Superman 4
Gymkata
Boxing Helena
Monster’s Ball
Mel Brooks’ Life Stinks. Truly horrendous.
One movie on my list would be John Carpenter’s Vampires. It just strikes me as shlocky. Hasn’t the premise of gangs of superhumanly strong, immortal, light-fearing stomping around and terrorizing people been done to death?
Though I do like Buffy.
As to the OP I disagree on Throw Momma From The Train. I thought “Momma” was hilarious. I usually like Danny DeVito’s output, anyway.
Anaconda. 'Nuff said.
Freddy Got Fingered
Dude Where’s My Car
JP3
Queen Of The Damned
Best In Show
Austin Powers 3
American Pie 2
The Punisher
Showgirls
The Crow 3
All of the above make me gag.
Yes this film was really really bad but… it is of the classic “This film is so bad its funny” genre.
and loupdebois which “Romeo and Juliet” are you referring to? I’m assuming its Baz L’s?
Ones that I don’t think have been mentioned:
“Apt Pupil”
“Freejack”
“The Frighteners”
“Xanadu”
“Flashdance”
and (wait for it…)
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
Okay, my turn.
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Anything by Eric Schaeffer.
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Bonfire of the Vanities
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Johnny Mmemonic - The damn thing has Henry Rollins, Ice T and Takeshi Kitano and still manages to suck.
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Double Team - Ultimate in product placement, Van Damme and co saved from explosion by Pepsi vending machine.
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Jaws: The Revenge - Two words “Move inland”
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Hugo Pool - Sadly this was apparently a tribute to the director’s late wife… Still it didn’t stop him from an extended closeup of Alyssa Milanos ass.
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Tarzan the Ape Man - The credits feature Bo Derek wrestling wit topless with a monkey. You no longer need to see the movie.
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Nightmares - Australian horror movie, written by John Michael Howson, who plays a womanising critic. Think Harvey Fierstein as Rex Reed and your halfway to that image.
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Houseboat Horror - another Australian horror flick, think Z-grade budget horror with several well known musicians, radio djs and gameshow hosts starring. For american viewers, imagine Don Imus, Bob Barker, Paul Schaeefer, the Greaseman and Ronn Moss as the leads, then throw in a musical score done by the Australian equivalent of the lead singer from Loverboy.
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Voyage Of The Rock Aliens - Anything with Pia Zadora could easily make the list, but I nominate this little-seen gem because it has the added car crash value of being a musical. Actually it is much more than that, let me list the many and various features -
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- It stars Pia Zadora, the controversial winner of a Golden Globe “Best New Talent” award. Here proving that not only can she not act, she is also incapable of singing, dancing or even run properly. (To paraphrase LL Cool J, “She runs like shes jumping a hurdle”)
- It “features” a video clip of the duet Pia did with none other than Jermaine Jackson, a clip that manages to give away the plotline of the entire movie in the first five minutes.
- The duet is replayed at the end with lead Craig Scheffer lip-synching Jermaine’s part, and where not supposed to notice.
- A dance number set in the women’s toilets.
- 86 year old Ruth Gordon (Of Harold & Maude fame) plays the town sherriff, badly.
- Horror stalwart “The Hills Have Eyes”’ Michael Berryman plays the love interest for Alison LaPlaca.
- The Music, did I mention the music? Imagine a bad devo covers band and a bad rockabilly act having a battle for attention at a student dance. That’s an actual scene by the way.
Counting only movies I’ve seen (so no Titanic and few Costners)
- Things to do in Denver when You’re Dead
- Doomed Love
- The Sunchaser
- The Castle of Fu Manchu
- Showgirls (made nudity boring)
- Hudson Hawk
- Batman and Robin (even the Adam West Batman movie was better)
- Santa Claus (bizarre Mexican movie shown on MST3K. Not the martians one)
- Reality Bites
- Popeye
Dude where’s my car has got to be in there somewhere.
anything with Sylvester Stallone - yes, that includes Rocky. The man just drives me nuts.
Vampires - only movie I have ever walked out of
Mars Attacks - bored the life out of me
Dumb and Dumber - this movie tries to hard.
Master of Disguise - no need to explain, I’m sure.
American Psycho - It just bored me. I know a lot of people that liked the movie, I just found it boring.
Pearl Harbour - I’m sure I need no explanation
Summer Catch - I really should just say anything with Freddie Prinze Jr.
The Conan Series - yuck.
J.C. Van Damme movies - again, yuck.
Reckless Kelly
Ishtar
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Star Wars[sub] (the three originals and Episode 1 - I refuse to watch Episode 2, so I can’t list it as one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen even though it’s a fair bet).[/sub]
I can’t think of three more at present.
These would be movies that I’ve seen in the theatre, with the exception of Dungeons and Dragons.
- Anaconda
- Fire in the Sky
- Alive
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Hudson Hawk
- Over the top
- Billy Madison
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Escape from L.A.
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High School High
Classics.
Chris
Forgot to mention,
Wierddave, I loved ** The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak**.
'course, I was only 13 at the time. Anything with that many bare boobies was going to get a thumbs up.
In no order (except last one - tops my list)
Showgirls
Manos: Hands of Fate
Any Highlander film after the first
Metalstorm: The Destrucion of Jared Syn
Judge Dredd
Jaws 4 (Revenge?)
Howard the Duck
Freddy Got Fingered
and #1
Possession
Wow, that’s interesting. I thought Boogie Nights was actually quite good (although I do admit flinching at the “money” shot at the end). Well acted, genuine seeming journey into the world of XXX.
Backdraft was nothing to write home about, but top 10 worst movies??
Here’s my list (although I do admit that some of these aren’t so monstrously terrible either):
- Double Jeopardy
- The Jackal (Bruce willis, Richard Gere version)
- Batman & Robin (I actually liked the first two)
- Striptease
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (sorry can’t see why people seem to love this movie)
- American Pie II (I just felt stupid after watching this)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3
- Transformers the Movie (I remember liking the show, so I got an MPEG of the movie… PAIN…)
Hmm… that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Can’t really fault the last two for they’re geared towards kiddies, but still, even kiddie movies are often enjoyable for me.
- Wind
Haven’t you people seen Gymkata, or The Trial of Billy Jack?
Both films are pearls beyond price - movies so irredeemably awful that “like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, they shine and stink”. In a class with Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Last Summer at Marienbad is bad, I am told, but no one I have ever talked to who saw it can explain what it is about, so we can’t be sure. Terms of Endearment must be mentioned for the glutinous sappiness of the plot, acting, and everything and everyone else associated with it.
Infra-Man is the clear favorite in the Bad Japanese Rip-Off Science Fiction Category, if for no other reason than its best line - “The situation is so bad, that it is the worst it has ever been!”
All slasher films and other members of the porno-for-sadists category are tied. Stardust Memories for the Worst Film by A Formerly Good Director Award. History of the World, Part I began the melt down of Mel Brooks, so it must be mentioned. And Showgirls because even excessive nudity could not persuade me to watch the whole thing.
Regards,
Shodan
South Of Heaven, West Of Hell
Spaceballs
The Swarm
What About Bob?
Howard The Duck
Santa Claus: The Movie (1986)
Batman & Robin
The Prince Of Tides
Toys
1941
I can’t believe someone put The Ruling Class on their list.
I don’t think you can count movies like “Manos, The Hands of Fate,” which wasn’t really a wide-release commercial film. I mean, you could find a thousand student films made every year that are fifty times worse than Manos.
In terms of real MOVIES:
- Highlander II. The absolute perfect definition of the bad movie.
- Cool World
- Sleeping Dogs - the first New Zealand film given commercial release in North America - and damn near the last.
- 3000 Miles to Graceland
- Battlefield Earth - Yes, it really is as terrible as you’ve heard
- Xanadu - Oh. My. God.
- Batman & Robin
- Kentucky Rifle
- Leonard Part 6
- Jack Frost
There’s a strong bias towards recent movies, obviously (Kentucky Rifle is almost 50 years old though) but hopefully older bad films will be destroyed soon.
My ten (in no particular order):
Hudson Hawk (The best thing in it was Sandra Bernhard as Chlamydia. It went downhill from there.)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (You have to wonder if Ed Wood returned the pie plates to Marie Calendar’s when the shooting was finished.)
Ishtar (I didn’t see all of it. I don’t go in for self-torture.)
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (I walked out after about the first twenty minutes in a theater, then rented it a few years later to see if I had just been in a bad mood. I hadn’t. I might have gotten about five minutes further into it before the puke alarm went off in my head. Never saw the whole thing.)
Yentel (Stupid premise, rediculously overacted. The song Papa, Can You Hear Me? wasn’t too bad, though.)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Written by Roger Ebert, which should tell you something about his f***ing thumb. Where is writer’s block when you really need it?)
Anaconda (John Voight needs money this badly?)
Waterworld (Another one I tried twice but couldn’t sit through. When is Costner going to give up and go do something useful?)
War of the Roses (This one was just mean-spirited and no fun to watch.)
Popeye (A waste of Robin Williams’ talinks.)
Oh, and the grim spectre of the red death, I agree with you on The Spanish Prisoner. It was a fine film that didn’t get the promotion it deserved. It was a good story, if a little complicated and slow moving at first, and the twist at the end was a real surprise. Steve Martin was really very good in it. Actually I like most of Steve Martin’s pictures, especially Roxanne and The Jerk. (Yeah, I know. So shoot me.)