Worst movie of all time...

[ENC Heel]

I'd like to get a sample of opinions here. What are the worst movies of all time? I'm talking about movies that are so awful, so hideous, that they are almost good.

Please don't include "B" movies like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or something like that. I'm looking for movies that were trying to be decent, but were just plain bad.

My worst three:

1. Stroker Ace
2. Ishtar
3. Best Defense

Opinions?

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[BigRoryG]

I think the movie I enjoyed the least was One Good Cop with Michael Keaton. It was terrible.

One movie would be Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford (I think it was him). It was just silly.

Mortal Kombat is good that way. So bad it's hilarious.

I've got one on the tip of my tongue... I'll let you know..

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[Eve]

Well, up until last night I would've backed off this one, but:

"Kiss Her Goodbye" (1958). See my MPSIMS thread titled "I Just Saw The WORST Movie . . ." for more on this tasty little bon-bon.

[egkelly]

I think the all time worst was the HowardHughes-produced flop "THE CONQUERER", starring John Wayne, Dick Powell, and many others (who wished they hadn't).This flick was so bad that Hughes never released it! I was always curious about it, and finally AMC had it on-what a piece of garbage! (though it's really hilarious with Wayne trying to sound like Ghengi Khan). Somebody told me that most of the actors later died of cancer, due to the fact that the movie was shot near the atom bomb test site in Nevada!

[DrFidelius]

Striptease

Spice World

[Crystalguy]

"Towering Monolith Monsters" (I think)

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[aha]

Ok for the most depressing syrupy movie of all time I vote for "Valley of the Dolls"
uggh

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"Solarbabies"

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[kunilou]

A couple of weeks ago I ran across "Tommy" (yes, the Who's rock opera) with Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margaret, Oliver Reed, Elton John and a host of others.

Horrifingly, fascinatingly, devastatingly BAD!!!! The experience was like slowing down to gawk at a fatal car wreck. Although I have to admit, Pinball Wizard with Elton John was somewhat entertaining.

[RealityChuck]

Yes, TOMMY is definitely up there as one of the worst, and it's often overlooked on these lists.

It's funny that a couple on this list were perfectly good movies. WOLF was quite good and ISTAR was badly underrated (it was a nice little comedy, but most people reviewed the price tag, not what was on the screen). MONOLITH MONSTERS is also generally well regarded, though I haven't seen it.

Some really bad ones:

1. SPACE MUTINY. Looks like they shot two different movies (the two main stars never appear on screen together) and, when they discovered they didn't have enough material, added a completely irrelevant series of scenes about space witches. The plot didn't make the slightest sense, the special effects were taken from another movie (literally), and the woman killed by the villain turns up fine in the very next scene.

2. MITCHELL -- not even MST3K could make this interesting.

3. ALIEN -- Stupid people being killed purely due to their own idiocy.

4. TOMMY -- Loud and terminally stupid. Ken Russell has no sense of humor and shows everything completely literally.

5. THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER -- Tom Laughlin's worst film, which says lots.

6. STARSHIP TROOPERS -- Bad SF, with a poor plot and incredibly dumb characters. "It's OK because I had you." Right. See http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/r_startro.htp for a review.

7. GODZILLA -- also stupid.

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[Gazelle]

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it 'til the day I die:

Far and away, the worst movie I've ever seen is Far and Away starring Mr. Tom "I think I can act but I'm fooling myself." Cruise.

Retch.

P.S. Ishtar is one of the best movies ever made.

[even sven]

Someone once recommended that I watch By The River's Edge because the director graduated from the high school I went to. Ugh! It was so bad. Don't watch it, it's not even funny.

[bup]

I hated "Bad Girls."

It was a Drew Barrymore vehicle from
('94?), set in the wild west, about
a group of prostitutes turned vigilante
cowgirls.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

"Ice Station Zebra"

Reason: no chicks (and the Skipper doesn't count).

[Bobby O]

I generally like all movies, or at least parts of them. When I say a movie is bad, I really hated it.

Body of Evidence (1987)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Bolero (1984)
The Bachelor (1999)

I believe that most of Titanic was awful. The actual ship sinking was amazing, it gave me chills, but I was dying for every other part.

There are other bad films, but I can't dredge them up right now.

[Alphagene]

Ah, yes. I'm glad someone finally dipped into the MST3K well.

Anyway the worst non-MST movie I've ever seen is "Renegades". Lou Diamond Phillips is a Native American cop. It's one of those movies based on the stereotype that Native Americans have great powers that us non-Native Americans can't conceive of.

As for movies in the MST genre. All I have to say is Coleman Francis.

Oh yeah, Roger Corman movies suck the high hard one too.

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[torq]

The only movies I can remember walking out of thinking "I PAID to see THAT?" have been:

1. Best Defence
2. E.T.
3. On Golden Pond
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Now, there are certainly worse movies than that, but seeing, say, Showgirls on cable where you can change the channel at will takes a lot of the sting out compared to having shelled out $10 to see it in a theater.

Zardoz starring Sean Connery is the worst "non B" movie of all time. It is simply indescribable and a true must see.

[Sake Samurai]

Shakes the Clown

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Hell is Other People.

[ENC Heel]

A few I forgot to include in the OP:

1. Guilty as Sin - the only cool thing about paying $7 to see this garbage was that my (then) girlfriend and I were alone in the theater. After about 20 minutes of watching Don Johnson try to portray a sly, debonair killer and Rebecca DeMornay as a "tough-as-nails" defense attorney, we decided to make out. A few weeks later, we actually paid more money to see this again to see if we missed a really good movie the first time. Obviously we didn't.

2. Police Academy IV - the worst of the whole rotten lot of 'em.

3. Heaven's Gate - What was the point? A whole lotta $$$ down the drain.



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[GasDr]

Mark 5 (or maybe 4 or 6 ... cant remember)
a movie about some killer robot locked inside this guys apartment. We went to see it hoping it would be something like the Terminator. It wasn't!

Unbearable Lightness of Being...unbearable
though it did have naked chicks in it. :)

I liked Mosquito Coast.

[Shayna]

I second the votes for Tommy and Titanic - both were rot.

I'd like to add:

Joe Versus The Volcano
Eyes Wide Shut
Pulp Fiction
Moonstruck

And I walked out of and got my money back for:

White Man's Burden (the manager said he'd given at least half the people who'd gone in to see it their money back)

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

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[Ike Witt]

It may not be the worst but Congo was bad. At first I thought it was a comedy.

Also, Aha and I need to discuss our sigs.

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[Diceman]

I'm suprised noone has mentioned "Plan 9 From Outer Space". A truly awful movie about aliens turning people into undead zombies in order to take over the world. Bela Lugosi had a starring role in it, but he died during production. The producer's solution: his character inexplicably disappears in the middle of the film. The other main characters wonder what happened to him, then promply forget about him. Generally awful acting and scripting. No wonder the first 8 plans were duds.

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"I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms." -The Secret of Monkey Island

[RealityChuck]

I'd submit that Plan 9 isn't as bad as some of the others mentioned here. Sure it was cheap and there were laughable elements, but it is quite entertaining and you get the feeling that everyone involved really cared about what they were doing and just didn't have the talent to reach the right level.

The really bad ones you can't sit through.

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"East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does." -- Marx

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[AuntiePam]

Indecent Proposal -- was that the title? The one with Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore -- Robert Redford pays a million to spend the night with Demi. Godawful in every way. How do you spell blecchphhffftt?

[JSexton]

One of the most gut-wrenchingly bad movies of late was Batman & Robin. I mean, I knew they were going downhill, but...that wasn't a script! It was a collection of rejected taglines!

What else...Four Rooms. I respect all four directors very much, but what a pile of crap they put together. Tripe, all of it.

Monkey Trouble. Harvey Keitel, I know you can do better, dammit! Where have your standards gone?

The Relic. Fun, fun book. I wish the writers and director of the movie had read it.

Almost any movie starring one of the Friends. I like Friends. Funny show. Good writing. Not nearly enough talent to carry a feature solo, however, with the possible exception of Lisa Kudrow.

Heat. Two of the greatest badasses in Hollywood finally meet, and this dreck is vomited up? Please.

[saraam]

"The Lemon Sisters" sticks out in my mind. A truly unfortunate, but very appropriate name. That was all I could think about while viewing, "How fitting.".

[MrKnowItAll]

I'd have to agree with Leonard Part 6.

To those mentioned, I'd add:

Color of Night
The Chase
The King and I (1999)
Titanic (Trust me. History will agree.)
The Goonies

It seems like there should be more...



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[Doctordec]

"Under the Rainbow" about the little people in the "Wizard of Oz" was the only film I ever walked out of. Others I'd vote for...
"The Fury"
"Somewhere In Time"


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"Hope is not a method"

[fuzzy-wuzzy]

Any Austin Powers movie....they are terrible. The movies that disappointed me most I guess are the ones where I had read the book first...and the movie was just a total flop compared to the book...Kiss The Girls, and The Horse Whisperer were two that come to mind

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[Sake Samurai]

GasDr: The Unbearable Lightness of being was a very good film. What didn't you like about it? Ever read the novel?

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Hell is Other People.

[Doug Bowe]

For the complete waste of a good cast I vote for The Missouri Breaks and for a complete waste of money I walked out of The Man Who Fell To Earth...the David Bowie fiasco.

[aha]

well this is my second vote but I just remembered that I actually sat and watched dustin hoffman in "Sphere" the other night.
What a dog..this mysterious power takes over a deep ocean lab of some sort of the other. The entire movie was turbid,vague and just plain awful. Hoffman looked as if he were asleep for most of it. It brought to mind a michael caine interview where the interviewer asked him why he made such an awful movie. Caine replied, "Well I needed another house at the time."
Oh and my apologies to adam yax on the sig thingie.

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Barbara Billingsley

Titanic? E.T.??????? Wow.
My choices is "Porky's."

Adam

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[dasmoocher]

There's a lot of stinkers out there, but I thought the Avengers movie just sucked. I think it's the only movie I've ever rented that I couldn't finish watching.

[Markxxx]

I can't believe you guys missed the two worst movies ever

Xanadu

Can't Stop the Music.

[John Corrado]

ARG220- Then congratulate yourself for having missed the worst abomination television has ever seen.

Comedy Central once aired "Porky's." Of course, since Comedy Central is basic cable, it had to remove any 'offending bits.' Out of Porky's. I'm amazed that the entire performance was anything more than "Opening Credits", hour-long commercial break, "Closing Credits."


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[Lawrence]

According to the OP we're only supposed to vote for movies that were attempts at being good, so I suppose that what Hollywood still calls "A-pictures", with a significant investment of studio time and money and at least fairly big-name performers, are what was meant.

In no particular order: Twister, Independence Day, Striptease, G.I. Jane, Kindergarten Cop, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, Amistad, Interview with a Vampire, Speed II, most of the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard sequels, Jurassic Park II, Baby's Day Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities.....and that's just the beginning of the '90s list.

A movie that I intensely disliked though many will disagree with me: Good Will Hunting. Everything about it made me want to puke.

Looking back, I guess I got off the OP because all these movies are so bad they're not almost good, with the exception of Striptease, which is extremely funny. I didn't mention Con Air because it was explicitly a parody and a very well-done one.

[Kyla]

The Bodyguard.

My mom insisted upon watching this piece of crap when it was on network TV a few days ago. I didn't watch it, but I was in the room, and MAN does that movie suck. (And yes, I've actually seen it, a few years ago.)

Any movie with Kevin Costner, who is such a hideously bad actor that it's painful to watch him. That includes Dances With Wolves (which would be a pretty good movie if it weren't for Costner).



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"Anger is what makes America great."

[Kat]

I have to vote for these two, because they are the only movies I was not able to watch all the way through:
Summer City
Cabin Boy

When you consider some of the movies I have watched all the way through (Batman and Robin, Ghoulies, Kindergarten Cop, Wild Thing...heck, I even watched an entire episode of the Olsen twins show) that means something.

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[Soup]

It's usually whatever movie is on while my father is sleeping in front of the TV. The last time I visited, it was "Hot Pursuit" with John Cusack (featuring Jerry Stiller as the bad guy).

[Sigmundex]

My wife rented this REALLY crappy movie starring James Spader. It's about these people who are sexually turned on by seeing/being in/studying automobile accidents. Anybody else see this and can remember the name of it? This movie was so exceedingly horrible I can only imagine that it was created as an inside joke by people who got together one night, got drunk, and decided to see how terrible a movie they could get produced. The rest is history.

[MrKnowItAll]

Sig, that movie would be the 1996 film, Crash (http://us.imdb.com/Details?0115964). Personally, that's one that I never had an interest in watching.

[evilbeth]

Tron
Trapped in Paradise
Titanic

Maybe I just have a problem with the letter "t"?? How weird!

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[salinqmind]

1) Pulp Fiction - appalling. I was speechless, I was so appalled. I hated everyone in this movie and wished they would all die appalling deaths.

2) Woody Allen's "serious" movie, Interiors, back in the 70's my refined and cultured boyfriend took me to see this. We sat there for what seemed like months watching this exercise in apathy and depression. I hated everyone in this movie and wished they would all die depressing deaths. (Finally released from the agony, we headed out to the car - across the street was a drive in showing a women-in-prison movie, they were all nude out in the yard doing jumping jacks! Now THERE was entertainment!)

3) The Sting - Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I can't actually say I hated this whole movie because I fell asleep after the first 45 minutes and frankly didn't care what I had missed.

[WIGGUM]

There are two that really stick out in my mind.

"Wolf" starring Jack Nicholson
"The Mod Squad" starring Claire Daines

By far, the worst movie plots of all time. I actually watched them completely to see if they got any more ridiculous, and I wasn't disappointed.

[Commander Fortune]

Flowers in the attic

Actually, I think "Striptease" was trying to be campy.
Now "Showgirls" was trying to be serious. It just failed. Even though there were undoubtedly more nude scenes of Elizabeth Berkley, I couldn't watch very much of it; my gag reflex was going into overdrive.

What should have warned me of its badness was the "Tonight Show" interview of Berkley. What a freakin' airhead! And they cast her as the smart girl Jesse on Saved by the Bell!? She was explaining how artful and tasteful Showgirls was.

"Whore" with Theresa Russell. A pseudo-documentary with inconsistant breaking of the 4th wall.

"The Nude Bomb". Based on Get Smart, but had nowhere the timing of the TV show. It completely ignored 99 as well.

"Bad Medicine". Alan Arkin as a Hispanic? Gimme a break!

"Atame" ("Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down"). More like a bad B&D porno flick. Starring actress Victoria Abril had a better movie later "Gazon Maudit" ("French Twist") that was just as flesh-revealing, but with a better plot. What made this worse was all the hype about this movie after Cannes. I didn't understand all the hoopla.

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[AmyG]

Toys!

It was some horrible schlock with Robin Williams and Joan Cusack. Normally, I can sit through pretty much anything (heck, for a while when I was a kid, my favorite movie was Xanadu, the finest film ever made about a guy with feathered hair who wants to open a roller rink). I was, however, forced to sit through Toys by my "friend" who loved it. Bleah. Even thinking about it makes me mad!

Hehe,
Amy

Oh, and after Wiggum mentioned Jack Nicholson:

"Man Trouble".

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Harlem Nights
Nice Dreams
Field of Dreams

I kinda liked Ishtar, but I saw it with a free pass. Lots of critics slagged it for its high cost rather than its content.

Any more, I'd rather watch documentaries.

[GasDr]

Godzilla (the most recent version)
Rocky V or VI (which ever was last)
Jaws III my personal worst

[docandjean]

Maybe not the worst of all time but pretty darn bad, last summer's "Wild, Wild West." The only good thing we could think of to say about it was that it wasn't longer.

[aviddiva]

If you're talking movies you most wish you could wipe from your memory, my vote is for Anaconda. Just ghastly.

For movies that are so bad they're good, the kind you turned into cult favourites briefly in your late teens, and may have watched (over and over again) in altered states, I'd say Roller Blade (1985).
Taglines:
Skate or die!
Curvaceous Crusaders Battle to Rebuild a Shattered Land

Roller Blade was made before inline skates were known outside of summer hockey practice, and the title refers to the rollerskates (4 wheels each foot) the combat nuns wear and the blades they brandish. As your standard habit is none to revealing, for their fight scenes, our heroines wear combat spandex, which often makes its way off by the end of the scene. Plus there are the nude hottub initiation scenes in the convent. Apparently, a habit shares the undergarments of a kilt. Truly a so-bad-it's-great film.

Honourable mention to Straight to Hell (1987), "A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension." Written by Alex Cox (Repo Man) and Dick Rude, starring Dick Rude, Joe Strummer (of The Clash), Sy Richardson, Courtney Love, The Pogues, and Elvis Costello (o.k., Elvis doesn't exactly "star," but he does an excellent job as Hives the butler). Jim Jarmusch, Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones also show up. I saw this movie WAY too many times in my late teens.


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[Boris B]

Happiness and Seven are tied for movie that made me feel worst. I mean, they made me feel so bad I didn't even know how bad they were. I guess if their intent was to make me feel like crap for days, they were very effective.

Almost forgot, Cannonball Run II. Wish I could forget it.

[suiyobi]

i believe you're referring to Crash, a book i picked up, and then quite easily put down-- in this case, the movie was probably *better* than the book.
(btw, i got dragged to Twister and prayed for philip seymour hoffman's death to no avail)
speaking of crash, mention of costner reminds me of the plane crash game: who gets on your ideal "day the music died" plane of doom? my pix: costner, mel gibson always, julia roberts often, and now boarding-- michael douglas!

[suiyobi]

oops, didn't see 2nd pg--sorry

[WallyM7]

What the hell. May as well start a fight.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I'd rather have hot needles stuck in my eyes than suffer through that stinker again.

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Stop telling God what to do.

No argument here, Wally; I couldn't sit through 15 minutes of Rocky Horror.

Other notable disasters include :

You've Got Mail

Hope Floats (I rented that one by accident. Meant to grab a different movie and didn't realize my mistake 'till after I'd left the store)

Practical Magic

Slacker (truly awful)


Also, I'd like to vote for 99% of all the romantic comedies ever made. And any movie where a teacher "makes a difference" and turns drug-addicted gang members into honor students in 2 weeks.

And just about any movie on the "premium" movie channels. One can only imagine the meetings that produce these programming decisions : "Hey, I got an idea! Let's show Saving Private Ryan once every two months and show Campfire Tales three times a day, every day!"

[GuanoLad]

The English Patient.

The most popular movie I've ever seen that hs no point to it at all. Everybody dies. Was that the point? That everybody dies?

*sigh*

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[TwistofFate]

Titanic... it blows.... bad.

what else?????
She's all That... the Drew Barrymore farce.
Dr. Zhivago (sp?) 3 hours long........ I actually fell asleep twice during it....

I never walk out on a film... ever......At least if the movie is bad, I can make up for it by complaining incessantly to anyone who will listen.

the day the music died scenario?... Kevin Costner...... I broke up with a girl over Waterworld..... she wanted to see it again.
I didnt.

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[RTA]

The Blair Witch Project!!! Worse even than the 1986 remake of Invaders From Mars.

Just a DOG, that movie is!

[doc_miller]

Bram Stroker's Dracula

Th only movie I have ever considered asking for my money back. I only stayed because my girlfriend wanted to see it. Utter trash.

AWB II: Personally, I thought Tie Me Up,Tie me Down was better than French Twist .

Scott

[Spiny Norman]

Well, for my 0.02 Euro:

Highlander II is probably the worst sequel ever made. I kinda liked the first (music by Queen, Sean Connery as Ramirez - not too shabby), but nr. II sucks toxic waste.

Solar Chrisis has to be one of the worst SF movies ever made, bar none.

Off topic: I've heard rumours that key scenes were cut out of Highlander I before it was shown on US TV. Among other, the scene where our hero shoots a Nazi soldier and rescues Rachel ("It's a kind of magic"). Any truth to this ?

[divemaster]

I went to go see Spawn on a co-worker's recommendation. I don't read comic books, and am not a part of the 'zine subculture, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

Absolutely terrible movie. Ridiculous plot and horrible acting. Seeing Martin Sheen hamming it up was excruciating. And what was up with that annoying blue clown creature?

[anson2995]

The James Spader movie was called Crash.

Kyla mentioned Kevin Costner, but even among his body of work, we should especially recognize "For Love of the Game". This makes some of his other performances seem rich and three-dimensional. Someone on SNL said it should have been called "For the love of God, stop making movies"

[Diceman]

I'll second Waterword. Interesting concept. It could have been a classic, if they had bothered to hire some writers.

Interesting side note: A while back, I saw Die Hard on the USA Network. Needless to say, all of the swearing was cut out. I actually enjoyed the movie alot more without the gratuitous profanity.

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[Diceman]

Damn. That's Waterworld.

Allow me to speak for Cessandra and say Fooey on youeey.Rocky Horro was great,only if you are there in the theatre.
I've pretty much only watched "comedies",so.I believe it was called One Fun Summer and Bobcat Goldthwait was in it. Boy,it bit the big one,all right.
Also I totally was bored by Waynes World.Paid a dollar to see it,wasted my money.

Drew Barrymore is not in "She's All That." I think you're confusing that movie with Barrymore's "Never Been Kissed."

Kat mentioned Cabin Boy. Holy smokes, what crap! But, I think it was trying to be crap, so that's why I didn't mention it.

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"Life is hard...but God is good"

[Kepi]

Back during the 80s, I worked in a movie theater on and off for about 6 years, so I've seen my share of stinkers. The absolute worst was a movie called Salsa, which came out on the heels of Dirty Dancing. My manager showed it as a private free screening for the staff. It was so bad, I asked her for my money back. Here's Leonard Maltin's blurb for it on the Internet Movie Database:

All flash and no substance in this DIRTY DANCING-inspired feature-length music video with a Latin beat. Rosa (of the pop group Menudo) stars as a young auto repairman who'd much rather be shaking his body to salsa. Main problem: Where's the script?

The best line in the movie, delivered by Menudo-guy in the most whiny voice ever, "But boss! I just wanna dance!"

It went downhill from there.

I would also add to my personal list:

1. Amadeus - This movie was so hyped that by the time I got around to seeing it, I was already sick of it.

2. The Full Monty - Don't tease me with that title, then refuse to deliver the goods.

3. Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - Or would it be easier just to list the whole Costner oeuvre? (Except maybe Silverado and Field of Dreams.)

[ENC Heel]

A few more:

(Hanging my head in shame because I actually paid money to see these stinkers, either in the theater or at Blockbuster):

Encino Man
Rhinestone
Son-in-Law
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Bloodsport
American Flyers (I was an extra in this movie)
Suburbia
Mallrats
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
The Last Boy Scout
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Hudson Hawk
Turk 182
Days of Thunder


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"I never lie, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."

ENC Heel

At the mention of Drew Barrymore: "Home Fries".

The previews made it look like a cute romantic comedy. Turned out to be a black comedy, and not a good one at that.

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"First Knight" w/ Sean Connery, Richard Gere, and Julia Ormond. bleah!

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[occ]

There are two types of bad movies: "good" bad movies, and "bad" bad movies. I think we all know this already, but I just want to point out that im listing "bad" bad movies; that is, movies that failed to do what they set out to do, rather than "campy" movies that are fun to watch because they are so lame (like a lot of the old sci-fi movies on mst3k).

- Godzilla (the most recent incarnation) ...the fire alarm went off in the theater and they offered everyone rainchecks, but we didn't even bother coming back to re-watch it. I hate this movie. I hate the lame characters, the lame plot, the fake "anti-nuclear weapons" slant.

- The Doom Generation ...I hate this movie. I hate it because angst-ridden teenagers think its "deep". I hate the lame "666" joke (every time anybody buys something, the total is $6.66. Man, what a biting commentary on something or other.) I hate the pseudo-artiness of it. I hate the actors.

More to come if i think of anything. Heh.

[occ]

salinqmind, you say you hated both Pulp Fiction and The Sting? Can you elaborate on this? I dunno, I thought both were great.
BTW, Independance Day was another pretty bad movie, once I thought about it, but most "summer blockbusters" are.

[Padeye]

Worst movie I've seen was also the only one I've been in (as an extra), Iron Eagle III I rented it once for 75¢ to see if I could find my friend and myself in the air show audience but didn't. If you're ever subjected to torture by having your eyelids taped open during a screening see if you can spot a fat guy and a skinny guy both on mountain bikes.

I have to agree that most of the movies mentioed are pretty hideous but I intentionally bought some on DVD and tape. No accounting for taste I suppose. IMO Ed Wood is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

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"Popeye? Hm? He's not much of a judge of women!" King Blozo

[Padeye]

Worst movie I've seen was also the only one I've been in (as an extra), Iron Eagle III I rented it once for 75¢ to see if I could find my friend and myself in the air show audience but didn't. If you're ever subjected to torture by having your eyelids taped open during a screening see if you can spot a fat guy and a skinny guy both on mountain bikes.

I have to agree that most of the movies mentioed are pretty hideous but I intentionally bought some on DVD and tape. No accounting for taste I suppose. IMO Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

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"Popeye? Hm? He's not much of a judge of women!" King Blozo

[aviddiva]

That was Crash, directed by David Cronenberg. There didn't promise to be any exploding heads or guns stored in abdomens, so I gave that one a miss.

[aviddiva]

woops. That belonged on the bottom of the last page. Didn't see that there was a second page already. Keep this up and this will be moved to the Great Debates.

[makphisto]

Now, I'm a pretty forgiving guy, as I seem to like almost any movie. BUT, the worst movie I've seen recently is the stinky cinematic flick - "End of Days" with Arnold. What a stinkburger. I have nothing good to say about that movie.

[aviddiva]

salinqmind:
The Sting - Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I can't actually say I hated this whole movie because I fell asleep after the first 45 minutes and frankly didn't care what I had missed.

O.K. Now we're into great debates. The Sting is one the best movies ever. Robert Shaw, Ray Walston, Harold Gould, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning and Paul Newman are spectacular. Robert Redford's pretty good too. You must see it all the way through next time you get the chance.