The Worst Movie of All Time?
My friend JJ is an aficionado of bad films, or rather bad films of a certain type. He’s not interested in uber-low-budget absurdities of the Plan 9 From Outer Space sort — for him, a bad film can only be amusing when
(1) It’s a major studio product with a production budget in at least the eight figures; and
(2) It’s supposed to appeal to actual adults.
The second stipulation is obviously fuzzier than the first, but it would seem to clearly rule out Adam Sandler fart comedies and other material aimed at 12-year-olds, while leaving room for things like Sex and the City 2.
SPOILER ALERT!
Consider the film’s painful climax, in which Samantha, now wearing shorts and a low-cut top, spills dozens of condoms from her purse in the middle of a crowded market. Right before the condom explosion, the Islamic call to prayer, the Adhan, is conveniently heard for no discernible reason. The angry, hairy men, overwhelmed by anger and shock, decide to abandon their daily activities and busy life to encircle Samantha and condemn her as a harlot and slut, but not before Samantha proudly holds the condoms up high and dry humps the air telling the men she uses them to have sex. Because they cannot tolerate a sassy, back-talking, condom-using female baring her legs, they decide en masse to spontaneously chase all four women. Appearing like an oasis in the desert, two mysterious women in a burqa silently nod to the four girls, who subsequently follow the women into a secret room revealing the existence of a secret book club attended by a dozen niqabi women, who disrobe to reveal their hidden designer clothes, fashionable shoes and makeup.
For more than a decade now, Twister has been at the top of JJ’s list. But he’s going to be in the theater this weekend with his wife (both are actually fans of the Sex and the City HBO series, as am I), and his expectations are high.
“I”m really getting excited about this movie,” he tells me. “This could be the one.”
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While this does, indeed, look awful, I still think Kevin Costner has the Lifetime Achievement in this category pretty locked up.
Huh. Twister’s not even close to the top of my list. It’s certainly not a very good film, but as I remember it, it was just a throwaway summer blockbuster with some (at the time) whizz bang effects.
No, top of the list ever since I saw it has been Showgirls. A lot of people claim to enjoy it ironically, but even as a big fan of watching bad films ironically (I own not one but two copies of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians!), I just find it incredibly tedious.
This new SATC film does sound like it might be able to knock it off the top spot, though.
Yeah, Twister’s certainly not good, but it’s a relatively short and unpretentious genre picture; certainly, it would be far and away the best thing Michael Bay’s ever directed.
Thank you. Any conversation about bad major releases has to begin with Michael Bay. The only problem: all of his movies are equally terrible. None stand out.
I must have a pretty good spider-sense about movies, because I haven’t seen many bad ones. Probably the longest length of time I’ve spent wondering what I was doing in a particular theatre was during “Armageddon”. At no point during the last hour of that film did I buy any of what was going on onscreen.
As for bad movies meeting the criteria that are enjoyable ironically, it’s hard to top The Core, the film with the worst science ever. And some of the worst acting and direction and writing.
Haven’t seen The Core, but is it even theoretically possible for a film to have a worse science-based plot than The Day After Tomorrow?
Granted, TDAT sets a high standard, but The Core hurdles it with ease.
Two words – red matter.
TDAT has some great bad science moments – the magic tent being my favourite. But mainly it’s just the premise that’s totally unscientific. Whereas The Core, beyond having a stupendously wrong premise (microwaves aren’t affected by the earth’s magnetic field!), throws horrible science at you every other minute. It makes a really good drinking game – take a shot every time the movie breaks a different law/principle – but you do end up absolutely plastered.
For an entertaining summary, read Phil Plait’s review
Also, leaving aside the science, TDAT is much more boring as a film than The Core.
Yeah, the Core beats TDAT tomorrow hands down in terms of bad science. 2012 needs to be up there, too, I think.
Phil Plait doesn’t really seem to agree that it’s so bad.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/thecore_review.html
And here’s screenwriter (and Kung Fu Monkey) John Rogers kinda pissily defending said science to Ain’t It Cool.
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14288
I haven’t even seen the movie, but Plait sure doesn’t make it sound like the worst of all time.
Yes. 2010 the dreadful sequel to 2001.
I quite like 2010, possibly as a guilty pleasure, but I don’t think it’s all that bad. Obviously it’s not in the same league as 2001, but it’s not really trying to be. It’s got shades of Dark Star and Alien and the whole cold war theme has a strange nostalgia to it these days.
Also, I’ve found a surprising number of occasions recently when it’s been apt to quote: “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.”
My God, it’s full of stars!
For more than a decade now, Twister has been at the top of JJ’s list.
Meh. That’s a pretty boring movie to hate. It’s no worse than Independence Day or 2012. It can’t be.
But even then, it’s a stupid summer flick. The truly awful movies should be ones which take themselves seriously — while suckering critics into taking them seriously as well.
Things like Forest Gump and Eyes Wide Shut. Those are two truly loathsome movies which, by all meaningful criteria, sucked.
I’m gonna second Forest Gump. I saw it in high school and all my friends thought it was fantastic. I thought it was the most contrived piece of schlocky crap I’ve ever seen.
And I like schlock.
Gump had two horrid messages: it is a Bad Thing to question authority, and Baby Boomers are the mostest importantest generation.
Gump is definitely the worst Oscar-winner I’ve ever seen; and it won over the infitely superior Pulp Fiction and Shawshanck Redemption. The movie was basically a greatest hits album for Baby Boomers, which is why all the critics from that generation loved it.
Hey! I’m a baby boomer, and I didn’t like it. Worse, tho’, was that other Hanks movie, Sleepless in Seattle.
I caught Any Given Sunday on cable the other week. That was pretty bad all around.
If we are really asking the question of the worst “serious” movie ever, I’d say it is clearly “Gone With the Wind” – everything loathsome about Lost Cause iconography, with a nice dollop of misogyny thrown in as a chaser.
Just let me throw in a vote for Pay It Forward. Added points because no one had to make it. Both leads had won an Oscar and ostensibly had a wide choice of projects. But all of the films commented upon so far are worthy choices. I mean, Gump, wow, that thing is a pure manifestation of some beyond-contemplation-by-mortals lumpen idea of seriousness, What Art Is as imagined by 1950s Time magazine.
To be clear, Von Trier’s The Idiotsis the worst movie ever. It’s not a huge Hollywood production, but it is supposed to appeal to adults and is by a major international director. It’s also a loathsome piece of shit.
The worst supposedly real movie I’ve seen is by far the Schumacher-Clooney Batman & Robin. It’s no wonder this killed the franchise; here is a film without one redeeming quality, except perhaps that it can be fun to watch drunk with friends to play MST3K. The acting, some from otherwise reliable actors (well, at least Clooney and Thurman) is awful, the dialogue consists of strings of one-liners, and the fight scenes are incomprehensible. They spent $200 million on an action movie and ended up without one single enjoyable action sequence. Horrible.
The Schumacher Batman movie before that had a major role in turning be into the pompous wanker I am today. After paying cash money to sit through a 2+ hour inept, staggeringly dull McDonald’s commercial, it became almost impossible to browbeat me into seeing an “event movie” for the sake of it.
The sad thing is, Batman Forever seems like a work of genius compared to Batman & Robin; at least Forever didn’t have a future Governor reading lines that were solely bad puns on cold or ice, and tried to give some psychological motivation to the characters, no matter how hamfisted. It also didn’t perform the dubious miracle of somehow making Uma Thurman look ugly.
Going to IMDB to remind myself of the cast and whatnot of Batman and Robin I discovered that Tim Burton is developing a project called “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” This movie could either be the victor in Paul’s friend contest or the greatest thing ever made. Either way, I can’t wait.
It’s a book, and not a bad one. You might wanna check it out before the movie ruins it:
http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Lincoln-Vampire-Seth-Grahame-Smith/dp/0446563080
My typical answer would be “Varsity Blues.” The only thing you could say for it was the whip cream bikini was sorta iconic, but it fails number 2. “Transformers” also fails number 2, I hope, though it completely fucking failed on its own terms because Michael Bay would not show me the giant robots fighting that I wanted to see, but instead quick cuts and boring human characters.
“Gump” isn’t a bad answer, but I think Hanks is really good.
I really hate “Saving Private Ryan” (Earn what you fucking assholes?) but the D-Day sequence.
I’m almost going with “The Village” M. Nigh Shymalan’s biggest bunch of assery. By the time “The Shed Where We Must Never Go” shows up, I think he’s got to be kidding. But Shymalan’s got the technical skills.
The worst movie of all time is either “Pearl Harbor”
Michael Bay made the attack on Pearl Harbor boring. It passes number 2, because he can’t have expected children to sit through that. At least I saw it at a drive-in so I could smoke. Plus, the traditional activities during a boring drive-in movie weren’t going to happen because my wife thought the back of my van was too messy. I bet that’s Michael Bay’s fault, too.
For years I’ve been feeling guilty for kinda hating S.P. Ryan. I get it, the guy he let go ended up killing him. I get it. Ugh. Nobody hammers home his metaphors like Spielberg. (The Twin Tower ending in “Munich”?)
Can I nominate my best, bad movie? A movie so bad, it’s a pleasure watch – Cocktail. Cliches, bad-acting, over-acting, leaden dialogue, melodrama, a Tom Cruise Jamaican accent? It has everything.
Why feel guilty about it. SPR is terrible, terrible film, with a handful of extremely well directed sequences.
Good call on “Pearl Harbor”. I haven’t seen it, but have heard lots of bad things about it. That movie supposedly, and weirdly, inspired “Team America”.
Ahh, finally a topic I contribute too.
Truly bad movies are ones that have the scope and ambition and resources to be good, but aren’t. There are plenty of bad movies out there, that really never had a chance to be good.
Yes, like many, my repertoire is SoL flavored, but I’ll see anyone’s Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, or Final Justice, and raise them a The Starfighters. Never before has there been more nothing packed into so little by so few. Even Manos had a plot.
Re: Sex and the City, I never really saw any of the show, and none of the first movie. I don’t believe I missed much. I did see a clip from the new movie, where they’re riding camels. It made me want to become a serial killer, who commits brutal, gratuitous acts of hate against women everywhere. I’m going to have to say the safe bet is with your friend JJ.
Don’t forget “Wing Commander”, produced by Todd Moyer. Truly terrible. For a while in the late 1990s it looked like there would be a remake of Battlestar Galactica from Glen Larson and Todd Moyer (not to be confused with the one Richard Hatch was also working on at the time). Fans of the original show feared what Moyer would do to it…
I avoid watching bad movies, so I can’t say for certain how it stacks up with with the terrible movies mentioned so far (except Forest Gump, which is certainly near the top of my worst movies list). But: count me as one vote for Boxing Helena. I’ve never seen anything that’s seriously challenged it.
What’s astonishing about the reviews for SATC2 is the number of people who seemed to have genuinely liked the show who are viciously panning this thing. It looks like it might do for the franchise what Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back did for Kevin Smith–prove the haters were right all along.
My wife likes the show pretty well, enough that she’ll watch reruns when nothing else is on, but she hated the movie. I found the show just okay, not particularily annoying. I agree with the hypothesis that a lot of mainstream “Sex and the City” hate (like you’d hear on sports talk radio when the first one came out) is just another way to say ewwwww girls. Do these dudes not realize the show often featured attractive women naked? I guaran-damn-tee they’ve watched worse stuff just to see boobs.
Eh, the I’m pretty confident in the strength of a misogyny-free case against SATC (indeed, the feminist case against it is pretty strong). It would have been ordinary-bad if it had accepted its true nature as a shallow buddy adventures in the big city sitcom, but its pretentious and prepostrous aspirations to be something much more than that took it pretty squarely into the unwatchable category.
No argument with that, but said misogny-free case isn’t being made on The Fan WXYLOUDNOISES-FM.
Huh. Normally I hate Kevin Smith stuff, I’m not even that into Dogma and I hadn’t actually seen any of the other stuff and I thought Jay and Silent Bob was pretty damn funny.
Sadly my wife is a big fan of Kevin Smith.
Battlefield Earth?
Dune?
How about Hudson Hawk? It’s supposed to be a comedy, but it slowly turns into horror.
Hudson Hawk is my favorite bad movie to watch. Bruce Willis didn’t just star in it, he wrote it.
Transformers 2, people.
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Not at all. I thought the show was great for a few seasons but by the time it staggered over the finish line it was clear that Michael Patrick King was completely out of ideas, the first movie showed that nothing fresh had occurred to him in the intervening years, and in addition he had no idea how to direct a feature film. But even at its peak, the show’s material was not ideal for the big screen, although it does have antecedents in film.
Considering the number of mediocre-to-worse buddy movies that get made without attracting the degree of fear and loathing directed at SATC, it’s hard not to suspect that a certain amount of girl-bashing is going on.
Forrest Gump is not bad at all, Gone with the Wind is a great piece of romantic filmmaking, and The Core bites the big one.
The biggest prestige film turkey I can think of offhand from the last three or four decades is Nicholas and Alexandra, which managed to turn even Rasputin into a dullard.
What’s up with all the Forrest Gump haters? Show that movie to anyone who doesn’t know who Tom Hanks is and they’ll fall out if you tell them he’s not an actual retard. My favorite part of the movie is when Gump and Benjamin Buford Blue meet on the G.I. bus:
“My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol’ redneck boys. Can you believe that?
“My name’s Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.”
I like Bubba’s righteous indignation at the irony of being black in the South and referred to as Bubba, and Gump’s total monotone response. Then the endless shrimp conversations, Lt. Dan asking the two if they are brothers, Bubba actually trying to tuck his lip in so it won’t get caught on a trip-wire…Bubba and Forrest would be a great idea for a sitcom.
Titanic . . . please make it stop
Hear, hear.
Titanic was saved by Kate Winslet’s nudidy
Star Trek 5?
oh I’d forgotten about that one . . . it was terrible
I’ve seen a lot of brave words here, but I still haven’t seen anyone disprove the Kevin Costner theory. Because you can’t! He is all your other bad movies rolled into one!
I’ve often thought that Dances with Wolves would have been a great movie if Costner had been shot off his horse in the opening scene.
If you think Saving Private Ryan is a terrible film, your opinion is incorrect. That is all.
The beginning and the end are great, but there’s a horribly cliched movie spliced in between.
Plus all that crying from Elderly Matt Damon – “am I a good man?” Jesus Fucking Christ, man – you were at Normandy! Get a hold of yourself!!
That all by itself – even without the rest of the cliches after the initial half hour – ruins the whole movie.
Actually, Private Ryan was not at Omaha Beach so why did he remember the landing? Shouldn’t he remember the parachute drop instead?
This is always a lame excercise for me and this thread proves. Most of the movies mentioned were made in the last 20 years or so and were known to suck at the time they were released.
I watch a lot of TCM and amongst the undisputed classics they show are a lot of movies that only get shown there because it has a big star in it. The worst movie ever made is probably something churned out by the studio assembly line in 1946 that was seen only by the people that made it and the test audience in Pomona that hated it.
/pedantry
C’mon, TCM shows lots of turkeys, some hysterical enough to be choice candidates for this honor. New movies seem too piddlingly small for this (though there are some that are so insulting and funny they might qualify).
I saw Zaat on TCM several weeks ago. That might be one of the worst “horror” movies ever. Also, Spookies. That was ridiculous.
I enjoyed their tribute to Ray Dennis Steckler, but it’s the essence of “piddling”. When I watch a real slab of high-class sweaty hysteria like Beyond The Forest (big budget, big director, big stars), I’m in heaven.
There’s a lot of 50s’ sci-fi movies that aren’t as famous as the works of Ed Wood that are just as bad in terms of low-budget, hammy acting, and anti-science, as in this one from my misspent youth watching “The Perfect 36″ in San Jose, CA:
I have to disagree with this hypothesis. Older movies made under the studio system will at least have the advantage of being brief. A key ingredient for true suck is being too frickin’ long. This is true of many forms, actually. It is part of the reason that CDs are usually inferior to LPs, for example. Even a CD reissue of a great album will suffer by comparison because it will be stuffed with inferior alternate takes and extras that nobody wants. Works with fiction too.
Well, the worst movie of all time until Marmaduke: The Movie comes out next week.
(And, yes, adults LOVE Marmaduke. Right?)
Marmaduke is an asshole.
God, even watching the trailer for that thing makes one long for death.
Glad to see some hatin’ on Forrest Gump. It wasn’t completely unwatchable, but it was pretty bad (I thought the kinda-sorta similar “Benjamin Button” was a much more enjoyable film). I think an important twist on this subject is “worst movies that were widely lauded” or “worst movies that everybody else seemed to like.”
My contributions to this list would include “Silence of the Lambs” and (most especially) “Good Morning Vietnam.” I agree with the hatin’ on Saving Private Ryan, too, although the D-Day scene was utterly harrowing.
Just curious as to why you dislike Silence of the Lambs?
I’ve got a hypothesis: people who dislike Forrest Gump tend to like Family Guy. Please respond if you dislike Gump because I’m genuinely curious.
I loathe both. But I hate Family Guy more.
I hate both. I find Family Guy puerile, but Gump is politically loathesome. Gump is also worse because people believe it to be good.
Oh, and another list would be “movies I thought were quite good that were widely panned.” I thought the widely disliked Cold Mountain was a riveting film.
Any discussion of the worst film ever needs to include Heaven’s Gate. Joe Queenan made a persuasive case for it a few years ago — he compared his dread of viewing it to the fear that preceded the Mongol invaders. I’ve never seen it, but the fact that it completely wrecked a studio (United Artists) is an impressive stroke in its favor….
I think Heaven’s Gate retires the trophy. Not because its especially worse than any other really hideous movie, but because of its provenance.
After Deer Hunter won best pic and a bunch of other award, and really took the country by storm, the studio threw a bottomless bucket of money at Michael Cimino to direct what became Heaven’s Gate. And that’s the point. This wasn’t some studio B picture throwaway. It was supposed to be the Great Artistic Film Project of Our Time. Hardly.
I never liked GWTW, either, but its not fair to look at it with 21st-century eyes. For one thing, all the actors in all the movies in the 1930′s chewed the scenery. All the dialogue sounds as if its being read, not spoken. That was the declamatory theater style of the time. The racial attitudes suck, and the glorification of the traitors, much discussed here and elsewhere over the last few months, was dead wrong – but not out of line with the times.
@ Jasper: Two curious choices for worsts. I can see you (or anyone) not liking the movies, for whatever reason, but I really don’t think either fits the category.
For the rest, i have to wait for my daughter, the Masters in Film Study, to get back from California.
Oh, and without looking further down the thread, I have to mention Ishtar, for similar reasons to Heaven’s Gate: A huge production, with major talent all around, that no-one could stand to watch even to ,ock it.
The worst movie I’ve personally seen is Stallone’s Cliffhanger
i thought Avatar was pretty f’in weak.
i mean, yeah, amazing to look at. but the story? if you’re gonna spend that much money on effects, why not get a good writer ?
I have to go with the offensively insipid Patch Adams, or possibly Regarding Henry, in which Harrison Ford is an amoral cut-throat litigator who is cheating on his wife, and who’s trying to set up opposing counsel’s client (a badly injured person) so as to cheat him out of a reasonable settlement.
Oh, but one night, Harrison runs out to the corner store for a pack of smokes, and oh noes, a robber shoots him in the head. He survives, but has brain damage. Do not worry! It is the happy kind of brain damage that turns him into a refreshingly childlike savant-y guy who can suddenly relate to his son better and is pleasant to his wife, and eventually arranges to blow the whistle on his own corrupt law firm.
He also cuts his girlfriend loose and walks away cheerfully when she starts to cry. But she asked for it, because she was an attorney at his firm, so it was okay to be mean to her.)
And he does all of this with no pesky seizures, scary mood alterations, weird behavior like peeing in the corner of the lobby, or drooling, or any of that icky stuff. And it didn’t mess up his face.
(I almost forgot to mention his smart-mouthed physical therapist who lightens up every situation by nodding at various female hospital staffers and telling Henry either “Mmm, I had me some of that” or “Mmm, I’m gonna get me some of that”.)
Everyone lived happily ever after. It was barf-worthy.
And that robber was John Leguizamo. And now you know… the rest of the story.
I’d forgotten both of those. Horrible. Truly horrible.
“Mars” with Tim Robbins and a couple of John Wayne movies: “The Green Berets” and “The Conqueror” where he plays Genghis Khan.
The Conqueror! “Yer beautiful in yer wrath”, right?
What about The Matrix Revolutions, a film so hideously ridiculous that it managed to sap the life and charm completely out of the brilliant and intriguing first chapter of the trilogy? It’s the only film I’ve ever seen where the audience laughed at the absurd dialogue during the heroine’s death scene.
Good call. Only time I’ve literally fallen asleep at a movie theater (and it was an afternoon showing).
Yep. If we introduce a pretension-to-achievement ratio into the mix, that’s one of the very worst.
Revolutions always struck me as one of the best examples of success letting filmmakers chase all their worst impulses. Call it George Lucas’s disease.
“Edward Scissorhands” for sheer volume of low-budget, entry-level symbolism that aesthetically challenged people actually thought was profound.
“The Doors” for the being the most predictable piece of schlock ever.
“Anything with Johnny Depp.”
And especially “Chocolat.” You mean, Johnny Depp is a gypsy, symbolizing liberation? And the bad guys, are what? Oh yes. Nazis. Riiiiight.
Given the amount of crap out there, I would winnow the choices to those that received some level of critical acclaim. I’ll also narrow by including only movies I have seen.
So, yeah Forest Gump should be there (although I confess I have only seen bits and pieces of it– but that scene on the Mall does it for me.)
American Beauty was pretty horrible. Oscar (TM)worthy? Well, sure. Oscar (TM) does not mean much to me.
A couple of others off the top of my head –The Snapper, The Player (and lest you think I’m an Altman hater, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs Millerare two of my favorites. I’m sure you were wondering.)and Jerry McGuire.Oh heck, just about anything with Cameron Crowe attached (the nearly perfect Fast Times excepted).
I wouldn’t put Crowe in the “worst ever” category for the most part — although Jerry McGuire is ghastly — but in terms of “most overrated” he has to be near the top.
Very true. My post was kind of stupid because it did not really address the question. Also, it shows a poor ability to highlight text. Overrated is better.
Phantom Menace.
Also, what about The Happening? That was pretty atrocious.
Phantom Menace doesn’t qualify under Rule 2.
The Happening, which I saw for the first and last time on teevee a couple of weeks ago, definitely makes the top ten and maybe the top five. After seeing it I looked up the reviews out of sheer morbid amazement, and discovered that M. Knight Shamalamadingdong or whatever his name is tried to bluff his way through the critical outrage by claiming it was a parody of a B movie. yeah right
excellent call on The Happening. After The Village and Signs I had a pretty low opinion of M. Night’s trajectory, but I was completely unprepared for how jaw-droppingly insipid that movie was going to be. (and if anyone had actually seen Lady in the Water, it would probably be a contender too)
I’ve been told Lady in the Water is actually worse, in which case I assume it’s one of those deals where you have to get somebody else to see it within a week or you die.
It’s bad, but The Happening is worse IMO. Lady In The Water has the “a wizard did it” defense at points that The Happening doesn’t.
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The Last Samurai. I will go to my grave demanding my $7.50 and two hours back from Tom Cruise for that. And, if the level of snickering and whispering that was going on in the theater during the most ‘dramatic’ moments was any indicator — I’m not the only one.
“The Patriot” with Mel Gibson
That’s not even Gibson’s worst snuff film.
“Out of Africa”. I fell asleep, woke up, tried to watch a little more, fell asleep again; then woke up and walked out of the theater.
Gawd, I’m old. OK, let’s get started:
This Island Earth
I Spit on Your Grave
Can’t Stop the Music (Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine and the Villiage People, and yes, I saw it)
Roller Boogie (Linda Blair, ’nuff said)
Ishtar
Take “This Island Earth” back.
I don’t know if it qualified, but the most unpleasant cinematic experience I ever had was “The Family Man” It is so bad, that
Dick Cheney should be strapped in the theater from “Clockwork Orange” and be forced to watch it the rest of his un-natural life.
I lovelovelove I Spit On Your Grave. There’s a special category for films like that one, Basket Case, Motel Hell, Gates of Hell and so on. They must be judged by a different set of rules.
What? No love for Ishtar?
“Skidoo”.
Otto Preminger directs Carol Channing, Jackie Gleason, and others somewhat less heavyweight. Music by Harry Nilsson.
Roy Edroso recommended it for this category. I have actually seen it. Watch it and have your mind completely obliterated at the thought that The Studio System could crank out something this utterly…I dunno. Words fail me.
Everthing with Chuck Norris in it.
Did not see “Passion of the Christ”. I heard he dies in the end so at least there won’t be a “Passion II: Revenge of the Christ”
I heard he dies in the end so at least there won’t be a “Passion II: Revenge of the Christ”
John of Patmos disagrees. He’s already got a script written, and boy is Jesus vengeful in his sequel. Sure, there are some continuity issues, but I heard he solves it every bit as well as they did with Highlander.
I heard he dies in the end so at least there won’t be a “Passion II: Revenge of the Christ”
Hate to tell you this, but Jesus is like Jason — he keeps coming back.
(I think the last Left Behind book was “Revenge of the Christ” ….)
Signs.
Though other M. Night productions since then has given this particular terrible movie a run for its money.
No mention of Waterworld? Awful, expensive and just plain boring–and universally panned.
As for movies that some others liked, but I thought were awful–I agree with Forrest Gump, but what about “You’ve got mail” with the wonderful message that its okay for your mom and pop bookstore to get bought out by the Barnes and Noble megastore–as long as you get the man.
Also, what was that Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Rene Zellwiger movie about football–that was awful–”you complete me”…”show me the money”
I actually sorta like “Waterworld.” Dennis Hopper was wacky and I give Costner props for playing a bad-tempered, pee-drinking, child abusing fish man at the height of his popularity.
Wow–you liked it? I fell asleep during Waterworld and some of the scenes were incomprehensible and disjointed–and it was long, long, long.
my wife votes for The Postman
I note that “Live Free Or Die Hard” will be showing on FX later today. I couldn’t let the thread pass without introducing this abomination.
As I remember when Forrest Gump opened there was no movie it was more fashionable to dislike, whatever the teeming masses thought of it. I went to the theater expecting to sneer and while I disagreed intensely with some aspects of it the movie was far better than expected and more difficult to pull off than it looked (also true of Hanks’ performance).
Gump was released in Brazil while I lived there, which meant a lot of my Brazilian friends kept asking why Americans seem to believe that being stupid is better than being intelligent. I still don’t have a good answer for that.
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