hilarious record of what went on behind the scenes and what went wrong with that movie. |
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| Hey Spamlet and manny: 95% seems accurate to me, too. And that's being conservative. I'd go higher. Hey minnie and Janet: AI? Leave it to Spielberg to take take sombody else's ideas and turn it into a yawning festival. It had its moments, but i agree it's the worst in recent memory. except for maybe "Reign of Fire" |
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- Posted by rudysmallfry (My Page) on Sat, Dec 11, 04 at 14:18
| I just rented Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. I was bored senseless and only kept watching because I had already paid for it and hoped it might get better. It was such a cool concept, and they did nothing with it. Did anyone enjoy this movie? |
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| I thought perhaps I just didn't give the movie a chance, rudysmallfry, since I fell asleep on it. Of course, I don't fall asleep on movies that are good. |
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- Posted by rudysmallfry (My Page) on Sat, Dec 11, 04 at 15:09
| You didn't miss anything, it just kept going around in circles. |
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| "Welcome to Hard Times". I'm sure it isn't the worst, just the worst I remember. I had taken the last final for my 4 year degree and wanted to do something fun. "Welcome to Hard Times" is what was playing at the local theater. Oh, and once in college when I wanted to see something to take my mind off my troubles, I saw Burt Lancaster in "The Swimmer". Boy was that a downer! |
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| If I had to sit through another viewing of 'Everybody's All American' with John Goodman, I would slit my wrists and watch the blood drain................ |
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| LSDreamer, you need to watch more documentaries, foreign films and indies if you think 95% of all movies are bad. No, bestlawn, unless you're being sarcastic apparently you do. "Eternal Sunshine" is easily one of the best American films of 2004. Also, putting well made films on this list (any film that shows real excellence in at least one of the major categories (acting, directing, script) is just ignorance: Rain Man? Master and Commander? Forrest Gump? Pulp Fiction? If you felt they were overrated- fair enough, but calling films of that caliber the worst ever made is ridiculous. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't good. Personal taste has nothing to do with true quality. |
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| I loved Moulin Rouge -- I think it's one of those movies you either get or don't get - everyone I know who saw it either loved it or hated it. My worst movie off the top of my head is Dancer in the Dark -- I just borrowed it from the library and tried to watch last night. I gave up after about 30 minutes because although the subject matter and dialog looked like it could turn interesting, the camera angles and jerky movements started giving me a headache. I had to turn it off. I don't get the point of jerking the camera around and showing people's chests at an angle instead of their heads as they speak. Oh well. |
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| Has to be Waterworld. |
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| Am I the only one who couldn't STAND seeing Kevin Costner mis-act (if that isn't a word, it should be!) his way through "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"? How could this turkey even have been released when so many still remember the incomparable "Adventures of Robin Hood" from Warner Bros. with Errol Flynn?! I thought he was bad in 'Waterworld' but RHPoT was much worse -- everyone else in the movie was fine, it was just KC himself who stunk up the place. |
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- Posted by paula_in_PA (My Page) on Tue, Apr 5, 05 at 16:42
| Spamlet, I think that people who dislike Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind probably just don't 'get' the movie, more than disliking it. The initial promised story of memory erasing sounded intriguing to me, but there was nothing in the movie that I could relate to, and I didn't get a sense of true love between Carry and Winslet's characters. I've been looking for a meaningful review of just why this movie is so great. Would you enlighten us? |
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| The idea that bad movies are subjective is just as true as good movies. Reign of Fire is one of my favorite movies because it simply is a cool dragon movie (I have a strange unhealthy obsession with dragons). I also really enjoyed Waterworld. I'd have to say that Rob Roy and Blade Runner are two of the worst movies for me because they are the only two movies I've ever fallen asleep watching. I also didn't like The Thin Red Line. That's three acclaimed movies there. :P For one that I'm pretty sure most here agree as this has been discussed before, I'd say Random Hearts is the most pointless movie ever made. No conflict + No resolution + No story = wtf? I'd say Gladiator is one of the most overrated films in recent years. Troy to a lesser extent as it was panned a lot more quickly than Gladiator. Finally, I'll add Amazon Women From The Moon. Who comes up with the stuff? |
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| Probably the same guys who came up with Killer Clowns From Outer Space. |
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| I'd be glad to, Paula. Care to bring the buried thread for the film back up, though? I'd rather not get off topic in this thread. In the mean time, you will likely find some few good reviews of it on metacritic or rotten tomatoes. |
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- Posted by paula_in_PA (My Page) on Wed, Apr 6, 05 at 9:48
| will do, thanx |
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| Seeing the thread rise once more, I remember another bad movie: a stinker called Soggy Bottom USA, which stars Don Johnson and a farting dog. I thought it was hilarious when I saw it as a kid, but recently tried watching it again and couldn't see why I had found it so funny. |
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- Posted by reggie_van_gleason (My Page) on Wed, Apr 13, 05 at 20:51
| The next time I hear anyone pontificate about what a great actor Sean Penn is, I have a ready answer: "Shanghai Surprise". |
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- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 05 at 15:17
| let's see... The Crow Sequels have to rank first simply because the first one was so true to the book...and the sequels turned it into a gory kid's film. C.H.U.D - so bad it can't be good. Jeepers Creepers starts out as a not-bad creature feature- and plummets like a rock after the first half hour. anything with Will Farrell in it. ever. most things with Tom Cruise in it- 'Vampire' was one of his BETTER attempts, since he has enough experience at being an effete, bratty little blood-sucker already. catwoman. Electra. a flick called 'sexy beast' that I forced my husband to turn off after an excurciating half hour. battlefield earth doesn't even deserve getting called a bad MOVIE. :) Starship troopers had me wishing the bugs would win. |
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| reggie, can't I forgive him that one??? |
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| Reggie and Bestlawn -- While Shanghai Surprise was awful, maybe we can just lay that on the doorstep of the Material Girl -- Madonna? Sean Penn probably doesn't deserve all the blame for that movie! ;-) |
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- Posted by Chris_in_the_Valley (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 05 at 11:28
| All a matter of taste. I am one of the three people on the planet who loved Hudson Hawk. Jkam, the real tradgedy associated with the Kevin Costner Robin Hood is that for some reason another Robin Hood was made at the same time starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. It was a wonderful film! But because they figured they couldn't go head-to-head at the box office with Costner, the producers sold the movie to Fox TV, so it has never been widely seen. I don't see very many truly bad movies. The one I disliked seeing the most was Leaving Los Vegas. I recognized the quality of the production, but I compare it to a wonderfully rendered painting of fecal matter - unpleasant in the extreme and not nourishing of the soul. |
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| I agree that likes/dislikes are subjective. Whether a movie is genuinely bad or good is much less so, and I agree with those that think most movies made today are of pretty poor quality. There are some gems that pop up but they're few and far between. On the other hand, I appreciate a truly funny "bad" movie -- even if it didn't mean to be funny -- they can be really campy and entertaining. Some of the old sci-fi movies fit this bill. While I've no doubt some people like the following, I have three that are at the top (bottom?) of my list of most *boring* movies I've ever seen: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud Major snoozes. The plots were predictable almost from the start, the dialogue was trite and sad, and the acting was awful. A waste of some talented people's time but I like to believe no one sets out to make a bad movie. And I guess not all movies can have redeeming qualities. If they did, we'd have nothing for our list! :) |
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| Seven, simly for the disgusting things it introduced into my esperience that I would have never had thought of, thankfully. I'm no prude, but there are some things its nice to never have to think about. Certainly no entertainment or emotional return in the end that made it worth that "loss". |
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- Posted by Clairabelle (My Page) on Thu, Apr 21, 05 at 16:00
| Don't know if this one's been mentioned (ok, I'm just too lazy to re-read all of this thread) but we rented TROY over the weekend and it was sooooooooooo painful to watch. Now I'm not sure if director Wolfgang Petersen (of Das Boot fame) had an Alzheimic lapse there or it was just bad producing. Many scenes looked outright Killer Tomato-ish, for cryin' out loud! Ex.: B Pitt climbing onto a chariot and racing away from... an obvious film screen behind him and not the actual scenery on the beach. Puleez don't insult my intelligence. |
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- Posted by drygulch (olson7@hotmail.com) on Fri, Apr 22, 05 at 18:51
| Wow, this is a long old thread! My nominations: Passage to India - absolute snorefest There have been others, but these sort of sink to the bottom. |
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- Posted by manny_in_ny (My Page) on Sat, Apr 23, 05 at 3:57
| Movies are just like music videos and music cds or lps.Most of them are horrible.Most bad movies and music cds that are bad have one thng in common,i cant remember their titles.Its much easier to remember the names of the good ones.Of the many bad movies listed above,i cant agree that ghostbusters,or austin powers movies were bad.The latter one and his others are supposed to be corny.Certainly forrest gump was a great movie,i even bought it on vhs. |
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- Posted by taylmat_OK (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 05 at 11:12
| I'm surprised to see so many good films that I've enjoyed trashed on this thread--Pulp Fiction? Are you serious? In my top ten all time. And how can anyone knock Rain Man? When I think of worst movie, I'm thinking of movies that actually meant to be big, got the hype and then stunk up the joint. With that in mind: Worst movie ever, hands down, Eyes Wide Shut. 3 hours of huge breasts and it still stunk. I remember when that ended, the crowd leaving the theater all had the same look of relief and puzzlement. |
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- Posted by reggie_van_gleason (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 05 at 19:43
| Is it a coincidence that Madonna has starred in several of the worst movies of all times? First, the execrable Shanghai Surprise. I doubt anyone can even recall that stinkeroo. Than she made what was supposed to be her version of Sharon Stone in Body Heat. Madonna's version was called Body of Evidence. She forgot, however, that Sharon Stone had a bod to die for, not one to look away from. Then there was her incredibly selfindulgent version of Swept Away". This was an incredible turkey. Having said that, nothing Madonna did was nearly as bad Jane Fonda's stinkeroo called "9 to 5". This may well be one of the ten worst movies in cinema history. |
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| While I love Clint Eastwood I HATED "White hunter, black heart" I also hated Titanic, mostly because it was very sappy and I was glad when the ship sank just so I could see DeCaprio gurgle off the screen. I have bad taste, I fully admit I watch Tremors whenever I see its on TV. I also love "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" heehee Worst Movies: Howard the Duck-I am amazed this isn't listed yet!!! |
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- Posted by Scarlett2001 (My Page) on Mon, May 9, 05 at 20:14
| Chinacat Sunflower- you reminded me of something with that Sexy Beast post- I couldn't get past the part where he calls the woman "Stupid C--t" about 30 times in a row. I was up and outta there and got a refund, too. Not that I'm a goody two shoes, but jeeze, enough already. Somebody got paid major bucks to write that? |
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- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Tue, May 17, 05 at 14:39
| :) scarlett- I'm glad we borrowed it from his BiL. I'd have FREAKED in a theater. and I think it took a fair amount of sweat on the screenwriter's part to invent a character than appalling- it COULD have almost been a psychological film on par with Thursday- but it failed miserably. the only character I could stand was the porn star / wife- and she was accurately stupid and patheticly grateful to be out of the business ;) Chris in the Valley- I OWN Hudson Hawk. my husband bought me a fresh copy- so that makes five of us. I think it might be Bruno's best movie outside of 12 monkeys... but then, I'm a pervert ;) |
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| "Dumb and Dumber"(soooo bad !),with its sequel "Sence and Senceability" |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Fri, May 20, 05 at 9:46
| Actually, The Ten Commandments (Heston version) was pretty awful! |
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| "O Brother Where Art Thou" was the absolute worse I have ever seen. I kept waiting for it to get better and it steadily got worse. |
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| "Tremors" comes to mind. And, the film "The Boxer" is right up there. But since I quit watching it about mid-way through (due to complete boredom) not really sure I should count it. Oh, oh, and that movie with Pierce Brosnan, "The Tailer of Panama"...god awful. And, well, let's just say if Emilio Estevez is in it, it has a rather large chance of being on my 'worst movies list'. |
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| I just thought of a film I think is execrable in every way: "Boxing Helena" with Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn. It has Art Garfunkel in it, too -- good singer, not so good actor. But it is the subject matter -- a surgeon cuts off a woman's arms and legs and keeps her alive in a box because he's in love with and needs her! -- that...well, it just makes me sick. |
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| Yuck --- do you think people like that really exist? |
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| Frieda, I sort of liked "Boxing Helena" in a perverse sort of way, but I could totally see it making your worst movie list. I think this is the movie that Kim Bassinger backed out of and was sued over. Don't really blame her...that role really could have tainted her image. |
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- Posted by moongirl0719 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 3, 05 at 15:09
| I love Barbarella. It was cutting edge when it came out and now it is THE epitome of cheesy futuristic 60s. And it has Jane. But don't worry! They're remaking it with Drew Barrymore! (roll eyes now) Speaking of Janes, how about GI Jane? My all-time worst is Dune. I'm sorry I know people love it (including DH) but I found it massively slow-moving and dull. I also went with some friends to Swordfish...remember this one, it came out a few years ago, it was a big deal bc Halle Berry took her top off (which was so unnecessary) My friends and I walked out. I've never walked out of a movie in my life. The whole plot was ridiculous and awful, it was so poorly written. John Travolta was in it...and while we're on that topic I also nominate Battlefield Earth! |
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| Battlefield Earth gets my vote. |
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| I had watch wild grass movie with my family.The story of this movie is romantic based and it think this movie is worst movie. |
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- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 3, 11 at 14:16
| Purple Rain That horrible thing where the guy was from Khazikstan...you know the one. My kids loved it. What did I do wrong? |
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