What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? 1675
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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?"
Gay Niggers From Outer Space (Score:4, Insightful)
BFE (Score:4, Insightful)
Highlander 2 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It must be said (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Shrek (Score:5, Insightful)
Alien Vs Predator, Event Horizon (Score:2, Insightful)
Signs (Score:5, Insightful)
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!Re:Moulin Rouge (Score:5, Insightful)
Batman & Robin (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Worst movie ever (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:That's easy (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The Star Wars Holiday Special (Score:3, Insightful)
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.Re:Shrek (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
So many choices! (Score:3, Insightful)
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!
That depends (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Shrek (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Freddy Got Fingered (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Shrek (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:MST3K Anything (Score:3, Insightful)
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,
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It IS Manos (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:That's easy (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
"Check it out it's got a 28.8 bps modem!"
some good posts (Score:2, Insightful)
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117776&op
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.
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:2, Insightful)
I kept hoping the movie eventually came to some sort of resolution or something or explained the point or... SOMETHING! Nope. Nothing. Mind you the nudity makes it a better movie than the second Mortal Kombat movie, but not by much. (All it would have taken is the use of the word "Animality" in Eyes Wide Shut to make it worse.)
Re:Almost any SNL movie (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:MST3K Anything (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Shrek (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Moulin Rouge (Score:2, Insightful)
You still don't get it. Here's another clue-by-4. The point is to find a movie that the most of the people hate the most. Not the movie _you_ dislike the most.
Regardless of how much you hate Moulin Rouge you must have noticed that quite a few people, myself not included however, actually did like it, enough for it to never qualify as the worst movie ever.
Moreover, I'm dead certain it wasn't the worst movie you've seen, unless you seen only a few dozen movies. It wasn't for me eiher, there was absolutely nothing for me. But hell, I'm first to admit that there are far more agonizing movies out there that are virtually meant for no one.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Moulin Rouge (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Starship Troopers (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, like co-ed showers!
Re:Moulin Rouge (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:MST3K Anything (Score:2, Insightful)
-Joe
Re:'Event Horizon' (Score:4, Insightful)
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...
Re:CEASE AND DESIST (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
House of the Dead! House of the Dead! (Score:2, Insightful)
It changed My perspective of what "good" is. (Score:2, Insightful)
Michael Moore (Score:2, Insightful)
OK, I was going to post this anonymously, but I changed my mind. /me dons a flame-retardant suit.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
You have to be married to like this film (Score:1, Insightful)
I've watched that movied 10 times, and the problem with it is the beginning is brilliant. Absolutely, freaking great. But its clear that around the point where he heads to the "ceremony" that's where he died and someone else takes over.
But up until that point, Man. I hated the movie the first time I watched it, but I kept watching it, and now I put it in my all-time greatest list of movies.
I can see, though, if you only watched it once, why you'd hate it.
Re:My first thought (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:2, Insightful)
Just for that, I'd put it in my top 10.
Insult to Nintendo (Score:2, Insightful)
Garfield the Movie (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re:Shrek (Score:3, Insightful)
What is the point.. (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Shrek (Score:1, Insightful)
There is a difference between posting an unpopular opinion and posting flamebait.
If he actually held this opinion, it would be okay.
However, it is highly unlikely that he or anyone else would find Shrek so horrible that he can't find anything worthwhile in it, and considers it a worse movie than say Ice Pirates, or Dreamcatcher or any of the other hundreds named here.
So, while it may be your opinion that his opinion is an honest one, some of us think that he wasn't sharing his opinion at all, but merely acting as a troll and posting flamebait. Last I checked it was okay to mod that down.
Re:Donnie Darko (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:5, Insightful)
That's really pathetic.
Re:Never seen Battlefield Earth but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Signs (Score:2, Insightful)
Signs would have been 10 times better if they had never answered the question "Were there really any aliens?" That would have been hard to pull off, because then the "Swing away" line wouldn't have gone anywhere, but maybe that could have been done.
The movie wasn't about the aliens. The signs of the title had nothing to do with crop circles. The movie is about "when something good happens, do you see it as a sign, or do you see it as a coincidence?"
Mel Gibson begins the movie believing in coincidences, and finally decides that the things which happened can't be a coincidence. It would have been better if someone else had disagreed with him, saying it proved nothing, but maybe the idea was that the audience would be the skeptics.
The question How unlikely and important does it have to be before you don't believe it is a coincidence? is an interesting question, and worth a movie. It's worth a better movie, but it is worth a movie.
I give Signs points for that good idea, recognising the flaws in execution.
You missed the point... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Insightful)
Titanic has a moral (Score:3, Insightful)
Titanic has a moral and an important lesson for us all.
When the shit hits the fan dump the bitch or you will die.
Re:Signs (Score:3, Insightful)
Gibson's character just didn't make sense to me. He sure looked like a Catholic priest. But he was married. While watching I thought maybe I was mistaken and he wasn't supposed to be Catholic. But as soon as I think that he goes and takes confession in the drug store!
Re:Starship Troopers (Score:3, Insightful)
There were two interesting parts to the book: an exploration of how a much more militaristic society would look, and the technology and methods used by that society. The movie discarded them both:
There was a scene in the boot camp in which one of the trainees asks why they have any need to train humans to use simple weapons when they have the technology to effortlessly obliterate people at a distance. In the book, this prompts the instructor to explain that the goal of war is almost never to actually kill all your opponents, but rather to convince them behave differently, ideally in the least destructive way possible. And that tactics of varying harshness and efficiency are sometimes needed for that convincing. In the movie, this prompts the instructor to engage in pointless brutality and an inane quip.
In the book, the armored infantry are a very flexible and personal weapon, and are used only in the above-mentioned situations in which complete extermination is not wanted. Whereas in the movie, our spacefaring race appeared to have no more effective tools for planetary-scale warfare than sending fifty thousand kids with machine guns.
Re:House of the Dead! House of the Dead! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:You missed the point... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not just Heinlein that Verhoeven is satirising, it's movie-making itself. Action-hero stereotypes are, for Verhoeven, fascist stereotypes. Genius.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Insightful)
It's a tough decision but I'm going to go with Very Bad Things. That movie was complete shit.
Re:Michael Moore (Score:1, Insightful)
Yes, Moore was being selective, but if you look at the list, apart from Britain you're essentially a one-country-army with a group of cheerleaders along the sides. Which was his point.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:That's easy (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:3, Insightful)
"Cast a spell" - this is probably the best description of watching it for the first time. I thought the whole thing was both exquisitely filmed and disturbing at the same time.
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've noticed this as well. If you're not married and haven't grappled with thoughts of infidelity or been through the odd bad patch where just about every girl you meet comes on to you, then you're not going to identify with Dr. Bill at all - and identifying with the main character is vital in this film.
I thought it was vintage Kubrick which as usual yields more detail and enjoyment on each subsequent viewing.
Re:Signs (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:A slightly different metric: (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll give that the movie was confusing, but that's the point. It's told as The 13th Warrior would tell about his trip to the North and he doesn't understand what is going on, most of the time. A lot of what we see is based on stories that he is told on the way and has retold later; truth is bended quite a bit.
Not the best movie ever made but
Re:Shrek (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Signs (Score:2, Insightful)
Hard to answer, because (Score:3, Insightful)
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. [imdb.com] 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...