Worst Movies of All Time - Page 3

My vote for worst film: "Billy Jack"

The Toy (1982)- Horrible child actor-turned-failed porn actor Scott Schwartz plays a character named Master Bates, whose father (Jackie Gleason) hires a black man (Richard Pryor) as the boy's personal slave. Comedy Central used to run this every five minutes.

The Dentist.

I like the Postman and Waterworld.

WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE THE POSTMAN

Walter,

You were absolutely correct to take exception at my glaring oversight. While not one of Schrader's best movies, Light of Day is CERTAINLY much better than the movies I lumped it in with. My mindset was on 'rock stars' and I overlooked the obvious with that selection.

Kind of on the same subject: I was checking the cable listings, and I saw something called Forever Mine. After a quick trip to the IMDb, I learned that the familiar-sounding title was a Paul Schrader movie! (His name on a film means I will most certainly watch it, ever since I discovered Light Sleeper late one night on the Encore Channel.) This one stars Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta and Gretchen Mol. I recorded it! Anyone seen this one?

Horrible child actor-turned-failed porn actor Scott Schwartz


This guy is a porn actor. That is funny as hell.

Well, the terrible modern skew is part of the problem. People simply aren't familiar with truly bad films of by-gone days.

Almost all of them are from 1980 with only 3 pre-'70s films, 2 of which are Wood films.

But worst of all would be putting Titanic on the list over Bride of the Monster.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, thinks Bride of the Monster is better than Titanic. If for no other reason that a cool ship sinking and some boobs you have to prefer Titanic over some of the worst writing and production ever.

Last Action Hero and The Gods Must Be Crazy do not belong on the list.

The Gods Must be Crazy is one of my favs.. movies I would put on my worst list, though would be:

North
Battlefield Earth
Druids
Highlander 2 (Original Cut)
He-Man: The movie

Batman and Robin has to be one of the worse films I have ever seen...too bad it didn't have Josh Hartnett in it...his atrocious acting woudl have served the film well...

"Knights Of The Round Table"... rushed into production so MGM could get on the Cinemascope bandwagon, Robert Taylor gives a performance as Lancelot that would embarass a high school drama teacher, and even Miklos Rozsa's music is mediocre.

DESTINY TURNS ON THE RADIO. I still cringe and get dry heaves when I hear the title. ughh......

The inclusion of "Natural Born Killers" immediately invalidates the entire list for me. Not only is NBK one of the best films of the 90's, I rank it as one of the best films of all time and easily my favorite Oliver Stone Film. Speaking of which, I haven't watched this for over a year and am in dire need of another viewing.

I think I might set out to see if the rest of the films on this list are masterpieces also. If they want bad, where are "Independence Day" & "Maverick"?

Everyone has different opinions on worst films. The Gods Must Be Crazy is definitely one of the worst films I've ever seen and maybe the worst directed too. I'm glad to see that others share my opinion.

Other films which I have no problem seeing on this list as these are definitely some of the worst films I've ever seen:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - yes I know it's a parody, but it was extremely unfunny
Red Dawn
Cheech & Chong from the 80's
Porky's trilogy
Armageddon
Independence Day

But then there are films I wouldn't put on the list like:

Titanic - did not like the film but it's not a stinker
Texas Cahinsaw Massacre
Heaven's Gate
Blair Witch Project
Natural Born Killers


All in all, not a bad list but I think they should have called it "The Worst Films of the Past 20 Years" and deleted the 3 older films as obviously the list is skewed towards newer films.

I enjoyed half the films on the list and many don't belong there at all. One notably missing is my vote for worst film ever made: Star Trek V.

Well, although some of the ones I list below are not GREAT movies, by any stretch of the imagination, I hardly think any of them should be seriously on a list of the WORST 100 MOVIES. (And I know some may disagree with some of these, but hey, to each his own)

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Armageddon
Batman & Robin
Battlefield Earth
The Beverly Hillbillies
Caddyshack II (except for Akyroyd, one of his worst performances, horrible Bill Murray impersonation)
Cobra
Godzilla
Independence Day
Judge Dredd
Look Who's Talking sequels
Lost In Space
Mars Attacks!
The Postman (I agree w/Steve_Tk and agreat perf. by Will Patton)
Red Dawn
Rocky V
ST:TMP
SW:TPM
Titanic
Waterworld
Wild Wild West
Xanadu

Now for ones that were missed that should have been on here, top contendor, THE EVIL DEAD TRILOGY!

Without Warning with Jack Palance and Martin Landau should be on that list.

OK, first off: Welcome to the HTF, Dean!

Regarding the movie you just mentioned:

You've seen it?!?!?

I've been dying to see this one ever since I saw the theatrical posters way back in 1980! Was it ever released on VHS? I'm sure you're right that it's awful, but I've always been curious to check it out.

Scott - yes, WITHOUT WARNING is pretty bad. I had the, uh, *pleasure* of playing it theatrically back in 1980. The astonished look on paying audience members' faces was something to see...

It hasn't been mentioned yet, but the worst movie by far is
Being Human starring Robin Williams. And yes, I actually saw this in the theater.

Thanks, Scott. Long time lurker here, I finally had to join in on the fun. I taped it off Cinemax in like 1983 and finally watched it a few years ago. It is so bad. I bet Landau and Palance wished that movie vanished forever. It was their dead period before both had a career resurrection in the 90's. I loved early 80's on cable.
So much time to fill so little good programming. Oh, my god Dolly Parton is on Letterman. I love that woman. Sorry for the off topic comment .

Add Rollerball 2002 to that list.

I have 26 from the first list on DVD, but I only have 2 of the IMDB bottom hundred. I'll admit, though, that it's just because so many of them aren't available on DVD. So the question is, is somebody going to start a petition to get the 100 worst movies out on DVD? Oh, wait, unless we're holding out for HD-DVD....

Lake Placid anyone?

Not exactly a good movie, but if it has Betty White saying things like f**kmeat and c**ksucker, can it be all bad?

WOW, I just bought and watched Armageddon on DVD, I thought it was good. A lot of movies on that list I really liked. Im so ashamed!

Teen Wolf Too wasn't too good.

Evan

Let the flames begin:

The Phantom Menace

Attack of the Clones


Messy, sloppy plot lines and dialog, and the editing-- argh!! The acting is atrocious and even worse than the original trilogy (they lack "heart"). CGI that looks extremely cartoony and lacks physicality. Hell, the original Jurassic Park had better CGI and that was in 1993, and by ILM!!

I still can't understand how people can applaud George Lucas for his almost Ed Wood fall from grace...

I've seen worse movies, but at least those directors, producers, and technicians didn't go around telling everyone these are the best sci-fi/fantasy films with state-of-the-art visual effects and a better plot line than Godzilla!


Dan