And if only some people would learn how to preview before they post… 
I had to watch this after reading Ebert’s review of it: “Imagine a kingdom that looks half the time like a towering fantasy world of spires and turrets, castles and drawbridges–and the other half like everyone is standing around in the wooded area behind Sam’s Club on the interstate.” It wasn’t the worse movie I’ve seen, though it was pretty weak.
I can’t decide, the worst movie I’ve ever seen in its entirety has to be one of these three:
**1. Ace Ventura Pet Detective- Call of the Wild
2. Wolf (with Jack Nickleson)
** 3. Austin Powers- The Spy who Shagged Me
I lean more heavily towards the last two, though.
Anything with Barbara Streisand in it makes my flesh crawl.
If I have to pick one my vote is for Yentl.
Has everyone forgotten Showgirls? Or have you just blocked it from your memories?
No doubt about it: Battlefield Earth. Bad acting, terrible cinematography, sound by three apes and a lemur, and a plot that a porn movie would be ashamed to use.
The New York Times hailed it as the worst movie of the century. The only people who have ever claimed to have liked Battlefield Earth turn out to be Scientologists, who are required to like it by their religion.
Bad Lieutenant
Magnolia. I want my three hours of life back!
Sticking to bigger-budget, mainstream movies (otherwise, IMHO, Ed Wood’s Glen or Glenda? would win hands-down), I have to cast my vote for Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows. This movie sucked so bad that my favorite internet critic, Mr. Cranky, had to add a new low score to his review scale. This new rating has been variously described as “proof that Jesus died in vain” and “a festering wound on the anus of cinema”. Really, it’s that bad. As Cranky put it in his review: “There is no moment in this film that does not go beyond pure incompetence.”
I should note also that Jabootu has just put up a review of Battlefield Earth for all to enjoy.
The reasons I think “Plan 9 from Outer Space” is the worst movie ever:
1.Bela Lugosi died after only three days of filming. Ed Wood spends most of the movie running around with a cape over his face.
2.It looks like they spliced two different movies together.
3.The acting.
4.Tor Johnson and Vamirella as “actors”.
5.The special effects. They always make fun of low budget S.F. films where you can see the strings attached to the UFO’s. This is the only movie I’ve ever seen where this is really true.
The worst big budget movie I ever saw was “Starship Troopers”. Whoever made that should be shot.
Said it before, saying it again. Heavy Traffic is the only movie I’ve ever seen that was so horribly, awfully, astoundingly, excrementally, egregiously, artlessly, wretchedly, unforgivably…
((gasps for breath))
…bad that I needed a shower afterwards.
Ick.
Never heard of that. Are you sure it’s not Young Frankenstein, with Gene Wilder?
No. Arden Ranger means Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious. Tazmanian film, I think. Either that, or Australian or Kiwi.
Young Einstein had Yahoo Serious in it, it was terrible, terrible, terrible.
But Manos aside, the Coleman Francis trilogy (Skydivers, Red Zone Cuba, and Beast of Yucca Flats) ranks down there in the dank. Also, Attack of the the Eye Creatures. that is not a typo, it really had two "the"s. As Joel & the Bots said, the director just didn’t care…
I think she’s talking about the movie with Yahoo Serious. Didn’t see the whole thing, myself, but what I did see was pretty damn bad.
Mr. Wrong with Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman was so astoundingly bad I wanted to claw my eyes out afterward.
If Lucy Fell with Sarah Jessica Parker was worse.
And I absolutely loathed Meet the Parents.
Those are just the ones from the last ten years or so, and I’m sure I left some out. But those three immediately spring to mind when I think of “worst movie I’ve ever seen”.
Wow, triple-simulpost! Cool!
Only once have I ever paid for a movie ticket, and then heard the words, “No refunds.”
As soon as I heard the cashier say “No refunds,” I should have taken the hint. I should have just waved good-bye to my money, and gone home. Instead, I foolishly went into the theater and watched “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video.”
This must’ve been 1979 or so. Most of the crowd consisted of “Saturday Night Live” fans like me, who thought it would be funny. Instead, it was mind-bogglingly unfunny. Stunned, sulllen silence was the norm, punctuated by an occasional shout of “this movie SUCKS!” (this would get some loud applause for a few seconds, and then we’d be back to sullen silence).
I have NEVER seen a movie that bad in ANY genre, before or since.
What??? Oh, come on! The Cat Swimming School! Café No Americain! Looking up Cheryl Tiegs’ dress!
I liked it.
Then your target would be Paul Verhoeven.
No doubt. What the hell happened to him after he started making movies in America?
Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Hollow Man, Starship Troopers. These among the worst screenplays in modern times.
Is he still trying or learn English or what?
The Fourth Man, his Dutch film, is a work of genius. I cannot believe how far he has fallen.
Oh, well, I’m glad I never saw it.