I’m going to have to agree with davidw. It does not get worse than Boxing Helena.
I’m going to put my review in a spoiler box, although I’m partly tempted to just leave it out – I think as many people should be discouraged from seeing this movie as possible.
[spoiler]The basic premise is intriguing – a surgeon becomes so obsessed with a woman, that when she’s hit by a car and he has to do an emergency amputation of her legs, he decides to keep her at his place and not tell anyone. Since she was bound for Europe the next day, nobody will miss her.
So I’m thinking, intriguing feminist criticism of a male obsession with helpless women. But then she falls in love with him – after he’s amputated her arms, too, for no good reason!
So now I’m thinking, this is a sort of clumsily-done attempt to look at the darker edges of human psychology. But then it turns into a cheap, soft-core porn, complete with the cheesy music, and the legless, armless woman trying to appear sultry.
Okay, I’m thinking now, this is very bad but it can’t much worse. But what comes next? A badly-scripted gunfight scene – they’re going for action!
So then I was thinking, well, it could have been worse. It could “have been all just a dream.”
Guess what happened next?[/spoiler]
Anyway, the movie has one redeeming feature – its most serious moments are some hilarious images ever committed to celluloid.
I give a special mention, though, to Xanadu, which is just bad without being particularly funny.