What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? 1675
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?"
Worst movie I've seen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:5, Funny)
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Shouldn't that be:
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Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:4, Funny)
There's should have been only one.
Re:Worst movie I've seen (Score:5, Insightful)
That's really pathetic.
MST3K Anything (Score:5, Informative)
Re:MST3K Anything (Score:3, Informative)
It's the worst possible combination of awful acting, terrible plot and the ridicilous 1980's fashion and music. (BT [66.90.75.92])
For those of you who haven't seen MST3K, here's how it works: One guy and two robots are forced to watch crappy movies, and during the whole film you see their silhouettes [mrgan.com] and hear them throw hilarious remarks about the awful movie.
Invite a couple of friends, have a few beers, and you'll have a killer evening with MST3K!
In the not to
Re:MST3K Anything (Score:5, Funny)
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
Gay Niggers From Outer Space (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Gay Niggers From Outer Space (Score:4, Funny)
This is the first time in
Some moderators.
Re:Gay Niggers From Outer Space (Score:5, Informative)
For those who are unaware, Gayniggers From Outer Space [imdb.com] is an actual movie. Science fiction/comedy film from 1992.
Stupid ignorant fucks.
It must be said (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It must be said (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It must be said (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It must be said (Score:3, Funny)
STrangely, for all the bad things I heard about this movie (gigli), I really wanna see it now to understand what all the condemnation was about.
Almost any SNL movie (Score:5, Informative)
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...
Re:Almost any SNL movie (Score:3, Interesting)
This was actually a pretty good movie, but it was more serious than people who saw it expected it to be. Al Franken is heavy into the world of recovering substance abusers, and he was using this movie to work out some of his own problems. Some people like that notion of art as self-revelation, and others don't. But that doesn't make it a bad movie.
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:Almost any SNL movie (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Almost any SNL movie (Score:4, Informative)
Darkest Knight (Score:4, Interesting)
BFE (Score:4, Insightful)
CEASE AND DESIST (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you,
Scientology Lawyer #783 - Alien Name: X'narl'anguna
Stupid man animal! (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:BFE (Score:3, Informative)
Nothing like taking characters that we cared about in Aliens and flushing them down the toilet without any thought or creativity whatsoever beyond "well, let's just kill them off in the first 3 minutes so they don't interfere with our script idea".
Newt was killed off because they didnt want the 'issue' of introducing another actress in place of the origional girl, who had literally grown up since Aliens. Hicks was killed off because Michael Biehn didnt want to sign onto the film. Remember, the film w
My first thought (Score:5, Funny)
Then I clicked the link for top gross...
Eyes Wide Shut (Score:3, Interesting)
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!
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.
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eyes Wide Shut (Score:5, Funny)
I also went to see this with my (now ex) girlfriend on our first date. She picked the movie and I thought to myself: "Kubric isn't that bad". Happily thinking about A Clockwork Orange [imdb.com] (which is a must-see), and 2001 A Space Odyssey [imdb.com] I purchased a ticket.
10 minutes into the movie I'm staring at Nicole Kidmans nipples, thinking to myself "My God, those things are huge on the big screen" trying to supress a chuckle at the thought. About an hour later Tom Cruise is walking around in a castle with people prancing around naked (amongst other things), and my first thought is "Is this like a subtle hint from her?".
On our second date she chose again, and this time she chose Cruel Intentions [imdb.com], which contains a scene where one of the main character performs cunnilingus using the alphabet. Again my first thought is "Subtle hint?"
When we were together for about a year, and went to see or rent several movies, it turned out that each movie she chose always had sex or explicit references to sex in it. She would just pick something at random, and about 10 or 20 minutes into the movie there would be a pair of breasts on the screen.
I miss that girl...
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.
that's easy... (Score:3, Funny)
Highlander 2 (Score:5, Insightful)
ACK! ACK! Mod parent down! (Score:5, Funny)
Arthur (Score:3, Informative)
Mortal Kombat Annihilation (Score:5, Funny)
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!!"
MST3K (Score:3, Interesting)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever... (Score:5, Informative)
It's never too late to stop a movie in production (or post-production) before it's released. There are complete (down to the copyright and union seal in the credits), distribution-ready films that have never been released, even direct to video. I'm sure the are better examples, but I know that before Blade broke the jinx, Marvel produced an embarrassing string of superhero movies that were so bad that some of them are known today only through bootlegs. (The Fantastic Four film is legendary in its baditude.) Knockaround Guys probably would have sat on a shelf forever, except that Vin Diesel became a "star" with Fast & Furious and XXX after it was made, suddenly giving it some box-office potential. And TV networks are notorious for cancelling new series that may already have several months' episodes in the can, and never airing them (instead broadcasting more advertiser-friendly fare).
Ask Yahoo? (Score:5, Funny)
and the worst series of movies is... (Score:5, Funny)
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!The explanation.. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (Score:5, Funny)
It has all the plot and character development of pornography plus all the sex and nudity of the 700 Club.
Re:Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (Score:5, Funny)
That's funny.
Jackie Chan: City Hunter (Score:3, Interesting)
A slightly different metric: (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
badmovies.org (Score:4, Informative)
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!
It IS Manos (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It IS Manos (Score:3, Informative)
Manos always takes back the place as the worst film.
Re:It IS Manos (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
You don't know how bad a movie can get... (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Freddy Got Fingered (Score:5, Insightful)
Dr. T and the women (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Donnie Darko (Score:3)
Fark? (Score:3, Funny)
A lot of posts are missing the point... (Score:3, Interesting)
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)
Where are the classics? (Score:3, Interesting)
Orgy of the Dead (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Shrek (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Shrek (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent down as ogre^H^H^H^H^H troll
Re:Shrek (Score:4, Funny)
You're complaining about a movie about a troll.
As a result you get modded as a troll.
Shouldn't you therefore like Shrek?
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.
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.
Never had a girlfriend, have you? (Score:5, Funny)
Never had a girlfriend, have you?
Re:Never had a girlfriend, have you? (Score:4, Funny)
Never been to Slashdot, have you?
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: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:Shrek (Score:3)
Re:Moulin Rouge (Score:5, 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
RTFH (Score:3, Informative)
Ask Slashdot: What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?
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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!"
Re:National Lampoon's European Vacation (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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:'Event Horizon' (Score:4, Informative)
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:Cabin Fever (Score:5, Funny)
What it actually was was a radioactive lump of dogshit, a sucking black hole from which no entertainment can pass the shit horizon, a words-fail-to-capture-how-happy-I-would-be-to-mur
No, Cabin Boy (Score:3, Interesting)
Starring Chris Elliot, in case you've never heard of it.
Re:Fahrenheit 9/11 (Score:3)
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.
Re:Anal Angels #17 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Battlefield Earth (Score:3, Funny)
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 apar
Re:Plan 9 From Outer Space (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Aliens vs. Predator... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Starship Troopers (Score:5, Funny)
Those factors right there were worth it.
Re:Starship Troopers (Score:3)
Not by a long shot. It's well above Episode I.
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:Starship Troopers (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, like co-ed showers!
Re:Blah... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Blah... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Recent least-favorites (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Fahrenheit 9/11 (Score:3, Interesting)
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