Worst Movies Ever Made?

I actually did a lengthy thread on Black Christmas here a while back. Search it out if interested.

I liked Murder By Decree, although it does offer perhaps the most implausible Ripper theory I've ever heard (and I'm counting Star Trek episode "A Wolf in the Fold").

Agreed with everyone who hates Kazaam. Shaq's a nice guy and all, but he's one of the worst actors I've ever seen. he seems to even have trouble playing himself on the Nestle Crunch commercials.

Muchael Jordan is also quite bad, but Space Jam doesn't quite make my worst list, though it was pretty bad.

Athletes turned actors aren't always bad, but they seem to have a lower success rate than musicians and even models.

High on my list of "Worst" would be a horrible 1996 outing (a TV Movie) called
"Panic In The Skies", starring Kate Jackson & Erik Estrada. Dreadful on all levels (despite the lovely Miss Jackson's presence).

Am I the only moron who actually purchased this on DVD?

(It has the distinction of being the only DVD [to date] that I threw in the trash after viewing. How many of these lowly titles mentioned here have you collectors actually deposited into "File 13"? Some are just too terrible [and odor-filled] to hold a place next to anything else on our shelves. Don't you agree? )

Many of you guys havent seen a lot of truly bad movies... Your just calling a movie you didnt like the worst movie ever made.

John Z,

Your listing movies like The Wizard of Oz, ET, and Gone with the Wind worst movie ever made? Is this a joke?

Come on... Lets be a little more realistic... Movies such as Halloween (All of them. Even the ludicrous turds like H8), Porkeys, Vertigo, Black Christmas, Howard the Duck, etc. are considered classic films if even for just enjoyment value or camp value... Black Christmas can be argued as a classic for actually being a well made movie... I think Halloween was just a cash in off the film and it got lucky...

Even movies like Troll 2 and Gigli have fans... I dont know where, but they exist...

The definition of the worst movie ever made would include movies with no redeming values to anyone in existance. Movies like this would include

Killjoy
Attack of the SourCrout Turd
Benigni's Pinocchio (Like an exercise in child abuse)

Tv show: My Big Fat Greek Life (I swear no one liked this). The ratings started out very good and dropped like a rock by week 2. This should be put up for an award.

Army Of Darkness
CHUD I & II
Freddy The Frog
Mean Streets
The Swan Princess
The Unicorn

Mean Streets, huh?

Not that I'm accusing any one person of anything at all but do you ever notice that whenever a topic/poll like this shows up a certain percentage of people always have to dismiss one or two films that by most methods of critique are widely considered classics, not that I am saying that these films are above reproach or don't have their detractors but it seems more than likely (just a theory mind you) that these highly praised films are simply being thrown into the mix for pure sensationalism...you know just to "shake the tree" & "Thumb the nose" at the notion of popularity and all that.

Just an observation.

I agree, Kevin.

Jack and Kevin:

Such threads also usually contains statements like this one from Ryan above:



which is, of course, impossible to determine.

The thread, I think, implies subjectivity. Or at the very least it proves the subjectivity of art like film. If someone thinks WIZARD OF OZ is the worst movie they have ever seen, then so be it. The best we can do is say, well, a majority of people don't agree with you, and we can all congratulate ourselves that our favorite films are liked by more people than someone elses.

Yes, but the true goal of this thread/topic has never been made clear.
Is it asking about "bad films" personally considered or popularly considered?
Subjective as either of those opinions may be I really don't think some of the films being listed here are considered truly "bad" by those posters...not all of them at least.

Believe me "One man's garbage is another man's gold" is a statement I truly understand, just look at my dvd list, but that was not what I was referring to.

Which makes it completely subjective, no?

Something not made clear will have meaning attached to it by the reader...so some people will say worst movie ever made to me and others will say worst movie ever made according to the critics and others will blend the two.

ummmm

Ice Pirates!!!

Total 80s guilty pleasure flick...didn't this one have the rip-off of the Alien chest-burster?

Again, that isn't what I am referring to.
I'm talking about subversiveness just for the sake of subversiveness, for good or bad or moot. Mind you "Shaking the Tree" isn't always a bad thing IMO, the motives behind the activity are what interest me and this was just an innocent observational theory of some posters motives aside from the benefit of doubt.

No. It makes posters motives in listing obvious classics completely ambiguous, and as such totally open to (restrained and fairly good natured) critique.
Again, I'm certainly not referring to any one poster at all, it's just sort of peppered throughout these type of topics/polls and the more obvious one's raise my eyebrow every now and then.

Being a fan of the Star Wars PT, I can completely understand the frustration over this. But it's tough to tell who is just being annoying and who honestly has dislikes for the movie...although the two are usually linked.

Well, if anyone is questioning my motives, here's my worst 20 list again, this time with reasons:

Clue - Almost every line in this movie is shouted. The characters are in a constant state of utter frenzy. It's obnoxious, irritating, unbearable to sit through.

Drop Dead Fred - Being a big fan of Rik Mayall's work on "The Young Ones," I wanted to like this movie. Here he acts like a completely annoying moron... which is okay, except we're supposed to LIKE him for it. Also bad: fart jokes.

PCU - Why care about things when you can just party, dude? A celebration of ignorance and lack of compassion. All you really need to know about this movie is that the stars are Jeremy Piven and David Spade.

A Guy Thing - There is simply no reason for the two leads to fall for each other. Julia Stiles helps Jason Lee deceive his fianceé, and still wants to be with him? I think not. Oh, and did I mention the knee-slapping diarrhea gags?

The Tuxedo - The movie that killed my love for Jackie Chan. Bad in just about any way you can mention. Lame stunts, bad acting, terrible jokes, nonsensical plot.

Mrs. Doubtfire - Robin Williams is the Anti-Christ of comedy. I had to include something with him. I hate this man so much.

The Anniversary Party - Some of the worst writing I've ever witnessed. And bad acting, too.

S1m0ne - Just for the absolute implausibility of it. They used 5.25" floppy drives, for Pete's sake.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag - At first, I couldn't decide which is worse... this godawful Joe Pesci comedy, or the godawful Joe Pesci drama With Honors. But this one also stars David Spade, so it wins.

Analyze That - What's next? Analyze The Other Thing? Painfully unfunny sequel to a movie that was only mildly funny to begin with. DeNiro doing West Side Story is the nadir of comedy.

Caligula - What do you do when you get Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole? Surround them with perpetually copulating Penthouse pets and make them ram their lard-covered fists up men's behinds, of course!

Grease 2 - "Come on everybody, gather round/I'm gonna show you how to knock 'em down/When I'm on the ball, I'm the number one/And I'm gonna show you how it's done/Let's bowl, let's bowl, let's rock-'n-roll/Hey, come on, let's get this show on the road/Let's bowl, let's bowl, let's rock-'n-roll/We're sittin' on a bomb that's about to explode"

Tetsuo (The Iron Man) - There are movies (for example, Eraserhead) that are extremely weird, but manage to be profound and artful. And then there are those that are just extremely weird for the sake of being weird. Guess which one Tetsuo is.

Jason X - You know, I would probably replace this now with Mac and Me. Jason X is bad, but what else could you really expect from it?

Twister - Cliché after cliché from start to finish. Follows a well-beaten path without deviating from the formula for a second.

Harvard Man - Pointless jumpy editing. Unbearably pretentious with no reason to be. Yet another terribly misinformed idea of what an acid trip is like (I think the only time I've seen any movie come close is Easy Rider). Sarah Michelle Gellar -- hey, I love "Buffy" but the girl is just not a good enough actress for the big screen. And... Joey Lauren Adams as a Harvard philosophy professor? Bwahahahah!

Weekend at Bernie's - I guess this doesn't really belong here since it doesn't aspire to be anything BUT stupid.

The Toxic Avenger - Obnoxious and unpleasant to watch. Too lame to be funny, too cheap to be shocking, too stupid to be scary, and too deliberately campy to be genuinely campy. Which describes just about every Troma movie ever made.

xXx - "Welcome to the Xander Zone!" is supposed to qualify as a witty one-liner? Totally sub-par attempt to modernize 007. I also hate that whole "Xtreme sports" attitude to begin with.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over - I really enjoyed the 2nd movie, so this was a big disappointment. Headache-inducing. And will someone please get Stallone to stop making movies? The only decent film he's done in the past 20 years is Cop Land.

If you think The Toxic Avenger was too deliberately campy, try watching parts two and three.

PCU is hilarious in my opinion and XXX I liked as well...oh well, everyone's opinion is valid here.
Actually I liked Clue as well, I guess my comidy level is on a different wave length than you Martin.
Paul
Another for the list in my opinion...Gangs of New York
could Cameron Diaz's part at least have a reason for being in the story???

Awww.. c'mon! That's the only movie with Andrew McCarthy that I can actually stomach!

Not to get too far off topic, but have you ever watched a bad movie with a reasonably big-named celebrity in it and you say to yourself "what were they thinking when they agreed to this movie?"

"Nothing But Trouble" with Demi Moore... I mean, did she read the script and think this movie was a good idea? Or maybe at some point during the filming she realized this flick was not going to better her career?

Brendan Fraser is another one... I mean, he does "Gods and Monsters" and then thinks signing up for "Dudley Do-Right" is a move in the right direction!?!?

I wish they would put more actor commentaries on DVD's with more candid, honest remarks like.... "it was at this point in the filming where I realized this movie was going straight to video"

P.S. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but be sure to check out the IMDB's worst 100 films of all time. I see most of them have been mentioned in this thread.

Yeah, but "Nothing But Trouble" was more entertaining than "Striptease". After seeing that I came to the conclusion that ol' Demi must've wanted to showoff her killer bod & script (or lack thereof) be damned.

I agree with Daryl Stovall :
Signs

Paul>Wh wrote (post #131):


Chris Atkins (post #132):


Space Herpe, the love-bug.

The movies typically labeled "worst of all time" include a good number of films that are, at least, hilarious in retrospect and offer a fine night's entertainment (such as PLAN 9 and ROBOT MONSTER). These are often movies which were made on a shoestring by crumby studios and with inept talent. But far more deserving of the term "Worst Movies Ever Made" are the pretentious films made with huge budgets by supposedly talented people which offer (in my opinion) NO enterainment whatsoever and which contribute greatly to the sad general decline of quality during the past two decades. I am completely with Sean in this regard: ARMAGEDDON is a slovenly, inept piece of doodoo
made by a pompous, arrogant but wholly untalented director. The fact that his films make lots of money only indicates to me what low standards moviegoers have been keeping since attention spans dropped to a matter of milliseconds and scriptwriters have largely gone brain-dead. I know I'll get flamed for that remark, but it is after all only my opinion.

Go watch Armageddon and then sit through what I'm watching right now (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter) and tell me which one's worse.

Budget, intent, genre...that stuff don't matter once the movie's unspooling in front of you.

Armageddon is Citizen Kane compared to Robot Monster.

Sorry Dick (and others) but I really like Armageddon. I think Willis, Patton, Stormare, Thornton, Buscemi and Clark all turned in some really good performances. And the action and story moved along. There may be problems with some of the science, but I don't think that is a good reason to trash a movie, (or heck, most of sci-fi would be trashed). I honestly don't understand all the hatred for this film, except maybe because a lot of people just don't like Affleck.

Anything with Muppets.

I really like Armageddon, too. The acting is over the top, the dialogue is terrible, the animal crackers scene is moronic, there's constant chaos, the camera never stops, the Aerosmith song stinks, etc. All of which add up to a rockin' good time. A hell of a lot more entertaining than a certain overhyped trilogy that I won't name.

I know you ain't talkin' bout the Dolamite trilogy.

No apologies needed, John... as I said, only my opinion. But it has nothing to do with Affleck, who I like. I grew up with films - many of them stunning black and white - that tended to be well-written and have intelligent and witty dialog, and camerawork (by the likes of James Wong Howe and his ilk) that produced strong moods with shots that were carefully lit and held long enough so that one could absorb all the necessary information. ARMAGEDDEN trashed all this in favor of nauseating camerawork and staccato editing rhythms that never permitted one to take anything in - it was an assault. Such "technique" to me is a mask to try to hide the endless flaws and incompetencies, while ironically creating even more! This is not to say that many films of my day weren't crap, too, but at least they didn't expend enough funds being shitty to feed a third world country for a year.

Blah, blah, blah. No one is ever entitled to state movies that are not only bombastic but pompous as their worst movie(s)?
We get it. Robot Monster and Plan 9 are probably the "worst movies ever made." At least there is a certain unexplainable charm to them. If you've been a fan of the genre (SF), there is about 50 others that qualify as the worst. Horror fans suffer the same. It's the pretentious action, dramas that literally crawl under my skin. High amounts of dollars trying to patch empty holes of garbage. Like a $4000 paint job on a 79 Yugo.

Top Gun
Armageddon
Mac and Me
Cocktail
The Rock
Con-Air
Sphere
Showgirls
The Shining
Scarface
Air Force One
A.I.
Rambo: First Blood II
Ishtar
Heaven's Gate
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Flubber (97)
Teen Wolf Too

and the number one insult to my intelligence, already stated, Signs(2001)

Re: Worst Movies Ever Made?

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