Worst Movies Ever Made?

Originally Posted by Michael Reuben

...You sort of remind of me of Dwight MacDonald (in critic mode, not political mode, I hasten to add ), which is probably not a name people remember anymore.

M.

Originally Posted by MishaLauenstein

Soapdish
Summer Rental
The Matrix
Planet of the Apes (remake)
Big Meat Eater

Originally Posted by Brett_M

Any movie with Ashley Judd totally naked can't be the worst ever made.

Originally Posted by Greg_S_H

I don't know about that. I remember seeing her topless in some movie costarring Luke Perry, and it wasn't a pretty sight. Like a couple of deflated hot water bottles.

Originally Posted by Lucia Duran

For those of you that mentioned The Matrix, I sort of agree. While it may not be the absolute worst movie ever made, it sits right up there at the top.

It took me 8 viewings to fully understand what the heck they were doing and most of those viewings I was so bored I kept walking out of the room to do chores.

Sitting through the rest of the Matrix films was hellish. So while I hated the movies, I will say that some of the effects were cool and I loved the main bad guy (can never remember his name, but he was the father elf in Lord of the Rings).

Originally Posted by Richard--W

The worse movie ever made is, of course, CASINO ROYALE (2006). Political correctness run riot. An exercise in misandry. Written by a committee under the supervision of an hysteric. Stupid, moronic, offensive, ludicrous, nonsensical, pedestrian, and backhanded.

Originally Posted by Colin Jacobson

Calling Casino Royale (2006) the "worse" movie ever made is one massive example why this thread has become about grinding axes, not about picking genuinely terrible movies...

Originally Posted by Brent M

Very true. It's about time this thread gets shut down as it has completely gone off the rails IMHO.

Originally Posted by Michael Reuben

...how seriously can anyone take the concept of "worst movie ever made"?

Originally Posted by TravisR

Maybe we can change the thread title to "Movies You Hate"?

Originally Posted by TravisR

Maybe we can change the thread title to "Movies You Hate"?

Originally Posted by Michael Reuben

After almost 5 years, is there really any point?

M.

Originally Posted by Robert Crawford

There are more worst movies being mentioned by the majority of the posters than those type of films being brought up in this thread.

Originally Posted by Michael Reuben

After almost 5 years, is there really any point?

M.

Originally Posted by andrew markworthy

(1) The Avengers - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? You have Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connerry, Uma Thurman (dressed in tight catsuits for most of the film), a very good budget, and they still produced a train wreck of epic proportions. I was in a movie theater the first weekend it opened and the critics' reviews meant that there were only ten people (including the group of four I was with) in the theater when the movie started. By its end, there was only our group of four left and we discovered when we got outside that all of us had wanted to leave but thought the others were enjoying it and so pretended to like it. If my memory serves me correctly, it must be the only big budget movie to get its first screening on Brit terrestrial TV at one in the morning.

Originally Posted by KurtEP

For my money, Highlander 2 is the worst ever.

Originally Posted by Some guy, from my newsgroup days

The worst movie ever made, assuming we're limiting ourselves to wide-distribution releases, is "Highlander II: The Quickening." I do not mean to say merely that I think this movie is the worst movie of all time, or to say that I personally didn't like it. I'm not saying it was just the worst Sean Connery film ever. I'm not saying it was a bad sci-fi flick, or that it ruined the first movie. Those things are all true, but what I'm saying is that "Highlander II" was the worst film ever made.


"Highlander II" was worse than "The Postman" - much worse, actually. It was worse than the 1998 version of "Les Miserables," which was truly awful. It was worse than "Ishtar." It was worse than "Waterworld." It was worse than "The Green Berets." It was worse than "Johnny Mnemonic." It was worse than "Showgirls." It was so much worse than "Starship Troopers" the comparison's almost absurd. Compared to "Highlander II," "Striptease" was Oscar material.


A Hollywood-level movie cannot possibly be worse than "Highlander II." It can't be done. You could not make a movie worse than that if you tried. "Highlander II" was the baseline of bad. It is the absolute apex of terrible moviemaking, the very paradigm of what it means for a movie to suck. "Highlander II" was the defining lowpoint in the history of studio filmmaking, the touchstone of movie badness. "Highlander II" is more than bad; it is the embodiment of bad, the manifestation of absolute badness. Adjectives do not truly describe how bad this movie is. It IS bad, bad come to life on film.


Every individual part of "Highlander II" is as bad as it can be. The story is laughably absurd, and does succeed in completely ruining the first movie. The script is indescribable, as if children with severe learning disabilities had been commissioned to write it. The direction is atrocious, if in fact the film was directed at all. The editing is a chop-socky job that might well have been done with a butcher knife. The score, which if memory serves was by Stewart Copeland, is the worst score ever recorded for a film, a random collection of flat notes off what sounds like a child's play synthesizer. The acting is farcical, centred around the worst actor in movie history. The set design is nonexistent; they basically just filmed it in empty alleys and basements. Even the costuming and makeup are terrible. Heck, the credits roll badly.


But not only do the individuals parts suck; the movie sucks as a whole. It sucks systemically, if you will. It sickens the heart. It leaves the viewer empty and feeling dirty. It sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks. It is the worst movie of all time.

Originally Posted by Steve Kuester

Sorry if it has been mentioned in this thread already...

The worst movie ever made is Uncle Rico's video of himself throwing footballs.

Originally Posted by Holadem

Heck, the credits roll badly.

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