whats the worse movie youve ever seen?

[thnl]

man i just watched Godsend and that is by far one of the worse movies ive ever watched in my life, along with 8mm and a few others i cant think of right now

[drmcboy]

8mm is a good choice for any awful moive list - my first thought was Reindeer Games, I think that's what it was called, with Ben Affleck. Truly bad.

[FyrFytr998]

I would say Daredevil. Oh..Oh....I'm starting to see a pattern here :P

[DrNoChance]

The English Patient. WTF is with people and this movie?!? This is worst piece of crap I've ever sat through. Hours of my life that I can never get back. Why does everybody think this movie is so fantastic??

[Toasty]

Dare Devil was watchable as far as super hero movies go.

8mm I enjoyed but it's one of those films I wouldn't watch again.

[thnl]

mm ben afflek-bad movies good point... can we say gigli or however it was spelled

[Toasty]

I thought Castaway was really bad, Matrix 3 was pretty bad too but at least 2/3s was watchable.

How about Classic's anyone seen "Watership Down" ?

[thnl]

castaway i thought that movie was really good, i agree with matrix 3 that movie pissed me off they shouldve stopped after the 1st one in my opinon, never seen watership down or english patient, dont remember reinder games that well, and dare devil was a let down

[Humphrind]

Watership Down, the animated movie with the bunnies? Geez, if I knew crappy kids movies counted, I could list forever.

I watched "the" most under rated movie of all time on Eberts recommendation and found it ridiculiously bad.

Ultraman. It is a 60s Japanese movie that inspired a 70s american animated show and more. Horrible script, acting, everything.

But if you are listing of the worst movies. DOn't forget such classics as

Kazaam
The Associate
Juanna Mann
MonkeyBone
Theodore Rex
Bogus
Made in American
(Holy Crap I didn't realize how many Whoopi movies are awful)

[jmrogers7]

2 worst movies of all-time, barr none: The Brady Bunch Movie & Little Shop Of Horrors.

Abysmal movies. Unwatchable. Only 2 movies I've ever walked out of at the movie theater.

[scgolfer]

The Last Action Hero, with Arnold, was pretty fricken bad. Walk out!
I say if you didn't walk out it wasnt that bad of a movie, at least you stayed to see if it would get better.

[dar103]

Only movie I've ever walked out on was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[brianh111]

Only two I remember walking out of were the Batman movie several years ago that had Jim Carrey as The Riddler... and a movie a couple of years ago (I think called "Bandits") with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. Thought that was going to be awesome, but ended up being worse than the proverbial "watching paint dry".

[Toasty]

Bandits wasn't to bad I watched it on DVD one morning with a hangover . . . maybe the hangover improved the movie.

Talking of bandits "Time Bandits" is another little Jem

[FyrFytr998]

Oh my God!! I thought I was the only one who ever saw Watership Down. What a stupid concept. If you are a kid and think a cartoon sucks, that's bad.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ishtar yet.

[ArtHolmberg]

True Lies

[FyrFytr998]

True Lies

No way! That was like the last good movie he ever did. And the Jamie Lee strip tease is to die for.

Speaking of stripping. Showgirls and Striptease were bombs too. Although Demi's tata's are nice.

[mike4066]

Hudson hawk

[!Luck]

TIMEMACHINE....... Need i say more.

[michael1123]

Daredevil is a good choice for recent movies. I watched like 2 minutes of it, laughed at its retardedness, and quit watching thankfully. One of the few scenes I saw was a scene in some resteraunt where the main character meets some chick and they start fighting each other all of a sudden for absolutely no reason, all the while engaging in "witty" (read: retarded) banner. Bad concept, bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, bad choreography, etc. ... A scene can't get much worse.

Another recent one at about the same quality level is the Medallion. Jackie Chan's side kick in that movie may be the dumbest and worst character ever in a film.

[kingsthrone]

Three words: Santa With Muscles. Either that or Sorority House Massacre 2, but at least that one had boobies in it.

[FyrFytr998]

Daredevil is a good choice for recent movies. I watched like 2 minutes of it, laughed at its retardedness, and quit watching thankfully. One of the few scenes I saw was a scene in some resteraunt where the main character meets some chick and they start fighting each other all of a sudden for absolutely no reason, all the while engaging in "witty" (read: retarded) banner. Bad concept, bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, bad choreography, etc. ... A scene can't get much worse.

Another recent one at about the same quality level is the Medallion. Jackie Chan's side kick in that movie may be the dumbest and worst character ever in a film.

Can it be? We actually agree about a movie!! :P Miracles really do happen!! I'm surprised you didn't mention Gump.

[Aceofone]

Only movie I've ever walked out on was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Fear and loathing is a classic. It helps if you've read the book though.

As for worst movie's...

5. Lost in Translation
4. Waterworld (or most thing with Kevin Costner attached)
3. Gigli
2. Battlefield Earth
1. Super Mario Bro's (does anyone else remember this, because a lot of people repressed the memory)

[brianh111]

I agree about all-things-Kevin-Costner being unwatchable. Sorry, that even includes Bull Durham. Between Kevin Costner, and Tim Robbins having the same windup and delivery as my little sister, I can't stand to sit through it for more than a few minutes.

[DaNutsInYoEye]

Rounders... only redeeming quality is that matt damon looked like a total hottie in that movie

[mike4066]

Do'nt like Kevin costner?

what was wrong with "Dances with wolves"
what about "Tin Cup"

Water world was the shizzy (ok the last one was scarcasim, but i really did like the first 2)

[robe43]

Oh man, has anyone ever seen the movie "Orlando" I think that is mine.

[melinda27]

hey, i really liked lost in translation. the worst movie i can think of at the moment would be teen wolf 2, and back to the future 2...i love back to the future 1, and 3, i love teen wolf (ok, i see the pattern too) but teen wolf 2 was just bad, and back to the future 2 was a terrible concept.

[lineof7s]

ok, yall may have never heard of it, but it was out in theatres for a little while. It's called the straight story, and an aunt of mine "recommended" it, and somehow got dragged into seeing it with my mom one day. The whole movie was him driving to his brothers house in a lawn mower, and the "climax" was when the brakes went out on a large hill. Moving stuff people, simply moving.

[heatman]

Best in Show, rented it on DVD, what a dog.

[robe43]

I loved Best in Show although Waiting for Guffman was better not to mention Spinal Tap. Chrostopher Guest is great


A close second for worst movie would be Donny Darko, I can't belive they just released a director's cut

[thnl]

best in show wasnt horrible, waterworld, tin cup, and dances with wolves were all good movies. but lost in translation was horrible, what a borring pointless movie. batlefield earth was equally evil, but super mario bros was entertaining if you watched it when you were younger.

[FyrFytr998]

Every sequel of Police Academy.

[Aceofone]

I'll admit that I liked "Dances with wolves."

And "Best in Show" was hilarious, but you have to like black comedies to find it funny, just the the one with Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon... uhh I think it was called "Election."

[lineof7s]

I havn't seen any of the others, but I thought I'd go ahead and add the first Exorcist movie. just horrible...

[BoondockSaint]

The worst movies for me.

Traffic
The Others
The Blair With Project

I liked 8mm. Maybe it was just because of the shock value but I never thought it was a bad movie.

[Superior]

Darkness Falls was by far one of the worst "horror" movies of all time along with Jeepers Creepers.

[EddieBoy]

Worse movie of all-time..."Romie and Michelle's Highschool Reunion".....

[krazyace5]

I happened to rent the worst movie of all time this weekend!

It has Nichole Kidman in it and is called Dogville.

I have seen some bad movies in my time but this takes the cake, it is like they filmed a bad play.

I agree about Jeepers Creepers being one of the worst scary movies.

For the worst poker related movie, it is one called Shade ?

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[Av8tor009]

Deep Impact?

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[Toasty]

A close second for worst movie would be Donny Darko, I can't belive they just released a director's cut

That film was pretty Awsome, damn bstards are releasing a D cut, damn it I already habe the normal DVD

[michael1123]

Yeah, I'm going to get the directors cut of Donnie Darko. I love that movie. The Straight Story is good, very well made. Rounders ... how can you be a poker player and not love Rounders? And I really want to see Lost in Translation, I've heard that's great.

Silly choices for worst movie of all time.

[7ape]

Some odd choices there, I've gotta say:

Watership Down - loved the book, loved the film. It's certainly not what I'd call a "kids" movie though, just cus it's got cute-looking talking rabbits, remember one of them gets garrotted by razor wire and starts hawking up blood and bile and thrashing around? WTF do you show your kids after THAT?!? "A Muppet Schindler's List"? "Barney" - the snuff version?

Lost in Translation - slow and meandering, but beautiful

Donnie Darko - superb, although I preferred Waking Life and Mulholland Drive if we're talking weird and impenatrable "fantasy with a twist" movies.

Best in Show - superb, but not as good as Spinal Tap

Straight Story - stunning, one of his best, mellowest film I ever saw.

As for the "worst", take your pick:

Battlefield Earth
Hawk the Slayer
Atomic Train
(Rob Lowe is a train accident investigating specialist, a runaway train is headed straight for Denver and it's loaded with nukes... it writes itself after that!)
Boxing Helena (oh wow! Then they woke up and it was all just a dream! What a BRILLIANT and INVENTIVE ending, I mean, it's not like every second-grader on the PLANET has written a story that ended that way cus they couldn't think of a better way to end it, is it?)
Anything with Vin Diesel or Jean-Claude Van-Damme.
The Great Escape - most overrated movie I ever saw.
Glitter

... oh God I could go on all day...

[michael1123]

I love Mulholland Drive, but it seems kind of ironic to say this about another movie after recommending it:

(oh wow! Then they woke up and it was all just a dream! What a BRILLIANT and INVENTIVE ending, I mean, it's not like every second-grader on the PLANET has written a story that ended that way cus they couldn't think of a better way to end it, is it?)

[pokerfanatic]

Every sequel of Police Academy.

I totally agree with this, the same with revenge of the nerds, totally pointless...

The most recent shark movie out in theatres HORRIBLE, talk about fucking low budget films that made it somehow to the theatre... It’s literally two people in the middle of the ocean THE WHOLE TIME... One fucking scene... I don't suggest this movie unless you want to waste your money or you'll get laid out of it!!!

[7ape]

I wondered if someone might pick up on that. Trust it to be Michael, you're on my case in the "Who's Hot" thread as well, did I p!ss you off in a former life or something? (j/k)

[SPOILER ALERT (although how you could "spoil" something as insufferable as Boxing Helena is beyond me...)]

Right, here's the skinny - Boxing Helena was fraught with production problems, not least of all the lead role walking out (best thing she ever did IMHO, whatever the cost), was poorly written, terribly shot, no direction, lacklustre performances from a substandard cast. The story was NON-EXISTENT, but even then they were strapped for an ending and therefore tagged-on the "then I woke up and it was all a dream" afterthought.

[SPOILER ALERT]

Mulholland Drive was ALL ABOUT the "WTF?" factor, like every other film Lynch has made, you were supposed to be thrown by the surealness of it and try and figure out what was going on. The direction was, as always, impeccable, as was the cinematography. The cast were superb and did great justice to the script, and the story was as intricate as it was intelligent. To "spot" the twist (which actually came up WAY before the end of the movie, and was, in fact, the entire POINT of the movie!) required all your powers of perception, about 12 consecutive viewings, and, let's face it, a quick check on Google...

Here endeth the lesson. Glad you like MH though Michael, out of interest, have you ever seen Linklater's "Waking life"? Can thoroughly recommend it.

[michael1123]

Haha, ironically we've already had a discussion about Mulholland Drive on this board in the Premium Members section a while ago. Humph said there was nothing to understand or something, and I went off on a big rant, and made him see the light. Also included in that was my ranting about how much I hate Forrest Gump, as referenced above. If you agree with that, back me up against FyrFytr.

Anyway, I agree with everything you've said about Mulholland Drive, the twist is hardly all there is to the movie, its phenominally made. I loved the movie before I had any clue what the hell it meant. Its easily Lynch's best work in my opinion, and I think Twin Peaks is the best TV show ever made (although Mulholland Drive got me to watch Twin Peaks to see more of Lynch's work). It was more just the wording you used to critisize Boxing Helena that was ironic.

I haven't seen Waking Life yet, but I want to.

[jmrogers7]

best in show wasnt horrible, waterworld, tin cup, and dances with wolves were all good movies. but lost in translation was horrible, what a borring pointless movie. batlefield earth was equally evil, but super mario bros was entertaining if you watched it when you were younger.

OH! OH! Waterworld! How the hell could I forget that piece of shit!?

Ok, my 3 alltime worst (the first 2 I mentioned earlier):

1) Little Shop Of Horrors (Hands down, the worst movie I've ever seen)
2) Waterworld (God-awful)
3) The Brady Bunch Movie (Bad as a TV show, worse as a movie)

1) & 3) I saw at the theater and walked out of. 2) I saw at the theater and wanted to walk out of but the girlfriend at the time thought it was good.

[fishstick]

best in show wasnt horrible, waterworld, tin cup, and dances with wolves were all good movies. but lost in translation was horrible, what a borring pointless movie. batlefield earth was equally evil, but super mario bros was entertaining if you watched it when you were younger.

OH! OH! Waterworld! How the hell could I forget that piece of shit!?

Ok, my 3 alltime worst (the first 2 I mentioned earlier):

1) Little Shop Of Horrors (Hands down, the worst movie I've ever seen)
2) Waterworld (God-awful)
3) The Brady Bunch Movie (Bad as a TV show, worse as a movie)

1) & 3) I saw at the theater and walked out of. 2) I saw at the theater and wanted to walk out of but the girlfriend at the time thought it was good.

you intentionally went to the theater to see the brady bunch movie?

i'm sorry jm, but you are dead to me now.

[jmrogers7]

Ha! I was dragged there by a woman. What a guy won't do to get some.

[fishstick]

Ha! I was dragged there by a woman. What a guy won't do to get some.

tell me that there was positive EV for sex, and all is forgotten!

[jmrogers7]

Ha! I was dragged there by a woman. What a guy won't do to get some.

tell me that there was positive EV for sex, and all is forgotten!

Indeed! But she wasn't too crazy about the fact that I kept yelling out, "MARSHA!! MARSHA!! MARSHA!!"

[MrSlippery]

You can all give up. I have the winner.

Drumroll please...





House of the Dead.


That's right, they took a fairly cool arcade game and turned it into the worst movie ever. The biggest name in the movie - Clint Howard. That's right Opie's retarded brother was the best actor in this piece of crap.

Hell they didn't even get super hot actresses for the screaming nude chicks. All I could think was "Man, that chick could use a few sit-ups and some implants." or "My grandmother has a bigger perkier rack than that chick." Also, I'm fairly sure that most of the zombies had to make repeat performances after having their heads blown off due to a lack of budget.

By the end of the movie I wanted to sue Toshiba for making my TV.

[johnnyawe]

I'm a huge fan of Lost in Translation.

[7ape]

Me too johnny, although I can see why it's a "love it or hate it" kinda film. Johanson's performance was superlative, shame she's such an airhead in real life.

Glad I'm not the only one who loved Mulholland Drive before I ever understood it, michael - I feel like less of an idiot now, thanks for that! It truly is a great film, if you enjoyed it you should definitely check out Waking Life (very different films, but similar enough for a recommendation). I too was a late-starter with Twin peaks, but loved that too. And Straight Story! (why have so many Lynch movies been namechecked in this thread?)

...and I'll GLADLY back you up on that against FyrFytr, lemme at 'im! Gump was the most blatantly right-wing piece of sh!t I've ever had to sit through, Hanks is a one-trick pony, he admittedly plays that one part very well (cf. Jimmy Stewart), but Forrest Gump was an unchallenging walkover even for HIS (lack of) acting talent. OMG, what a waste of celluloid. "If you party hearty and live your life freely, you'll end up a single parent with AIDS - if on the other hand, you're an unquestioning moron and do as you're told all your life, everything'll turn out just peachy!". What a fantastic message for a movie, it's inspirational I tells ya!

And Sally Field should be SHOT for that Oscar acceptance speech. Right after I get my hands on Halle Berry... don't get me started! She even turned America's foremost black director into an adjective, for crying out loud!

"Lastly, but not leastly, I'd like to thank Spike Lee..."

[Toasty]

"My grandmother has a bigger perkier rack than that chick."

That's just wrong dude . . .

[MrSlippery]

"My grandmother has a bigger perkier rack than that chick."

That's just wrong dude . . .

Thanks Toasty. God knows I try!

[xray]

End of Days with Anuld was horrible. I thought if he made another movie like that it would be End of Movie Career.
Club Dread was also terrible. Loved Broken Lizards SuperTroopers. One of my favorite movies. Too bad they followed it up with that steaming pile of elephant dung.

[Toasty]

End of Days was pretty Good I have it knocking around on Video somewhere...

[koolmoe]

Feeling Minnesota

Walked out in the middle of that one. Absolutely terrible plot. Though I really like Steve Buscemi and Cameron Diaz usually, they couldn't overcome Keanu Reeves in this one.

Really liked Lost in Translation - captured that sense of lonliness we all feel at times. I thought the ending was wholly appropriate for summing up the connection between the main characters, but I can see how some would hate it since it lacks the usual "payoff" we're trained to expect.

[Humphrind]

Welcome back koolmoe. I haven't seen ya post in a while. Have I just missed you? I remember you saying that you were going to stay away. I knew you couldn't stay away for long. We're addictive like that.

Good to see ya, hope you stick around.

[Fnord]

Spice World

Mr Cranky's Rating: Unrated
"Three Words: No Fucking Way"

[Humphrind]

Spice World

Mr Cranky's Rating: Unrated
"Three Words: No Fucking Way"

I forgot about Mr Cranky. I used to get his newsletter all the time. I liked his stuff. He hated every movie. But him and I seemed to agree on tastes. If I liked it, he didn't hate it as bad as other movies.

[michael1123]

Figured you'd agree with me on what I think is the worst Best Picture winner of all time, Ape. I also said Hanks was overrated and only played one role well, and that didn't go over too well either.

And oh god, speaking of Carmen Diaz, Very Bad Things deserves a mention. It could've dropped the word "Things" off the title and perfectly described the movie. It takes a concept that could make for an entertaining black comedy and completely fucks up on the delivery.

[leon_rts]

i Liked Lost in Translation too, Good movie. Johansson was great

[kfellmy]

I only watch scary movies. worst was....Van Helsing.

Other bad ones: Garfield (can't believe I went to see this one); Chronicles Of Riddick; Exorcist-New Beginning; Anacondas;

Movies that I went to with low expectations but they turned out good: Dawn of the Dead (new one); Cabin Fever; 28 Days.

[jmrogers7]

I only watch scary movies......... Garfield (can't believe I went to see this one)

That made me laugh!

[Legendash]

God Rippy mentioning deep impact brought back some bad memeories, the most laughably shit part of it is right at the end when the big wave has wiped out whereever and those 2 brats get on a scooter and outrun a frigging tsunami up a hill while everyone else gets nailed by it, at least i think that's what happened, god i hated that movie!

other toss films are the royal tenenbaums and congo and my girlfriend said jeepers creepers was a steaming pile though i've fortunately managed to avoid it.

[Xianti]

One word: YOR.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084935/

Yor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears. When he learns of a desert goddess who supposedly wears the same medallion, Yor decides that he must find her and learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters ape-men, dinosaurs, and a strange futuristic society.





I actually paid to see this in a movie theater when it came out back in the 80s when I was a wee lad. And this was before I did drugs!

[Autocratic]

The Royal Tenenbaums was good! A curse on you!

Lost in Translation was excellent. You want suck, see Life Is a House. My girlfriend loves it and wanted me to see it. Awful. But at least it ended in sex (not the movie )

[geeftr]

Gotta agree that Castaway is by far the worst film I'd seen in ages. Closely followed by Apollo 13 - whats the point in watching stuff where you know what happens? Plus Tom Hanks is in both of these!

Best film lately has to be Hellboy - just come out over here and LMAO at that one. Best film ever - Monty Python's Life of Brian - seen it so many times and I still end up crying with laughter. Also - Its a Mad Mad World is very funny.

[stevedonel]

I actually liked castaway. The rest of the listed so far have all sucked, or I dont know them.

The worst I've seen recently is definately "House of a Thousand Corpses" directed by Henry Rollins. Weird movie about some Frankenstein wanna-be.

The worst I've ever seen is "Let Them Die Slowly". Just thinking about this one makes me laugh so hard that my secretary peeked into my office, with that WTF look on her face. I was ~15 maybe; myself, my brother, and some friends all got high and drunk and popped this one in. It's about some group of scientist going to S. America and they get caught by cannibals who torture them before "dinner time". Very sick. The only reason we even considered renting it was the large sticker on the box saying "banned in 31 countries". We joke about this one every time one of us rents a movie.

[elipsesjeff]

I tend to agree and disagree with some of your choices:

Kevin Costner Movies:

First off you have to be a fan of his to like them. Outside of baseball movies he has down few that have been any good. I really liked him in (obviously) Field of Dreams, and Dance's with wolves you probably could have had any actor in there and they couldn't screw it up. He was pretty good in Untouchables. I liked him in "For love of the game" and I thought he was decent in Postman, although everything else about that movie wasnt that good.

Police Academy:

Wtf? Police Academy is quite possibly the best series that contain 6 movies to it. Some of the police academies are OK, but numbers 1,3, and 6 are the best. Who can forget Mahony, Hightower, the guy with all the funny noises? Those are awesome. I have yet to see PA 7: Mission to Moscow, and i probably dont want to see it due to the lack of original actors in it.

Revenge of the Nerds:

You must be a nerd to really enjoy these movies, they are pretty good....Come on, who else could join an all black frat except nerds?

Daredevil:

This movie was pretty good, it had good action, it followed the comic book storyline fairly well, and it had a cameo of Kevin Smith, what else can you ask for? How about a hottie....oh wait, has one too.

My worst movies:

Moulin Rouge! - How can a guy go from Jedi to P*ssy in less than 1 year?! Come on, this was terrible, they really did change 50 good songs made by other songwriters and screwed them up and added them to the musical....they re-did Nirvana's "smells like teen spirit"....thats a crime!!!!
Not to mention all the Elton John songs that were tore up.

Training Day - I dont know how anyone could have like this movie, its a typical bad cop good cop while Denzel giving the worst performance of his life. I dont know how he beat Russel Crowe from "A Beautiful Mind." Now thats a crime.

Existenz - You dont even want to know....

Hackers - Dont even bother the movie was horrible and it had no revelenace whatsoever. Hackers 2 on the other hand was decent, surprisingly.

Dude, Where's My Car/Freddie Got Fingered..... Yeah like you couldnt tell these were bad from the title, Al Green really screwed up Freddie Got Fingered.