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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?"
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Pretty much anything featured on MST3K could be considered for the "worst... movie... ever..."
The very worst movie of all time
Gigli.
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Worst movie ever. True.
Almost any of the SNL movies minus Wayne's World, Blues Brothers, and Office Space (started as a short animated SNL skit).
It's Pat
The Ladies Man
A Night At The Roxbury
Superstar
Stuart Saves His Family
Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures
Coneheads
Blues Brothers 2000
Now a Sprockets movie... that would have kicked ass...
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My room mates and I decided to rent it one knight based soley on the Dragons on the box. It turned out to remind me of a student film by some drop out. Every time the hero entered, EVERY time, they played the same fanfare. To top it off, there weren't any dragons, just a portal with a humanoid demon-looking thing trying to step through. Bad as it is, I still recommend everyone try and watch it. Until you see it, your meter for bad, nay all movies isn't properly calibrated. As a side note, they have two sequals of which I intend to watch.
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This review shoud just about cover it. Battlefield Earth is the "worst movie ever."
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...was, of course, "Titanic". Not just the worst *movie* I've seen, but the worst *three hours* of my life. Dental surgery is a lot more fun, for example.
:-(.
Then I clicked the link for top gross...
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This one beats them all. I've never seen anything as STUPID as "Cabin Fever". "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is deep compared to that piece of shit.
Eyes Wide Shut has to be the worst movie I've ever seen. The music was terrible like someone was just trying to annoy you by randomly hitting the high pitch keys of a piano. It had so much nudity and was such a stupid story. It wasn't a porn, it wasn't a movie, it was floating somewhere in the middle that made no sense and wasted everyones time who watched it.
The movie was so bad I wonder if it contributed to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's divorce. It had to as after being in that movie I probably couldn't face anyone I was in the movie with. It was that bad!
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Highlander 2 should be there it was exceptionally bad.
Went to see it 'cuz it had a good preview, as far as sucky movies it had it all, very bad acting, cheesy inconsistent plot, and really bad special effects, I want my $7 back! M
Please cease and desist with your criticism of Battlefield Earth. This movie, based on a book by L. Ron Hubbard, is a masterpiece AND a true story. It also stars one of the two best actors of all time John Travolta. (The other actor is Tom Cruise.)
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The worst move ever. Overall the movie reminded me of a medieval Scary Movie; however, the sad thing was it wasn't supposed to be. It was a bunch of pop culture integrated with the story of Arthur. The Saxons looked like the Barbarians in the Capital One Commercials. You know, "What's in your wallet?" Arthur's speech was a cross between William Wallace's in Braveheart and Henry the V's St. Crispin Day speech. The fight scenes were obviously choreographed. The acting was stereotypical British acting that reminded me of Eddie Izzard's commentary of stacking matches. I expected the Saxon kind to ask if Arthur had a flag. To sum it up it was the biggest waste of my money ever.
It lacks in every category imaginable: overdone, boring, drawn out fights, CG that makes "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" look good, pointless character cameos, and the worst performance in the history of film by Brian Thompson as Shao Khan.
"Foolish... [searches for line he forgot mid-sentence] child! [Looks back at production crew, checking if they're going to cut or not] You sorely test my patience!"
or
"The Earth was created in six days! So tooooo, shall it be destroooooyed!!"
I've always had a slightly hard time swallowing having MST3K bashed movies on the list. Odds are, very few people have seen Manos outside of that context, and it changes the experience of the film. Sure, it's bad, but it wouldn't have enough votes to be found bad without someone digging it up to show people.
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.
or every other movie made by Paul W. S Anderson.
...The only thing worse than The Life of David Gale ever to make it out of the editing room. All these movies beg the questions: At what point do they first realize it and say "It's too late to go back now?" Is it ever really too late? And if not, what's the most expensive movie ever made that didn't get distributed because it was Just That Bad?
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Have a look at the IMDB bottom 100 and search for "police".
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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For the longest time on IMDB (and still in my mind) You got served
Note how many are made very recently vs the top box-office returns of the same time scale.. ie the trend is films are getting worse, but making more money.
i thought spiderman 2 sucked allot (now im gonna get it) allot of pointless depressing character insight that really made you want to scream at the screen "for fucks sake, you could have made that pizza delivery on time if you had become spiderman quicker and not screwed around with that mop!" and "oh for crying out loud, tell her!" in the end, not only does he tell her (i thought that was the whole problem anyway?) but he somehow chose to both save lives and be with her?!?! so basically you have a premise, and instead of finding a solution you just say, oh ok, fuck it, lets just do that anyway im sure it will be ok. Then theres that octo-guy. "yes you see the arms are prevented from taking over by *this* *little* *chip* here on the back of my neck, yes just *here*, lets just *hope* nothing happens to that!!" but he just goes ahead and runs his experiment in the middle of the city anyway (because you just cant get the labour outside new york). Actually i missed the first film so i cant really comment on all of it and not _everything_ sucked, i liked the train sequence where even though he was a tough superhero there were still things that even he found hard.. all the other bits just served to make you really irritated because they wernt really problems.
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The acting was horrible, there was almost no plot, and there was a ton of nudity. I could only watch it for a few minutes.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity is the worst movie ever.
It has all the plot and character development of pornography plus all the sex and nudity of the 700 Club.
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But...it is an awful lot of fun to use the lines in everyday conversations. For example: yesterday, someone came up to me and asked if I could tell them how to retrieve a file from backups.
My reply: "A man animal learning how to retreive a file from backups?!? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" And then I swished around my dreadlocks, put my six-fingered hands on my hips, stood proudly in my three-foot stilts^Walien boots, threw my head back and laughed some more.
Hours of entertainment, I tells ya...
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Let me start out saying that I am a Jackie Chan nut, and I DO own this DVD. Having said that... The subtitles are misspelled, make no sense, and frequently have words that are obviously made up. Parts of women randomly turn into food... and there's a song and dance number by a pair of chinese guys in black leather/spandex biker outfits... Jackie Chan even dresses up as various street fighter characters(including chun li) and fights at one point. Aside from some impressive fight scenes, this is in my opinion the worst movie of all time... Even worse than Manos.
Many "worst movies of all time" lists tend to not include the absolute worst ones ever made. Many obscure poorly done films are overlooked, and instead these lists will only put in the bad films that will be remembered. In fact, we could sum most of these lists up to be really lists of 3 things: 1) most disappointing hyped-up films, 2) most memorable bad films, and 3) worst recent films.
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That said, IMDb does an ok job of giving the bad obscure films their due.
There are really bad movies, I've seen some of them on MST3K, etc...
But, you can look at almost all film student projects, etc, and say, god that's horrible.
A different measure, is, "what's the worst movie you've ever paid to see".
"The 13th Warrior", and "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars" are the worst movies I have ever paid money to watch.
Yup, the worst movie I've ever seen is one of the most top-grossing. Independence Day. It sucks sooo majorly.
I think the line "I think he's going to pork her dad!" made the whole movie worth it :)
Here we see the importance of punctuation. The actual line was "I think he's going to pork her, dad!". By leaving out the comma, you're giving the wrong impression to people who haven't seen the movie.
I'd nominate those, but in reality, there are plenty of movies that are worse, though none that were hyped as much.
What kills me is how the wonder and magic of the movies I loved is gone. And it's not that I don't crave such experiences still (a good Disney movie like Aladdin or a Looney tunes cartoon still enthralls me), it's just that those things are lacking completely from the prequels."Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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And of course, nuclear weapons will get the core spinning again, and said nuclear weapons must be delivered to the core by a manned vessel.
This movie was even worse than GNfOS.
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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.
Badmovies.org has quite a good list. Of which 'elves' appears to be my favorite
Anyway, here's a (partial) list of some of the horrors I've witnessed, and these don't even include anything from MST3K! (Although if it were ever to come back, they would be eminently suitable for MSTing...)
The Cat In The Hat
Torque
Fire Down Below (Harry Dean Stanton, no! What *were* you thinking?)
Batman & Robin (obvious, I know)
Double Team
Evilspeak
Saturn 3
Practical Magic
Vampire In Brooklyn
Wing Commander
Gigli
Highlander 2
Rollerball (the remake - Jesus, this was from the man who made Die Hard and Predator! What the fuck has he been smoking for the past 15 years?)
Jaws: The Revenge
The Master Of Disguise
Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Pearl Harbor
Ugh. Just thinking of the films on that list makes me want to go and watch North By Northwest or Aliens or The Shining, just to cleanse my brain!
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As a huge fan of bad movies I have seen Manos about 15 times. It is the worst made movie in every way. Nothing went right. It is like a train wreck, so horrible you CANT look away. It was financed, written, directed and starred a fertiliser salesman. 'Nuff said.
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
Are you talking about worst "bad" movie or worst "good" movie, because there are two categories here.
The "bad" category is simply that, bad. It's the movies everyone loves to hate, such as Plan 9 From Outer Space, Battlefield Earth, The Postman, Glen or Glenda, Glitter, Gigli etc.
The "good" category is more complicated, but it's also a lot more fun (or more infuriating). It's the movies that were overhyped. Movies that may have won awards or broken box office records. Still, watching them is practically unbearable to anyone with an IQ over room temperature.
My list would of course have to include Armageddon, Pearl Harbor (or just every Michael Bay film), Men In Black 2, Godzilla and that overcooked turkey of last year: Cold Mountain.
So, if I have to pick one from each,
Battlefield Earth and Cold Mountain.
BE was awful in every way, and nobody made any excuses for it (well, Travolta did, but what do you expect).
CM was horrifyingly awful and yet Miramax spent millions buying Renee Zellweger an Oscar (which in reality had more to do with her previous two non-winning nominiations than it did Cold Mountain). It was overdirected, overwritten, overacted (really badly by some), overproduced and just over-everything...
In any case... those are my choices.
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Yup. Anytime I see a terrible movie, I try to compare it to Plan 9. None even come close. The level of mastery of awful movie production shown in this movie is unbelievable. Recently, I got it on DVD for my kids to see, since they didn't believe me that it was incontrovertibly appalling. They both finished seeing it with wide-eyed horror and understanding of how bad it is.
It is the only case I know of where the movie hype (the movie advertises itself as the worst movie ever) actually understates the case.
I can't really think of anything one could do to make a movie worse. Boring won't suffice. Bad special effects will never hold a candle to this. Lack of plot? Try again. Acting? Ouch. Continuity? Huh?
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more than 13% people think it is crap (awful)
Most of those votes were made before the film even opened, by dittoheads who hate Michael Moore and most of whom haven't even seen it.
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... until you have seen a Godfrey Ho ninja movie.
;p
Godfrey Ho's business plan:
1/ Take random unknown unfinished Asian kungfu movie
2/ Add Western actors in ludicrous ninja suits
3/ Try and connect the two totally disconnected storylines (hilarity ensues)
4/ ???
5/ Profit!
For starters, Ninja Terminator and Ninja Thunderbolt are true classics. Nothing can beat Richard Harrisson using a Garfield-shaped phone or throwing shuriken at crabs in his kitchen, not to mention Jaguar Wong kicking a 4-inch stone 300 yards away at the baddies
Words aren't enough to describe them. They aren't mere movies: they are a life-redefining experience. Go rent the DVDs and experience them yourself!
Do not however make fun of ninjas - for they are the one true Real Ultimate Power!
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.
I can think of at least two things wrong with that title...
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.
I did, but it was on Sky Movies[1], and I don't pay the Sky subscription.
God, it's pretty bad sci-fi. It's obviously strait to video fodder. No redeeming features, bad direction, stupid blue filters everywhere. Not a very interesting story either.
And then the millenia old Harrier Jump-jets turn up. That still work, despite the oodles of millenia they've been lying around. They then manage to fly one of the hardest to fly aircraft in existance with no training.
I can't remember what happens at the end apart from the evil bad guy being locked up in Fort Knox, and the alien planet blowing up, but I'm in no rush to watch the film again. Ever.
Gah!
I still want a refund, despite not paying anything to see it.
[1] Well, it was actually Sky Moviemax as it was before Moviemax and Premiere were merged into one set of channels. Sky loves changing the names of it's movie channels every couple of years.
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Personally I really hated "Dr. T and the women!"
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Robert Altman made some pretty good movies, but this wasn't it. The "women" are the most annoying of their kind and the whole story feels absolutely pointless. The ending, where Richard Gere gets carried away by a hurricane and dropped in a mexican city where the doctor continues to help the local women is ridiculous to say the least. The acting is ok, but why watch such a terribly long and boring movie when there is absolutely no identifiable storyline?
I wish the movie would have been "Mr. T. and the women". That could have been a lot more fun.
I've seen Plan 9 twice.
The first time, our extended family watched it. Between "Mr. Gun Safety," the replacement vampire, tombstones getting knocked over, and the general incoherence, everyone was in pain from laughing so hard. You know how it is when you laugh so hard, you have to leave the room so that you can breathe? Imagine what happens when everyone tries to leave the room!
I bought the DVD and watched it by myself. It was terrible. Not "funny" terrible. Just terrible.
Clearly, there's some critical number of people needed to watch this movie. When you get the right number, it's wonderful - like a real-life episode of MST3K.
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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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Many "worst movies of all time" lists tend to not include the absolute worst ones ever made. Many obscure poorly done films are overlooked, and instead these lists will only put in the bad films that will be remembered. In fact, we could sum most of these lists up to be really lists of 3 things: 1) most disappointing hyped-up films, 2) most memorable bad films, and 3) worst recent films.= Reply&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=186&mode=neste d&pid=9968333
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And to all of you. Wouldnt it be nice to include title of the movie in the post near link to IMDB. Half of post here are not easy to read as they dont include the title of the movie in post.
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.
Isn't there some Slashdot rule about complaining about what your girlfriend makes you do?
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I have. But where was the rest of the world? Hollywood even changes history to make a film.
What a putrid pile of filth. I thought, "Gee, it must be at least unintentionally funny." I was wrong.
Starring Chris Elliot, in case you've never heard of it.
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Hey, I liked Moulin Rouge... but I also liked Star Trek Insurrection... well, parts of it.
... well, is a typical Bohemian story of impossible love ending badly. Sure, it was cheesy at times, but overall I felt is was welldone. I found the use of pop music interesting - particularly the Tango Roxanne. That was probably one of songs that was truly improved by the movie over the original (and I like the Police).
I think Moulin Rouge appeals to a limited set of people. I actually enjoyed the vivid overload of colors and wished I had seen that in the theatre. The story
Now a *bad* movie would be any of the Death Stalker movies - particularly the one with Queen Kong.
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Obligatory Simpsons quote:
"What the heck was that?"
-Bart Simpson, Milhouse and Nelson leaving a movie theatre billed "The Naked Lunch".
Seriously though.. You kind of have to take the context into account- It's based on a William Burroughs book. He was pretty doped-up most of the time, and his books reflect it.
(It's not entirely based on the book, but also on the life of Burroughs. He did shoot his wife, you know.)
Here's a start for interpretation:
Writing = using drugs,
different typewriters = different drugs.
Of course, it's still a matter of taste. Some people like more literal stuff, nothing wrong with that.
Does anyone else actually go out of their way to watch awful movies? My housemate and I ordered Battlefield Earth when we were with Screen Select (A UK based Netflix alternative). Neither of us had watched it before and we wanted to see why it was so spectacularly panned that we actually paid to watch it. Madness you say? Well, I have to state right now that watching Battlefield Earth was more enjoyable than many middle of the road summer flicks I have seen because it was so terrible that it became really hilarious.
It's as though when you reach the extreme opposite end of the scale you loop back to the other end of 'Unforgettable, widely known classics'. Also, while watching a stinker can be amusing, it can also make you appreciate truly great movies that much more.
I am planning to watch Gigli as soon as I can based on this principle.
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This pseudo-intellectual waste of time only makes sense if you subscribe to the philosophy that freewill is a sham, everything is predetermined, etc. It's utter tripe, I want my 113 minutes back.
I don't think Rocky Horror should qualify as "so bad its good"... that was the whole damned point, so succeeding on that front as well as it did, shows it is actually an incredibly good piece of filmmaking prowess. It filled its intended role better than almost any other movie.
It's easy to spot people who are criticizing that movie without having seen it. They regurgitate some talking points without adding anything personal. That would be credible if the talking points were a knock-down ironclad rebuttal, but they always seem to miss the forest for the trees. To anyone who's actually seen the movie, they sound like: "Aha! Moore shows Bush hugging the Saudi ambassador and implies that it happened in the Oval Office. In fact, it happened in Saudi Arabia." Most of it is beside the point and "debunks" things that I neither believed nor thought that the film was trying to make me believe.
I don't buy Moore's conspiracy theories, but the film has a lot more to offer. The re-creation of the attacks is the most propagandistic part of the film, but it's also the best and the least anti-Bush. If you haven't seen the movie, watch it for that--and for the interviews. Moore spends a surprising amount of time with his own mouth closed.
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House of the Dead must be the worst movie I have ever seen. For starters, there's the "Rave of the Century" which has 15 people attending. I swear I've been to birthday parties for 13 year olds that were more happening. Next the zombies are friggin acrobats that can jump high into the air, ignore the trampolines on screen. The constant video game screens from the actual game are annoying. And the showdown where everyone gets a their own "bullet time" showcase to kick ass for 2 minutes was never cool. I used to think Street Fighter the movie was the worst movier ever! But House of the Dead takes the cake. They don't even get to the House until the end of the movie. Should have been called Island of the Lame Ass Shitty Monsers.
Here's my little theory on MST3K: It takes the true creative genius of hollywood - the fabled B movie - and massages it in a way that allows movie snobs, who would generally turn their nose up at the idea of possesed bulldosers attacking the general public, to enjoy them in their intended glory. What glory is that, you ask? These movies were MADE to be made fun of. They weren't made to be "good" in the classic hollywood sense. For example - go rent a movie called Sorrority Babes in the Slimeball Blow-a-rama. When you see that movie, you will understand what cinnematic zen really is.
Let me see if I got this straight. Some slashdotters don't read the article. Others don't read the story that links to the article. You didn't even read the headline?
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It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Absolutely -- Alien Resurrection was a terrible movie. Unfortunately I own it on DVD, but only as it's part of the Alien Quadrilogy box set :/
It can stay in the box.
On a side note, if you haven't seen the Alien 3 Special Edition version released last year, it's well worth seeing as it's much closer to the director's original version than the cut the studio orginally released, and really a much better film for it.
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I didn't laugh, nor did I enjoy it, therefore I found it to be a bad movie. What's so difficult about that?
I totally agree.
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
When the hell did Slashdot become Fark?
Strange...
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You're complaining about a movie about a troll.
As a result you get modded as a troll.
Shouldn't you therefore like Shrek?
We're talking about what you hate personally. It's what you hate that we all hate equally.
... I hardly see how they can even be included.
I think the consensus here is definitely on:
Battlefield Earth
Most of the movies in the IMDB Bottom 100 are bad movies - on purpose. Some of those movies in the list are B Movies and some never saw nationwide release
A very obvious omission - one that I didn't see by scrolling through all of this quickly and that i couldn't spot on the bottom 100 is:
Heman: Masters Of The Universe (Live Action)
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
The magnificent works of Ed Wood, where are they? Even his masterpiece is missing!
The moon is not fully subjugated. I demand a second assault wave preceded by a massive nuclear bombardment.
Super Mario Bros. The Movie. Enough said.
You specifically forgot one movie:
Spellchecker.
1. Mortal Kombat (it's with K, just like the games were!)
2. Street Fighter
3. you wrote this one right.
4. I assume you meant Soldier
and the last is Alien Vs. Predator. (also based on a game tho)
You forgot Super Mario and Tomb Raider tho...
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I couldn't agree with you more!
If you're going to judge movies, you need to put them in proper context. There are tons of really bad movies, some of which are intentionally bad, or which boldly capitalize on tired characters, concepts and previously successful themes. But when you have ten times the raw material and resources of others, a script from one of the world's best screenwriters, and you botch it up this bad, someone should take a bat to your knees.
In the grand scheme of things, Aritificial Intelligence is easily the worst movie ever created.
I can forgive a grass roots crew with a dream but no clue. But you can't forgive Steven Spielburg and the millions of bucks he threw into this, or not be completely confounded as to why someone didn't question the butchering he gave to what was a promising script.
Who the hell was this movie for? No one knows really. It was the most perverse, illogical, pathetic and disappointing thing ever projected onto a screen.
And then he followed that pile of trash with another pile of trash called "Minority Report" whose listing of continuity errors would be ten times the size of the original script!
Spielburg's career is over. He needs to do everyone a favor and look into something else to do with his time, because his work is a disgrace to the good filmmakers out there that can't get any resources.
Garfield The Movie gets my vote for the worst movie of the year, and probably the worst I've ever seen. There is nothing in the movie that couldn't have been done in thirty a second commercial. Bill Murray must be in for a raspberry for his singing alone.
The only film on the imdb top 100 I have seen is Highlander II, and that is the second worst movie I have seen (Highlander being one of my all-time favourites).
The big tip I have been given, if the trial tells the whole story, then the film is BAD.
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in which a movie is so bad that it actually becomes enjoyable?
I've seen not a few movies that were so seriously flawed in plot and connection between scenes that it actually became really fun to watch.
The best example I can think of is "Starship Troopers". Haven't read the book, but the movie is so full of plot holes and stupid scenes. It was so stupid it actually made me laugh for hours, making it really fun for me to watch. It was full of fanservice and stupid scenes showing aliens kicking the life out of the stupid humans. It showed all the stereotypes of the genre, making it an excellent parody imho.
Sure, some movies are simply bad and boring or simply not bad enough to be able to enjoy as a parody, but many movies are simply dumb yet enjoyable, like various kungfu movies.
Feel free to comment about such movies you've encountered.
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The only explanation I could come up with for Signs was that the aliens were not invading. They were actually just dropping off their retarded. Once you realize the aliens are mentally handicapped it all makes sense.
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Without a doubt, the worst movie that I have ever seen was Biker Boyz. The plot made no sense and seemed to have no continuity. Not to mention, the race at the end where Larry Fishburne and the other guy drag race on a dirt road. You've got to be an idiot to drag race a bike on a dirt road!
So, uh, yeah. Biker Boyz. (Although, I do have to admit that it was better the second time around while completely loaded up on Jack Daniels and watching it with several similarly drunk friends.)
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
The engaging characters of Plan 9 From Outer Space along with the sense of wasted potential you got from Star Trek V, The Banal Frontier.
The absolute worst movie I've ever seen was, by far, Horror Planet, aka Inseminoid. I say this while pointing out that I've seen both Iron Eagle II and Highlander II on the big screen.
Hey, a friend and I wanted to watch a good Science Fiction movie, and we had access to all the free movies we could watch through the local video store, because our friend managed it. It was just plain bad. Even though aliens were being born from the stomachs of several characters, the real enemy of the movie seemed to be rocks. While looking among the rocks, one of the characters falls on a rock, resulting in depressurization of his spacesuit and death. While this might sound like a cool effect, it really wasn't. Nothing about this movie was cool at all.
Oh yeah. Sheena is on cable right now, and I'm too lazy to get up and change the channel, so you know Horror Planet had to be bad for me to hate it that much. Sheena is a masterpiece by comparison.
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170 minutes of my life I'll never get back. A confusing pointless parade of cameos of stars which you hopelessly grapple for in hopes that they will be the sign of the start of a story line worth caring about.
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I've watched every movie done on MST3K, and they all bow down in terror to Orgy of the Dead.
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every line is whispered...
Wing Commander. actually any movie with Freddie Prinz Jr. is crap.
Bourne Supremacy. the constantly jiggling camera makes me want to steal this movie, steady all the images and resell it to make a mint, as the rest was good, but hell you couldn't "SEE" anything. Directors like this should be shot on sight.
Matrix Revolutions. Its like, the studsio heads said, yeah drop all this good braintease stuff, and just make friends at the end, even if it destroys all the continuity. Flying robots were too stupid to float solar panels above the clouds!
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Farenheit 911 and Starship Troopers2 are tied for me as the worst ever. Beyond boring, to the point I was ready to do almost anything to distract myself from the stupidity of the movies. Pr0n has better plot, better script and sent a more clear and powerful political statement.
Never again will I promise someone that I will see a movie with here and see it all the way through.
. Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
Swordfish is redeemed by Hallie Berry's boobs.
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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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Battlefield Earth.
I've already said more that I can stomach about this topic.
Titanic has a moral and an important lesson for us all.
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This was so bad that it was funny. The flying saucers, the cemetary. Didn't Bela Lugosi die during filming, and they replaced him with a guy who used a cape to hide his face? The cheap sets and even cheaper special effects. It's so bad that it's funny. Horrible story line. Bad acting.
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I just got a mental image of 100's of nerds rushing out of their house to try and find a copy of the movie
Made for a song, too. Think about it! They only needed the one set! Plus, all the special computer effects were done for free by the effects company so that they could advertise their wares to the film industry. All in all, a very solid film made for almost nothing. Written like a 102 minute twi-light zone, I had no real complaints except intellectual differences which would have made for interesting talk with the writer/director over beer.
--And it wasn't an alien cube. Just government. I guess you got fed up and didn't finish watching.
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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.
We are all individuals ... I'm not ... shhhh!
Boy, they weren't kidding, were they.
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Not really... if that's what you're looking for, I think you want Pushing Tin. I haven't seen Taking Lives, so I'll take SphericalCrusher's word on that. I also think it's unfair to slam Hackers because it's portrayal of hackers is ludicrous. Of course it's ludicrous. Movies never get our subculture -- or any subculture, for that matter -- right. It's still a fun movie if you're willing to turn your brain off and not get pissed shouting about how much they got wrong.
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Zardoz does have elements of The Prisoner, along with elements of Logan's Run. Honestly, I think The Prisoner and Logan's Run did a MUCH better job.
Zardoz is 2 hours of my life I'm afraid I'll never getting back.
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Killdozer is based on a classic Theodore Sturgeon short story from the 40s, which King might well have read (Sturgeon is apparently one of his literary influences).
Mulholland Drive is very good, it just doesn't have a linear narrative and it doesn't lead the viewer by the hand. It's a straight thriller once you've reconstructed the storyline, but a large proportion of the fun is to find out all the clues the filmmaker has given to the audience to be able to do that job. It's like an oldfashion puzzle.
Note that I don't claim to understand everything about that film but I have an interpretation. There is a great article on Salon about that film.
To me, the wrost movie I ever seen is Signs. I think it is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. If Mel Gibson didn't play a a role in it, I would never choose to watch. And the truth is that my first impression is right: this movie sucks.
Years ago I learned to walk out of movies that suck (this is because I failed to walk out of "The Adjuster" and regretted the time wasted).
One day I sat down and saw a terrific movie, Drowning By Numbers. After about 15 minutes I thought, "you know, this looks kind of familiar..." but then I wasn't sure. Eventually I realised that I had walked out of this movie years before!So did the movie suck or not? Or maybe I just suffered brain damage in between...
Watching at home is like masturbation. Pathetic, lonely, and sad.
Its disturbing how accurate that analogy is.
It's weird, but not bad. It was competently made
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Oh come on! Look at the Zardoz-vomits-riffles scene with a critical eye. You can obsiously see that guns are simply thrown out by the handfull by someone off camera, its laughable!
They could have had a few people throwing them constantly to mask the very noticable pause when the person was picking up another handfull of guns, that would have been competant. Having just one guy throw a handfull, pause to pick up more, throw another handfull, repeat, was not a moment of competant film making.
Of course, this is 1970's sci-fi, of which only Star Wars was good, so its is almost forgivable...its at least understandable.
I think you can watch the movie and get something out of it.
I love Zardoz, I love it for its all-out, honest, face value cheezy badness. And the boobies
It shares a similar feel to another great late 60's/early 70's weirdfest, The Prisoner (the tv show).
If by that you mean that its creators were OBVIOUSLY really, really high when they concieved it, then yes : )
But at least they waited until they sobered up before making the Prisoner, Zardoz looks like it was written, shot and edited while under the influence of various and diverse psychotropic substances : )
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