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What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?
prostoalex asks: "A recent Ask Yahoo! article talks about the worst movies ever made and points out this IMDB list of the bottom rankings. The Ask Yahoo! article names Manos The Hands of Fate the worst one, but apparently the IMDB table changed since then to include The Wild World of Batwoman at the top of the list. What would you consider the worst movie ever made? Perhaps anything listed here would also make the list?"
The very worst movie of all time
This review shoud just about cover it. Battlefield Earth is the "worst movie ever."
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Highlander 2 should be there it was exceptionally bad.
Are you implying that you actually saw Gigli???
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Wow. You're pretty sheltered if that's your idea of a bad movie. Try out the recent Dungeons and Dragons movie (circa 2000 or so, IIRC) and then get back to us.
I'm sorry, but M Night Shyamalan's movies are full of just absurd plot holes. You mean to tell me that you've got a race of creatures that are capable of traveling through space, but they can't figure out how to break through a door? That those same aliens apparently lack any sort of telescopic device that would show them the Earth being covered in water ? How the hell do you miss that ? That a life form that reacts violently with water is cabale of surviving in an oxygen based atmosphere that is heavily saturated with water vapor? That when faced with an army of invading aliens, you would choose to lock yourself in your basement rather than heading towards a military base?
Even if you just look at the movie for its message, it's still retarded. You're supposed to come out of that thing thinking like 'oh there was someone looking out for them all along' - of course there was someone looking out for them -it's a movie! It wasn't 'god' that killed Gibson's wife and then set all that stuff up so that the aliens would die - it was M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the script for the film. Of course it all worked out just right. Gah!My blog
Okay, dude, you're missing the point! There are movies that are bad because they don't appeal to your taste... after all, there are those who quite enjoyed Moulin Rouge (and myself didn't mind it). OTOH, this topic is concerned with those very special movies out there that really are truly, universally, absolutely horrible.
Batman & Robin has to be the absolute worst movie ever. Sure there are similarly campy, idiotic movies out there, but the amount of money wasted in making this horrible movie makes it a bigger insult.
Tim Burton's Batman movies were cool. Joel Schumacher just totally ruined the franchise. When I saw Batman whip out his "Bat Credit Card" in the middle of some crazy rave party with dancing gorillas, that was the moment when it was clear that Batman had clearly jumped the shark.
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Agreed. I was about to post this and found that someone else had a like mind.
Everything about the movie was terrible, but what's worse is the artsy crowds who pretend to like it for some deeper meaning and the types who act like you're a prude if you don't embrace the sexually adventurous and "open" nature of of the film.
I mean - what the fuck? It's a shitty movie. Period. Bad acting, bad plot, half-assed film score and just duller than hell. Three's nothing sexy or sexually revolutionary about it. I couldn't help but wonder how much of the movie was changed after Kubrick died.
And for people who claim that if you don't like the movie, you're just too narrow-minded and simple-minded to appreciate fine art and abstract films, let it be known that I absolutely LOVE Lynch and films like Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway. But they're in a category of their own compared to this piece of shit film.
I'm sure I've seen worse films than Eyes Wide Shut - but what makes it the worst is that, unlikely many other films, it was made by a master and was supposed to be some great pinnical of cinema. It had a higher pedestal to fall from than other bad movies. It started out higher than they did and plummetted as low or lower than any of them.
Oh - and as for the film score, one of the main musical themes was actually a famous piece of music played backwards. I wish I could recall what the original was.
yeah but you get angalina's tits in that
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Why mod anyone down in a topic about asking what you think is the worst movie you've ever seen? So, if someone said Star Wars Episode 2 would you mod them down as a troll too? Because I'll say that.. Attack of the Clones sucked donkey balls. George Lucas should be ashamed of himself. Man, that's why I like Fark better.. no idiotic moderation system. If you post something bad enough then it just gets deleted, but here the moderators will basically delete your posts (mod them below 1) because they don't agree with your opinion. That's pretty fucked up.
Because Shrek is generally accepted as a funny, quality movie packed into a tight 90 minute package. If you don't like the movie, it's a matter of poor taste, not poor production.
That's not the point though. This particular post is asking for people's opinions, and poor taste or not, his opinion is just as valid as yours is. You can't ask for somebody's opinion and then mod them down for giving it simply because you don't agree with it.
Without a doubt, the worst movie I have ever seen.
Why mod anyone down for that comment?
Because Shrek is generally accepted as a funny, quality movie packed into a tight 90 minute package. If you don't like the movie, it's a matter of poor taste, not poor production.
Let me get this straight. If someone says something that contradicts the general consensus, then they must be a troll?
I know it is hard to imagine, but there are actually people out there who think for themselves instead of just repeating the party line.
He could be a troll, but the only way to tell would be to actually know what he thinks of Shrek, something which is basically impossible.
The MST movies are consistanly among the worst. Including gems such as
..., water, sick man, ..." could only be created by the genius of Coleman Francis. I commend you for creating the worst movie ever.
Manos: the hands of fate. (Master will be angry)
Hobgoblins (Never store pupets in the film vault)
The wild world of Batwoman (interesting subplot about a horseshooe)
Future War (it's not in the future and there is no war but I'm not complaining)
Puma man (Pumas don't seem to fly, just sort of fall out of buildings)
Giant Spider invasion (alien spiders are incased inside of dimond geods)
Eegah (Ahhhhh, Arch hall Jr. "My dune buggy's tires are filled with water)
The list just gos on and on. But of all their movies I do have to agree that the worst was Night Train to Mundo Fine, AKA Red zone cuba. Dialog such as "Water, sick man,
I happen to be in one of those artsy crowds that like the film, but I didn't like it for its 'deeper meaning'. I liked it for its actual qualities: The cinematic expression and, well, the nudity. It's not Kubrik's best film, but it's also far from being the worst film ever. Try Ecks vs Sever for a crappy film with a budget, or Makaroni Blues for a film made without much money or talent. The worst films aren't well known, not even well known for being bad. Even Plan 9 From Outer Space has its qualities.
Given what's coming out of Hollywood these days, it's almost all financed by fertilizer salesmen.
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I don't know why but I love Hackers. I think we all know that it doesn't have anything remotely resembling real hacking in it, but that's not the point. To me it's a film that piles on the extra cheese and makes fun of itself at the same time.
The cast isn't bad at all - Johnny Lee Miller pulls off an American accent quite competently and Jolie makes for good eye candy. Matthew Lilard, Jesse Bradford and Renoly Santiago all put in adequate performances too.
Hackers is a mindless nineties throwback with some great lines thrown in. It has one of the best soundtracks I've heard to date: two great tracks from Prodigy (One Love and Voodoo People), the beautiful Halcyon & On & On from Orbital, that nineties classic Connected from Stereo MCs and some Urban Dance Squad thrown in too.
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You list Coneheads and Blues Brothers 2000.... while neither of those captured the box office, both had positive qualities. Sit through Manos and tell me that the cinematography in Coneheads was worse. Tell me the costuming in BB2000 was worse. Tell me that either movie had worse acting (relative to each other, not to the skits and/or movies).
Personally, I liked Coneheads, but just objectively there are FAR worse movies out there. BB2000 I have only seen trailers for, but the trailers alone run circles around Monster-A-Go-Go or Plan 9.
When you have a hundred years of movies to draw on, picking recent box office dissapointments is likely to yield useless results on this particular list. Same goes for good movies. You might feel really good about AVP (just an example) and think it's the best thing ever, but looking back 10 years from now, you'll have to admit that it had nothing on dozens of movies from all the way back to the beginning of movie making.
In this specific case I'd tend to agree with the claim that it was a troll, but not for the same reason.
What caught my eye was the comment that the animation looked like a beta version of A Toy Story, and unless he was viewing a test-copy of the rendering for the movie, that statement is simply untrue and an obvious clue to the intent of the poster.
The point I wanted to make was that without evidence like that, there's no real way to claim for sure that he was trying to be an ass, even if the movie is widely accepted as "good", perhaps relevant experiences in one's own life would lead them to strongly dislike it. Who knows.
here was actually more depth to it than commonly perceived
Yeah, like co-ed showers!
Ok, no.
This is not even close to being the worst movie of all time, this is a movie you didn't like and you feel the need to troll on the many people who did like it.
I was one of them, it was a haunted house...in space. It was something to do for 2 hours.
Now, if you want bad, go rent Zardoz.
THAT, my friend, is a bad movie. THOSE are bad special effects. THAT is a cheesy, incosistent plot.
Its redeeming qualities (to be fair): Boobies, and Sean Connery in full shaggy chest glory. + its hilariously bad.
Mild spoiler: It features a giant flying rock head that vomits guns on barbarians. I am not making this up. Giant flying head made of stone, guns are projected from its mouth...
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If you didn't like the movie, fine. All I can say is that it cast a spell over me (and my wife). Somehow the movie felt like watching a dream. I don't know exactly why that was, but it totally sucked me in. Since I can't explain it I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else, but it's an experience I'm very glad I was open to and had the chance to experience.
I guess you can label me a moron, or a art-house junkie. If we met and had a chat I doubt you'd continue to label me as such. But I just liked the way it made me feel.
Oh, I had been married for many years when I saw it. And several people I know who did like it were older, or were experienced in traditional long-term relationships. I sometimes wonder if it just plays better to people who are older? There are certainly exceptions to that, but it seems to be correlated.
Hopefully it's crime wasn't being aimed at an older crowd. There's nothing wrong with that, as there isn't anything wrong with the normal set of films that play only to the young.
Anyways, just some non-flame thoughts from someone who feels almost the exact opposite way about the film as you.
Cheers.
A bad movie which tries to take itself seriously, like Highlander II is unwatchable, as is a bad movie which tries too hard to make fun of itself like Leanord, Part 6.
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Wow, proposing rape for celebrities to stop them from making "slutty and trashy movies" achieves +1 Insightful on slashdot.
That's really pathetic.
everything in moderation
Verhoeven read the book, and noticed that the book was, at least at one level, militaristic (and arguably fascist) propaganda of the kind that convinced Germans to come invade his ancestral homeland in 1940. So, he decided to make a movie that was a pisstake on Nazi propaganda and pro-war propaganda more generally. And he did that very well, and quite subtly in parts. Watch Triumph of the Will and then watch Starship Troopers again. Or, if you're American, cast your mind back to the bullshit ra-ra media coverage you got before the Iraq invasion and then watch Starship Troopers again.
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Because of things like the "so bad it's good" factor and budget issues and just movies that were never supposed to be anything but trash from the beginning, it's useful to put some kind of constraints on this kind of discussion. It should be something like "what's the worst movie released by a major studio into theaters in the past 20 years that wasn't just marketed as a vehicle for some fad (Masters of the Universe the Movie) or short lived celebrity (Cool as Ice)?" Maybe to make it a little harder, add "not produced by Centropolis."
It's a tough decision but I'm going to go with Very Bad Things. That movie was complete shit.
No kidding, this was the biggest problem I had with that movie as well. The plot was good, as was most of the acting, but that accent was so annoying it really turned me off the movie. However, my wife and I watched Cold Creek Mountain, and honestly, I wish we hadn't wasted the time. Same with A.I. I want those three hours of my life back!